Shades

What's a Lana era without the mess?
 
Lana Del Ray-Takes the label two years to put it on the market and then Lana has it taken down after two weeks.
 
Born to Die-Early leaks, media vitriol, and SNL
 
UV-Where do I even start?

Don't OK sweetie me,I'm not fucking lying did anybody even bother to go look I posted part of our conversation and he liked it you can see all over the place that I'm telling the truth.I've never lied about something like this and don't see a point in doing so.

why are you so negative all the time? You break my heart.

The models shouldn't have acted like they knew the release date. They brought it upon themselves tbh

you will unstan after this album

omg at some of you guys with your melodrama and batshit theories.
 
You guys need to calm down and relax. Do you really think it makes sense that if Lana Del Rey was this hopelessly depressed, self conscious, self loathing woman that she'd release a piece of shit for an album so that everyone could mock her and drag her through the coals even more than they did before? Yeah that totally makes sense   
 
If Lana is whoever you want her to be (the morose awkward woman you call her...a complete stranger to all of us mind you), it would make more sense for her to create a piece of work that she knows can't be dismissed in any sense of the word, just like she did last year with Ultraviolence, which some (not all) of you with your Kidz Bop-filtered lenses dismissed as boring and hookless. That album may not have yileded a billion copies on the Bareback Cardboard 100 chart but it certainly helped her earn some respect amongst the constipated Williamsburg brigade who thought she'd shrink like a little daisy in the wake of all their lynching.
 
Stop trying to deconstruct her brain and just wait for the music to come. We've just passed the 1 year mark since the last album. She's about to release another 1 sometime before the year ends, most ppl would KILL for that kind of frequency amongst their favorite pop stars.  I'm starting to wonder if this fanbase is as wacko and embarrassing as Lady Gaga's.

your over dramatics in here. she is one of interscope's most successful artists during the last couple of years. lana is not made out of glass. she goes into the audience at every damn show and basically said in every city this tour to hopefully be back in a year.
 
some of you oversensetive lana stans should really start stanning for somebody else and let this woman have a career.
 
And of course: Happy Birthday Lana. Be happy and successful, just like you deserve it my dear 

Florence is ugly and Lana Del Rey is sexy!

tfw your girlfriend writes an entire album about how depressed you are then breaks up with you 

u make it sound like there is logical pattern behind all of this?

no not all of them do at all, and that's their choice. If you are trying to suggest people with straight hair are trying to appear "Caucasian" then that's very ignorant and not for you to dictate lmao, and having straight hair does not take away from somebody's blackness or suggest they are not proud of their race or culture

Not every black woman has or wants straightened hair to begin with. What's the point you're attempting to make?

The issue isn't her identifying with a different culture, it's the fact that she lied about her race, took advantage of programs set up for people of color knowing she came from a race of privilege and falsified hate crimes against herself to justify her sick mental game. If she really cared about people of color, she would not have taken advantage of scholarships or made a mockery of their culture. She was living in black face. There's a big difference between opening up as transgender, living a life you feel comfortable with and deceiving your way to success disadvantaging the people you claimed to be helping. 

Read this http://thebinblog.com/rachel-dolezal-pretty-little-liar/

...when will you die

why you typing like that

She got money for it? You're giving her fuckig attitude? JEEEZus christ... 

 
 
 

I can't even laugh because it's painfully true

Swan song sounds like a beautiful song. Can't wait for the chorus :
 
"Swaaaaaaaaan song, aaaaaaah
Swan song, ooooooh Ahhhhh oh
Swaaaaaaaan sooooOOOng ah
SwaaaAAaAn song
Ahhhhh ahh ahhhh ah Ahhhhh ah...
Ooooooh
Swan song"

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

yes this is exactly what I've been imagining!!!!!!!!
 
"Dreaming your life away" in Honeymoon also reminded me a lot of "Dreams unwind, love's a state of mind" from Rhiannon and I hope it sounds like that

yes this is exactly what I've been imagining!!!!!!!!
 
"Dreaming your life away" in Honeymoon also reminded me a lot of "Dreams unwind, love's a state of mind" from Rhiannon and I hope it sounds like that

For some reason, I keep imagining Honeymoon being like a modern version of Stevie Nicks' debut solo album, Bella Donna. Upbeat dreamy pop-rock with colorful lyrics and imagery.

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