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When Lana says, "She says you don't want to be like me, don't want to see all the things I've seen"

The second verse of Blue Jeans!! 'I stayed up waiting, anticipating and pacing' i LOVE that line!
The whole bridge in National Anthem!
And in Ride, after the bridge when she sings the chorus again, when she says 'i ride fast' she says it differently to every other time and i loooooove it!

Yes, "Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow nights on a dark night" is one of the best moments for me, but even more so the dark, eerie, and obsessive bordering on creepy turn "Yayo" takes after that.
 
That is a great emotional performance of MDM, and I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but I believe her performance at Òran Mór in Glasgow remains her best (although I do love the way she wails "I'm fine" on some other live performances, like Hackney I think). She nails all the tricks, does some great scatting, and way she screams "I don't know" at 3:03 gives me chills. If she hadn't forgotten to sing into her microphone at one point, it would be perfect. Perhaps she sang it so well here because Barrie was probably there.
 
 
 
Some other great moments:
- The high vocal harmonies in "Serial Killer"
- The intros to "Kinda Outta Luck" & "She's Not Me"
- Some of the breathier vocals on AKA, especially "Kill Kill", "Jump" and "Mermaid Motel"
- "Goddamn, goddamn" in live version of "Pawn Shop Blues"
- "Mmmmmmm" at the end of the chorus in "Video Games" and at the end of some lines in the chorus of "Kill Kill"
- "Pushing up my (moans) in your face, in your face" in "Go Go Dancer"
- "Not even they" and "their heavy words" in "Radio"
- Alterna-rock live version of "Brite Lights", the whole thing
- "Come on, come on" in "For K Part 2 (Demo)"
- "savior" in Kinda Outta Luck

starting with 3:37 in
brings me to tears she sounds so angelic. i loved those three nights idk i think her performance live was the best. 
the end of million dollar man when she says "so why is my heart broke ? i don't know.."
 
body electric in hackney.
 
(and almost all of her pre-lana songs, they just have a different vibe that i love)
 
oh and the demo of diet mtn dew the verse which she says "hit me my darling tonight, i dont know why but i like it.."

I think it's the second part of the second chorus, in Off To The Races .. It's just .. wow
eargasm

When she sings "you said I’d never make it out of here alive, at the rate I was going, I’d be lucky to die" and "I said, he loves my heart-shaped sunglasses, he loves the heart shape my ass is" in Every Man Gets Him Wish.

That whole bridge Makes it pretty close for me, but when that "Mermaid Motel" chorus kicks in I'm instantly a burlesque dancer and that counts for something.

Can we do live performances? If so, this:
There are two moments for me. First, when she does the chorus at 2:48 and she's bellowing and it sounds so emotional and you can see it from her voice that it's coming from a very deep place. The second moment is directly after when she sings along to what sounds like could be a saxophone solo. I love that and wish it could be on the album version.
 
As far as studio material goes, in Every Man Gets His Wish the lines:
I was working down in the corner cafe
You would drive by in the Chevrolet
Whistle at me as my hips go sway
"Lana Del Rey how you get that way?"
 
I just smile. It's so sweet and classic Lana to me.

I'm not talking about your favorite song, or your favorite lyric. I'm talking about the moment in a song that makes it special, that you find yourself waiting for and anticipating. Production elements, a particular accent or vocal trick used, kicking in of a certain instrument...all this applies. However, this is exclusively Lana.
 
 
For me, it's the final chorus of "Mermaid Motel". I don't know the musical jargon of the technique she uses there in her vocals (Monicker could probably teach me a thing or two), but it's absolutely mesmerizing and a real contender for one of the most brilliant, effective decisions she's made in her music. How's that for a grand statement? Even if the credit goes to David Kahne for that last chorus, maybe that's just confirmation of what a dream team they were. It just instantly stops me, the way it seems almost...turned inside out? Just go listen to it, it starts at 3:02.
 
 
 
While I did wanna share that, I'm really interested to know your musical moments with Lana. Anticipating some "dark nights" from "Yayo", don't disappoint me

Slow news day
 
 
When will he just die already?
 

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A Tropico like vide with Cruel World, Pretty When You Cry and Flipside!!
 
Part one (Cruel World): Lana sitting in a smokefilled bar in her little red party dress, getting drunk trying to forget.
Part two (Pretty When You Cry): In a flashback we see how her guy treated her and how miserable everything was.
Part three (Flipside): Lana tried to move on but she can't and she's like "maybe we could get back together someday...".
 
Or something

Maybe this is one of the reasons why she put it on the record! So she could release the video she's been contemplating? But maybe I don't know the whole story to that song!! I've only got bits and pieces of interviews about it here and there.

I’m torn between:
 
Florida Kilos: I picture her playing the character of this vintage king pin, drug lord, pin-up princess, running a huge line along the Florida coast, and wearing this bright, blinding, glistening red lipstick, sometime in the early 70’s) sipping cherry cola limes of course  for the story-line/feel; think the movie “Blow” with Johny Depp.  But Lana as Ray in this Character I described.
 
Money, Power, Glory: This could be her most powerful video yet!!! Imagery and visuals could be out of this world…  Common' Lans. 
 
Brooklyn Baby – Don’t mess this one up gurrrrrl.  Not sure what I expect for this one, visually, but it has amazing potential as well.

Or that loving her was never enough? 
 
 
She makes so many references to American culture that I didn't get until I listened to her that I began to question my identity as a born and bred 'merican. I didn't know what:
Skid Row Chateau Marmot Bugsy Malone (+ all the other names in LoD besides SS/Adrian and Bonnie/Clyde) Cosa Nostra Lolita (the book) Top Shelf Liquor Yayo Drugstore Cowboy PBR (I had a tame teenage life) That Americans were Young, Dope, and Proud Cherry Knots were, and a few more that I can't think of right now. I never realized how truly sheltered I was.
 
I wish UV had as many references as the rest of her music, or do I just miss them?

Lana taught me that he hit me and it felt like a kiss.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Someone had to say it, or it wouldn't feel right.

I'm American, and for me, it was kind of the opposite: I discovered Lana because of the movie "Maleficent."

I ended up reading Lolita (and seeing both films, and cultivating an unhealthy obsession with the whole thing in general) after becoming a fan of Lana. I'd always been curious, but I'd never really gone off the deep end until then.
 
So yeah, there's that. I also found my favorite film ever thanks to a fanmade video for the Carmen acapella demo.

Same as you. I don't really like the American culture that much (one of the reasons why I decided not to go to college there) but Lana did make me wanna know more about it (apart from what I learned in US History xd). 
 
Lana sambando na vida das passivas~

Hello! a long time I wanted to start this topic to know how many more people have learned so many things with Lana like me.
Searching for the meaning of their songs, I first met a lot of magnificent books and movies, like Scarface, Summer of Sam, Gods and Monsters. Also been interested in the biography of Marylin and Elvis, just like Bonnie and Clyde's. I had never heard about Jim Morrison and James Dean, and after listening to her songs they began to appear in several other cases and bc of her I already knew them. 
I didnt knew what a groupie was, or Parliament, Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, well as much of the American presidents, and the expression "match made in heaven".
Anyway, I'd like to know how many of you non-americans learned things about American culture because of Lana, and the americans who met books and movies bc of her.
Thank you! ♥

Hello! a long time I wanted to start this topic to know how many more people have learned so many things with Lana like me.
Searching for the meaning of their songs, I first met a lot of magnificent books and movies, like Scarface, Summer of Sam, Gods and Monsters. Also been interested in the biography of Marylin and Elvis, just like Bonnie and Clyde's. I had never heard about Jim Morrison and James Dean, and after listening to her songs they began to appear in several other cases and bc of her I already knew them. 
I didnt knew what a groupie was, or Parliament, Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, well as much of the American presidents, and the expression "match made in heaven".
Anyway, I'd like to know how many of you non-americans learned things about American culture because of Lana, and the americans who met books and movies bc of her.
Thank you! ♥

Hello! a long time I wanted to start this topic to know how many more people have learned so many things with Lana like me.
Searching for the meaning of their songs, I first met a lot of magnificent books and movies, like Scarface, Summer of Sam, Gods and Monsters. Also been interested in the biography of Marylin and Elvis, just like Bonnie and Clyde's. I had never heard about Jim Morrison and James Dean, and after listening to her songs they began to appear in several other cases and bc of her I already knew them. 
I didnt knew what a groupie was, or Parliament, Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, well as much of the American presidents, and the expression "match made in heaven".
Anyway, I'd like to know how many of you non-americans learned things about American culture because of Lana, and the americans who met books and movies bc of her.
Thank you! ♥

Hello! a long time I wanted to start this topic to know how many more people have learned so many things with Lana like me.
Searching for the meaning of their songs, I first met a lot of magnificent books and movies, like Scarface, Summer of Sam, Gods and Monsters. Also been interested in the biography of Marylin and Elvis, just like Bonnie and Clyde's. I had never heard about Jim Morrison and James Dean, and after listening to her songs they began to appear in several other cases and bc of her I already knew them. 
I didnt knew what a groupie was, or Parliament, Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, well as much of the American presidents, and the expression "match made in heaven".
Anyway, I'd like to know how many of you non-americans learned things about American culture because of Lana, and the americans who met books and movies bc of her.
Thank you! ♥

"Running from the cops in our black bikini tops screaming 'Get us while we're hot! Get us while we're hot! (Come on take a shower!)"

This is a work in progress, but I wanted to start a topic that encompassed the much discussed debate over Lana's authenticity by weaving in a timeline of her life and career as well as old interviews of Lizzy Grant and David Kahne, her first producer, pictures, and performance videos. I plan on adding much more to this, but wrote a brief timeline to start from.
 
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     Elizabeth "Lizzy" Woolridge Grant was born on June 21, 1985 in New York City. Her father, Rob, was a copywriter at the very successful Grey Group, while her mother was an executive accountant at the same company. Her parents relocated to Lake Placid while she and her two siblings were quite young, and her father slowly transitioned into entrepreneurship via domain investment and independent marketing.  Lizzy began singing as a child as the cantor of her church choir while attending Catholic elementary school.
 
     At the age of 14-15, Lizzy was sent to Kent Boarding School in Connecticut to deal with her alcohol dependence and remained there until age 18, when she took a gap year off and stayed with her aunt and uncle in Long Island, NY and worked as waitress. During this period, her uncle taught her the basics of playing guitar. The following year, she enrolled in Fordham University, located in the Bronx, to study metaphysics and volunteered rebuilding homes outside of school. She began playing open mics at various nightclubs in Brooklyn, performing acoustic versions of songs she had written and recorded independently, some of which would reappear on future releases. In 2006, at her performance at the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition (video of the performance and interview here: 
), Lizzy was noticed by Van Wilson, a rep for 5 Points Records. In 2007, at the age of 22, Lizzy signed with 5 Points and began recording with producer David Kahne. (See interview with David about signing Lizzy here: http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview/). After receiving $10,000 from the contract, Lizzy moved into Manhattan Mobile Home Park in New Jersey, while retaining a residence with her sister in NY. Video from her interview with Index Magazine at the trailer park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZI5iaCyL6ELizzy and David released the Kill Kill EP in 2008, but her first studio album was shelved, resulting in a shift of interest to charity work. "Homeless outreach, drug, and alcohol rehabilitation—that's been my life for the past five years," she told Vogue UK in 2012. She chooses the stage name "Lana Del Rey" for herself after a "series of managers and lawyers" suggest that she pick a new name to better represent the dark, cinematic music that she was making. (http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/interviews/LanaDelRey.htm)
 
     Two years later, her debut studio album, Lana Del Ray, produced by Kahne, was digitally released. Her father assisted with the album's marketing. The album was withdrawn shortly thereafter and, three months after the album's release, Lana met her current managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millet, who encouraged her to distance herself from 5 Points because her progress had stagnated. Shortly afterwards, Lana relocated to London to be closer to her management and lives with Mawson for a couple of years. During this time period, she appears on MTV singing "Chet Baker" with Mando Diao (
). Lana begins directing homemade music videos for demos of new songs and uploads them to the Internet. After her video for "Video Games" goes viral and attracts attention, she is signed to Polydor/Interscope/Stranger Records in 2011. Prior to her debut album's release, Lana secures spot on SNL but struggles due to stage fright, a recurring theme in performances and early interviews. Born to Die is released in January of 2012 to polarizing reviews, but becomes a commercial success and catapults Lana to the popular music stratosphere.