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Love her so much, guys. Best songs for me were White Mustang, Change, Cherry and Ultraviolence. Get Free was also special. Worst was Serial Killer. Her vocals were perfection, visuals were out of this world good, she looked happy up there and was really engaged with her fans. She mentioned Cat Power. All hail the queen.

Who are you supporting?

Lol, I can't. Ronson said himself there wasn't enough time...

Yes hunni!

The Ideal Husband is the only song I love - and yeah he's a very good performer! The ironising of everything and his ideas are pretty boring though. Agree he's overrated. Like this mild roast of yours though, lol.

you and naachoboy are the shit! and yep agree...for fucks sake, give us something NEW and conceptually like she is making an effort like from BTD (omg some of you have me convinced).

Yeah I totally get why fans want the whole package - good tunes and writing, videos and visuals, vocals and live performances, social media etc. but she is great at the things out of those that are important to me, so not fussed about videos etc.

My impression of what she said was that Nowels is willing to experiment and try out her ideas. Not that anything she suggests sounds good and is given the go ahead. This is absurd otherwise an album would never be finished and as if the record company gives her absolute freedom. She was also frank about how Nowels offered up his ideas and what his roles are. That's what collaboration and creativity are, not simply shutting things down because you think you know better from the get go. There are always limitations when making music that is supposed to turn over a profit. If BTD is so excellent because she worked with people who she had tension with...well yes tension or like conflict can be an important part of collaboration but she worked with Nowels on BTD too. Also we have no idea what the tension was about, Dan said it could stem from being a woman in the industry-it doesn't necessarily follow it's because Dan said no to her ideas in such a way which accounts for the brilliance of UV. He said himself he could see what she was trying to do but she was not there yet; Lana said it was great that Auerbach believed in her. Dan also spoke about how the record company brought in the other record producer who said everything was fine. You are speculating from simplistic ideas like collaboration has no conflict at all or has to have a set amount of conflict to claim that Lana surrounds herself with yes people to create an inferior product. There is just no evidence for that. She also said in another interview that her tastes are changing and she will work with other producers. Re your response to strong man, seeing people saying she needs someone dominant like Dan to push her, that's what I reacted to.

I think it's really strange that people assume Lana's co-producers in Nowels, of course men, don't challenge her and that she needs a really strong producer, of course a man, to do good work with. I can think of very few artists who don't work with at least one collaborator in terms of lyrics or production and create excellent music (even Pet Sounds, which people erroneously think Brian Wilson created on his own) so I do think Lana would need collaborators. But a woman artist being in control (whatever this means - she coproduced the whole album for the first time. But she has always had a strong vision and on HM talked about how the sound changed) seems to send the Lana concern pearl clutchers to speculate that if an album doesn't meet their expectations then she needs a strong male producer to save her from mediocrity. The comparison with Tori Amos is really off too.

Your posts on that devil give me life.

the blonde woman looks like Taylor Swift

Kim said she did it because she felt weirdly protective of Frances Bean and even questioned whether Frances knew Lana was a persona (her words). So condescending to Frances and Lana! I think Frances handled the issue well and Kim should just shut the fuck up about Lana for some of the reasons you said. It is not ok to make comments like that when the person could be seriously mentally ill and contemplating suicide. Kim's still hugely talented and not into crap like putting her to pasture.

Inspiration for HBTB the vid is from BBHMM I reckon

I think it's the opposite - he loves her but she couldn't give a damn...but yeah she does seem better. and gross about the picture - really?

ONLY ON THIS BOARD...love this board. Also OP your fan made art for UV is gorgeous.

Re: the touring thing if she's really still affected by SNL, she needs to get over it and know why she's doing this - for herself. Like really know it. Stop rebelling - thinking of the Rolling Stone interview last year - and just realise what an incredible talent she has, stop relying on these douche men and get on out there and kick some arse because she is freaking amazing, way more talented than Barrie and Francesco. hmm wow this interview did things to me.

Interesting interview but yeah a few scary as shit things in it, fuck. The interview is so disjointed too, lol.

You too, tbh! leaked_version I agree that Lana fucked herself up with the I wish I was dead comments...I've made the same comments before but flouncing over this because none of us understand the music business? Over and over you conflate your enjoyment or lack of enjoyment of an album with sales...and yes I read BTD is not your fave. You did it again with ARTpop...that album was not a flop. You extrapolate from the most basic facts to make wild inferences. Has Lana been dropped from her record deal? Does she want to get out of it? There are indie faves who have massive exposure, do much more promo than Lana and still have low first week sales - they're still doing great and have contracts. She tours every year and we don't know what's coming next. Chill.

Hi all, I'm not very good with search but have people seen the typed-up interview from Index magazine (I saw the posted video in OP) - it's frigging excellent! Cool to see how Lana has had some of the same vibe all the way through - manufactured indeed! http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/Lizzy_grant2.shtml http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/19/lana-del-rey-s-trailer-park-days-my-time-with-lizzy-grant.html Brea reflecting now...um oops this has been posted up there. Oh well. Bob who knew Lana, Gaga and is referenced in Brea's article http://lanabrasil.com.br/interview-bob-leone-responsible-for-launching-lana-del-rey-and-lady-gaga-talks-about-the-past-of-both-early-career-and-the-honeymoon/

I mean who cares about the VMAs but even Bad Blood winning over Alright...!! But yeah she'll probably win.

indie pop! nah it could be in Best Alternative...they are fools. The Best Alternative category is usually off-the-hook good though. She would have no chance - even though she deserves it!!! The Grammys suck but Best Alternative is prestigious and actually nominate deserving acts. St. Vincent was only the second woman to win this year!

Reality Is Fantasy Tour 1. Cruel World 2. Video Games 3. Art Deco 4. Ride 5. West Coast 6. Shades of Cool 7. Honeymoon 8. High By The Beach 9. Terrence Loves You 10. Queen of Disaster 11. God Knows I Tried 12. Summertime Sadness 13. Young and Beautiful 14. This Is What Makes Us Girls - fastest version 15. The Blackest Day Encore 16. Religion 17. Brooklyn Baby

I can't stand Taylor Swift but that is patently false about 'sleeping her way to the top' and it sounds sexist too. She just wrote about her relationships and banked on the publicity around them to sell those particular songs but she has not relied on that and she can write, even though I think her music is generally shit. The other stuff about her rich fam is true though, lol. Anyway what I took from that quote was that Lana selling 109K in the first week, that is EXCELLENT as even reaching 500K IN A YEAR is like brilliant for major pop artists. Lana isn't one of those and isn't marketed to be like that either.

Just read this in Taylor Swift's GQ interview about sales in the U.S.: "...she’s sold 1 million albums in a week three times, during an era when most major artists are thrilled to move 500,000 albums in a year." I also think some people are taking for granted that if she did more promo - no comment on how poor or not the promo has been - that she would sell in the millions. Maybe she fucked herself up with the wanting to be dead already answers last year so some tv shows aren't inviting her. Who knows.

Yes, and Janet got those figures with NO PROMO. graham4anything, when will your fave? check your aftershave before you come for Janet the legend... <3 p.s. i don't care about these stan wars, just joshing yas but no messing with Janet, OK? xxxx