Swan Song

They talked about the possibility of her working with Quentin Tarantino. Make it happen.

They talked about the possibility of her working with Quentin Tarantino. Make it happen.

They talked about the possibility of her working with Quentin Tarantino. Make it happen.

WHAT. HOW.

I hope she doesn't get discouraged from touring. I think she's considerably improved the more she does it. 

It would explain a lot, but honestly she's probably just putting some sauce on a weird cult she spent hours reading about online as a teenager and got into. Lizzy Del Grant probably did not live in some weird commune with other teenage girls and a big charismatic "daddy" figure.
 
Do you know what UV is? a 60's/70's throwback album. Do you know what was a "thing" then? Being in a cult. She's the best fanfiction writer tho. 

I hope she doesn't get discouraged from touring. I think she's considerably improved the more she does it. 

youtube parodies are so 2007

YOU CAN'T! 
 
 
 

All of this just makes me want to hear the song more than ever 

I love how this interwiev is less whiny and depressive.
 
The first thing that came to my mind when she talked about the gurur was "Oh, so that's the original daddy!"
 
About the FMWUTTT-thing:
 
I don't think it's about Gaga. Gaga never officially critisized Lana and I don't see any similarities in her style. Of course, the feud could have been taking place in the "so legit" time, meaning that Gaga talked bad about Lana while being in the indie-underground-scene. But the sentence "people believe her, she's really successful" kind of indicates that the person Lana talks about critisized her in front of the mainstream audience.
 
Becuase of that I thinkn it's Lorde. Lorde sneered around a lot in front of the press, who aready often critized Lana for being too atificial. And Lorde's style is often compared to Lana's.
I don't think the line "Fucked My Way Up To The Top" has to refer to the singer lana's talking about, maybe she's ironically using this line to taunt the other singer with her own critic (in an exaggerated way, like "yeah, you're real art whilst I just fucked my way up to the top"). If you see it this way, the song could still refer to Lorde very well, without assuming that Lorde "fucked her way up tot he top". She's ridiculing the other singer by frankly singing this very catchy and controversial line, but so ironically that everyone sees that she#s not admitting something but making fun of someone else who critisized her. And I don't thin Lana will restrain to diss a 17y old. Remember her bitchy yt-comments? I would really like to see how she's using Lorde's face to mob the floor!

trying to say lorde fucked her way to the top? lel

well maybe, but something about Lorde fucking her way up to the top just seems hilarious to me lol. like, I don't think so, I don't know..

yeah i get what you're saying. the three songs so far do have their own unique sounds, but i think they still have a similar sound overall. i like how it's guitar driven instead of hip-hop-beat driven like born to die was. i feel like this is the album she wanted to make before born to die, but born to die was her commercial release in a way. i don't know if that makes sense, but i'm excited to hear the whole album. i also think i will really appreciate how she described the album as a blend between east coast and west coast, because i've lived on both coasts, and i totally get how you can feel both of them in her new songs. angels forever and the paradise songs are examples of total west coast feel, but west coast (song) is a perfect hybrid of the two. i think west coast in the context of the album is also going to sound a lot better, and along with ultraviolence (song), it will help to tell the overall story of the album. i don't think her released songs are meant to be singles. i think they're meant to be heard in the context of an album. except for ride. and video games. and born to die. those three are just fine on their own. this has become a rant. i've had too much coffee and too little sleep so i'm ranting. now i'm ranting about ranting. sorry. i'm just excited for the album!

lmao yes finish them. But I mean I honestly wouldn't take any of these ppl seriously since they're all 14/15+ yr old white males so their ignorance and lack of interest really isn't surprising.    We're all just crazy SJWs TBH!! Queen Lana can do no wrong <33

Yeeeess, thank you. 

Her comment just perpetuates the idea that all feminists are crazy or hate men 

I was going to be like "Most of you are 16 at the oldest and male though so..." but any 16 year old male on a Lana del rey forum is going to need feminism in his life too so it's best they know 

Honestly this fanbase can be so embarrassing. I know we take pride in Lana sorta science (except more like science fiction) background, but this assumption that she's simply "too deep and complicated for every journalist she's ever encountered so how could they possibly get her" is just silly. She's not a hardline feminist, cool. You do you, and frankly I'm not going to stop listening to her for it, despite feeling very passionately about it myself.
 
BUT THE TRUTH IS:
She did this headline to herself. There was a more evenhanded way to approach it and she knows it. She was trying to sound tragic and inward, and I guess she did, but she also sounded super ignorant too. Of course you, as a rich white popstar in 2014, are unmoved by feminism. But something tells me if she actually had to live Marilyn's life, she'd want some more of it. All it says to me is that she's looking at it from an extremely selfish point of view. "I don't feel like I need feminsm because I feel free" is all good and well when you are apart of one of the most free demographics in the world. She says "let's talk about science" but how many girls (especially non-white and non-western girls) are shut out and pushed away from being interested in science? There are lots of feminists talking about that. That's intersectionality, Lizzy.
 
And attempting to drag people for thinking she sounds dumb juts makes you sound x2 worse tbh. "I bet you didn't know about feminism before tumblr" isn't even a fucking insult. I've personally been a feminist for a long time, but god forbid people actually learn about something useful on the fucking internet.

I prefer the live version, but it's still nice! Her voice is much stronger live. & the spoken part is beautiful both ways! But I love it when she says "I REALLY love you forever" in the live version; it's too cute!

Back then, sometimes she’d make four videos for the same song, but most times, nobody much saw them.
 
Try six... #Gramma
 

“I’d been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn’t figure out,” she says, to my surprise. “That’s a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can’t figure out why."
 
Perhaps her drinking was self-medicating?
 

"It’s just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don’t really care that much about yourself sometimes. I thought it was sad. I thought my position was sad. I thought it was sad to be in Ireland singing for people who really cared when I wasn’t sure if I did.”
 
Hate to say it, but that's been evident in some of her performances.
 

the 27-year-old Lana Del Rey
 
Sigh.
 

By the time I click off my recorder, after nearly 90 minutes, her publicist has twice come out to end the interview.
 

 

In both cases, she rebuffs him.
 
Sit your ass down, Ben. Let her fucking do what she's fucking doing!
 

and her British stylist, Johnny Blueeyes, who during the shoot was prone to bursting into the room and crying, “You’re a staaaar!”
 
Omg, he's worse than all y'all.
 

“I met everyone the same week,” she says. “Because I was very shy, I just sort of stuck with them.”
 
Inertia. Ah, that explains why Ben still manages her.
 

she recorded an acoustic album as May Jailer just the same. (That record, Sirens, was never released, though it eventually leaked online.)
 
Is this the first mention of Sirens in a profile?
 

Under the name Lizzy Grant, she released an EP, Kill Kill, and recorded an album, Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant, which sat on 5 Points’ shelf for two years before it was digitally released in 2010.
 
No, no, it's just Lana Del Ray. Fact checking, people.
 

Today, Born to Die has sold over 7 million copies worldwide, more than Beyoncé’s last two albums combined.
 
You'll never hear me use this word this way again, but... slay. No wonder Bey's tryna copy her.
 

"I lived down in Alabama with my boyfriend"
 
Man, just when I was beginning to think this was metaphorical, or an old lie she stopped telling, she says this again. When the fuck was this?
 

In the video, she has sex with a 40-something biker on a pinball machine.
Sex? I didn't seen any penetration or implied penetration.
Now that's a version of the "Ride" video I'd like to see.
 

In a number of others, she’s with a scrawny white guy with tattoos.

 
Okay, interviewer, you're forgiven whatever faults your profile may have. Scrawny white guy. LOL.
 
Not that I'm one to talk.   
 


“For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept,” she says. “I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.”
 
Yes, perhaps at the end of the universe some unimaginably sophisticated being that is the pinnacle of evolution (not to be confused with me, easy mistake, I know) will look back and say, yeah, in the grand scheme of things, that brief period of just a couple millennia when female humans were not treated equal to their male counterparts, not that big of a deal... Wait, but I'm supposed to feel sympathy for a rich pop star that had to endure a few mean comments on her way to the top? Quick, someone call Neil deGrasse Tyson so he can denote the SNL backlash on his cosmic calendar.
 

I ask her why she’s always being choked in her videos, and she gives a fitting answer: “I like a little hardcore love.”
Now we know how Lana would reply in this thread.
 

“I had a seven-year relationship with the head of this label, and he was a huge inspiration to me. I’ll tell you later when more people know. He never signed me, but he was like my muse, the love of my life.”
Wait, what? Where the hell does a seven-year relationship fit in?
Or are you just trollin' the Lanalysts now?
 

Compared to Born to Die, the new album sounds far more like straight-up rock music, recorded in live takes with a Nashville band assembled by producer Dan Auerbach. She’s withdrawing from contemporary pop, a space in which she says she never felt comfortable; gone are the genre-blurring samples that gave her debut the impression of trying too hard to be trendy. The album feels like a sprawling American desert, devastatingly huge, windswept by shrieking electric guitars... She seems to have found confidence in psych-rock and narcotized swing.
 

What's more annoying are people who construct a straw man (straw woman? lol) of what feminism is and use it to blithely write off the entire feminist movement and the entirety of feminist thought.
 
This is one of the dumber comments I've seen on this forum. And that's saying something.
 
She's practically begging for Lanalysis.
 
I haven't read Heavier Than Heaven, but I had the same thought when reading that part of the interview.
 
Although it should be noted that Lana didn't talk about it, the writer mentioned it. I get the sense a lot of things mentioned in the article came from the writer's own research (sometimes wrong, see Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant) rather than talking to Lana. Not that Lana wouldn't give the writer wrong information too ("the 27-year-old Lana Del Rey").