Swan Song

Agreed. His writing is good, but his production almost always kills the atmosphere of songs for me.
 
Nowels, however, is incredibly gifted and really brings Lana's words to life.

I thought it might be useful to dedicate one thread to the early tidbits of info we are getting about Lana'a up-coming fourth studio album.

Here's what we have thus far:
 
Interview for The Fader:
I’m a big jazz aficionado. Hopefully my next foray will be into jazz. I feel like I’m getting there with songs like ‘Shades of Cool’ and ‘Cruel World’ and a cover of ‘The Other Woman’ by Nina Simone. I’m inching towards what I really love, which is kind of a Chet Baker, Nina Simone-inspired sound. It’s hard to get that sound because you need great jazz musicians. 
 
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http://lizzydelgrant.tumblr.com/post/90085038067

Interviewer: You will record something tonight, do you know what it is, or right now?

Lana: I do, yeah I do. I have this idea for this record called "Music to Watch Boys To," so. Yeah, I'm just kind of thinking about that and what that would mean [laughs].

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Interview for Galore Magazine:

Are you working on anything new?
Yeah, I just wrote two songs for Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein’s film called Big Eyes and I’m working on a new record. I’m also always writing small pieces for independent films etc. Dan Heath and Rick Nowels are two of my dearest friends and producers and we are always up to something.

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Interview for Grazia Magazine

What is your state of mind now?
I’m afraid this album will be forgotten. I’m always afraid good things will be forgotten, burried. Musically, I’m still looking for something different, with majestic choruses, beautiful orchestrations, a type of 50s vibe with a bit of soft grunge. Since march, I’ve been writing a lot of new songs, in a more conventional way -the verses, then the refrain, with a strong jazzy influence. I’m having a lot of fun with all of that. And next year, I’ll tour across the USA. I’ve been doing it only once before and I was really moved, especially in Detroit where I could feel the weight of its History. So, that’s why I decided I wanted to do it again, this time with my friend Courtney Love, for two months. My new album will come out after, maybe for late-august.
Did you writing style change for this next record?
My lyrics are very similar to me, who I truly am, but I must admit that I’m currently trying to do some new things. It’s a bit surrealist, full of colors. I feel much more inspired by people like Mark Ryden, Fellini or Picasso… Oh, I’m totally fond of this documentary: “Fellini : I’m a Born Liar”, which explains that the film-maker was in love with his hometown, and each of his movies is like one of its facets. I like his idea, the fact that truth should never impede to a beautiful lie… (she smiles)

You seem to like evoking the 50s imagery in your songs: the golden age of recording studios, ladies singing late at night with their big band…
Yeah, I love it. I love nightlife, the mood that comes from it. That’s why I wanted to meet Mark Ronson: I played him ten songs I just composed for this next album. Not so much that he added his usual signature, soul and funk, but rather it explores a sound close to the golden age of jazz. I wasn’t even born in the 50s but I feel like I was there. And when I still was living in New York, I was looking for this dream, maybe some other girls had the same, to live as a singer in a jazz club where I could sing some standards, but my own compositions too. I had a very ‘romantic’ vision of what a singer’s life should be. I daydreamed about tours in Europe, just like Chet Baker did, for example.
 
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Billboard Magazine:
 
Lana Del Rey has nine songs written for her next album, titled Honeymoon -- four of which "the production is perfect; I'm looking for a few more songs to tie everything together" -- and thanks to her cinematic new song, she's also in the thick of awards season.
 
Does the Big Eyes song give us any indication of how the new album will sound?
It's very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise. I finished my last one [Ultraviolence] in March and released it in June and I had a follow-up idea. It's growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good.
You're still writing everything?
I'm doing a cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." After doing a cover of [Jessie Mae Robinson's] "The Other Woman," I like summarizing the record with a jazz song. I'm having fun with my interpretation.
I assume you're relying on the Nina Simone versions?
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "The Other Woman" are my favorites. I'm so so much [a fan].
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Mark Ronson for Triple J:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s4174087.htm
 
Says that he rumors of his involvement with Honeymoon are an "internet thing," but says he has heard "beautiful tracks" and does not want to comment on anything before Lana does. However, he says that he has not worked on anything (yet?)
 
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The Inquirer:
" I feel that the three records were so heavy and autobiographical. It’s been so cathartic. I like to use my previous work as a jump-off point to do something new. I’m ready to go into more of a ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ surrealist place. That’s why I really do like what I heard about Fellini and all of the movies that were overdubbed and the actors were counting and not saying lines. I couldn’t believe that.
 
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Inrockuptibles:
"Everybody has asked why I wanted to end Ultraviolence by a cover of The Other Woman by Nina Simone. Because she says everything, because I love jazz and may be because it could a door for what could be the next album."
 
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Mark Ronson for Interview Magazine:
 
"Q-TIP: What are you doing in L.A.?
Mark RONSON: I'm going to do some recording with Lana Del Rey today and tomorrow. I found this cool old studio out here. 

Q-TIP: Are you producing? 

RONSON: I don't know. She has some songs and I said I had some demo ideas, and if they are any good, then maybe she'll like them and we'll go from there. "
 
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On Instagram:

 
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Video from tour saying that the record will be released in September:
https://twitter.com/LanaDeIReyDaily/status/602515526649163776
 
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Honeymoon lyrics found in tour merch:
http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/85451?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lanadelrey

Mmm....
 
Why you make me work so hard
To put on that evening show
When you know that all I want
Is to make your money grow?
 
You're like a baby who don't got nowhere to go
I feel you eyeing me, you keep it on the low
(on the low, on the low)
 
But I can't let you in
And I can't keep you out
I wait for life to [win/mend/end?]
But it never comes around
And I can't hear you call
And I can't hear me [shout?]
I wait for it to break
But it never comes around
 
And I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely
 
Why you make me take that shit
To put on that evening show
When you know I don't need it
Better than your booze and blow?
 
You're like a baby, don't know better, you don't know
You drag me down, you try to keep it on the low
 
But I can't let you in
And I can't keep you out
I wait for life to [win/mend/end?]
But it never comes around
And I can't hear you call
And I can't hear me [shout?]
I wait for it to break
But it never comes around
 
(Scatting)
Feel like I'm falling apart
(Scatting)
Feel like I'm falling apart

(Scatting)
Feel like I'm falling apart

 
Would you tell me?
Would you tell me?
Would you tell me?
 
But I can't let you in
And I can't keep you out
I wait for life to [win/mend/end?]
But it never comes around
And I can't hear you call
And I can't hear me [shout?]
I wait for it to break
But it never comes around
 
And I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely

Although the song is a lolita-esque story and she mentions the first line of the book "Light of my life, fire of my loins" her Lolita is much more inspired by the movies and pop culture vision of the character than the one described on the book. I can definitely see much more of Nabokov's writing style influence on her - specially because both created a romantic vision of such twisted love stories.   So the novel might not appeal to you just because you loved the song, specially because is heavily more inspired by beatnik novels and noir archetypes, the whole " my life is a mess and my man is bad and loves cocaine" isn't something you'll find in the novel. The book is narrated by Humbert, the molester, which is a hopeless romantic Of course one can argue that Lolita is not a romantic novel but the main character is so out of reality of his own actions. Anyway it's one of my favorites books and recommend to read it!

My fave book of all time, a must read

This people criticizing lana as if its her song lol 

Hope they fuck

awww, no you guys, I loved it. What he said about Lana being so disappointed by life that she had to create her own little world to live in... Thats how I've always read her. All the "K" and "daddies" and "diamonds and pearls" and "motorcycles", its something she's dreamed up. imo

Some photos:
 




 

Serving Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks realness.

Yellow Flicker Beat > Big Eyes

Didn't another interviewer just debunk this?
 
Say what?
 

 
Put The Radio On.mp3
 
Oh, I bet you took the D train a lot.
BTW InfoSec Taylor Swift would tell you sharing even former addresses is bad opsec.
 
TO BE CONTINUED... (fucking quote limits)

I saw this in someone's status here, so I played with it a bit and made a cover out of it.
So, here it is
 

I LOVE Cruel World, Sad Girl & Pretty When You Cry so much, I want them to be replayed endlessly in my mind when I die    god bless
I don't dislike any of her songs tbh, idk why but everytime I hear her "bad" songs over and over I start to like them lol
 
I don't think her and Francesco got a lot of chemistry but I like them together ~visually~
 
I wish she'd choose Father John Misty to tour with her instead of Courtney Love but w/e
 
I  don't like to think about her in a sexual way, it makes me uncomfortable 
 
About her fans...
-I really hate when people say they "miss" Auburn Lana, like wtf she just died her hair, she sure looked pretty and at that time she was kinda closer to her fans but stop whining about it over and over again
- I can't believe when people say AKA is her best album...
- I hate when fans make a big deal when someone calls her Del Ray
- I hate when people think they're better than other fans just because they knew Lana before/she follows them
- I don't like when fans criticize Lana and want to make other fans to change their mind towards that topic, I prefer to live in my perfect-Lana bubble thank u

i was however in the process of making a framed lana collage, using pictures from magazines etc but i feel kinda funny putting up pictures of lana in her knickers on my wall
my friends and family all ready think im creepy obsessed 

I know this is the unpopular opinions thread and I respect people having their own voice and stuff but this was kinda blasphemous. Leave the forum please.
 
 
 

2010 - 2014

#20: Born To Die- Lana Del Rey (Interscope)

5 Million Copies sold.

 

 

Full list: here

           

LANA DEL JOKE

A bland song made into a bland remix, accompanied by a bland video

Oh come on. I'm not Me. I Am Mariah, you don't gotta do me like that.
Again, research. Britney's label completely took over and destroyed her last record.
You don't seem interested in discussing it tho so I'll leave it at that.

This is an interesting thread xx

Last Girl On Earth is very good, all those metaphors etc.
I also love the lyrics for Off To The Races, Shades Of Cool, Blue Jeans, Without You, Is This Happiness, Black Beauty, National Anthem and Money Power Glory alot. And lots of Sirens songs have good lyrics (however they lack interesting sound in return)

Well, I got halfway through @@Rebel 's epic playlist... but it's like so many stories at once, I kinda got information overload! Too...much...beauty...
 
So I got inspired to make two shorter playlists. Some of these are songs I rarely listen to, so it's nice to finally have a reason.
 
Strange Love
1. Pin Up Galore
2. Strange Love
3. Rehab
4. On Our Way
5. Queen of the Gas Station
6. Never Let Me Go
7. Yayo (2010)
8. Sad Girl
9. Gramma
10. Ride (video version)
11. Guns and Roses
12. Angels Forever, Forever Angels
 
 
 
 
DOPE CINEMA
1. Tropico (Score)
2. Body Electric
3. Cola
4. Radio (Instrumental)
5. Video Games
6. Hotel Sayre
7. Young and Beautiful
8. National Anthem (video version)
9. Blue Jeans (video version with strings intro)
10. Once Upon a Dream
11. Million Dollar Man (demo)
12. The Other Woman (instrumental)
13. Blue Velvet
14. Old Money
15. Ride (instrumental with strings intro)
16. Born to Die
17. Bel Air (with intro)
 
Sort of my own version of Tropico, somewhat more mellow so I can listen at bedtime