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So I have long believed that Lana is not only the best and most original voice of this generation, but she also possesses a spirit that makes her an incredible channel for the voices of great artists of past generations. Here are my takes about about some of the 60's artists who are sometimes mentioned as Lana's influences, or artists who's voices I feel Lana does or could channel. Also, my Yes/No verdict on whether or not I want Lana to further explore these styles and channel the voices of these artists. BTW I am born in the 90's so please excuse me if there are some gaps in my knowledge from this era! and I would love for someone who was alive through this time to chime in.
 
Nancy Sinatra is a YES for me! Dark and bluesy like Ultraviolence. Noir like Honeymoon. Raw and gritty like Lizzy Grant and May Jailor. Twangy without going full out country. Bad bitch vibes all the way. This is the energy that radiates from Lana's soul.
 
The Shangri-La's is a NO for me. They were super talented and I mean no disrespect to them, but I do not feel the doo-wop/60's girl group style works for Lana. The vocal harmonizing of The Shangri-La's is skillful and beautiful, but I feel it is too cute for Lana's style. I do not like the album version of Lust for Life that Max Martin butchered. It feels like she is trying on the doo-wop genre like someone tries on a costume. The Shangri-la style works a lot better on Get Free, but this still would not make a list of my favorite Lana songs even if the melody wasn't (accidentally I hope) plagiarized from Radiohead.
 
The Beatles are a MAYBE for me. I hear their influence on Tomorrow Never Came, and that is not one of my favorite Lana songs (I mostly hate the Sean Lennon feature). The lyrics of this song are heavy but sonically this style is a little light and breezy for me. It's not heavy enough to pack a punch, and it's not soft enough to be ethereal. The melody is there but something about the production and style of this song is off. It's chill but Lana's voice almost gets lost in it. I also hear The Beatles in Beautiful People demo version. Here she nails the style and hits a home run. If Lana can write another Beatles-esque song and really carry the song, I would be very happy to hear it on an album. However, I do not want to hear another Tomorrow Never Came.
 
The Beach Boys are a NO for me. Another example of a spectacularly talented band that I think doesn't suit Lana's style. Even though they are beachy and Lana is beachy, and Lana mentions them on the Greatest, I don't really hear a lot of Beach Boys influence in Lana's music. Like the Beatles, this music is too light and breezy for Lana. She needs a style with more emotional weight.
 
Joan Boaz is a YES for me! Joan is a queen of ethereal folk beauty! I hear Joan's influence all over post-Ultraviolence music, especially on her acoustic and unreleased tracks like Cherry Blossom. I did not know about Joan until Lana introduced me to her, and I am so glad to discover this talented queen! Her style of singing really is so similar to Lana's. I am grateful for her music and so grateful for the inspiration that she has given to Lana.
 
Etta James is a YES for me. I love jazzy/soulful Lana! Honeymoon is so indebted to black female jazz and soul singers like Etta James, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone and more. This style is so effortless for Lana and suits her voice so well. As Lana gets older, I would love to hear her make more mature jazz records that channel these all time greats.
 
Velvet Underground is a YES for me. I love the grungy and sarcastic hipster poetry of Brooklyn Baby. I love it when she sings with Lou Reed's disaffection in her voice. Lana is a far better vocalist than Lou Reed. She can elevate these types of songs from a cool mood to a beautiful cool mood. 
 
Leonard Cohen is a YES for me. Many of my all time favorite Lana songs is when she is just singing her heavy heart over an acoustic guitar or acoustic piano. Her cover of Cohen's Chelsea Hotel #2 is so achingly beautiful. She is literally the reincarnation of Cohen, she was born to channel his heartbreak poetry.
 
Joni Mitchel is a NO for me but hear me out! This one I feel very conflicted about. Joni Mitchel is one of the most talented songwriters in American history. She is perhaps the artist that influenced the sound of NFR more than any other artist. I feel that Joni's lyricism and melody is very intellectual, but I prefer Lana when she sounds a little more passionate and filled with raw emotion. Also, Lana is not as good at political music or social critique as Joni. I do love NFR so much and am grateful for the inspiration that Joni gave to Lana. I wouldn't change a thing about NFR except for those damn bells on How to Disappear, but I think I have heard enough of the Joni sound for now and would like to hear Lana explore other influences, even if she stays roughly in the beachy folk space. I also think that Fiona Apple is able to channel Joni a little bit more than Lana.
 
Giorgio Moroder is a YES for me! Maybe he is more considered a 70's artist but he was still active through the 60's, so I will include him. My life would be complete if we could get a Lana Del Rey disco album! I am not talking some cheap EDM-pop album, I mean a timeless disco-diva album filled with virtuosic instrumentation, a full orchestra,  and giant choruses that will light up dance floors for decades to come. If not a full disco album, then maybe a fusion that is half disco and half explosive energy jazz and soul songs. I want to hear Lana belting, hitting the highest notes in her vocal range, and showing off the full range of her vocal abilities. I want Giorgio Moroder, I want Donna Summers, and I want ABBA! And I want ultra glam photoshoots and big budget videos one final time before Lana relaxes back into her flannels to sing folk and blues and jazz for the next 50 years. Lana please give us the disco album!!
 
 
 
Here is a playlist of 60's songs that are sort of a mood board for voices and energies that I would like to hear Lana channel:
 
Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson & Clover (Venice Bitch spiritual successor!) Dick Dale - Miserlou (Hawaiian glam metal teas?) The Band - The Weight (Lana get back together with Dan Auerbach and make a bluesy folk rock album that isn't about abusive relationships challenge!)  Otis Redding - (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay (beautiful California singer/songwriter blues vibes. UV meets NFR) Nico - These Days (this song is SO Lana. NFR meets LFL. I would love for Lana to get in the studio with both Jack and Emile for an extended time, and give us something that sounds like this) Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (can Lana cover this so that I can add the MP3 into Ultraviolence?) Simon & Garfunkle - The Sound of Silence Nick Drake - River Man (May Jailor teas with better guitar playing) Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Heartwarming and overflowing with positive energy like Lana's Love. Lana's disco album needs a song like this) Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me (Channeling this energy for a BIG jazz/soul song on Lana's disco album) Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year (Honeymoon vibes) 

idgaf when physical copies come out honestly i just wanna hear something by sept 5th thank yew

Hahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahah the way they all have the exact same hair color in the last pic

I know y’all are about to rant about the Sean stuff but every time I see a pic of her blonde I still cannot believe it. 2020 is a fever dream

everyone join hands and pray. Tonight we are manifesting Neil Krug as the photographer for Chemtrails! we have suffered for too long at the hands of ch*ck gr*nt, we WILL get a masterpiece of an album cover & photo shoot that does this record justice. AMEN!

You made your point well. love Lana's music, and I enjoy lanaboards most of the time as a place to discuss it, but Lana stans really give me pause sometimes.Some of y'all really do stalk and bully a person you don't know everyday. It's just not healthy to put people on pedestals and then habitually knock them down and repeat infinitely.It is so toxic. There is literally no proof that Lana is dating Sean,and if she is it is still ridicylous to insinuate that makes her racist. That you all are losing it over something that isn't even supported by evidence is telling of a toxic sub-culture

The NFR album cover is her most elaborated yet, it even references three songs, MAC (You lose your way, just take my hand/You’re lost at sea, then I'll command your boat to me again), The greatest (LA’s in flames it’s getting hot) and FIILY (I like to see everything in neon). This album cover has an actual concept, unlike her other albums where she’s basically standing in front of a car. Only the HM one is more elaborated, but there’s not much depth in any of her other album covers.
But if you prefer covers like BTD where there’s basically nothing, you do you. I just hope Nicole’s skills with photoshop improved because she did Lana’s face dirty on BTD

Lana changing her lyrics while performing her songs on stage, to reflect however she's feeling at the moment is often annoying to me.
 
I know a lot of people live when celebrities are being shady, but it's just kinda cringe and juvenile imho. 

just realized how jam packed nfr was with recycled lyrics

i'll catch you on the flipside, your favorite liquor off the top shelf, changing like the weather, nothing gold can stay, topanga's hot tonight, in your car im a star, in my party dress i'm a fucking mess, turn the radio on, ect.

god i hate twitter 

LFA is actually one of her best newer releases, her vocals on that track are another level

https://dbree.org/v/6f2fb2
 
Some of y'all gonna be real mad at me cause it leaked.

Not us getting cocc teased. not us getting cocc blocked

I hate her.. She always come with all the things in a very small space of time. Quiet for weeks and then... CHAOS

According to this link, the audiobook will be released on July 28th & will be 33 minutes - 
https://lana.lnk.to/audiobook

I just want Neil Krug back 

imagine her bringing back the retrofuturistic vibe she first mentioned in Honeymoon (although I don't really see it much there) and LFL (RIP blade runner demo)
 
combined with a post-apocalyptic vibe à la The Greatest and expanding on the guitars giving a UV taste, with BPD/P/Tropico glamor she doesn't wanna hide anymore,
 
where she can make her social commentary more refined than what she hinted at on NFR but less tacky/shallow/messy than on LFL,
 
and giving us a proper self isolation / escape from the world anthem like 13 beaches / swan song concept but mixed with current events and with more poetic and bolder lyrics

Sometimes I am shocked by you saying NFR lyrics are weak or uninspired... Just because there are not many flowery tumblr cringe shit lyrics she used to write doesnt mean it's bad or less poetic. Mariners Apartment Complex is so true and powerful, How To Disappear is heartbreaking, the metaphor in Happyness is splendid and Hope is so touching. Just because they are simpler doesnt mean they're bad, in fact I think they are more genuine and they hit right home.

Never thought I'd ever see a TikTok Updates thread 

i'm crying.... name a hotter family though
 

remaster Go Go Dancer with an eightys sound, and boom u on spotlight again

Why am I checking this thread so regularly, we all know she isn’t gonna do or say anything of much interest for at least a month right? (Prove me wrong lana)

unfortunately, i think lana's days of making summery drug/romance anthems are behind her. which is a shame cause those songs slapped. 
 
now she's all about "meditations" and "vibrations" and "questioning the culture" so god help us all