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Before Sirens leaked I thought For K Part 2 was about David Kahne, as someone stated previously. In that facebook-interview (the one where she says "I just thought it was so sad that like, I don’t know, God had found someone so perfect for me and that we really couldn’t be together") she talks about the person she had a relationship with that influenced BTD and she says "we were birds of a feather" In a Lizzy Grant interview she says "My producer, David Kahne, and me got along very well because he knew that I lived in my songs, and so he just tried to make them better. He asked me in a letter what I wanted the record to sound like, and I said, “I want it to sound famous, like a sad party.” He thought that was a wonderful idea, and we began working the next day. I like to think we’re birds of a feather." It's probably nothing, she's just using the phrase to describe different people, but I did used to think that FKP2 was about their (professional) relationship, "Use that voice, sing that song , And tell me to come on, to come on, come on" but this doesn't really fit with For K (or anything else for that matter), still, it might interest some. I used to think K was Elvis. She's said that she was obsessed with him as a teenager, K is for King, Elvis was The King. Elvis' body guards were called the Memphis Mafia - gangsters (not literally), and in Gangsta Boy she sings "high school, loved you from the beginning". She's also said that when she saw Elvis for the first time she was blown away by his beauty. In Lucky Ones she sings "everybody told me love was blind, then I saw your face and you blew my mind". In interview (or it might be in part 2) the interviewer asks her if Million Dollar Man is about Elvis, and she says "maybe" and smiles. "One for the money, two for the show" is also a lyric in Blue Suede Shoes. When I googled it I found that the expression "one for the money..." is one used in horse racing, as in Off to the Races.And obviously Elvis fits the description in American "tall, tan/skin so golden brown" although it doesn't really makes sense that American would be about him since she namedrops him. Also, Elvis is from Mississippi (Raise Me Up). I thought that maybe, since a lot of people think she writes each song about more than one person, that she uses Elvis as a base-character and then writes autobiographically around that base... if that makes sense. I'm sure Y&B is about Jimmy Gnecco (also Radio and Bel Air) I just read this on wikipedia: "In Nabokov's 'Lolita', the name is used in reference to Mr Clare Quilty, the man who takes Lolita from Humbert. Carmen and Clare being both male and female names, Lolita uses them to deceive Humbert into thinking he is a woman and no threat." I knew there was a song in Lolita called Carmen and so I assumed that's where she got the name from. I'm not sure if it's relevant or not (God, imagine if every song she's ever written is just fan fiction about Lolita) but thought I'd share. And this has been bothering me for a while, in the album booklet it says "Thank you to my devoted managers Ben Mawson and Ed Millett. And to A.G." Who is A.G.?

she seems so basic

It didn't work Not that it was bad but what Kahne had already done to it was as close to flawless as you can come but the new version just sounds overworked. However, if you pretend the new version is the only one that exists the production is great but I see no point in remaking a song that worked so well the first time. What mainly bothers me with the new Yayo is her fucking singing, she's trying really, really hard, like when she was performing live in the beginning of the BTD-era and she tried so hard her accent changed into Marlene Dietrich. And she pronounces 'takes' in "it only takes two hours to nevada" like taste. And she won't even play it live

The trailer ruined Over the Love for me, it's just so literal, "and I sang by the piano" and there's a clip of a piano and then she sings "I can see the green light" and there's green light and yes I can see the green light too and I just wanna kick the person that did that I feel like Florence always uses the same type of vocals, the softness heard in the beginning, then the big screaming voice and then her almost aggressive voice complete with teeth-inhalation, like she's trying her best to convey emotion but it just comes out bland Leona Lewis style (although Leona doesn't even try). Y&B is sort of boring. The lyrics are lazy, the only part that got me excited was "...and when I get to heaven..." but then she follows that up with the "...all that grace..." part which had me cringing It's strange, because the chorus seems to fit with the film but the verses sound more personal to Lana and make obvious references to Jimmy Gnecco, and they really don't fit together. It's like she had two different songs and then thought they'd be good together but it really doesn't work. It's like in the verses she's trying to create an ending "I've seen the world... had my cake" but then the chorus is a question, and even though she answers it herself, she asks the question again, leaving the song open and doubtful when she otherwise sound determined. Also, the vocals have me grinding my teeth. On one side she sounds more emotional than she usually does which is nice, but they've done something to her voice, whatever it is it makes the song sound cheap and it's really off-putting. Overall I'm disappointed. And Beyoncé's cover of Back to Black sounds terrible.

Mmmm, sometimes I dream about Million Dollar Man, Carmen and Without You done in Kahne style (and I'm one of few that actually like Haynie) But it's really hard to imagine how it'd sound like because visually they're quite different. Like, when you listen to AKA it makes you think about trailer parks, gas stations and so on, and it's very americana in a stripped back sense. BTD is different because it's more glamorous, extravagant and lavished, still americana but the theme sticks to opulence, which is why I liked what Haynie had done with BTD, I felt like it was supposed to sound too much and overproduced because that's what that album was aiming for. So I don't think it'd work releasing BTD as Lizzy Grant because it needs that melodrama and excessiveness, and AKA couldn't be released as Lana (and probably why the remake of Yayo didn't work) because the production has to be spare and in moderation to fit with the visual side of her music.

Bless you

http://dont-lumping-yell-at-me.tumblr.com/ is uploading it right now http://dont-lumping-yell-at-me.tumblr.com/post/48532649794/young-and-beautiful-lana-del-rey

so close yet so far

i can't believe nobody has posted it yet

...is this why she bought that expensive plant horse?

june carter and johnny cash 2.0

Maybe one of the bonus tracks will be Old Money. dreams~

It reminds me of Damn You/American Dream for some reason. The production sounds amazing

Ben Mawson, he's her manager. He sounds just like I thought he would

I wonder what his voice sounds like

Ben is really hot

Hopefully it's alright that I do? I mean it's pretty easy to figure out since I saw the pictures on Zimbio with the caption "Lana seen on Dean Street" and then I just googled mapped it but obviously I don't want some psycho bothering her. Anyways she's staying at the Dean Street Townhouse judging by the door.

Oh Jesus Christ Almighty I know which hotel she's staying at

Crispins Food & Wine on Shaftesbury Avenue

It must be pretty scary going out alone at night and having strange men waiting to take pics of you

maybe K is a capricorn

she talks about being a gemini so she also says she's right on the cusp of being a gemini and cancer

Does anyone know where I can find the world café album art in a bigger size (or if you can post it for me)? I tried googling it but I can't find it

"make love" ... with our teachers

Here's the video: