Pretty Dull

i think that's none of our business to be honest

Album rankings, links to a Dbree leak and this gif:

Sirens: Peace
AKA: Pawn Shop Blues
BTD: Video Games
Paradise: Bel Air
UV: Cruel World
HM: High By The Beach
LFL: Heroin
NFR: California
COCC: Wild At Heart
 

things heating up in the art rock fandom

3 pictures for XCXmas

Lana talking about the inspiration behind the song!
"An older gentleman, and Nikki told me a little story about him about he had a little meeting with her and he crept a little too close to her, and he said, 'How does it feel to be the prettiest girl in country music?' and I was like, 'bleh!' so immediately I wrote a little chorus and then we expanded."
 

Ok, so according to wikipedia, this is the plot of the movie, not the tv-series which came after, La Femme Nikita:
Sounds like a movie a young Lana might've had enjoyed, I'm even curous to watch it myself too now.  It's giving 100 dollar bill, heavy hitter, noir, serial killer etc etc.

quite a few updates happened last night. 
 
-If she wins a grammy, she’ll officially release Saddle Up
 
-Her tour booking agents are prioritizing the south for obvious reasons (something lana will never do)
 
-The b-sides to Preacher’s Daughter will be a completely separate EP and have a different cover, but will be packaged as bonus tracks for the physical release 
 
-Her least favorite food is beef stroganoff 
 
-Family Tree (Intro), August Underground, and Televangelism are all instrumentals with guitar, piano, scary sounds, and lap steel 
 
-Only 3 songs are under 4 minutes
 
-The album should be listened to in order and that’s the only way it will make sense, but it’ll all make more sense when the book comes out. 
 
-She’ll be doing a live stream on instagram for the Strangers release on April 7th. Here’s the artwork and presave link:

PRE SAVE HERE
 

*joins the conversation*
ever since I heard michelle pfeiffer in feb last year I was intrigued, but when I heard crush in april I became OBSESSED. crush was my most streamed non-LDR song of 2021 so it's safe to say I am so excited for may 12th. this has got to be my most anticipated (announced) album of 2022. her voice and the feeling behind her lyrics are like none other. I know she has been met with lana comparisons, but she seems okay with them because she knows she's in her own southern baptist gothic lane. however, yes both of their catalogues are very haunting and evocative of america. 
 
and the fact that she wants to make a trilogy of albums and then a trio of accompanying movies?? I love her ambition and it's clear to me that she's one of those artists that I won't hear a bad released song from because her passion is in it. so glad to have discovered her, from a friend actually.
 
+her cover of britney's everytime is beautiful. 

Maybe it's just me being delusional but Lana being around Jack Donoghue a lot for the past months makes me think that LDR9 will be a bit more wild again, as in bombastic production and more explicit lyrics. 
 
A trailer park meth-themed album is what we need now.

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overloading when i'm lookin in the mirror 
feel myself i'm lookin way better than ever

omg the way that this kinda looks cuter than the LDR Village products 

who's gonna take one for the team and summarise the podcast bc literally listening to a podcast w ed is so far down on my list of things i wanna do

i love how lana kinda considers herself a psychic

so nice to hear her writing voice again. and to hear her talking about making music instead of just having to talk about stupid controversies. 

She would push the boundaries further on 2015’s dreamy, soundtrack-esque “Honeymoon,” a controversial curveball at the time that has since been embraced as a fan favorite.
 
 

A Decade of Lana Del Rey: The Artist Talks Diarist Pop and Upholding Her Truth
By Mike Wass
December 2, 2021
 

 
Some artists launch themselves into the world with a cautious toe in the water; some make a huge splash. Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games,” which may have been one of the first songs to “go viral,” was more than just a song — it was a statement of intent and a blueprint for everything she’s done since. With loved-up, ominous lyrics cloaked in shadowy production, the baroque ballad heralded the arrival of a songwriter who wielded vulnerability like a weapon. Over the course of seven studio albums, the prolific Del Rey has refined her sound into many different shapes — all unmistakably her.
 
It all started in June 2011, when “Video Games” hit the internet. “I remember being in Long Island with my family and seeing the Weeknd post ‘Video Games’ on Tumblr,” Del Rey says. The song wasn’t her debut — she’d released an album the previous year and an EP under her real name, Lizzy Grant, in 2008 — but it certainly was a lasting and far-reaching introduction to the world. “I can’t say to what extent I’ve influenced anything. But I can say all of my creative cosplay — aka notes from my real life — did widen up the sound in popular music for people to make a departure from a pure pop sound to something more diarist.”
 
From there, she was off and running. In 2012, she unveiled the sweeping, widescreen “Born to Die” album; boosted by a deluxe edition (which included the Rick Rubin-produced “Ride”), it spent 400 weeks on the Billboard 200.
 
She continued to branch out stylistically and seek new collaborators. For the follow-up, 2014’s “Ultraviolence,” Del Rey explored a gritty, guitar-driven sound with producer Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. “I learned how good it felt to be singing, writing and producing stylistically in a way that felt very natural and detail-oriented,” she recalls. She would push the boundaries further on 2015’s dreamy, soundtrack-esque “Honeymoon,” a controversial curveball at the time that has since been embraced as a fan favorite. “I felt like I might be going in a more jazz-oriented direction, but the music of course did later pivot again,” she says.
Indeed: On 2017’s “Lust for Life,” she widened her net of collaborators. “It felt good to work with other people,” she explains. “I had been doing things in a very insular way up until that point.”
 
Pivoting again, Del Rey then partnered with Jack Antonoff (known for his work with Taylor Swift, Lorde and St. Vincent) on “Norman Fucking Rockwell!” The multilayered, slightly ’70s-flavored opus earned her a Grammy nomination for album of the year. Says Del Rey: “That meant a lot because I knew it was probably my best album. I’m usually almost exactly right on my gauge of what people will probably hate or love. I’m somewhat psychic in that way.” Antonoff also produced her first 2021 album, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” but Del Rey largely took the helm for the majestic follow-up, “Blue Banisters.”
 
Yet when looking back at her body of work, Del Rey is hard-pressed to offer highlights. “There were moments while I was making ‘Honeymoon,’ moments while mixing ‘Ultraviolence,’ then writing ‘Norman Rockwell!’ and producing my own album, ‘Blue Banisters,’ that all stand out to me,” she reflects. “But to be honest — and this is the takeaway — my proudest achievement is continuing to uphold my personal truth in a time when truth is often questioned and rarely valued.”
 
https://variety.com/2021/music/entertainers/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-born-to-die-blue-banisters-1235123179/amp/

I would probably show them Noir, I mean, 2010 Lizzy Grant is potentially the most intelligent singer who ever lived. The amount of thought that goes into these laptop demos are insane! And I'm not just referring to the amazing mixing these demos contain. The fact that each and every verse she sings is categorized into verses, and that every point Sparkle Jump Rope Queen makes is instantly followed by an example of why it's 100% true. Mainstream alien singers would not be smart enough to be able to put together valid arguments that are logical and non-contradictory. Those that are uneducated will not understand the complexity of a 3 minute masterpiece like "Noir" with a bunch jabs and inner conflictions unknown to the public. A highly educated individual like Lizzy Grant can make a meaningful laptop demo with 10x the quality, because she has 10x more logic and intelligence. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the intellectual escapism of 'Noir' and Lizzy Grant as an artist herself. The intelligence is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the music it will go over a typical listener's head. There's also Lizzy's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into her characterisation- her personal philosophy draws heavily from Jessica Rabbit literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these demos, to realize that they're not just amazing- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Lizzy's laptop demos truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the vibe in Lizzy's existential catchphrase "Glamourous, Famous, Notorious" which itself is a cryptic reference to Lizzy Grant's epic secret instagram account "notoriouswhitegirl". I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lizzy Grants genius wit unfolds her screams over the 84kbps soundwaves striking their ears. What fools.. how I pity them. 

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