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oh my god I LOVE THE SECOND ARTWORK

oh my god I LOVE THE SECOND ARTWORK

All we have left to find now are the snippets

The lyric changes may be very slight, only the “you” becoming “we” towards the end, and no more.
 
I am more concerned with the production and tempo changing. I hope it’s been completely re-recorded and thought through.

Lana Del Rey released her fourth major-label studio album Lust for Life on July 21, 2017. It followed 2015's Honeymoon and serves as a development of its concept -- getting over the past -- and sound, a mix of classic baroque pop, modern hip hop and trap beats, slightly electronic production and ambient psychedelia.

Lust for Life was a major commercial success. It debuted at the No. 1 and inside the Top 10 in eleven and fifteen countries respectively. It was one of the best-selling and most acclaimed pop albums of that year, despite being her most divisive among fans. Del Rey promote the album with the highly successful LA to the Moon Tour, which visited the Americas, Europe and Australia.
 


The album could be divided in three parts. The first ("Love," "Lust for Life" and "13 Beaches") features great hooks, trip hop beats reminiscent of her early sound. To achieve this 'soft pop' production, she's worked with Emile Haynie, Benny Blanco, The Weeknd and Max Martin. The lyrics go from positive messages to her fans to her desire to find inner peace.

Highlight: "Lust for Life", an electronic track with intense verses and oppositely care-free chorus about putting love above all during dark times, a theme that is present throughout the whole project.
 


The second part, from the sultry "Cherry" to the anthemic "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing", finds Del Rey at her most extrovert and modern, both lyrically -- from sexual innuendos to slightly political topics -- and musically; hard trap beats, synthesizers and up-to-date collaborators: Boy-1da, A$AP Rocky, Playboy Carti, T-Minus and Metro Boomin.

Highlight: Sister-tracks "Summer Bummer" and "Groupie Love" (both featuring A$AP Rocky), perhaps Lana Del Rey's closest interaction with trap music. The former is a rap battle between Lana and her wooer Rocky, while the latter follows the same concept in a more chilled, trippy way.
 


The third and last part (from the haunting, piano-driven "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems" to the inspiring "Get Free") is a collection of mellow, introspective ballads. Collaborators include Sean Onno Lennon, Stevie Nicks and Justin Parker. The digitally programmed beats are gone and there's space for piano, acoustic guitar, real bass, drums, multiple layers of vocals and reverb in iconic LDR fashion. The lyrics are some of her most personal yet, the main topic being believing in change and its effects (and also, perhaps, proving that one can change).

Highlight: "Heroin", a progressive ambient track about isolation, leaving the past behind and changing for good in order to look back retrospectively.
 


What are your thoughts on this album?
Favorite song? Have any of the tracks grown on you?

Personally, I love this album and, despite not being my ultimate favorite, it's the one that hit me the most emotionally and experiencing live is the most beautiful memory I have. I can even say it helped me save my life.

To think that just 200 pages ago (three days ago) we had nothing and now we have so much... I still cannot believe we've made it through the desperation, the unbearable wait, the Gucci campaign, the silence after, the poetry book, the baddie insta posts, the BtD Tour 2019 with hopes to get some info, the passworded site, the BBC live lounge fuckery, the Shazam argument and now we've won. A dream, literally a dream

Ok, so this era is iconic now. She’s really serving everything finally.
 
Which vinyl version is going to be the best collectible?

lmaoooooo
 
can't wait to see BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA x

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

lmaoooooo
 
can't wait to see BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA x

I love blue and hate green and particularly lime green as much as Satan hates God but I clenched my teeth and ordered the green one because I have a nasty feeling that it's the colour Lana validated and not the blue one

LB: they better have reworked TNBAR
 
also LB: they better not have changed any of TNBAR it was perfect the way it was

Venice Bitch

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

when she's old and solidified her legacy she will be known as the master of retrofuturism and metamodernism tbh

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

why does this sound written by jk rowling ldnsldj

OMG Lana is so sexy when Doin Time came on. And she is SURFING to Venice Bitch!!! My life is complete.

I'm so used to giving and now I finally get to receive this bitch really resurrected Bambi for her music video.
The POWER that this has.
The EXCELLENCE this has.
The INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
that.
this.
has.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.

Comments like this always make me think people lie to me when they say I'm handsome or whatever He's a cute guy, normal looking. Why is he UGLY AS HELL? ...
 
Anyway, she's truly giving us everything we want.