box of broken laces

Hope Happiness and Bartender just fall flat to me. There’s so much that could’ve been done with the production. There’s nothing “weird” about them at all like she described imo, they should define NFR but to me they just kinda fade into the rest of the project.

completely agree. imo hope and HIAB have a different sound than the rest of nfr. it's like a surfy ballad album but those two songs have a more raw, piano ballad sound if that makes sense 

legitimately most of her recent songs. majority of them are fantastic but they don’t feel clean to me, they feel muffled or messy in terms of production/structure. i just feel like they need to be refined by a lot. 

i agree that, for the most part, her songs are the way they are meant to be, but i feel like there's a few exceptions... or, well, maybe more than a few
 
i feel like the final version of lolita should've just been the 4th demo, it's the perfect mix between the first demo and the album version, keeping the bass guitar and the james bond feel of the first demo, and including the strings of the final version, or, alternatively, it could've been more sly and subdued, like the second demo, which is the version i like the most
 
i do not like the paradise version of yayo, i just find it to be so much inferior to the original version on AKA, which is my #1 favorite lana del rey song, i would've just preferred she never re-recorded it, but if i had to change anything about it to improve it, i would change the vocal delivery, and get rid of all of that extra, unnecessary reverb
 
i would change the sound and execution of the other woman, the only song off of ultraviolence i don't like, i just... don't like it, but i can most certainly hear the potential, and it's a song that's very her
 
i would just get rid of don't let me be misunderstood, i feel like swan song would've been a great closer, although i do like the ending-credits feel that don't let me be misunderstood as a closer has, i haven't listened to it very much, but when i have, i feel bothered by the production, maybe the amount of reverb
 
summer bummer should have more of a hard, raw beat like the so good demo has
 
i agree that coachella - woodstock in my mood would've been better with a more stripped-back, vulnerable production, like with mostly piano, but i still like it for what it is
 
beautiful people, beautiful problems should've retained the stripped-back, raw sound of the first demo, it doesn't have to be as depressing as the original demo, but i sort of don't like the new lyrics in the final version, and... i would not include stevie nicks, nothing against her AT ALL, but i don't think she works on that song
 
change should've had better production, recording and including a song on an album you recorded like a week before the release of said album just isn't really a good idea
 
TNBAR shouldn't have been changed
 
if you lie down with me probably should've just retained whatever sound it had during the ultraviolence era, depending on how complete it was... i didn't like it when blue banisters first came out, and i listened to it the other day, and... it's worse than i thought it was...
 
beautiful should've just been scrapped
 
wildflower wildfire should've used a real piano instead of the MIDI piano
 
thunder, nectar of the gods, living legend, and cherry blossom all needed to be COMPLETELY re-recorded and re-worked
 
judah smith interlude should've been replaced with zodiac
 
kintsugi should've been less muffled
 
grandfather... needed a complete lyrical re-work, also, it just doesn't honestly feel like a lana del rey song

Zodiac LQ by leaking Zodiac HQ 

i just wish kintsugi and some of OB sounded less muffled

Tough was nice, but I DO NOT WANT Lasso to have that sound.

Ugh need some of that NYC-ness for LDR10

about to post it! she looks so 2000s 

The queen of New York City is back and looking STUNNING! 

i just LOVE nyc lana 

watch her drop lasso on a random tuesday afternoon, say absolutely nothing about it, and just wait for us to notice 

From this day on Hollywood Blvd, she looks to be wearing the same dress from the Don’t Call Me Angel video (minus the bralette she wore underneath then) -
 

For her posting the last photo on insta of her with her friends on the 4th with the song playing = promo

Lana..... I know what you meant when you said Henry come on.... we've been waiting for like 6 months everyday we grab our patent leather cowboy hats and belts and boots and giddy up to lanaboards dot com for news that will never come.....Tropico....Melancholia......Zodiac....all our birds of paradise........we are waiting with you

Hate to say it, but I've done worse (my full-time job is as a transcriptionist and the things I've heard/had to type... tragic) x

I’m sorry you had to type out the Gerald lyrics 

[Lana Del Rey]
You've already won me over, but I'll never confess
'Cause it's just much more fun to mess with your head
You've already won me over, and I'll love you to death
But I'm gonna keep lyin' while I'm in your bed
 
[G-Eazy]
You think you got me, but the problem is
I'm already hip, I see the play, I just been watchin' this
Ha, I see the way you call me every day, it's obvious
Plus it's 2am, you know what time it is
You just wanna have me come and chase your bullshit confidence
Shower you with flowers, daily compliments
Could do that
Be careful if you fall in love, then it's gon' be a consequence
We keep going, there's no turnin' back, it ain't no stopping us
Had you at "I'm Gerald, what's your name?"
Burnin' in a flame, a little flame you turn into a game
& since we started fuckin', it's never been the same
The idea of stoppin' now can't even entertain
You drivin' me insane, the craziest I met
Drinkin' champagne, we started fuckin' on a jet
I took you to the Malahide and we start to sweat
I got you in the back, but you still playin' hard to get
 
[Lana Del Rey & G-Eazy]
You've already won me over (yeah, ay you drippin' wet) but I'll never confess (nah, man)
'Cause it's just much more fun to (is that right?) mess with your head (uh)
You've already won me over (I know) and I'll love you to death
But I'm gonna keep lyin' (yeah) while I'm in your bed (uh)
 
[G-Eazy]
Yeah, won you over, this is lightwork
Know that I been drinkin', so come over in a tight skirt
If we took a chance, I'm thinkin' maybe this could might work
You're sleepin' over almost every night, wake up in my shirt
Oh fuck the heavy shit, we livin' in this moment
When I beat it up, I treat the pussy like I own it
Six missed calls, but ain't trippin', where ya phone went?
& thinking 'bout that now, nothing matters, got you so wet
Light a couple candles in the room and pop some Moët
Every single night I'm tryna go, but we ain't go yet
Finish as she clenches like she ain't tryna go yet
Yeah, I mean you crazy and you know that
You crazier than me, keep on playin' mind games
I ain't got time for that shit, it give me migraines
Only the realness is what's runnin' through my veins
& every time I'm in that, she always screamin' my name
 
[Lana Del Rey]
You've already won me over (yeah) but I'll never confess
'Cause it's just much more fun to mess with your head
You've already won me over, and I'll love you to death
But I'm gonna keep lyin' while I'm in your bed 
 
Love me
Love me not
Love me
Love me not
Mm, mm
Mm, mhm
Mm, mm
Mm, mhm

Seems like Sveta shot these as well:
 
2048X2048:

 
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Our worst nightmare for album cover…

 
 

Yes you’re the only one 

i can see why she didn't release this, only because of how people treat lana, they would think she's "romanticizing the killings" lmao. but it's very interesting that she wrote about this, and i think it deserved better than getting scrapped.

It's his bong

I don’t know why this is hitting me so hard. I mean, obviously the subject matter is EXTREMELY dark — but something about it is just really impacting me
 
It’s so beautifully written and the different vocal styles throughout the track make it seem so fresh and interesting. Idk if it’s just me, but at certain points it somehow reminds me sonically of Thunder?! I need to relisten to find the exact points
 
But, wow. It’s just beautiful. The tribute to the women at the end is heartbreaking. “The prostitute pickup / and the pantyhose thriller” is sticking with me. I can’t get enough of this song
 
As much as I would’ve loved it to have been released, I can’t imagine the moronic backlash she would have faced for “glamorising” abuse/prostitution/murder, even though nothing in this song glamourises any of that. Also, unpopular opinion but… I don’t think it would have fit on OB in the sense of the storyline. Yes it’s thematically similar in that it deals with death, legacies, abuse, general darkness etc, and it definitely would have fit sonically and lyrically, BUT..
 
it’s not solely autobiographical in the way that the rest of the album is, and I’m not sure how it would have fit into the overarching ‘storyline’. But I obviously wish it had been included, because it’s amazing. Not at the expense of Candy Necklace though. But they’d have been a nice A & B side release
 
Wow that was unnecessarily long.. but I just love Zodiac. (Which is a much better name than Purify imo, it’s less in your face and self explanatory)
 
And I agree with everyone else about Lana most likely feeling some sort of personal connection. So many people clowned on her for the response to the Candy Necklace video backlash, when she said she could’ve ended up in a similar position, but anyone smart knows what she meant. Considering the GK was active whilst she was living in nyc, a young woman in a somewhat transient and chaotic/unstable lifestyle.. I get what she means.  
 
 

I immediately got Get Free vibes from Zodiac. Sucks when she keeps these career-defining songs in the vault (I Talk to Jesus is another song that comes to mind for me).