Unidentified Major Tom

Angel Olsen is a clear example that you can make really beautiful acoustic music.
 
 
 

The song is really beautiful, I loved the layers of this production. It's this dreamy dark electrowave sound which I really love and I'm so glad that we got to finally hear Lana in one those productions. 
 
We can definitely expect amazing vocals from her collaborations with The Weeknd, in the end it literally felt like a space alien sang when she was belting in the outro which was also the same reaction I had when I listened to Stargirl for the first time. 
 
While I'm very grateful that we got the collaboration with Abel, I am bit sad that she was only in the outro like in Party Monster because not gonna lie I expected a full verse like in Stargirl or Prisoner. But I guess it was Lana's choice, like it was with Snow On The Beach. Maybe we'll get The Abyss feat. More Lana Del Rey but a delulu can dream.
 
I loved the Azealia Banks Twitter beef reference with the "threat not a promise" line.
 
My favorite collaboration of theirs still is Stargirl, I'll never forget the euphoric feeling of it while listening for the first time. But I did like the new song more than Party Monster or the Money Power Glory remix.
 
But I also think that the song is one of the best ones from his new album, the whole track felt like a song installed from the future because damn, I loved the dreamy synthwave layers, it was so crystal clear and immaculate. Both of their vocals were stunning as well, I loved that so much, sometimes it felt like the vocals melted into each other which reminded me of Lust For Life. I really need a dark wave electronica album from Lana. She would kill it one hundred percent.

Sorry I tried, not sure if it works

It’s a threat not a promise title of LDR10
 

Her vocals are STUNNING!!  Just like in Stargirl, Lana didn't hold back in reaching those hypnotic, super high notes that she executes so well. I loveeee this sound from her, and he seems to bring it out in her on his projects. Would luvvv more of this sound on her own projects, but this is a tasty lil treat for now x
 
 
 
I also made a lyric thread for the song if anyone would like to read, do an analysis, or make correction suggestions:
 

I don't really know and I have no concrete evidence, but I still think the song NFR is about Jonathan Wilson, and maybe other songs of the album, and also some poems of Violet.
 
It is a long post, sorry about that.
 
From L.A. mag :
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/how-jonathan-wilson-accidentally-rebooted-the-laurel-canyon-music-scene/
"he is first and foremost known for revitalizing the Laurel Canyon music scene, the neighborhood that was home to Joni Mitchell"
 
I think he is the resident Laurel Canyon who she is talking about, he has a lot of influence there where he lived and set up a studio where he collaborated with many artists as a producer. I could see him throwing parties and organize some jam sessions with friends often.
Maybe Lana felt a little bit forsaken.
 
In NFR :
"You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you"
 
In the Bird World demo version of NFR :
"Heard you're back in the bar again
Hangin' out with your stupid friends
Playing with your guitar again
But I don't fucking care"
 
It reminds me of the white mustang music video where the guy, wearing long hair, was producing music or in a party instead of taking care of her, so she left. 
 
About that, it was said that the video were supposed to be made in first intention for Best American Record. He could be the musician she was talking about, writing his own record with her (she collaborated in his album Rare Birds) :
"He was seventies in spirit, nineties in his frame of mind"
The Laurel Canyon scene was at its peak in the 70s, with CSNY for example, who he collaborated with. 
And suddenly in NFR, Lana namedrops the Eagles, CSNY and Joni Mitchell.
 
"But you were so obsessed with writing
The next best American record
That there was nothing left by the time we got to bed
Baby, that's a shame
You were so obsessed with writing
The next best American record
You did it all for fame"
I know this could stand for Barrie, but I never saw him seeking fame.
 
I think their albums "Rare Birds" and NFR (what about Bird World ?) talk about each other. About the name "Rare Birds", Jonathan said that it stands for two lovers like two unique individuals who met and fell in love.
There are several songs in Rare Brids that make me feel are about Lana. 
 
Mulholland queen :
"You are perched up on the ridge of town"
"Oh baby, you're so blue and wise"
"With the babies breath in a crown-like shape"
"Through your laugh, I can breathe in a childlike air
With you dear, I'm in awe of a creature rare
With your tender smile and your pretty little dress
With your jazz in your heart, you don't need all the rest"
"From the curves of Bel Air to Topanga Creek
As we hear what the masters have sang us before
All the Billie and the Chet and the Pharaoh of yore"
"Under those big eucalyptus'
Where your grasses are green
Where you sway under the heavens
And your dominion is every...
Star"
This last sentence is almost repeated in the poem "La who I am to love you" :
"With towering eucalyptus trees that sway in my dominion"
Furthermore, for those who don't know, Lana loves Billie Holiday and Chet Baker.
 
Loving you :
"To wake up with you
Thats all I wanna do
Billie she was skipping all night
We didn’t even notice her"
"A match thats made beyond
The barricades of space and of time"
"Oh complex you
I know just what i will do
I’ll simply write another verse of you
A melody to keep you inside"
"Mostly talent
Most mystic
The rest it is magic"
Nota Bene : Lana is credited on this song (although we don't hear her).
Also, this song has a "summertime madness" edit version :
 
There's a Light :
"There is a garden
In the expanse of your mind
The harvest will speak volumes in due time"
"You are America and you are everyone
You are the miracle of love
With all your children at your feet
You are the ocean from above
So dear so deep"
 
Sunset Blvd :
"There's a cherry on top tonight
For men who look like jesus tonight
If you play your cards right
You can be the the son of god tonight
You were thin you were undersized for the spring
You entered your name just as "tight blue jeans"
In my phone I guess you do this kind of thing"
I def see her doing this
 
Living with myself (ft. Lana) :
"The lies, I start to believe them"
Lana in Bare feet on linoleum :
"and the lies, they
started to believe them"
 
Hard to get over :
"The way you make love
Makes me see my funeral
On my wedding day
The way you’re daddy’s girl
I’ve watched the reel
I still don’t believe it"
 
Otherwise, I think he is the John in How to disappear :
"John met me down on the boulevard
Cried on his shoulder 'cause life is hard"
 
For the timeline we know they dated in 2016, and maybe in 2017 (we have pics of Lana attending a Pink Floyd show on june 2017 in which Jonathan Wilson toured as a guitarist). 
 
Maybe all this is too far fetched, but I really thinks he had a big impact on her, and on her art.
This is my interpretation that I had in mind since a long time, and of course I could be totally wrong.

Blue Jeans
Off to the races
Brooklyn Baby
West Coast
Salvatore
Venice Bitch
Yosemite
A&W
Fingertips

It looks like a vintage 45 rpm vinyl cover. Love this effect

But I might be wrong and she have something completely new planned.
I hope…

I’m still going with “sirens álbum with high budget”

Secret project is just music related.
haven’t heard anything upbeat for the album 

bird world 

There’s nothing to reveal rn… Henry as a single doesn’t even make sense.
it’s like choosing change as LFL lead

Drew also worked with Angel Olsen and Mitski on their latest albums, which have strong country and folk elements. And, yes, his work with Father John Misty on his latest album is extremely impressive, and I'm a big fan of his arrangements and production on the Ocean Blvd tracks. 
 
Let The Light In is the type of laid-back lyrically straight-forward/simple and melodically rich track that might be an indication of Drew's work on The right person will stay, given that we aren't getting super wordy songs like Fingertips (or even Arcadia, a poem that turned into a song) this time around. 

Drew Erickson produced Father John Misty's new album and the melodies are beautiful. I would love a production like that.
 
 
 
 

born to die was written off for being too different at the time, at the point of mockery
paradise became her most famous work for a long time for it's quality and how it intersected w culture at the time. 
ultraviolence vindicated her 
honeymoon cemented herself as a true star albeit still an enigma 
lust for life was for the fans 
nfr was a resurgence of magic surrounding her music 
chemtrails was when she began to open up, or at least consider it. 
blue banisters had us all thinking about who Elizabeth was more, than Lana
Ocean Blvd felt like a more cerebral LFL, similar to how they both seem like they could be anthologies of themes/ bodies of work as such. candy necklace glimpsed us into more of an active, dynamic sound again. it was refined, precise and polished. 

she escaped the EDM(?) genre even if she kinda dabbled in remixes etc. ie. she didn't become pop to be pop. she paved her own way. 
LFL seemed aged at the time of it's release, but aged well overall in sound. despite fans being confused af about it then. 
chemtrails was beginning to be loved 2 albums into and after it's release. 
some are only beginning to understand that nfr was about the kind of damage sociopathy can do to a person, a country and the kind of invisible pain it can cause. 
blue banisters still gets a lot of flack bc fans are honestly bored of her overall sound direction or lack thereof, not willing to understand it's strength lies in it's very resilience and it's softness - counterpoint to the norms of bravado. strength of it literally having answers to much disdain from external forces that wish to've molded it's direction. strength vs. power 

I personally don't really care or prefer not to bother cus music listening can be a subjective experience where it can all feel valid and to an extent is, but the point is. 

if it's been so many times before that she's wanted to keep doing things her way, and also the fact that for most, it takes this long for some to understand, why the eager close-minded mindsets when you can just let things be, feel it out and think about the bigger picture about this whole thing of her artistry? 

everyone's talking about an invitation, but for a lot, it seems like a burden to go. it's kinda giving dysfunctional and bored. 
but who's problem is that really? 


I personally don't really like country. there's little to what I can relate to it, in terms of the world of it but. we all know she'll have something for us to explore into. 
everyone just seems uneasy, and the communication of the record's definitely not the best. but just relax ya know. 
you don't have to be burdened by it so much. 

New pic from the wedding from Hunter Barker’s Instagram

I'm not so sure about this 
 
https://lanadelrey.lnk.to/therightpersonwillstay

December 18th really would be the perfect day for a single 

I think it was touched on like once in the past a very long time ago
 
I mentioned it in a thread 2 months ago so this is so cool to know that it hasn't been a forgotten fact... though a little misleading because though she wasn't signed with Sony, she had a deal with them and had a lot of sessions under them (late 2010-mid 2011), I believe this was just for her to work more and bring new music into them to potentially sign her but they weren't feeling anything she was doing. Then Video Games blew up and Sony probably wanted to sign her then but she was like nah and went to Interscope
 
There was a guy at Sony who was in love with Lana (thought she was hot) and opened up closed studios just for her to record free stuff  queen shit...

sorry if this is the wrong topic thread, please move it mods... 
Larry Jackson speaks about getting Lana Del Rey on SNL & signing her to Interscope! 
 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7F3Xomh64jZibxbLuOhXuw?si=ca2f46102e8c4f75
 
Larry speaks about A&R and how amazing Lana Del Rey is! he helped sign her to Interscope and get her the SNL deal. calls her initially as "ah Lizzy" 
Larry and his pal John Ehmann were fired from SONY Music. John Ehmann said Larry should listen to a demo called "Diet Mtn Dew" by an artist named Lana, who Sony just passed on.  
Larry loved it! 
says he met Lana 2 months after he himself moved to Los Angeles. she came in looking like she had walked off the set of the BTD album cover! Lol. he was enthralled by her. 
Says the night before she signed w/Interscope, she got a deal from SONY UK for 2 times as much money, and she said No! and signed the next day with Interscope !!!! (our queen) 
Larrys says lana means so much to him and Interscope. He says at that point he was willing to help her do anything to help her artistic vision come to life (especially understanding that 2 times amount Sony offered was a big deal to a artist trying to make ends meet) 
He says she told him she wanted to be "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra" and he was sold! Ed/Ben/Lana signed officially and INterescope helped them make BTD with Emile Haynie and Justin Parker. 
BTD cost only $183,000. 
says he got an idea to write a letter to Jimmy Iovine to send to Lorne Michael of SNL about getting Lana on. 
Discussed how being an A&R is about believing in the vision when no one else does. Says the Brian Williams article was very hurtful to him and to lana (bc at the time Brian Williams was a respected journalist - which is funny now because he got fired and lost journalistic integrity for fabricating a story about jumping out of a plane in the Iraq war in 2003 _ LOL did "did anyone else die for you") 
 
Larry talks a bit more about how she and Chief Keef at such important musical figures who have shaped music and provided a breath of fresh air to a time of stagnant music. 
 
Larry says he felt extremely motivated after SNL and so did Lana. 
 

40 old and rare tweets/facebook posts 
 

Lana Del Rey is set to present Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at the the 8th annual Variety Hitmakers event taking place this Saturday, December 7th in Los Angeles, California.
Jack Antonoff has worked with Lana on several of her projects including Norman fucking Rockwell, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, as well as her upcoming album The Right Person Will Stay. Lana Del Rey was honoured with the "Artist of the Decade" award at the 5th annual Variety Hitmakers event in 2021.
 
Transcript:
 
 

Photo Gallery:
Red Carpet - Solo:
 
Red Carpet - with Jack Antonoff:
 
Inside:
 
Onstage:
 

Not me bringing back the big question :
Who is K ?