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It's one of her best songs ever, if you ask me. 

It's one of her best songs ever, if you ask me. 

It's one of her best songs ever, if you ask me. 

Ive seen a lot of hate towards Sad Girl, the opening "triumphant marchy" type melody is so cute, and the jazzy sassy verse is great, and as it makes its way to the chorus "he's got that fiREEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH" and the lyrics are pretty great too, cause they're so clever and true, sure saying I'm a sad girl a few times isn't seen as poetry but you know, everything fits in the song, loving someone even though you have to share them.

UPDATE:
 
Hers'a  Youtube video, with pretty cool singing (by Lana, not so much the crowd)

 
 
And right now in Paris, FMWUTTT
 
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/B26823FE5A1101649808160174080_24d7a30a889.1.0.13877645531925941730.mp4?versionId=E9iiqQsLPvs_Yssx5FcbOZN0t36jh5Pd

UPDATE:
 
Hers'a  Youtube video, with pretty cool singing (by Lana, not so much the crowd)

 
 
And right now in Paris, FMWUTTT
 
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/B26823FE5A1101649808160174080_24d7a30a889.1.0.13877645531925941730.mp4?versionId=E9iiqQsLPvs_Yssx5FcbOZN0t36jh5Pd

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

Ultraviolence - Audio Commentary. I added song snippets in the background, because I'm not the copy/paste kinda guy. http://picosong.com/PpAj

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

The BTD version of 'Lolita' makes me feel like I'm going insane. I don't even know if I like it or not, but every time I hear it, it completely changes how I'm feeling, in a sniffing glue sort of way.
 
I like the demo of Dark Paradise more than the album version, but think the verses should be in a different song than the chorus.
 
I would have been just as happy if Emil only used the Rick James sample on one song, instead of on every song.

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

I can't believe Lana's lying in bed, touching her pussy on the cover of a magazine. I've completely lost my respect for her.

I love all of this art, Alex, and have a couple of things I'd like you to work on if you have the chance, but I need to get the pictures and text worked out.

Just so I don't look negative all the time about analytical writing, I think there's one really interesting paragraph in the text that doesn't go far enough.
(this is a little long, so I'm spoilering it)
 
 

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)

Lana Del Rey, the sad indie singer   Depressives songs and a blasé look, the american singer became a popstar and opened doors for another girls that may be considered "different" in the musical scenario. The american singer have 28 years, and have a lot of qualities. She is beautiful, famous, have a big crowd in her performances at festivals and have some special fans like: Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Daniel Radcliffe and David Lynch. Talking about Lana and Kim, the popstar was invited to sing at the Kardashian's wedding earlier this year. And there's some rumors that say that George Clooney asked the same favour and he will pay any price to have the indie singer doing a performance at his wedding. Besides her popularity, Lana recently said that wishes that she was already dead. Her beautiful lips, sad/blasé eyes, and a deep voice made Lana a success. In 2012 with her album Born to Die, her second album in a studio, sold more than 7 millions of copies all around the world.  Ultraviolence, released in june, is following the same way, in a month, the album already sold 300.000 copies on USA   “I was a risk for the record label. It wasn't a good investment. But I'm persistent and I never gave up”
VEJA: Your road to the fame was long and was ever changing. How do you feel about being the center of the attention?   LANA:It's good to see my style and see how things are working good. I've performed a lot of times and the experience of doing a show in different places is great, they fit with the changes of my mood . The energy that my fans gave to me are great and scares me at the same time. It's always a surprise. Even having some experience, I feel kinda nervous when I see the crowd. VEJA:Do you still have some issues about having a big crowd? 
LANA:No, especially because I'm not nervous about my album. Now that it's finished, I can give more attenton to my shows. While I'm touring, I can't be creative. But now I feel that it's all okay, it's a part of the job.
VEJA: When you became famous, a lot of rumors about you were spread, saying that your style is fake . How do you deal with this? 
LANA: It's easy to judge somebody when you do not know them and know how their personal growth happens. When a singer gets bigger, it's hard to say if they care about their music and if they deserve their success. I'm gonna still doing my work and I'll became more and more mature. On set, I do not have a lot of people helping me and I do not have somebody that makes me do stuff that I do not like. 
VEJA:If your style wasn't created, it probably have bothered a lot o people because your style is different compared to the actual pop music scenario.Does somebody tried to change your style to fit the mainstream pop style?    LANA: Only at the beginning of my career. I was a risk for the record label. It wasn't a good investment. But I'm persistent and I never gave up. I felt great when "Video Games" became a hit. I really like that song and the version that became famous was the version that I wanted to everybody hear.I played it for like a year and my actual record label liked the song, but they were kinda worried about it because it was too slow.   VEJA:Dan Auerbach produced Ultraviolence. How this work begun? Are you a fan of The Black Keys?
LANA:I know the work of The Black Keys, but I didn't knew Dan very well. We had a great work together. We've decided to make the album while we were knowing each other in NY. We were having such a great time with a couple of friends and he looked at me and we said "Why don't we make this album together?. I realized that he was the producer that I was looking for. He put on some electric guitars and a 70's style on the album. He also uses the same weird references that I use. Also, it was good to change the producer, I've worked with the same guy for like three years.
VEJA:With a several leaks, your album was prejudiced. How do you felt about do the same work again? 
LANA:It was prejudiced, but it was a blessing because I hate those songs. It was basically songs that I wrote for some singers or songs that I was working at, so, when these songs wew leaked, I've realized that I do not like how they sounds like, so I've started all over. When I thought that I had finished them, I met Dan. It was wonderful, it was I met this new sound that I've fell in love.  
VEJA:Why "Ultraviolence"?
LANA:It's my darkest album, even with some romantics elements, I do not like to hear some songs, even if I've wrote them. I do not feel okay to listen some tracks, but I feel great when I listen to anothers. Make this album was hard in some moments because if it's not natural, then I do not work well. The time was almost ending, so I had some anxiety crisis, I do not work well under a lot of pressure, but at the end, everything worked in a good way.
VEJA:So you had some anxiety crisis while you were doing your album?
LANA: Yeah, I had the feeling that my album would not become a big hit. I really try to not be sad and be a pessimist, but that's who I am. I couldn't like anything that I've wrote for the album, so, I begun to tour and my fans made me feel more confident. In the first week, I realized that it is what I want to do for the rest of my life. It was great, because I was afraid to sing again, but, this year made me feel confident about still singing
VEJA:Are you okay now?
LANA:Absolutely. I'm really excited and I love "Ultraviolence". I was really worried and I wanted to write something that I'd like to, because everything in my life was complicated. Music is the only that was really stable to me. I wanted this album to be perfect because I've worked so hard on it and I'll perform the songs at my concerts.
VEJA:Your "visual identity" and your videos walks besides your musical style. When you write a song, do you think about how the video will be?
LANA:That's for sure, I always think about the history that influenced the song and how it get connected to what I've wrote. I'm lucky because I've always worked with great directors like Yoann Lemoine and Anthony Mandler. We have a great and unique connection. I've alway wrote the video concept for they. I think that it was kinda boring for they, probably that's why they do not work with me anymore. But the magic is that at the end, everything is like I was thinking about, and it's pretty hard to happen. That's the opposite control that I have at my personal life, I've showed every detail to the directors and they've made a beautiful work. 
VEJA:Do you have the same cares with the album artwork?
LANA:Yes, I do. I do love to see the progress of the artwork. For "Ultraviolence", I've worked with Neil Krug, he changed the way that I've seen some stuff. He have transformed polaroids into perfect portraits for my album. For me, the artwork helps to give the album some individuality. So, when I saw the artwork, I've started to see "Ultraviolence" as it is, like the story that it is. The story begins with a electric guitar solo that Dan made in "Cruel World", the first song.
VEJA:You've moved from NY to LA during the process of creation of the album. How this change influenced at the album?
LANA:I was living in London for some time and I moved back to USA. So, I've moved to California, I also lived in NY for several years, and these years influenced me to write "West Coast". In "Broolyn Baby", I sing about Brooklyn, as the title suggest. Well, I could bring all my worlds to a album. That's great and makes me happy.



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Sorry for the several mistakes! I'm kinda sleepy, but I've tried!

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)

Just so I don't look negative all the time about analytical writing, I think there's one really interesting paragraph in the text that doesn't go far enough.
(this is a little long, so I'm spoilering it)
 
 

This whole thing reads like "Critical Theory Trends Report 2014, Special Focus: What Lana Del Rey Means To Our Profession."

I have spent many an hour in literature and philosophy classes myself, and these types of thinkers and writers are easy to find. They are always insufferable, always self-important, and always unable to create anything themselves. Their only means is destruction; they examine everything like a cadaver. I find it ironic that Lana herself spent time in those classes, only to go on to create something that her would-be peers are now deconstructing to death. She creates, they can only hyper-analyze. Who's having the last laugh?

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)

This all reminds me of why I needed to get out of academia. It must be hard to write about a rock record when you've obviously never heard one before in your life, and you compare the increasing intensity of 'Cruel World' to EDM, when Ultraviolence has as much in common with dance music as it does to polka (a better comparison would be to the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin', which is actually similar to it stylistically)