longtimeman

Is this the first time they're known to have hung out together?

Public Announcement System (aka speakers on set)? of Personal Assistant?

'Bearded Mystery Man' needs to be her next single

This is amazing, but it's also the point where everyone who's followed Lana the past four years asks 'what on earth is going on?!'

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/713084489308700674 AZEALIABANKS ‏@AZEALIABANKS 39m39 minutes ago Here we go: https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/598eeba5cba2de7b0b90bf971b2f789820160324191812/0b66418573b6ccdad63db9a15d81650e20160324191812/354438 … ENJOY ! https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/598eeba5cba2de7b0b90bf971b2f789820160324191812/0b66418573b6ccdad63db9a15d81650e20160324191812/354438

This photo's great (from Ben's instagram):

https://twitter.com/patrickhoelck/status/710734656136564736

This is from his new book, Straight James / Gay James

Although I'll never tire of seeing her referred to as "The Born To Die Hitmaker", that's a shoddy article even by the Daily Fail's standards. How can you even satirise writing like that?

Jon Kortajarena

@@annedauphine has a masterpost of audio interviews - I'd also be interested in a masterpost of print interviews.

There's some good taste on display in this thread

I'm not positive that Lana wrote the monologue (although it sounds like something she'd write), but it definitely wasn't written by Jackie Kennedy. There is a mock up of a letter that is around that contains it, but not only is it dated on the unlikely date of his assassination, it isn't addressed to anyone, and doesn't really reflect what JK's feelings would have been. I can't imagine anyone before the 2000's using the phrase "He was like this hybrid", and it's almost impossible to conceive that a widow in her position would write so unemotionally about her husband's status as a lady's man even years later, let alone on the day of his death.

What a week.

All of her records have great lyrics, side by side with average lyrics, side by side with lyrics that make me go 'wtf?', but I don't care that much about lyrics if they're not that good - I take lyrics that move me as a bonus (and on Honeymoon I'd include the title track, TLY, Salvatore and TBD as among her best). Musically, she's gotten better over time, although the high points on BTD are still the most exciting things that she's created for my personal tastes. I don't care that much about music videos, but each 'era' has its own aesthetic, and it feels like it's only on this board that every latest thing gets trashed - in the broader world, people either hate her, or love whatever she does, or move on from her (here is the only place that people love her and hate everything she does at the same time). I don't care about what she wears when she buys coffee, so maybe I'm missing out on a big element of her supposed 'decline', but overall, 2014-now have always been fascinating times for me to be a fan.

There's this

MTV puts HM at #1 of "5 Life-Changing 2015 Albums That Still Deserve Your Love In 2016"

Here's some music accompaniment to this post: Try to find the documentary 'Gang of Souls' (there are a couple of clips from it on Youtube) - it is a series of interviews with original Beats, and those who they influenced. Even better than reading their work is listening to their recordings of the original authors reading them. Here's a nice jazzy one: And one more for the moment - Allen Ginsberg 'America'

This thread was attempting a similar thing, but is quite out of date: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4475-list-of-songs-performed-live/

Was there a reason to post a ten month old article as news?

Check out this page: http://www.discogs.com/Lana-Del-Rey-Born-To-Die-The-Paradise-Edition/release/4024362 click on the picture of the cover in the top left and it will bring up a bunch of photos. They're not HQ, but they're not bad.

This is one video that shows her playing some basic chords on guitar, so it's possible she's improved since then