M.I.A.

SUPER CANNES

Rarely impressed by Rihanna since I got out of middle school. Nice Skrillex hair
 
But I listened to her new album snippets. I will be downloading "Phresh Out the Runway" Although I'm worried her messy ass Twitter personality has finally touched her music.

She's talking about her next album. There WILL be another album. I can live again.

She's talking about her next album. There WILL be another album. I can live again.

She's talking about her next album. There WILL be another album. I can live again.

Lana to the U.S.

Jump. Its so beautiful.

Omg what the fuck is this.
This girl is smoking weeeeeeeeeeeed and lana looks so fuckin high
I never saw this picture, wtf this is my life
 

On October 24th Lana Del Rey did an 'twitter correspondance' with ElleUK. The interview went up to a total of 10 questions containing little to no new information, thus taking the lead as the most pointless interview to have ever existed in the world of Lana Del Rey.
 
Question: Who is your favourite fashion icon?
Answer: “I love Lauren Bacall. I'm also inspired by Natasja Kinski and Natalie Wood.”
 
Question: Who are the top 5 most important people in your life? (no need to have an order)
Answer: “My dear friends Wendy and Jane, my boyfriend Barrie, and my managers Ben and Ed.”
 
Question: Do you have any weird pre-show rituals?
Answer: “Me and the band always say a prayer before we go on stage. Other than that anything goes.”
 
Question: What is your favourite old movie?
Answer: “The Big Sleep is my favourite.”
 
Question: What do you think is more important - lyrics or melody?
Answer: “The most important thing is tone and quality of a voice. Writing is my passion, but melodies are what you notice first.”
 
Question: Where do you feel most at home?
Answer: “I feel at home wherever I lay my head, I'm in a different place every day but I love being with my boyfriend.”
 
Question: How does it feel to have a Mulberry bag named after you?
Answer: “It's wonderful to be involved with a brand with so much class and integrity like Mulberry.”
 
Question: Will you be present at the 2012 EMAs?
Answer: “I dont know yet xx -----.“
 
Question: There’s a rumour that you’re retiring. Please say this isn’t true!
Answer: “I'm writing soundtracks for some beautiful movies and that's what i always wanted to do so it will all work out!”
 
Question: What is your favourite Mulberry Del Rey?
Answer: “My favourite Mulberry Del Rey bag is the ink blue sparkle crocodile print.”

Coke ? How you can hear coke
IT IS DOPE.

1m Lana Del Rey Lover ‏ @ PrettyCameras
Lana Rey, will you serve me lemonade? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Don't you wanna come to my motel honey? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Will you give me h&m posters for my whole bedroom? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Will you continue loving your fans? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Hello hello, c-can you hear me? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Do you ever consider being a mum in the future? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Do you ever consider being a mum
 
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How do you like your eggs in the morning? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Can you come to my house and have a cup of tea and chocolate cake and spaghetti? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Can you give me a free ticket to a show and also free train tickets? Thanks @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Come to manchester again manchester, for me? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Why did you record so many songs but didn't release them, even though they're perfect? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Can you go blonde like your Lizzy Grant days? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Why won't you release Lana Del Rey AKA Lizzy Grant? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Lana do you think of me when you sing Without You 'Pretty Cameras, Pretty Cameras, Pretty Cameras' @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Will you love me Lana til the end of time? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Will you still love me when I'm no longer young a beautiful? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Why are you so beautiful? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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Who is your fashion inspiration? @ elleuk # asklana
 
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What do you think about leaks? @ elleuk # asklana

Elle UK is hosting a twitter Q&A with Lana Del Rey. The Q&A will take place on Wed. at 2.45pm. But there’s no time like the present, so start suggesting your questions now!!
 

 
You MUST mention @elleuk and use the hashtag #asklana for you question to be considered.
Ex. Lana, what's your favorite sport? @elleuk #asklana
 
Be sure to post the questions you've asked here so we can all see!
 
 
The Questions I've asked thus far:
 
 
 

Hipstaaaaaa sista

I've been asked to talk about this experience by several people, and I'm deliriously tired from having just gotten home, but I'll try, although other people on the forum actually have, like, photographic evidence.
 
I made it into the first showing, and I was one of the last people. She was playing "Ride", which seemed like standard procedure for it's premiere, so I wasn't paying much attention. And then a new song starts and I hear the words "crystal meth", so I'm flailing and demanding how this can be happening. It was "American", and it's my understanding that before I arrived they played a lot more of the songs. I did record it, but you can clearly hear me talking at parts where I thought I was being quiet...I'll upload it anyway, if it won't get snatched off YouTube. Plus, I don't want to be ridiculed by desperate YouTube stans Distinct lyric: "Drive fast, I can almost taste it now."
 
So after "American", they introduced Lana Del Rey. She got onstage and laughed, you know the laugh. She said how grateful she was that she had all these fans who'd show up to an event that wasn't even a concert, and basically alluded to how the fans make it so much better in light of the backlash she's experienced. We all had a moment.
 
She then introduced the video with Anthony Mandler. She started making her way to the very back--where she sat watching it--but in the process was swarmed. Not even gonna lie, I made my way right into that cluster. She's so much more delicate than I ever imagined. Just how tiny her body is and how doll-like her face is. Mostly I kinda went "BLAGH LANA" and side-hugged her and caressed her hair. She's beyond stunning in person, even in jeans. Especially in jeans.
 
I'll tell you now so you don't get excited that all my attempts to get some personal Lana on Chance time were pretty much dashed--I asked for a signature twice and she only said that she couldn't, which was understandable because she was walking but DAMN. I'm such a dork, I just kinda reached out and touched her arm as she was walking by and she looked back at me. That's not the extent of our conversing, but I don't have any signatures or pictures.
 
The video. THE VIDEO. It's nearly indescribable, but I'll try. The whole time she's with a lot of skeezy men--like, three or four on different occasions. All older, rugged, ugly, and bikers. I really need you guys to see it because it's so good. Of course I have some bias, having seen it projected in a theater, but cinematically I think it's her best. NO INSTAGRAM FILTERS ON THIS ONE, THANK GOD. In short, she's partying in the desert with some bikers, straddling several dudes in the sand and pointing guns at them, indeed swinging on this mysterious tire swing, hanging out at a gas station, playing pinball with a biker sort of spooning her, getting into a car like a prostitute. It's Americana, it's trash, it's beautiful. It's Lana. What can I say? It's exquisite. She's on all fours for the ending monologue--by memory, I really loved that part, and also one part in the desert where she's wearing an Indian headdress. Bits of the video keep rushing back to me. The part where she is holding the flag, like in the promo photo, is so beautiful. I need to watch it again. There's so much to love about this video, I wish I could eloquently describe it all. It'll be all of ours to enjoy soon enough, but if you can--get that shit HD projected somewhere I cried. I cried my fucking eyes out.
 
Afterwards came the Q&A. I'll try to pick out the meaningful stuff. Someone asked what inspired the song "Ride", and she said that she was a lot more excited at the beginning of her career than she she was in the middle or even now--a clear reference to her backlash and trying to deal with fame, if you ask me. She said that's what she loved and preferred in her downtime--"riding motorcycles...and men :haha: "
 
She's touring early next year, although she expressed her hatred for the idea and said she'd rather take us all to hang out on the boardwalk on Sunday. GODDAMN SHE IS SO CUTE.
 
I can finally answer the question "what would you say if you met Lana?" Anthony Mandler chose me, seeing my desperation clear across the room, and I said, "Can you talk about why you re-recorded 'Yayo'...and some other songs from the album?" There was a general "ooh" of agreement, I noticed, but NO--I didn't ask about Jimmy Gnecco. NO--I didn't ask about unreleased material. Still, it wasn't THE shittiest question, right? Anyway, she said she liked the song because she considers it something of a jazz standard and it can go all in one take, but she didn't like how it turned out originally. So, yeah, stans...we're all WRONG in loving that song :creepy: And then I thanked her very much and sat down, although I was hoping she'd talk about an emotional connection to the song and give me some discreet Lanalysis material, not gonna lie. Please be happy with me, forum.
 
Someone asked if she had any plans for "Never Let Me Go" and she said, "It'll probably live on YouTube, like all the other leaked material!"
 
Someone asked if she is dating anyone, and she said yes.
 
She said she was misinterpreted when asked about quitting music and the Vogue Australia interview. She said she meant doing music for films, not acting in them. When pressed, she said that she thought the Paradise Edition was much better than Born to Die and was basically really happy with it. I'm hoping that means she's optimistic, not that she's said what she had to say.
 
Someone asked if she had any advice for budding singers, and she basically said that your expectations will never live up to your imagination. I thought that was kinda sad.
 
She said she is best at being a passenger on a motorcycle
 
After that, I went and waited in an alleyway to meet her. Other folks saw the video multiple times (damn I wish, I could've heard some more Paradise tracks) and spent their time wisely. Me, I waited and waited for her for hours. I met some pretty cool people, but at the end of the day her management wouldn't allow her to do a meet-and-greet, according to the staff of the theater. (CURSE YOU, BEN MAWSON!) That said, I waited until the very end. Me, my driver, and our three new friends were the last five people waiting in front of the theater in case she came back, not exaggerating. But she didn't. I'm pretty bummed about that, but not as much as I anticipated...like, I touched her, and she recognized my stan worship for "Yayo", and I saw the most amazing video ever on a giant screen, and I have the monologue printed out all pretty and I'll for sure frame it.
 
It was a great night. I can't wait for you guys to see the video. I don't think anyone will be disappointed. I truly don't.

Omg what the fuck is this.
This girl is smoking weeeeeeeeeeeed and lana looks so fuckin high
I never saw this picture, wtf this is my life
 

I am sure she is clean.
And at people saying shes high all the time

10
 

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Also "Nabokov Whitman" on a finger. Only vaguely remember the "die young" one...if so, EEK

The EP is everything. Just 4 songs, but these 4 songs are so perfect.

One of the best female rappers out there. I love her and she texted me on tumblr back. Very happy about that.
 


 
She released an EP called "1991" and a mixtape called "Fantasea" this year.
Her debut album will drop next year.

These titles are pretty bad and i’m disappointed that the longer titles were shortened. Ride, Cola, and Gods & Monsters are eXXXplicit, dawg. So many people are going to be SO pissed with whatever form Yayo takes on in this release. SO PISSED. Why would she even rerecord this song for this release? Is she insane? Does this mean that AKA is definitely remaining in oblivion? She already, so early in her public career, reminds me of one legendary music group (who i shall not name) who is notorious for continually making the wrong decisions and endlessly frustrating their fans.
 
Two discs, obviously. Don’t see how it couldn’t be. It’s nice that it’s nine tracks, but at the same time the nature of this release strikes me as kind of stupid. Why not add a few more and call it a new album? It almost seems as if she’s trying to box herself into the mold that the media and public know her by from her recent rise to fame.
 
The running times on tracks 1-15 are ever so slightly different (1 to 2 second differences on some) which, i think, either means: a) they’ve been inputed incorrectly by iTunes or they're only listing the actual running time of the music sans any silence, b) the space in between tracks was tinkered with a little for this release, or c) they could be longer/shorter fades (and if so that might very well mean that they even did additional things/changes to the recordings). Any word on the first fifteen tracks? They should be exactly the same masters as BTD, right?
 
That Burning Desire clip is doing nothing for me. That melody is so generic Maybe it’ll be a grower though. Hope so. It’s weird, i almost feel as if i’m listening to a drone. It sounds so brickwalled. Oh well, it’s top 40 music, what am i expecting.
 
I’m not sure if the the album cover is somehow good or if it’s atrocious. I'm very confused about this. I guess it would be a nice touch if it was a cardboard slipcase and the gold was embossed. It kind of seems like a caricature though, a self-parody. At least the color correction is not heinous like in those Nicole Nodland Summertime Sadness promo shots. Though the airbrushing of her skin makes me want to go off the grid and live a hermetic life atop a very far away mountain.
 
At any rate, i'm still very excited for this release.

I completely agree! Blue Velvet has made me realize how much I miss some songs from BTD, I haven't payed the album much attention in a while since there are so many good demos/unreleased songs of Lana's. I really look forward to hearing the rerelease now though.

I'm sure this will leak someday. I mean its Lana . Everything leaks

I'm sure this will leak someday. I mean its Lana . Everything leaks