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Well it's not like it was that hyped up to begin with

That's the issue : regardless of its quality, Honeymoon isn't a very exciting record. She's not really changing the formula and barely refining it, she doesn't have that much visuals and videos this era, all her promo moves are kinda sloppy (the HM account she basically stopped using, the buggy HM hotline, the release of the title track...). UV was a very exciting album, and she built a really good hype around it without actually that much effort, but she was delivering news/videos/songs regularly. She also had quality visuals, lots of interviews, even the meh Glastonbury show was good promo. She seemed to have a lot of projects for it until she fucked everything up after the release ; if she didn't cut everything off after the SOC video, I think UV would have been more succesful. And I don't believe her when she says she doesn't care that much about what people might think about her. That might be true when it comes to the making of the music itself, but I remember how she kinda despised UV after the "I wish I was dead" backlash, saying stuff like "I went too far with it" when she used to be proud and ramble about it in interviews, but then two months later or something like that "I hope this record won't be forgotten"... I mean she had a very rough time in her life during UV so that's totally not for us to critize her regardless of anything that happened during or after the release, but it doesn't seem like a very coherent behavior, she was clearly hesitant about what to think of it all. Idk how everything changed after UV and how she arrived to HM, but the "I'm going back to BtD sound" "it's gonna be jazzy" "Hum it's called Music to Watch Boys to" "Hum no it's HM actually" "Oh and there's these trap tracks too" thing... It's like she wanted to do it her way, but also to please. I still have wet dreams about a surf rock/Beach Boys MTWBT EP produced by Dan A. Also unpopular opinion I guess but UV is not actually that dark, except like for the last 3-4 songs and the bonus tracks : it's moody and melancholic, bitter and sometimes desperate, but it's not the pits of Hell like it seems to be for some people (except maybe TOW , Black Beauty, ITH and Flipside, where she sounds hungover, mortified and wrecked). That's what I liked about it, it's an emotional journey but she's not sinking that much in a self-pity mode, she's more subtle, even with the basic lyrics she came up with for this record. I mean there's far more depressed and depressing in the world... but nothing as moody and dancing, in it's own way

Now that closing the album with a cover seems to be a new Lana tradition, is it possible that she'd cover Joni Mitchell for the next one ? She's always showed her love for Joni and the video she posted on Instagram got me thinking it's actually possible, especially "Both Sides Now" : she seems to be in a good place in her life to sing this song, and it fits the "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" theme I also want her to, idk, take the good things from the previous records and try to mix it with the jazz/rock sounds she has in her live shows with the band. Also I wish she'd be more adventurous with her songwriting, like she used to, even though on HM I think she's slowly shifting her lyrical content and gimmicks in a good way

lmao people are still pressed by the Ride thing ? The native crown was more of an inspiration from the 60s bikers/roots rock culture, which are the ones who picked different elements from american history to create their aesthetic an modernize them as well with the 70s heartland rock and patriotism imagery. I mean I'm not even american and I read this fuckin essays on natives and stuff that's not rocket science. More than anything, it makes her look cheap with such obvious references, but I don't see how some people can compare this with blackface singers... ​

They said that in 30mn they'll talk about DLMBM it'll try to get the new info if there is some

I only saw the lana accounts say that, they never actually talked about it I think

why are yall crying lmao it's a radio interview what did you expect

SHE TRIED TO DO TERRENCE LOVES YOU WITH MARK RONSON

It's an old live, I think the Letterman one

They'll play a live version of "Video Game" and then the interview

I don't think she'll sing, they never mentionned it so idk why everyone is going crazy for it. It might be wrong but that's unlikely... UV was such a good record I'm crying rn

She felt forced to include the upbeat songs

I want an accoustic album full of songs like Summer Wine or what we heard of Riverside, really 60s-70s influenced pop

Complex just posted unreleased parts of their 2014 interview with Lana for Ultraviolence : http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/09/lana-del-rey-interview-outtakes/?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

The whole thing was so interesting, I loved it, and Smile omg, it shits on at least 70% of her discography

The Shades of Cool-Brooklyn Baby-West Coast suite in UV

Best track is Music to Watch Boys to BN is so psychedelic, I want Lana to do a poetry lecture record like this 1 hour of this ​

So far : -Honeymoon 3/5 -Music to Watch Boys to 4/5 -Terrence Loves you 3/5 -God Knows I tried 3,5/5 -High by the Beach 3/5 -Freak 2,5/5 -Art Deco 2,5/5 -Burnt Norton 4/5 -Religion 3,5/5 -Salvatore 1,5/5 -The Blackest Day 2,5/5 -24 2/5 -Swan Song 2/5 -Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood either 1/5 or 4,5/5, can't really know Not really into it. Regarding the reviews I also fear that it's gonna be her worst era so far Hyped for the MTWBT video tho, can't wait

She would never, I thinks she's already so sad that her core fans aren't intellectual folk-rock geeks but underaged screaming twinks, so imagine her connecting to receive thousands of "YAAAASSS SNATCHED" in seconds

A new hair dye again by 2020 she'll have no hair left

"When I started working on the new album three months after Ultraviolence, it first sounded like a Jazz album. Then, in winter, after three quarters of the record were done, we played with muddy trap beats, and tried how they would fit the tracks." Why did she do that

Come through Lizzy ! Thx for the translation <3

Ride is actually working for me despite all the pretentiousness, maybe because it's actually touching and honest in all its silliness (unlike Tropico ). Body Electric production is awful and destroyed the song, apart from that it's great.

I like HM, it's not great but it's not bad either. It's actually her best music yet for a chill/relaxing afternoon at home. It feels kind of compilation of all she did up to this point, like a transitional record before something more ambitious