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lana did wanted black beauty to be the lead single, but there are rumors that the track was leaked by her own label in order to prevent that from happening so lana would be forced to release it as a bonus track. 

I do believe women in general are way more controlled by music labels compared to men. I guess there are higher stakes for a woman's reputation unfortunately. It's hella annoying, but I feel like that's what drives our passion for a lot of female artists.

Do you think Lana will ever go back blonde for more than 2 weeks?

She is controlled by the illuminati guys 

Why wouldn't a record label want controversy for their artists ? A controversial music video for UV wouldn't have been bad press, if people talked about it, heard the song, saw the video the album could've done much better commercially.
I don't understand why Interscope would block the video but thought HBTB would be a good first single

A label controlling an artist? Oh wow. So unheard of.
In other non shocking news I'm still a fat feminist. 

the way you typed this gave me a migraine

Hello everybody, my name is Gonzalo, i'm @lanastarboy on instagram, i decided to start this topic because of the weird story of Lana's second LP "ULTRAVIOLENCE" 
Here is what i have for discussion !:
 
1) Rolling Stones Interview with Dan Auerbach ( http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 )
 
1.1) 
"There was a lot of bull:) I'm not used to," Dan Auerbach tells Rolling Stone
 
 "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bull:).
 
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"
 
 
Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"
 
 
"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."
 
 
Janick and Jimmy Iovine are both Interscope Chiefs and they were the ones who defended Lana against the main label in Europe, also when they said 'We need a single,' they wanted Lana to make a pop hit like in 2012.
 
2) http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-114-1245121
 
2.1)
He adds: “She impressed me every day. There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business. So we bumped heads a little bit, but at the end of the day we were dancing to the songs.”
 
3) http://radio.com/2014/06/12/lana-del-rey-interview-maleficent-ultraviolence/
3.1)
LDR: Dan said that everything on the record, all the songs have this kind of narco-swing. So whereas the beat and the verses on “West Coast” were really direct, the chorus naturally slipped into this half-time beat. I just remember everyone at the label being like, ‘God, it’s getting slower at the chorus?’ And we were like, yeah!
 
4) Also years ago there was an image floating around of a music video  that was intended for the UV Era but was scrapped, the music video included the water girls that we have now seen in the MTWBT AND FREAK Music Video, these girls also appeared in Neil Krug's 2014 Photoshoot named "Pale Fire", this photoshoot was allegedly for an upcoming single of the album but in ended up being scrapped off the record.


 
5)The original music video for the song "Ultraviolence" was the Freak Music Video that they recycled for the Honeymoon Era, sadly it was rejected because it would be controversial due to the fact that it was a tribute to the Jonestown Massacre, Interscope permitted Lana to recycle the material along the song Freak when there was not a lot of buzz surrounding her image.
 
6) Scrapped Homemade Video for "West Coast" and "Pretty When You Cry"
 
 
 

I was just at the coffee shop and Sweet Carolina was playing  It wasn't the radio so I take it the waiter put it on omg taste

it sounds like you had an interesting thanksgiving

it's crazy strangely beautiful to think how she's sorta mothered an entire generation without having much of a mother herself (from what we know anyway)

it's her and her sister chuck. it's a shot from the BB music video where the line "chucky's making birthday cake" is referenced and they're baking a cake. it's a mixing bowl not a trophy haha. the cat is lana's lil guy

i still can't believe i'm living in a world where i don't have a BB vinyl but I have 2 Chemtrails vinyls
 

Oh, it's fucking brilliant, like so many others on this monumental album. 
 
Every spin of BB that I do I find new beautiful things on it. 
 
And I'm convinced that it wins the award for the most criminally overlooked album of 2021. 

Arcadia deserves so much better - it's the bright star shining over this album.

Arcadia deserves so much better - it's the bright star shining over this album.

Arcadia deserves so much better - it's the bright star shining over this album.

critics about BB with 15 songs: Ugh! Too many songs and some are recycled. Nothing much new.
critics about re-recorded Red (Taylor's Version) from 2012 with 30 songs: What a pleasure!

A month later this song remains a highlight of Blue Banisters and an absolutely monumental track in her discography 

Grenadine quarantine, I like you a lot
It's LA, "Hey" on Zoom, Target parking lot
& if this is the end, I want a boyfriend
Someone to eat ice cream with and watch television
Or walk home from the mall with
'Cause what I really meant 
Is when I'm being honest
I'm tired of this shit
 
'Cause my body is my temple, my heart is one too
The only thing that still fits me is this black bathing suit
You don't know me any better than they do, baby
My time has run over, so the only time you'll
Ever see me is in your dreams in my black bathing suit
Lookin' at me lookin' over at you
Real cute, 'cause
 
He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do
'Cause no one does it better
He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do
'Cause no one does it better
 
Swisher Sweet, magazines, promise you it's not
'Cause of you that I'm mean, it's my afterthoughts
& what I never said
Why there's a price on my head
It's nothin' to do with them
It's my karmic lineage
So I'm not friends with my mother
While I still love my dad
Untraditional lover
Can you handle that?
 
I guess I'm complicated, my life's sorta too
I wish you could see to my soul through this black bathing suit
You don't know me any better than they do, baby
'Cause I sing like an angel, my heart's like one too
The only thing that fits is this black bathing suit
Lookin' at me lookin' over at you
Real cute, 'cause
 
He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do
'Cause no one does it better
He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do
'Cause no one does it better
They said I was bad, and I'll show them what bad girls do
 
My black bathing suit
Oh, let 'em talk about me
They're just yesterday's news
They're fucking broke and we're laughin' about ‘em
Mail me when you get the blues
We'll have the last laugh about it
By the way, thanks for the shoes
 
Your interest really made stacks
Your interest really made stacks
Your interest really made stacks out of it
Your interest really made stacks out of it for me
So thanks for that
Your interest really made stacks out of it for me
Your interest really made stacks out of it for me
Your interest really made stacks out of it for me
So thanks for that

'Chemtrails' should've gotten the white vinyl and 'Blue Banisters' baby blue or something. 

Almost all albums (in general) have the wrong song order. The less popular songs should be played first and the most popular at the end. That way you have a progression and know, even if you don't like a song, that there could be better ones. Otherwise, you listen to the most popular songs first, and the motivation to finish listening to the album decreases with each successive song.

It's not long ago, but I already miss that relatively short era with her blonde hair and her matured look. The highlight was the Chemtrails music video. One or two more visuals for other songs would have been nice.

It's not long ago, but I already miss that relatively short era with her blonde hair and her matured look. The highlight was the Chemtrails music video. One or two more visuals for other songs would have been nice.

Almost all albums (in general) have the wrong song order. The less popular songs should be played first and the most popular at the end. That way you have a progression and know, even if you don't like a song, that there could be better ones. Otherwise, you listen to the most popular songs first, and the motivation to finish listening to the album decreases with each successive song.