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Is no one going to mention the similar feel to how her band opened for her at the Endless Summer tour?
A string-medley leading into the song??

Why is literally no one talking about the first say you want me too?
 
Edit: Oh and I was RIGHT! This is a chamber pop progressive folk masterpiece and @@naachoboy didn't trust me

What really sticks out to me is the strings. They have this kind of Lee Hazelwood vibe about them. The song is very simple, feathery and light. She sounds younger, too. At this point in her career, I don't expect anything new or experimental from her. She's in a very comfortable place. As much as I would love for her to take a risk with it, I know that the chances of it happening are slim. One thing I've always liked about her, especially her voice in this song, was how unintentional creepy she is. The video snippets reminded me of those homemade videos of women who go missing (also pretty interesting when you think about the Honeymoon theme) which kind of gives off the whole trouble in paradise kind of feel. My favorite moment in the song is when she croons out "cruise" and the background vocals come swooning in, and the whole "dreaming away your life" in the end.

I need 1,000,000 official remixes of this.
 
 
Does it remind me of c u l8r alligator?

Four full listens and I'm warming to it. Man she just keeps getting slower!  I like the fact that she's still a maverick, and her competition (whoever we think they are) are probably scratching their heads right now wondering if they need to worry (assuming they cared enough to listen). I think there is enough technically interesting stuff in this song (not to mention the vocals and emotionality) that this is not a case of the "emperor's new clothes" or more appropriately the "wool of the king". It's nowhere near a single in character, which makes it courageous. A whole album like this would make an interesting niche album (anybody remember Elvis Costello's North?), but would it commercially succeed (and in which genre)?  
 
However, this gives me hope there will be substantial variety on the album:
from her HM IG comment:
"... there are so many other tracks on the record, 13 others to be exact- Some with a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night Miles Davis drives… But I love this song because it encapsulates all of the things that come naturally to me. "

Cruise 
Dark Blue 
The Bridge 

get dat praise b..
 
 
It's strange to think that, once upon a time, the fuss about Lana Del Rey all hinged upon reinvention. As word of her old-timey heartache-pop spread quickly in October 2011 with the phenomenal viral success of 'Video Games', so did debate about just how "real" the character on-screen was. The transformation of New York singer Lizzie Grant into the "gangster Nancy Sinatra" saw her accused by some of the terrible, treacherous crime of inauthenticity. "It's all an act!" cried commenters, as her past was dragged up by internet sleuths. One of the most magical things about pop music is how it allows people to make their own beginnings and choose their own stories, whether it's Brixton lad David Jones becoming a dangerously sexy and androgynous rockstar alien or a dour Manchester youth called Steven Patrick ditching his first two names and become a provincial romantic poet instead. Like Bowie, or Morrissey, or Madonna or Prince before her, Del Rey was just evolving into something else. Which makes it interesting that, for the past four years, Lana has stuck pretty rigidly to the same blueprint. Sure, there's been the odd cosmetic change – a Black Key roped in on production duties here, switching clunky hip-hop affectations for laid-back desert rock there. In the end though, her aesthetic has stayed pretty much still, honed and honed towards arresting torch song perfection. 'Honeymoon', the first taste and title track from her forthcoming third album, suggests it's not going to change any time soon, either. This new track, dropped earlier today, is a sultry waltz with velvety strings that swell and sting, with Del Rey's voice sounding richer than ever before. We've been here before with Lana: a sweeping, gorgeous ballad that's big on faded glamour and fancy danger, that sounds like it could have been lifted from the Blue Velvet soundtrack or blaring out of the radio between news bulletins on the Black Dahlia murders. Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/lana-del-rey-just-delivered-perhaps-her-most-heart-stopping-ballad-yet-with-new-single-honeymoon?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lana#06ggl9b3311i3imW.99

This song makes me feel like the prom scene in Carrie before the blood (the Sissy Spacek version, not the new one) where there's soft and glossy glamour and everything is beautiful and glistening but there's a sense of dread creeping in, it's dreamy but there's an insidious feeling of something dark lurking just beneath the glossy surface!
Oh it's such a wonderful song, it really takes me away when I close my eyes

also sweeping in a Bernard Herrmann sort of way ...the beginning notes somewhat like his Hitchcock scores Vertigo or Northby Northwest or his last two scores Taxi Driver and Obsession(which was a Vertigo homage by DePalma)

Literally me listening to Honeymoon

So fucking haunting. I am in love with the ambience and harmonies. Very satisfied with Honeymoon, though I would love to see someone mix some raw and heavy percussion into it.
 
BUT SOMEONE HELP ME OUT HERE: The way Lana scats, I swear the melody reminds me of one of her other songs. Not WFL, because the scats are different, it's another song. Has anyone else noticed it? I can't put my finger on what song it is.

Wow. Those strings. Someone before said that this literally sounds like it's from a a soundtrack I have to agree. This sounds straight from a 60's horror movie like Psycho or something and it's amazing. Yes, it's a sleepy song, but still amazing. This may be her best song vocally imo. She really let her voice shine here. and the SCATTING I still hope that MTWBT will be a bop.

imo this has some serious honeymoon teas 

I'm loving the atmosphere she created: these lush strings, Lana crooning and those chants on the background. The more I listen to it, the more I love it.
It's not a party song for sure, you have to listen to it alone and it will make you "dreaming away your life".     

pre-chorus part is from Shrek 

anyone else think of jfk and the jfk assasination during the bridge though? 
 
"there are violets in your eyes"which kind of makes me think of how eyes may look after someone is dead
"there are guns that blaze around you".. well u know the part when he was shot.
"there are roses in between my thighs" Jackie Kennedy had a bouquet of roses on her lap when JFK was killed. i remember some interview where she talked about all the roses people had.
"its no wonder every man in town had neither fought nor found you" sort of has the same message of these lyrics "He was the king of the town with a crown that would never fall" ,"One in a million, inimitable song" 
 
maybe I'm reaching but i just thought i would share

No offense but the scenes from the teasers weren't even in the video???? Or I missed something

and to add-
 
Henry Mancini
I can picture Henry Mancini at the piano
(edit to add- Henry scored hundreds of movies, in particular had a #1 song in 1969 with the Theme from Romeo and Juliet (which he did not score but arranged it from Nino Roto's score, and was the underlying melody of Lana's "Old Money")
 
It's like a 6 minute history of the movies (picture scenes from all the legendary Film Noir, picture Double Indemnity, picture Postman always rings twice, picture any Robert Mitchum movie)

me today
 

I also like the fact that she used a fanmade picture for the lyric video. 

OMG shivers again
 
lana hits it out of the park and on the first listen.
 
Evocative, especially (though I doubt some will see it) of YAYO
 
and wow, it's dark, dark, dark
 
BRAVO!!!  once again, when one thinks how in hell will Lana surpass the last 350 songs where each one surprasses the other, and wham, Lana does it again.
 
It is one helleva great song.
 
The legend lives on.

I also like how she posted it on her own YouTube. It's really kind of a shitty lyric video, but it's endearing that it seems like she really did make it herself on like movie maker or something.

This is truly one of my favorite things she's done in ages, tbh. This exceeds even the best songs on Ultra, I think. Especially in terms of musicality- the arrangement, the orchestration. This is so next level for her. A lot of her strings before have sounded "influenced" by movie scores- these truly sound like one. I feel like this is such a perfect evolution from btd/paradise/ultra. I'm in love. The scatting at the end makes me so fucking happy that she finally put that in a record.

LIVING for the last minute 

I want PWIC video