Shades

Well. She is still young. Will get better.

She’s very average compared to Lana 

y’all are really bored huh

lana’s SILENCE ? she literally released an album two months ago and is planning to release another album within the year yal are so fucking spoiled  

With Lana’s silence and the rumours about L3, I think I might take a pause from Lana and move on to Lorde. The sound seems very promising 

Lana Del Rey's new album, Ultraviolence, qualifies as a radical statement from a pop star in 2014 – it's mostly produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who relies on electric guitar and other live instruments, and none of its eleven tracks sound much like a potential radio hit. And as Auerbach reveals in Rolling Stone's new Del Rey cover story, her major labels (Interscope and the U.K.'s Polydor) were initially resistant to the idea of releasing it.

 

"There was a lot of bullshit I'm not used to," Auerbach tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they fucking hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bullshit.

 

"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"

 

Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"

 

"I had heard about some back and forth regarding the music," responds Interscope chief John Janick.  "But from the moment I met Lana, I've been of the mindset that she has an instinct that is pretty dead on and as an artist, she is fully formed.  She knows her vision and her audience, and it's up to us to follow her lead on that."

 

"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."

 

In any case, the album debuted at Number One in June, selling 182,000 copies – and Auerbach is now a huge fan of his collaborator. "Every criticism that I'd ever heard about her was proven wrong when I was in the studio with her," he says. "From how great the songs were to how confident she is as a musician to her fucking singing every song live, with a handheld microphone and a seven-piece band. I mean, get the fuck out of here, who does that? Nobody does that, there hasn't been a number one pop record that was recorded like that in forty, fifty years."

 

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718

AKA Revamped Re-release

My old man is a bad man
But I can't deny the way he holds my hand
And he grabs me, he has me by my heart
He doesn't mind I have a Las Vegas past
He doesn't mind I have a L.A. crass way about me
He loves me with every beat of his cocaine heart

Swimming pool glimmering, darling
White bikini off with my red nail polish
Watch me in the swimming pool
Bright blue ripples
You sitting sipping on your black Cristal, yeah

Light of my life, fire in my loins
Be a good baby, do what I want
Light of my life, fire in my loins
Gimme them gold coins, gimme them coins

And I'm off to the races
Cases of Bacardi chasers
Chasin' me all over town
Cause he knows I'm wasted
Facing time again on Rikers Island
And I won't get out

Because I'm crazy, baby
I need you to come here and save me
I'm your little scarlet starlet
Singing in the garden
Kiss me on my open mouth
Ready for you

My old man is a tough man
But he got a soul as sweet as blood red jam
And he shows me, he knows me
Every inch of my tar black soul
He doesn't mind I have a flat broke down life
In fact he says he thinks it's what he might like about me
Admires me, the way I roll like a rolling stone

He likes to watch me in the glass room
Bathroom, Chateau Marmont
Slipping on my red dress, putting on my makeup
Glass room, perfume, cognac, lilac fumes
Says it feels like heaven to him

Light of his life, fire of his loins
Keep me forever, tell me you own me
Light of your life, fire of your loins
Tell me you want me, gimme them coins

And I'm off to the races
Cases of Bacardi chasers
Chasin' me all over town
Cause he knows I'm wasted
Facing time again on Rikers Island
And I won't get out

Because I'm crazy, baby
I need you to come here and save me
I'm your little scarlet starlet
Singing in the garden
Kiss me on my open mouth

Yo, I'm off to the races, laces
Leather on my waist is tight
And I am falling down
I can see your face is shameless
Cipriani's Basement
Love you but I'm going down

God, I'm so crazy, baby
I'm sorry that I'm misbehaving
I'm your little harlot, starlet
Queen of Coney Island
Raising hell all over town
Sorry 'bout it!

My old man is a thief
And I'm gonna stay and pray with him 'till the end
But I trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us
Take him when he may, if he may
I'm not afraid to say that I'd die without him
Who else is gonna put up with me this way?
I need you, I breathe you, I'd never leave you
They would rue the day I was alone without you

You're lying with your gold chain on
Cigar hanging from your lips
I said, "Hon, you never looked so beautiful
As you do now, my man."

And we're off to the races, places
Ready, set the gate is down
And now we're going in
To Las Vegas, chaos
Casino Oasis
Honey, it is time to spin

Boy you're so crazy baby
I love you forever, not maybe
You are my one true love
You are my one true love

this song is seriously one of her most well-written songs EVER, like, i can't believe she seriously wrote this, it's incredible

Every time I come back to this song I'm amazed by the production  It was actually the first time I even truly noticed "production" in a song back in the day  

This song paints a story like only few other songs do (EMGHW, BTTB). Sometimes, I really miss these kind of lyrics.
One of her best.

An iconic song. Should be considered an all-time great/must-listen/masterpiece in the history books of pop music. The lyrics alone...
 
The tragedy is that she never really did another song like this, and I’m surprised nobody else even tried to do their version of it. Everybody did either a Video Games or Born to Die influenced song. Guess that’s what makes it so legendary. 

This song is a movie being told by words. For me, this is one of her best songwriting skills. I never heard anything that hits close to this masterpiece 

I was hoping someone would tell me what music I'll be listening to in the future. If someone can tell me what I should have for lunch, I'll be set 

Shut up, Kiki.

hopefully this is the right place!
this came out cleaner than expected (with a few flaws here and there!)
 

oh god the straining. still sounds good though

I lost a bit of interest in the BB MV, honestly. It seemed cute, I might be wrong... but I’d prefer a new song over a MV where not much is happening. Maybe it’s going to be incredible, but I am really not super excited for it right now. 

i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for u tho
or sorry that it happened

I hope she's still working on BB and not in another album. She really needs a break to let her ideas simmer for a bit. I feel like she's in a loop since L4L. That seems kinda unhealthy and it's projecting into her work. Everything looks so rushed and unpolished in those past years
 
 
 

I made a quick cover on my phone

i knew being nosey would finally pay off 

I actually hope there aren't any old songs on BB/RCS. Apart from maybe Dealer because so far the three singles haven't strayed tooo far from COCC style, I think that Yosemite and TNBAR are two incredible songs but sound a bit out of place on their respective records. I just think the production sounds too different from the rest 

It’s prob my 2nd or 3rd favorite overall but I still stand by AKA being her number one best album... the QUALITY throughout is unmatched... there’s really no skips. Lizzy was on some next level ethereal shit in that trailer park y’all.