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Kinda think the blackest day is her magnum opus - is there any other song with so many different sections? (rap genius labels them verse, pre-chorus, chorus, post-chorus, bridge, outro) Kinda like Bohemian Rhapsody??

I don't agree that lana is necessarily too self absorbed to really think about politics or science, or whatever. I always thought her Lizzy Grant songs had this political element - like criminals run the world and children of the bad revolution. There's also the fact that she tweeted a video of Father John Misty performing Bored in The USA on the night of the American congressional elections last year. And then tweeted "so fitting"

That kind of looks like her bra from the High by the Beach music video

It was my title and give me a break, it was 3 am and I was excited about lana

https://twitter.com/GlobalDanceElec/status/674858773098303488

Did you listen to the interview, I think it was the Minneapolis radio station, where she said that one of the major themes of the videos she's done for Honeymoon is the fear of being watched in your own home? Actually this interview was so great for me because she explained that the beginning of the Honeymoon video was her sitting on a hill and the starlight tours van just happened to drive by on the road below, and Lana got so nervous and that just happened to be captured on the video. It made me so happy because somewhere on Lanaboards I guessed that the car that drives by was a starlight tours van and that's the connection to the album cover!

Nobody would have known what house the HBTB video was filmed in, or even that it was actually her own house, if TMZ had not released the information about her buying a house in Malibu with pictures. On the other hand, even if she hadn't filmed the music video in that house, the information released by TMZ would still be out there for anybody to find.

I think religion gets a little repetitive by the end, but when she sings "it never was about the money or the drugs, for you there's only love," it makes me feel so sad i could cry. I guess I would say that maybe the songs on Honeymoon aren't as easy to listen to as her previous songs, they are, in some way i can't exactly put my finger on, so much more emotionally affecting. that's why i find it so weird that so many reviewers described honeymoon as an album about emotional numbness. that's just not the feeling i get from listening to it at all.

Ah, you're right. It was the phrase "her then boyfriend" that made it seem like "then" meant 2005.

Something got lost in translation when they said she first heard of Daniel Johnston when she watched the documentary in 2005 with Barrie - either she watched the documentary in 2005 or she watched it with Barrie. Maybe she watched it with whoever was her boyfriend in 2005. I felt like the entire article was like that - manipulating things people said to make Lana look bad. Hard to tell the context the director told that story in either - did he say it lovingly, as a joke? The reporter made it sound like she basically stalked/paid her way into the film project.

Wow that V article was catty

oh right, duh! do we know this for a fact though or is it just widely assumed?

Is there any way to find out who's playing the guitar? Could it possibly be lana?

How could it possibly be a coincidence though? Unless there's some third person out there that they're both copying

She said it's the last song she wrote, not the last song she worked on/mixed/mastered.

omg the pink dress and the white dress . . my heart started thumping i don't know if it was 'cause lana looks so lovely or because i want those clothes!

the blackest day!

I love the lyrics on Honeymoon, I would always describe Lana's lyrical style as deceptively simple and that's one of the things I love about her. It's not just about the lyrics but the way she sings them, for example in Music to Watch Boys To, "I live to love you and I love to love you and I live to love you Boy" might sound kind of cliched, but the way she sings it gives the impression that she's faking it, she doesn't mean what she says but is just playing along, for whatever reason.

This article remarks that the Music to Watch Boys to Video was inspired by the unfinished Clouzot film "L'enfer" https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/ogle-cute-dudes-with-lana-del-rey interesting theory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzXl0fag2w

I liked how every time she sang "sent to destroy" they showed some kind of flower I think it's supposed to represent her vagina and how she uses it to destroy men Also the way the last shot of the video was of one of the water nymph's crotch.

How come AV Club didn't review it yet? I am sure they are going to.

really thoughtful review by emily yoshida http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9370791/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-album-review one of the few critics who doesn't fall back on the usual cliches/narratives about lana. don't think it counts for Metacritic though?

ahh so that's why she always says "you've got the music in you"

yeah unless i'm wrong, but i don't think i am. here's a link to listen to it, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bnsbn

actually lana said 8:20 pm london time, so just an hour!