intensely

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.

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.

Back in the 60s/70s you could make like, 1-5 albums a year, no lie.
 
But I think Lana's contract might be coming to an end. 4 albums, 1 EP. I really want her to get signed to Sub Pop records.

I don't see the point in live albums tbh. The whole point of why live music is great is because you're there experiencing it. Why would you want to hear some crappy LQ performance through your headphones when you can get a lush, perfected, HQ studio version?

Translated by me!
 
Lana Del Rey lounges on the divan.
She hasn’t left her false eyelashes, but she has gotten rid of her sadness. After two years of absence, the diva of “sad pop” comes back with a “Rage de vivre” translation of “Lust for Life” her fifth album which comes out July 21st and “Love” her single, which has already passed 50 million views on YouTube. Same hypnotic voice, same poetic universe for a woman who now has a certain taste for happiness. Since her debut in 2012, on the internet, with Born to Die which made her one of the biggest stars in music, Lana tells us in mind-blowing songs and beautiful music videos of her fragile life as a young girl haunted by death and failure. Today, she says that she has overcome these demons and her toxic relationships. Single, maybe, but a little more light-hearted.

For her, it’s already history. At 17 years old, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant wrote her own songs and made her own music videos: “I took a lot of photos. Then I started to record myself, to use my image.” After seven hellish years of singing in Brooklyn bars, her music video “Video Games,” posted in 2011 and has since been viewed 155 million times, which thrusted in a few minutes, the young American into an unforeseen notoriety. She evolved into Lana Del Rey, Lolito 2.0, fan of the sixties who over the course of her songs tells a sometimes indecent and provocative story but always sensual. “I am connected to the future and the past at the same time… That’s why I have few friends…” Today, she sings “I’m young and in love”. But confides that she has found happiness… since she is no longer dating. “I’ve never been lucky in choosing boyfriends”.
She always loved putting on a show: “As a child, I loved making my life a work of art.”
“My passion for beautiful films might explain my aesthetic” says the woman who would have loved living in the Flower Power of the hippy years.

“Kids. Friends, all that’s a bonus. My dream is simply to be happy.”
 
From our colleague in Los Angeles Karelle Fitoussi.
Paris Match. We knew you as somber and melancholic, singing your stories about tormented love. You’ve come back with two songs that exude a lack of worry and a joie de vivre. What happened?
I haven’t been dating for a year and a half. Apparently, that has done me a lot of good. [she laughs] I learned how to say no and to listen to the little voice in my head that tells me to do one thing or another.
You have “Trust no one” tattooed on your index… Have you often been betrayed?
Yes. I’ve never been good at chosing friends. But now it’s better, I know how to go about it. I’ve learned one thing, and that’s that people show you really quickly who they really are. You have to listen to them, and pay attention to the signs. In the past, sometimes I’ve had lovers who’ve told me strange things, things I should have found unacceptable, but I closed my eyes. That doesn’t happen to me anymore. At the smallest indication of something strange, I get out. A love story that doesn’t do you any good is toxic. I finally understand that.
Are you not afraid that your newfound happiness will ruin your inspiration?
No. When I was writing Born to Die, I was living in London, and I met a lot of new people, I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I was full of hope. I saw myself evolving into this type of avant-garde artist and this excitement made creating simple and easy. When the critics starting being really harsh, when things started becoming more violent, that’s when that magic left me. So happiness is obviously a good thing. I’m not afraid.
The New York Times said that you were a “nightmarish reflection of cynicism and of American fakeness.”
An interesting start to someone’s career, isn’t it? [she laughs] It was horrible, completely horrible. I really must have loved music to have continued after that. But I should’ve stopped. Thankfully, things have changed. I won’t ever change myself to make myself more popular or to make someone else happy.
People have really have shamed you for your heavily constructed public image. Some people even said that you’re a puppet.
For a longtime, I didn’t understand these reactions. Of course, I paid attention to my look. I had long styled hair, but I was too preoccupied by the music to understand why they talked about me like that. I was waiting for people to figure out for themselves that I was smart… I really had to question myself, to ask why people reacted to me like that. A question of energy, maybe. With a bit of space, even if I find [what they’re saying] ridiculous, I can understand.
If, with a wave of a magic wand, you could start all over, what would you change?
Everything! I don’t even know where to start!
You wouldn’t be a singer?
I love music, there were times where it saved me from my own demons, but it’s a double-edged sword. If I had the opportunity to take a simpler path, I would do it, without hesitation.
When you were younger, you dreamed of being a writer…
Yes, but after having tried from a young age, I knew that I didn’t have the writer’s soul. I tried to write short stories, but they were terrible. So, I tried to do poetry… but it still wasn’t for me! That’s how I decided to write music. [she laughs]. The next step would have been Haikus!
Between two records and two tours, what do you do?
I go to the beach. I swim once per week, I work out with my sister who shares my house with me. I take advantage of the sun and the wonderful Californian nature: with my girlfriends, we go to Big Sur or to Carmel… I never get over seeing the bright light from 7:30 in the morning. For a New Yorker like me, every time it’s still enchanting. Yes, I am that girl you can constantly talk about the time and the weather! But above all what I love the most in Los Angeles, is that there are so many musicians. Every band from London to New York have moved here! Artic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets, Father John Misty… They’re all here in L.A.!
Have you finally found the community of artists you’ve always dreamed of being a part of?
Yes. And when I go on tour, after four months on the road, they’re like me. They want to pick up where we left off. My friends who don’t do music, they’re lives have moved on.
How do you deal with living in the constant view of the paparazzi?
I wrote a song called, 13 beaches which talks about how I do it, last summer, I had to go to 13 different beaches before I could find one without paparazzi, where I laid down with a book. But we can get used to anything. And then maybe it’s worth it. What I can’t get used to, is systematically finding my songs on the internet before they’re supposed to come out. It takes so much time to make a record… a year and a half! When leaving the studio, I always have to hope that they’re secure.
Why do you impose this cycle of every two years for an album?
It’s the time needed for reflection and contemplation. My records are like love letters to myself.
And will you have kids?
When I have kids… I’ll take them on the road with me. Muse’s or Chris Martin’s boys do it well! I have the feeling it’ll workout, whatever I decide to do. It’ll be a nice surprise. Yeah, I would love to have a family.
Is it on your agenda?
[she laughs]. It’ll happen one day. Without a doubt within the next five years. Kids. Friends, all that’s a bonus. My dream is simply to be happy. Which I am right now.

The worst thing is that it's completely legit that happened a billion times I've always been a cry baby but I don't fucking care I'm not one to hide my feelings, I love being known in uni as the crazy girl/trashcan that would drop everything in the world for a woman with collagened lips, and I'm lucky to be respected enough for them to let me weep and roll under the table everytime she barely breathes

California Dreaming - FULL INTERVIEW
Does Lana Del Rey really live right inside the middle of the 'H' of the Hollywood sign and spend most of her nights perched high above the chaos that swirls within the city of angels below, as the teaser for her new album, Lust For Life, suggests?
Or does she rent a house in LA's Santa Monica or Silver Lake or someplace else she's not about to divulge, in case, having taken a cryptic February tweet of hers literally, a posse of her 6.3 million well-meaning Twitter followers showup on her doorstep with the "magic ingredients" to cast spells on President Trump?
Does she really only dip her toes into the muck and the mires of the city every now and then, as she says in the album's trailer? Or does she go out quite a lot actually, as she tells me when we meet, and spend her nights having fun with a tight crew of mainly musician mates, dancing at house parties, going to gigs and occasionally wrestling the microphone from her male friends to sing Hotel California in karaoke bars? In this post-truth world, it feels pedantic to care too much either way.
The 'real' Lana Del Rey is a 31-year-old woman called Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, born in Lake Placid, New York. She's close to her younger sister Chuck, a photographer but less so to her parents, Patricia and Robert, and her little brother, Charlie. They're a family of individual she tells me: "It was natural that we all went down our own separate paths, and we've all stayed there."
We are sitting next to each other on a sofa in the Los Angeles recording studio where she has been creating her most musically accomplished work yet the aforementioned album, Lust For Life, is destined to be the sound of this summer. Lana is fully present, smart, funny, engaging and refreshingly able to laugh at herself. She wears jeans and a vintage shirt, and she talks softly but with a compelling certainty. I like her all the more for the fact that no amount of everydayness negates the magic she exudes as a performer. To her fans, Lana exists in flickering Super 8; the Manic Pixie Dream Girl who comes with no baggage or bad days, but is here only for you in a Valencia-filtered fantasy. She's an idea of a woman who didn't grow up anywhere, but emerged fully formed from the elevator at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. She's a montage of Americana, finished with a flick of black eyeliner.
Both the reality and the fantasy of Lana Del Rey make up a fully formed, albeit exceptional, human being. But, as Lana tells me, inhabiting these two worlds hasn't always been easy: "I know that if I had more of a persona then [when she released her breakthrough hit, Video Games, on the internet in 2011] I have less of one now. I think it comes down to getting a little older. Maybe I needed a stronger look or something to lean on [back then]. But it wouldn't really be hard for me today to play a mega-show in jeans without rehearsing and still feel like I was coming from the right place."
I suggest that the scrutiny Lana was put under by the media for having a melancholic persona was unfair. Everyone, to some degree, presents a different side of themselves at work, right? Plus, she's hardly the first artist to change her name or cultivate a distinctive stage look. Yet, countless conspiracy theories called into question her appearance, talent, and family background around the time her second album, Born To Die, was released in 2012 but Lana is remarkably understanding.
"Looking back now, I get a little more of what they're saying. When I was in the mix of a lot of reviews and critiques, I was kind of like, 'What? I do my hair and my make-up just like everyone else for my pictures and my show, and yes my songs are melancholic, but so are whoever else's.' So to see a couple of other female artists not get criticised made me think, 'What is it about me?'"
In hindsight, she says, she understands what the criticism and intrigue over her authenticity as an artist was about: "I think it comes down to energy, I really do. It wasn't overtly saying 'I'm unhappy' or 'I'm struggling' in my music, but I think maybe people did catch that and they were saying, 'If you're going to put music like that out there, you better fessup to it.' But I don't think I really knew how felt. Then when things got a little bigger with the music I was still figuring out what was important to me."
I get the sense that she's done a lot off figuring out in the past few years, like many of us now in our early thirties probably have done too. The difference with Lana, of course, is that all her experimentation, mistakes and regrets were fodder for public consumption. I mention that sinking feeling I get when I stumble across an old diary or a Facebook post that feels like it was from a totally different place to where I am now. I ask if she can relate.
"That applies to me," she says. "I have cringy moments. Certain things I have said and songs I have done, but mostly the ones that were leaked... I mean, they're not my finest."
She's talking about her computer being hacked in 2010, when hundreds of unfinished songs were released online, without her permission. It was a horrible invasion of her privacy, and it leads on to a discussion about vulnerability though interestingly, it's not a word she says she has ever applied to herself.
I ask her what performing on stage takes from her emotionally and what she gains from it, her amphitheatre shows usually hold up to 24,000 people at capacity. She fixes me with a not-at-all vulnerable look and says, "Well, it depends on the day. If I'm having a good day, it still takes a lot, but so much of it is physical. I try to take strength and sing from my core, so I have to actually feel good and get a lot of sleep. Of course, it also helps if my personal life is even; when you're on stage for an hour and 40 minutes, you think while you're singing. I don't like my in-between thoughts to be restless, or worrisome, so I can focus on the crowd."
After a show, she feels reflective and needs time to process it. "It's not like you do it and it didn't happen; it's a real experience. I know rock bands who say they fucking love it that they would [perform] every night and wouldn't do anything else. I don't know if it's as emotional an experience for them [as it is for me]
Back to that need to feel good and have an 'even' personal life, Lana has lived in both New York and London, but says Los Angeles is starting to feel like home, and that's a big part of what's making her happy right now. "I'm growing my roots and meeting a lot of other friends, so I feel a little more settled." In her downtime, she loves swimming in the ocean. "I have a friend called Ron who likes to swim with me. So every now and then, we find an empty beach, jump in and swim the length of the coast, from one side of the cove to the other."
Hey friends are her family, says Lana and that's why she can't accept anything less than total honesty and trust from them: "The fact that l know that now everything a lot clearer. What's interesting is how unsafe we [could] feel among each other if we weren't able to express how we really feel. It's hard knowing that if you tell someone exactly how you feel, like if you're happy or unhappy, that could be the end of the relationship because they don't feel the same way."
We speak about the crews you pick up through your life and agree that, in your thirties, you are much better at surrounding yourself with people who make you feel good. "When you're in your twenties, you let this cast of characters [into your life], especially if you're in the arts,' she says. "It didn't matter what they stood for or what they thought was important. But as the years went on, there were things that I saw in people that I didn't like."
Lana is enjoying being part of a music scene in LA where her friends include photographer Emma Tillman (also the wife of
singer-songwriter Father John Misty), Zach Dawes, who has played bass with the British super-group The Last Shadow Puppets, and musicians Jonathan Wilson and Cam Avery. They play music together, which is not something she's done with friends before. The first time she had dinner with the wholegang, she thought: 'Wow, this is great." She tells me: "Feeling part of something is definitely a nice feeling." The downside to rolling with a crew of fellow musicians is that karaoke becomes a competitive sport. "If I am with the guys, they're always on the microphone and
sometimes it's hard to grab it from them. Everyone pretends that it doesn't matter, but you can tell there are moments in the choruses when people are really singing."
We laugh and I feel pleased that I'm meeting Lana at a time in her life when, as she puts it: "All the tough things that I have been through - that I've drawn upon [in my work] - don't exist for me any more. Not all my romantic relationships were bad, but some of them challenged me in a way that I didn't want to be challenged, and I am happy I don't have to do that now."
I don't mean to rain on her parade, but I ask whether she feels that when she admits she's happy that something bad might be just around the corner? "Yes, sometimes. I have a little bit of that feel that it's a human thing to be superstitious. Sometimes I say to my friends, 'I don't want to jinx it.' Or if l'm on the phone I'm like, 'I'm so excited about this', and then waiting for that phone call the next day... but there's no such thing as jinxing it. Just let go."
The key to happiness, she says, is to ask yourself what will make you happy: "I try not to do anything that won't [make me happy] even if it's a show in a place that doesn't suit me. It's so simple: I always used to ask myself that, but never listened to the answer because I knew I was probably going to do it anyway. If someone really needed me to do something, I would probably be like, 'OK!'"
I wonder if we put too much emphasis on being happy and that in itself causes stress and anxiety, but Lana passionately disagrees: "No! I think happiness is the ultimate life goal. I think it's the only thing that's important. There are no mechanisms in place for routes to happiness, that's the whole fucking problem. I think people are unhappy in school - the education structure has been the same for a long time and kids are still not satisfied all over the world with their educational experience. And you don't have enough conversations when you're young about what makes for a satisfying mutual relationship. Those collective life experiences - your youth, your academic education and your education about business
marriage or relationship goals they all lead up to happiness. I think the emphasis is on the wrong things, and it has been for a long time."
Lana tells me she's more socially engaged than ever; her fifth and latest album is a mix of personal introspection and outward-looking anthems, such as God Bless America, in which she sings: "God bless America and all the beautiful women in it." She says that, with this record, she was striving for a feeling that we're all in this together: "I think it would be weird to be making a record during the past 18 months and not comment on how [the political landscape] was making me or the people I know feel, which is not good. It would be really difficult if my views didn't line up with a lot of what people were saying."
We discuss being constantly bombarded with news and other people's views in our hyper-connected world, and I ask how she reconciles her personal wellbeing with the collective feeling that we are all going to hell in a handcart.
"I think it's a balance, I really do. You are so fortunate if you have good health and high energy because it takes a lot to be a responsible human. Responsible to yourself, responsible to others, and to know when not to get too deep into the wormhole of news, but still be politically in-the-know and not be disconnected. In my life, it's like walking on a tightrope. I read the news, but I won't read it before bed; I won't read it when I get up and won't read it between my recording sessions. I have windows of time where I check in and catch up with everyone, but I keep my sacred things sacred."
And as for her paean to America's women? "I wrote God Bless America before the Women's Marches sprung up, but I could tell they were going to happen. As soon as the election was over, I knew that was going happen. People were way more vocal and more active on social media and in real life, so I realised a lot of women were saying out loud that they needed support and they were nervous about some of the bills that might get passed that would directly affect them. So yes, it's a direct response in anticipation of what I thought would happen, and what did happen."
Predicting the Women's Marches must have taken a seriously smart, social instinct, or some kind of sorcery straight from one of her otherworldly Lust For Life trailers. Whatever you think, you can't deny that the pulse of the zeitgeist beats throughout Lana's new album, from her pop collaboration with The Weeknd on the title track to the moody duet with John Lennon's son, Sean,and my personal favourite, Yosemite, a beautiful song about the way relationships change over time.
After she plays me this track in the very room in which it was recorded, I can't help but ask what Lana is like as a girlfriend. "I'm amazing. I'm the best," she jokes, before clarifying, "I actually am the best girlfriend because I only get into a relationship if I'm really excited about it. I'm unconditionally understanding, very loving and like to be with that person for a lot of the time." After hearing Yosemite's refrain that she's no longer a candle in the wind, which to mean she's found a steadier light in her life, I wonder whether what she looks for in a relationship has also changed? "For me, the dream is to have a little bit of the edge, the sexiness, the magnetism, the camaraderie, be on the same page and all that stuff, but without the fallout that comes from a person who is really selfish and puts only their needs first, which is like a lot of frontmen if we're talking about musicians!" (Lana has previously dated Barrie-James O'Neill, the Scottish lead singer of alt-rock band Kassidy.) "I'm going to write a book one day called, 'The curse of the frontman and why you should always date the bassist.'"
Lana smiles, takes a sip of her iced coffee, and says: "I guess have a little bit of a fantasy that really great relationships, friendships, and romances can stand the test of time. Even though each person in the relationship or the group changes, they don't change in ways that would make the relationship come to an end."
"The chorus [of Yosemite] is about doing things for fun, for free, and doing them for the right reasons. It's about having artistic integrity; not doing things because you think they would be big, but because the message is something that's important. And then, it's about just being with someone because you really can't see not having them in your life,not because it would be 'beneficial' to you to be in their company. It's that concept of just being in a relationship for 100% the right reasons. Being a good person, basically."
Lana Del Rey is mercurial - just when you think you've got her she slips through your fingers like quicksilver - but in that hot second, I think I see her clearly: an artist who is rising from the ambiguity of youth and emerging into a woman with an authentic vision for her life and her art. Yes, that might one day fade like the barely there "Chateau Marmont' tattoo on her left wrist, but right now her power is in sharp, unfiltered focus.
Lana Del Rey's fifth studio album, Lust For Life, is out soon.

She sounds GROWN. Not the passed up working title for both Lana Del Ray and Born To Die finally materialising in 2017... A full circle moment holy shit.

@   God Bless could have been recorded in November after the election, as she specifically says she forecast the woman's march was going to happen
(and they were solely because of the theft of the election, had Hillary been seated there wouldn't have been a march of 10 million women in DC and other states and  millions
worldwide in solidarity.
 
Lust for life and Lov are both also protest songs (and those thinking Lust is a teenybopper song, once again have missed the message, it is not about sex, and Love is telling everyone to hold on, speak out, have some fun and don't become so depressed one would kill themselves
 
Looking forward to hearing it.
 
and glad all the women singers are sticking together, and more and more becoming political.
If a dictatorlike Trump with anti-women anger and hatred, and anger management issues isn't neutralized, no one will have rights to do anything anymore.
One of Trump's cabinet members (Price, the health one, actually had a reporter arrested for asking a question.)

i think it means that more people have a youtube account lol 

Terrence Loves You is one of her best songs. It kills me 

Guys I'm not freaking kidding, holy frik. It's a beautiful warm day here in Philly and I left my house just now to go to the convenience store and as i was walking back to my apartment, i witnessed a young fit man with small shorts riding his bike (no hands) YELLING "DONT WORRY BAAABYYYY"... not sure if he was a major lana stan or just didnt want us to worry but it sure sounded like it 

I'M TOO EMOTIONAL I'M BEYOND CUM OMFG IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL THE VOCALS OH MY GOD THIS WOMAN IS SERVING ME EVERYTHING I WANTED FROM HONEYMOON 

helicopters aint cheap
and the video is great yall need to recognize

Watch her fuckin use this footage for a Burnt Norton sorta monologue where in the video she just reads the text over the clips of people skateboarding. No music, no songs, just some very high level poetry not even the author understands the meaning of
And we're all gonna watch the whole footage trying to comprehend what we're seeing while pretending this is the greatest thing she's ever done

thank you! 
yeah, she has a big fanbase here, she did two shows on Auditorio Nacional that were almost sold out (second date failed to do so, but was very close) which is around 20k ppl in two nights! I wish I could see more detailed numbers though, because I'm sure BTD has sold a lot more, but thank you! King of sales reports!

I think all of Lana's album are beautiful in their way. Honeymoon isn't my favorite of her's (Ultraviolence is my fave) but it still has some beautiful songs. With the way her last two albums were released, I think Lana just wants to make music, do a few music videos and move on to the next album. She reminds me of Kate Bush and Enya in that area, as both women never toured and did very little media and promotion to release their music. They also don't run their social media and as we know lana goes a week or so before posting something on Instagram. Lana is in control of things and even if we don't agree with it, its the way she wants it done.

@@intensely- the Democratic party- as a big Barack Obama supporter, (want him on the US Supreme Court after he retires as President), will support Hillary first , though if Bernie were to actually win the nomination, would avidly support him
and would have supported Elizabeth Warren, Deval Patrick, Cory Booker or Jerry Brown (who I supported heavily in 1992 when he ran vs. Bill C.)  had they run.
 
Wonder if there are other fests that haven't announced the acts yet. Panorama did (the one in NYC a few weeks after Governor's Ball).
 
Guess it will be driving up to Montreal. They haven't announced which day have they?  Though if she is in Chicago on Thursday, most likely it will be Saturday or Sunday
Also single day tickets not yet on sale
 
Wonder if Lana is doing anything Olympic related in August???

headliners usually do like 1 hour and more 
 
but she toured festivals and a bit with UV 

as of now, she's scheduled:
 
June:
03 Jun POLAND
 
July:
09 JUL BELGIUM
10 JUL RUSSIA
15 JUL SWITZERLAND
17 JUL FRANCE
19 JUL GREECE
28 JUL USA (Chicago)
29 JUL CANADA
 
Sept:
04 SEP IRELAND
 
 
omg look at the packed schedule...
so she may tour in Europe in June? and a small tour in North America in august?
and maybe South America after that and an Oceanic/Asia tour 
 
she's becoming one of the 2016 festival headliners with Radiohead, LCD soundsystems and RHCP. what a legend 

Terrence Loves You and The Blackest Day are the best songs of Honeymoon (for me, personally). TLY is just an amazing track, i would even call it a "career highlight" in terms of Lana writing one of her most beautiful songs, it's just so simple and beautiful. The Blackest Day is a really good track and the Bridge is one of the best parts of the whole HM Album.
 
I don't think Lana ~needs~ a longer break, she just needs some new, fresh and different inspiration and mood to write songs about and/or to work with them.

Still loving Honeymoon, but very excited about these studio pics. Even though part of me is torn and thinks she should have a longer break between albums. We'll see what happens!

You always know when a Lana stan is working at a store, i was shopping the other day and Summertime Sadness was playing in the store and i was like "yessssss Lana" but didn;t think much of it.
 
Then Without You came on and i was like...

 
Then You Can Be The Boss came on and i was like.....

 
Then Young and Beautiful came on and i said to my friend "omg a Lana stan works here!!!!" x

US fans had a tour and don't really need one this summer
European fans are getting a tour this summer... kind of.
But what about Australia? South America? Is she ever going to do another world tour?