Elina

I feel like she was never as creative as on the first album with Off to the Races with all those ridiculous references like Lolita, Cristal Champagne, Bacardi Rum, Rikers Island and Chateau Marmont.

1. honeymoon 
2. ocean Blvd 
3. ultraviolence 
4. born to die 
5. chemtrails 
6. Norman 
7. Blue banisters 
8. lust for life 
 
if the lust for life demo was the released version it would be top 3 tho 

1. Born To Die
2. Lust For Life
3. NFR
4. Ultraviolence 
5. Honeymoon
6. Chemtrails
7. Ocean Blvd
8. BB
 
 

1. UV
2. Chemtrails 
3. Ocean Blvd
4. Blue Banisters
5. NFR
6. Born To Die
7. Honeymoon
8. LFL

Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Honeymoon
Ultraviolence
Born To Die
Norman fucking Rockwell 
Blue Banisters
Lust for Life

1. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
2. Ultraviolence
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell
4. Honeymoon
5. Born To Die
6. Chemtrails Over The Country Club
7. Lust For Life
8. Blue Banisters
 
I'm a changed woman  (I don't know why I initially did Honeymoon dirty I wasn't right in the head ig)

as well as the Black Beauty demo because we do love that sun, we love that sun and moon

Girls and gays where can I download go go dancer?

https://www.alamy.com/lana-del-rey-performing-live-at-spin-off-festival-adelaide-australia-image66077842.html

Hello everybody ! Can you translate ou explain the Alana's response on this insta post? When she talks about bong rips and kick flips? Thanks !
 
 
 

Thank you so much!

Who was the first person to say that there was a song that was scrapped in favor of candy necklace?

Thanks for answering, but what I meant to ask was if any insider had the songs

Ok now this was the best spill that ive seen on lb. Blue banisters is really really messy and its her worst work

I feel crazy for saying this, but to me ocean blvd feels in some ways like she is circling back to her pre 2011 era of acoustic sound...

Also, I dont mean this in a bad way, but objectively Blue Bannisters is not a real album... LISTEN... There is pretty much zero conceptual reason for her to dump 7 or so of her unreleased tracks in the context of that album. What I think happened is that Lana for some reason felt the need to drop a new album right after COCC, and at that point in time she had a clear direction in mind, which was to cover her own family relations and to diss some of her family members... - thus she ended up with 4 new songs (Textbook, Wildflower Wildfire, Blue Bannisters, Sweet Carolina) that cover those exact themes and which are the only "true" BB songs, because they were clearly meant for the album in the context of the announced themes. From that point, I speculate that for some reason she either did not have enough material that covers these topics to arrange it into a full LP, or she decided not to continue in that direction for personal reasons. The issue with the latter is that ultimately she did continue writing in this direction for Ocean Blvd, so I honestly think she probably just wasnt sure back during the BB era of writing or just needed more time. Anyway, to make up for this lack of material and time, she decided to drop some random unreleased songs just because she liked them and because she probably was still liking the idea of releasing an album comprised of unreleased songs, which she mentioned back in 2017. Because even the relatively recent songs like Black Bathing Suit and Beautiful (?) were outtakes. And now, in the Ocean Blvd era, the rest of her Blue Bannisters era/style writing was finally completed and thus she dropped Fingertips, which definitely sounds like a BB outtake and other songs about her family. Maybe she had a writing block on the topic of her family, which resolved after she started writing her memoirs or smth. Pure speculation. 

ANYWAY, the point is that I do not think it is fair to call BB an album, when it is essentially a mixtape. And because 70 percent of BB is random outtakes from 3+ eras, most of which were left musically unchanged, I do not think we should use BB era as any sort of reference for her future musical direction or as part of her evolution, because it isn't. It is actually what sets Ocean Blvd apart, which is that unlike Blue Bannisters, some of her songs from Ocean Blvd, which are thematically identical to the themes of the core BB songs, were actually adapted to suit the record and not just dropped as is.
 

I feel like its 
 
1
BTD 
Paradise
UV
 
2
HM
LFL
NFR
 
3
Chemtrails
BB
Tunnel

Yk how some people split up Lana's albums?
Like the first half is:
BTD 
Paradise
UV 
Honeymoon
LFL
And the sec half is:
NFR
COCC
BB
Tunnel
I wonder if we will categorize this album into another era of her music, or continue with what we feel rn. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvaUV5hAcw-/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

Lana just entered the billionaire club for a single song on Spotify with Summertime Sadness 
Young and Beautiful isn’t far behind I think.

I’m pretty sure the bangs were clip-ins since she had her hair styled the exact same way just without the bangs earlier in the day -

Though, I’m pretty sure her bangs in the Honeymoon era were real since you could see how they grew out throughout 2015 to eventually transition into the chin-length curtain bang style she had in 2016. She wouldn’t always wear them straight across though, as she would often clip them back or off to the side, or part them down the middle for a short face-framing style bang or to the side to create side bangs x

Another Sky stan YUP
 
 

i think everything you said here is completely wrong. just bc lana used older songs doesn't mean she dropped her original concept bc they actually do fit into the concept quite well. no, they weren't written for this record but they didn't fit the records she was making when she made those songs so she put them aside til they did fit a concept. some were leaked but thats irrelevant since they were never officially released til then. its just like how yosemite was written for lust for life but fits chemtrails' concept better or how california and the next best american record fit norman's concept perfectly. and songs like black bathing suit and beautiful weren't outtakes so idk what that's about and they do fit blue banisters' concept if you keep in mind that the concept isn't just about her family, but about her whole life and what's important to her which includes her struggles with the media, not just her family. the album isn't sonically cohesive and can feel a bit messy but it definitely has a clear concept and still feels like a proper album. like when i play the album for non-fans who don't know a the history of the leaked songs and whatnot they don't see the album as a mess or lacking a concept. unpopular opinion but even tho i like ocean blvd more than blue banisters, i'd say blue banisters has a clearer concept and overall theme than ocean blvd.

I'm glad you appreciate it and enjoy even the title track; it's the 'Nikki Lane' namedropping part that I don't care for. Like 'Happiness Is a Butterfly,' I was disappointed when I heard the entire song. I also find it very peaceful in many parts. It may not be 'cohesive,' but I find it a lot more cohesive than OC--if that matters at all. 

I really like BB (song and album), especially in the fall or at the end of summer, when I am having a peaceful mindset or when I cook. It’s not a perfect album (there is, iMO, one song too many relying solely on piano) but many songs on it are simply gorgeous. 

For me, BB the album seems permanently underrated. While I don't like the title track at all, I love 'Arcadia,' 'BBS,' 'VFR,' 'IYLDWM,' 'TB,' and 'WFWF,' and like 'Sweet Carolina,' 'Dealer,' and 'Beautiful' well enough.
 
The other four leaked tracks I have liked for years, all of them, though I prefer the '50s'-style version of 'Thunder.'
 
So that leaves 'The Trio,' which I never play, because I've known the original version for many years and I don't think it does anything for the album. 
 
Instead of basing my like or dislike on album history, facts, knowledge, opinion, or abstraction, I just like the sound of the songs I've said I like above, their message, and, in some cases, their simplicity ('Arcadia, 'VFR), especially because it seems all her albums have tortured or somewhat tortured histories. Maybe we know too much and that gets in the way of our appreciation. 
 
I know I'm way in the minority, but I vastly prefer BB the album to OC the album.