Anthem

LEISURE

inb4 Art Deco is now "about" Rihanna

I've always wondered if she wanted to settle down one day. Imagine Lana having babies!

I'm sorry friend better to find out now while there's a chance to fix it than way later.

I see, you definitely did not receive the CD in the picture as the fonts on the disc don't match which is a huge red flag. The only West Coast promo with that font is this one (http://www.discogs.com/Lana-Del-Rey-West-Coast-/release/7309241) which has a different tracklist and the letter spacing is different. The one I have is the one you linked (mine doesn't have a sticker either but the rest of it is identical). The single art on yours is just so so bad LQ too. I'm 99% sure yours is fake I'd contact the seller and link him to the discog pictures and if he doesn't respond then report it to eBay.

Not gonna lie... I don't really think its legit. I have one of these that I'm 100% sure is real and its different. The cover of yours looks extremely LQ although the back looks perfect. There is more space above her name on mine and the picture looks a lot lighter in a way that I don't think is just your camera. My insert is also thicker than average paper. What really gets me is the font on the CD itself. On mine (and if you look at it on discogs), the font on the CD is Lana's official font, where yours is not. The brackets around the times of the tracks are different too. On one of the other West Coast promos the same font on your CD is used, but the tracklists are different, which means someone being lazy about making a bootleg might have looked at the other promo CDs and just assumed they all had that weird font. I'm not saying yours is completely fake because there might be some variation to the CDs I don't know about, but I will say that I wouldn't have bought it myself if I noticed those things because I think there's a good chance its fake unless you bought from a pretty reputable person.

Don't worry, I get all this. I completely understand its very selfish of me to say something like that. I would like to say though that I wasn't really talking about Lana and her lack of promotion when I said that, I was talking about another artist who is probably dropping music completely after her next tour because she's bored with it. I don't think I know what Lana (or the other artist) needs to do at all and I don't feel like either are obligated to give me anything. You probably don't know since you just lurk and I was being intentionally vague that myself and some others here are actively trying to make music careers for ourselves. Coming from that point of view is what makes it extra frustrating to see someone seemingly take it for granted that they have the ability to make music for a living, which is incredibly lucky. My frustration comes 100% from jealousy and I know this and know its not fair. But it doesn't stop me from wishing I even had that option to begin with.

I'm usually not one that is good with the "flow" of albums or playlists but I really feel bothered by Honeymoon's tracklist. I would change it as such: Honeymoon Terrence Loves You God Knows I Tried Religion 24 Salvatore Burnt Norton High By The Beach Music To Watch Boys To Freak Art Deco The Blackest Day Swan Song With this sequence, I can break the album in little "parts".. Part 1: Drifting Away Honeymoon and Terrence Loves You both give me this summery vibe. They are the only two songs where I feel like the atmospheres fit the visuals of the album. They are where the daydream starts. Part 2: Retro God Knows I Tried and Religion give me western vibes and they feel set in the past, so it reminds me of the old days of the "wild west". I think 24 also fits into this vibe since it sounds like a song for an old action movie (or the character described is like that of old heros like Bond and Indiana Jones). Salvatore is thrown in here because it gives me old Italy mafia vibes. It, like the others in this section, just feel like they take place in the past. The outro of Salvatore I think goes nice into the quiet speaking of Burn Norton. Part 3: Interlude Burn Norton is where the album moves from the retro to the future. I think the interlude comes at an awkward time in the official tracklist. The album can clearly be divided into past and present, so I don't know why it wasn't with this wonderful track to act as a bridge. So here we are. Part 4: Future The intro to High By The Beach serves as a much better transition with its little instrumental bit than the immediate vocals of Religion. It gives the listener a few seconds to also transition into the "future" period of the album. Starting with High By The Beach kind of starts at the end of the story, with the woman already breaking up with the man. Moving into Music To Watch Boys To is kind of like a flashback to when the girl and boy met. Freak is them running away to California, to the beach where she'd eventually break up with the guy as explained in High By The Beach. Art Deco is next and is unrelated in the previous trilogy. It can't really be separated from Freak but even if they weren't gapless I think this would feel right still. The instrumental to Art Deco is very mechanical, which fits in with the "future" theme. Part 5: The Present...? I really didn't know where else to put The Blackest Day because its too powerful to not interrupt the flow of the rest of the album and is kind of singular among the rest. So it just goes here and I don't think its a terrible place for it either. Swan Song obviously closes it out. I do like Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. I feel like it and Swan Song are interchangeable but are awkward next to one another because they are both closing songs. Imagine The Other Woman and Flipside one after the next. Both are perfect album closers but would sound weird right after each other. In this case, I went with Swan Song because its an original Lana song and I like it better in the context of the rest of the album. I also think the end of Swan Song loops better back to the beginning of Honeymoon than the other. Sorry this is long and probably doesn't make sense. I don't know how to better express why I changed the order and I'm too tired to go back and edit. Hopefully it makes sense

Yeah I know, she is (or was) promoting Froot a lot actually. I meant more about after her tour. She's basically said she's done with music after this upcoming tour. Its hard seeing some people who really want to make a living from art because they truly love it barely getting by or not getting a chance at all and then seeing someone else who has everything they could want just throw it away because they are bored/lazy/whatever. I know its not fair to think that way at all because everyone has the right to do what makes them happy, but still. I realize in Marina's case its not a decision she is making lightly and she really does recognize she is lucky though. I think for her its more of a sense of fulfillment, that she got what she wanted form her career. But at the end of the day, she's still throwing something out that so many people would die to have.

I don't see how people can say that a.) her lyrics got worse from UV and b.) that Honeymoon has no variety. Ultraviolence is about ~so many things~ but literally every track but BB, MPG, FMUTT, OM, TOW, and FS is about loving a bad boy. And they all give the exact same imagery and vibe, which is great from a cohesive standpoint but Honeymoon has literally western, italian, beachy, metallic, summery, and west-coast sounding songs and still sounds coherent. Visually I see Ultraviolence existing in only two settings - LA and New York, which is as typical Lana as you can get especially paired with the bad boy love song thing. I feel like in HM her lyrics are so much more colorful and paint such vibrant pictures compared to UV and to an extent BTD. But with BTD we had so many visuals to fill in the gaps for us. Honeymoon does almost get lost in its own tracklist. There isn't so much of a storyline like what UV has which kind of makes it hard to follow, but stories are a luxury and not required for an album so its alright. Some of the sequencing makes sense but I'd change the tracklist a lot if it were up to me. UVs is perfect though. Also, Honeymoon is also made of up mostly love songs, although I think they are from a more interesting perspective. I don't believe that HM is any more slow than UV. Please someone point out a fast-paced song in UV besides FK. I really do love UV, don't get me wrong, but I feel like its gotten a bit overrated on the boards. Its wonderful but really doesn't completely overshadow everything else that Lana has ever done. But then again, I am in the tiny minority that loves Paradise so what do I know Also, I think if you all are going to do comparisons then this is a little more fair. Its not perfect but makes a tad bit more sense... Cruel World - The Blackest Day (guitar power song - could possibly go with PWYC too) Ultraviolence - Honeymoon (title tracks) Shades of Cool - 24 (Bond-ish songs) Brooklyn Baby - Freak West Coast = High By The Beach (lead singles) Sad Girl - Religion Pretty When You Cry - Swan Song Money, Power, Glory - God Knows I Tried Fucked My Way Up - Art Deco (tracks about other people..?) Old Money - Terrence Loves You (slow ballad) The Other Woman - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (cover) Black Beauty = Salvatore Florida Kilos - Music To Watch Boys To (exotic..?)

I completely understand this, especially knowing a bit of the perspective you are coming from. Like, I wish I even had a music career to throw away. I feel the same way about Marina. Maybe there's just something we don't know.

This is my favorite post on this whole site.

Not lying at all just to make you feel good, but its probably my favorite of yours. I still really like Tears of Gold too.

Where's that download? Xx

I just noticed one of the models has "West Coast" tattooed on the back of his neck lol

Hint: if its posted on one page three times already, it might not be unpopular I like Paradise and Honeymoon more than her other albums and I like their covers more than the other covers too I don't think UV is some untouchable masterpiece. It's very good, maybe her best, but its not miles high above her other work like everyone has been acting lately.

Oh and I did see a clip from the teaser in the video, did you guys notice? I'm hoping that means another video for Freak with the kool-aid scene and the man.

I try to keep the reaching to a minimum but to me the end of the video just doesn't seem to be the end of the story in the video. Just the sequencing and some of the scenes almost seem like its leading into something else. I hope we do get something Tropico-esqe, or at least another music video that kind of acts as a continuation. With the inclusion of an interlude in the album, I feel like its kind of possible since that could easily be used as a bridge from one song to another.

I know, it's tragic maybe a good listening session of it all the way through will help.

I'm disappointed with how quickly I was over the album :/ I still really like Melanie and the idea of the album but when it comes to actually listening to the songs I rarely do. Maybe it was just bad timing with finding another artist right after and then HM so I've had plenty of other things to listen to.

This is my fucking jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqMaOb6Mogk

God I'm glad someone said it. I think of UV as a cloudy day, Born To Die being right after nightfall in a chill carefree way, Paradise is the party at midnight, and HM is just a warm summer day. None of them are waking up in a terrified cold sweat in the dead of the night.

The whole thing isn't going to ship until then?

I ordered the vinyl, limited edition vinyl, and CD box set (I know that's not until Nov though). :/ I'm considering canceling the order since I already have a vinyl, can probably but the LE vinyl easy form a store in town, and can just preorder the box again.

My order from the UK store still hasn't shipped