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There are also many excellent articles on Jim Baker, Father Yod and the Family available online. While I will be linking some of them here as references, I will mostly be focusing on the Family and their own personal interpretations of what was going on during the time they were active as I believe this is where Lana gathered most of her inspiration from. There are a lot of negative articles written about what actually was going on behind closed doors at the Family homes and while I'm sure some may be accurate, and will lend support to some theories, the writers of the articles were not a part of the Family and did not experience first hand what went on. While most former Family members do have criticism toward Jim Baker, the man, they speak very highly of Father Yod as their Earthly Spiritual Father, enough so that I don't doubt they would embellish. I recommend reading all evidence and articles with a grain of salt as all of it is personal anecdotes and there is no solid facts to back up any claims made.
I encourage every member of Lana Boards to dig in and discover any other pieces of evidence you may find regarding this topic. I will add to this post as new evidence is found with credit to the finder!
 
Here is the original post that I made in the Ultraviolence lyrics thread so please have a look at that for an idea of what started all of this:
 
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4684-ultraviolence/?p=198053
 
So hopefully now you have an idea of the Family, we'll jump into the evidence we have. Some of it will be stuff that I and other users have already posted on the UV thread, some will be new. Please note, this section will be updated as more info is discovered.
 
The Source Family and their Influence on Ultraviolence
 
General Evidence
 
 
 
Lyrical Evidence
While I believe some songs on UV are inspired by the Source Family, I don't think that all songs were inspired by them. So you won't see Old Money on this list for example, as it is clearly written for the Great Gatsby, inspired by the character of Daisy and written as an epilogue to Lana's Young and Beautiful.
 
I also believe Lana is inspired from many different things and she weaves them into her own story, either by becoming who she is writing about or imagining herself in a similar situation. She has said before that is in the habit of writing about several things in a song and tying them all together. For example, Video Games being about two different men, etc. So while some lyrics fit the Source theory, others will not as they are probably influenced either by her life or something else.
 
Cruel World
 
 
 
Ultraviolence
 
 
 
Shades of Cool
 
 
 
 
Brooklyn Baby
 
 
 
Aesthetic Evidence
This section is about the pictures used for Ultraviolence vs pictures from The Source Family Archives as well as the soundscape Dan Auerbach and Lana came up with. Lana had stated that her new take on the UV album was "Unlistenable" with many different sounds, tempo changes, etc. Some of the Ya Ho Wha recordings sound very similar to how Lana re-did UV with the layered sounds, experimental vocals and tempo changes.
 
Sound
 
 
 
Visuals
 
 
 
As I stated above I will continue updating this post with more evidence as I find it. Please feel free to post any similarities you might find and I will happily add it with credit to you!
 
Congratulations, your theory has been proved correct! Well, something at least a little bit   
 
 
 
 
 

And then there’s Donoghue (at the Lakers game)…

Thank you Lana for confirming it’s “signing off” not “sounding off”. Now can somebody change Genius lyrics.

I don't know if it's been pointed out before, but she changed her bio to include the Variety review of Ocean Blvd.

The hoops the cigarette the nails the long dark hair the summer dress…. I’m not gonna say it……….… 

One of my biggest reasons for not buying Lana’s merch (aside from price) is that many designs seem to not use official fonts or logos, and use photos from different eras for different albums. For example, the LDR eyes hoodie that says Blue Banisters under it. Nothing on that looks like something you’d relate to the music.
Theres just a rlly big disconnect between ldrvillage and Lana’s music. I wouldn’t mind t shirts with just a photo of the album or Lana on them, like the Peyote one and Paradise one from years ago. As long as it is actually cohesive 

Me impatiently waiting on a song I’ve already heard 1,000,000 times 
 

I did some testing with the Soundcloud content protection system. Uploading released Lana songs (I tried Kintsugi and Cherry Blossom) always shows this generic and unspecific copyright message:
 
may contain copyrighted content. As a result, your track has been removed from your profile for the time being.
 
SYTH also now shows this generic copyright message, even though 20 days ago it showed the following:
 
might contain or be a copy of "pov: you thinking of him / her" by AA Records, which is owned by AA Records in certain territories.
 
Basically SYTH now behaves similar to other Lana songs and this wasn't the case 20 days ago.

I wonder if this video she shared on her stories on Friday night/Saturday morning was from after the shoot since she had her makeup professionally done! x
 

Lana Del Rey Wanted to Sing With Joan Baez. But First, She’d Have to Find Her.
The musicians on the audition that changed them both — and the “secret to real success.”

view photoshoot here
 
Joan Baez: In 2019, Lana, whom I’d heard about from my granddaughter, Jasmine, invited me to sing with her in Berkeley. I said, “Why? Your audience could be my great-grandchildren.” And she said, “They don’t deserve you.”
Lana and I are sort of opposites. When I was starting out, I wouldn’t let anyone else onstage. I had two microphones — one for me, one for my guitar — and I stood barefoot, singing sad folk songs. I didn’t even write for the first 10 years, and she’s a songwriter.
I stopped singing three years ago; it was time to move on. After 60 years as a musician, I started painting. An artist friend said I need to loosen up and make mistakes so, if a painting isn’t working out, I dunk it twice in the swimming pool to see if it becomes something interesting. A hose will also do.
If people want to learn from me, I tell them to look beyond the music to my engagement with human and civil rights. My voice was what it was, but the real gift was using it. A documentary has just been made about me [“Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” 2023]. There’s footage of me marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Grenada, Miss., in 1966. At another point in the film, I mention in a letter to my parents that I want to save the world. Lana doesn’t make such grand political statements — at Berkeley, she brought me out to do it for her. And yet, amid the colorful chaos and glitter of her show, she was at one point, I believe, barefoot.
 
Lana Del Rey: I was having a show at Berkeley three years ago and wanted Joan to sing “Diamonds & Rust” (1975) with me. She told me she lived an hour south of San Francisco, and that if I could not only find her but also sing the song’s high harmonies on the spot, she’d do it. I was given a vague map to get to a house distinguishable only by its color and the chickens running in the yard. At one point during my audition, she stopped me with a steely look to let me know I didn’t get it right. By the end, she said, “OK, that’s good. I’ll sing with you.”
Midway through the performance, I said to the audience, “I have someone coming onstage who is the most generous-of-spirit singer I know, and the most important female singer of the ’60s and ’70s, and we’re gonna do ‘Diamonds & Rust’ together.” After the show, we went to an Afro-Caribbean two-step club, and she told me not to stop dancing until she did. That’s what my song “Dance Till We Die” (2021) is about. 
I think the secret to real success is to make sure you’re always emotionally intact. I learned that from Joan. I recently said to her, “I just want you to know that I’m keenly aware that, in this lifetime or any other, I have no right to be standing shoulder to shoulder with you.” And she replied, “Oh, shut up.” 
 

god if you're near me send me three white butterflieeeees 

Does anyone know if the UV merch drop is available somewhere? T.T I just found out about it

This is one of her best melodies, I want it out 

"In a culture of self-help, she leans into self-destruction." 

I hear there are ongoing negotiations to bring her to Colombia

if youre petty enough just wait until it releases and reply back to them again 
 

No, it's been sold out for months unfortunately 
 
LDR Village said at one point there might be a restock but I feel like its not gonna happen 

just now seeing this thread, so i’m kind of late, but i snatched one of the shirts !! it’s so cute, so glad i got it. it was pricey in my opinion, and i searched for a good 30 minutes trying to find a discount code but had no luck. anyways, overall happy with my purchase !
 

 

"Goddamn man-child, you fucked me so good that I almost said I love you" 
 
No one will ever be able to create a best opening line for an album

I have a long drive today with my fiancé so you know what that means: I’m going to make him listen to Ocean Blvd 

anyone else get oh say can you see vibes from the paris texas bridge 

Lana wasn’t kidding when she said she’s finally excited for her career for the first time in 10 years  

Polydor/Interscope/TapMgmt when they see another Lanaboards gay piecing the clues and ruining the surprise