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I feel like im gonna regret this

i know we say 'something shifted' and 'she remembered who she was and the game changed' but (and i say this with sincerity) this was THEE biggest cultural shift and she truly DID remember who she was and the game changed
 
like to convey that amount of melancholy, slvttiness and for lack of a better word, etherial-ism is beyond the realms of what the girls are doing, even today and all the girls are trying to replicate ha efforts now
 
like she truly struck gold and kept on digging with this record and it is still thee best piece of work ever recorded. thank you, dan auerbach
 
and the visuals my GAWDDD like talk about timeless beauty. nicholas krug we love you
 
COME ON DAHN TO FLARIDARRRR
I GAWT SUMIN FOR YERRRR

Even 10 years later this album is STILL so ahead. No one had ever done something like this before and no one has since!!!! I love how Embach said the album is like an island, it really is. I think I could write about it for hours, it’s such a cohesive and incredible body of work. Been my fav album for a decade and I genuinely don’t think anything will ever come close to topping it. Start to finish it is just mindblowing- every single fucking time

also the cuntiest photoshoots of her entire career
 
   

UV's 10th anniversary is more important to me than BTD's 10th anniversary. UV was the true game-changer. While BTD was an introduction, UV was the one which literally changed the world. My top 3! This album is probably her most unique album ever, it's like an island its own. Every track means the world to me. It's going to be 10 years since her first no.1 album in the US as well! Ultraviolence was the album which paved way for the "sad grunge Tumblr" community with AM, Pure Heroine and The NBHD's I Love You. When I became a full-time fan, Ultraviolence was definitely an album that was really difficult for me to get into but once you get into it you can't escape it because it's a fucking mesmerizing masterpiece! It brought psychedelic rock and blues rock back to life in an era where EDM and maximalistic pop beats dominated the charts then. What I love the most about this album is how jazz music was blended with rock music.
 
Every track is so cinematic, the lyrics tell its own story. West Coast on repeat forever, my favorite song from the album. Everything about this song is so perfect, the lyrics, the production. It's like a whole new dimension. Is This Happiness and Flipside are my another favorites, they're really underrated outside the fandom but they're amazing, the storytelling and the production. It's so addictive to listen to these songs. I NEED THESE SONGS ON SPOTIFY!!! Brooklyn Baby, Shades Of Cool, the title track, Black Beauty...another hits, everything about these are so incredible - these songs also have one of her best vocal performances ever. Cruel World, one of the best intros ever, it was life changing for me when this song started hitting differently. Pretty When You Cry, Old Money, Money Power Glory, Sad Girl, FMWUTT, The Other Woman, Florida Kilos, Guns & Roses (a very underrated song!) - look at those songs, everything about these are perfect as well, from the story to the production. I loved the lyrics in it because it simply described her feelings and emotions how she went through, that's why many people can relate to this album. The production was genius - Lana, Dan Auerbach, Dan Heath, Blake and Rick Nowels were truly a dream team, everything they composed was so unique and new, making timeless songs for eternity. The perfect blend of jazz and rock, the sweet psychedelia, the amazing soaring guitar solos, heartwrenching orchestras, the melancholic drums, every pattern of it was just so spectacular that no one, NO ONE in this world could recreate it. It's like a magic, a lightning in the bottle that can be never recreated again.
 
This album and era made also Neil Krug famous again, can we talk about his photography and art for this era as well? These photographs were truly gorgeous, captured the era's colors and aesthetics perfectly, the album cover - as simple as it looks - it captured the album's complex mood perfectly and it was truly a game-changer for the people in Tumblr. One of her best album covers! And the music videos, these music videos were so stunning, I loved the cinematography so much, Lana was truly beautiful in those videos. Shades Of Cool was phenomenal because it felt like a movie I could watch forever and ever. 
 
It was a hit album and did great in charts and sales then but since the pandemic years it kind of had a new life when Brooklyn Baby, West Coast and The Other Woman went viral in TikTok. While the audiences there can be really annoying, I'm really glad that Ultraviolence became very popular outside the fandom again because I think with this album people finally understood Lana's vision and her range in music. I'll never shut up about this, what a fucking brilliant album, ahead of its time! Happy 10th Anniversary, dear Ultraviolence, I love you forever, love you forever!

she absolutely is nawt gonna do an anniversary edition with outtakes for UV if she didn’t for BTD, but the least she could do is a worldwide release of flipside + is this happiness, she could even add syth if she was feeling crazy! 

The way she said ‘After Born To Die, Del Rey claimed she had "already said everything she wanted to say" in 2012’ 
 
9 albums later. …The things this women says

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

I'm just keeping the standard CD in my online shopping cart
 

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

Praying for an album leak, my surgery got scheduled for this Friday and I REFUSE to have my first listen of AOTY drugged up on a hospital bed 

I'm just keeping the standard CD in my online shopping cart
 

we NEED all the UV outtakes and demos. If she isn’t going to drop a reissue deluxe 10th anniv edition with B sides and demos, it’s only right that us die hard UV Stans get the [LEAK]s needed in order to do it ourselves 

our thigh-neymooooon

genuinely the best album of all time. changed the music game forever and birthed a generation of sad grungey girlies 
 
cannot believe it'll be 10 years old this month. i remember delay release day like it was yesterday 
 
i really wish lana would do something for it as this album means so much to me. i have the album name tatted on my thigh with hydrangeas on my other thigh 
 

 
excuse the photo i’m at work and it’s the only one i could find right now 

Hearing West Coast for the first time gave me an aesthetic shock. And the album didn't dissapoint.
 
 
Such a classic. 

I'm just keeping the standard CD in my online shopping cart
 

I'm just keeping the standard CD in my online shopping cart
 

this album formed me. i pray we get an anniversary something 

I'm just keeping the standard CD in my online shopping cart
 

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on

I mean.... H.. Henry....
come on