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I'm checking out her youtube channel, there are so many videos... I wanna post the music videos here so they'll be easier to find, and then I saw she has "a day in my life" type of videos too. She seems to chill and nice. 
"Day in my life" vlogs
 
 
Music videos
Typical of Me EP
 
Everything I know about Love
Bewitched
 
 

I like it! very pretty lyrics

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How does he know that though o.O

Where are you thinking of posting this? I think it's a very interesting read and much needed as a lot of listeners may not know her origins outside of what hipster runoff wrote in the early days.

Well said. To add to this, every producer she has worked with has commented on her independence in the pre-production writing process. It's also made quite apparent by the perpetually-present lyrical motifs and themes in her work. The misconception that her LDR persona was her first experimentation with "dark" and "cinematic" themes has been particularly stigmatizing in this regard.

Right, @@ilovetati - I know we're on the same page. The name is important not only because of the idea of who came up with it, but there is also a perception (not wrong, of course) that there are times when the music industry has created a 'character' (or 'group') and then auditioned people to fill that role. The idea that a 'team of managers and lawyers' came up with the name LDR puts the idea in a lot of people's minds that there was this 'character' of Lana Del Rey created, and Lizzy just happened to be the prettiest girl who turned up to try out for it. There is definitely a sexist idea behind this as well - you would be amazed (or maybe not) at how many people just don't believe a woman who sings can possibly be writing her own songs - that there must be a man standing behind her in the shadows, pulling the strings and writing the words. 
 
Whatever confusion has deliberately or accidentally been created by Lana's own 'mystery building' over the years, one thing that anybody can prove by going back through all of her recordings (back to 'Sirens') is that she's the one behind her lyrics and vocal lines, and her voice is what it is. The problem of artistic 'persona' is a much bigger one, and I wish there wasn't so much confusion around it. Sure, Robert Zimmerman was taking on a persona by calling himself 'Bob Dylan', and Declan McManus was taking one on by changing his name to 'Elvis Costello', but 'Tori Amos' and 'John Lennon' are/were also artistic personas, as well as real people. That's what Lana means when she says there's no difference between 'Lana' and 'Lizzy'.

This is very good, but I think that one important line is based on a misreading (that many others have also misread), not helped by the awkward way that Lizzy put it.
 
The statement in the interview is:
 
It's usually read as the lawyers and managers putting their heads together and coming up with the name 'Lana Del Rey', as though they were coming up with the name 'Coca Cola'. What she clearly meant (in my opinion) was that everybody she was dealing with thought her real name was not 'showbiz' enough (or 'Hollywood Sadcore' enough, or whatever), and she moved through all the names we know about - May Jailer, ...  - until she came up with 'Lana Del Rey'. It doesn't make sense that a bunch of people were needed to come up with the name, as such, and it's a major point, because for some reason, Americans seem to have a talismanic belief in the power of names - that the person who named a product deserves most of the credit for its success. 
 
This is one of the two most damaging myths about Lana's origins - the other is that Rob 'bought her career', as though the worldwide music industry is a high school beauty pageant, that can be bought off by one rich father, instead of an international, multi billion dollar collection of corporations, where Rob's wealth would be laughed at.

Don't get me wrong, I love all the channels making "Ultraviolence" versions of other Lana songs, and many of them I listen to regularly, but it's like we all forgot Ultraviolence has some songs that aren't rock-based at all and also has other sounds that branch out a lot more. There is so much focus on making a song sound like rock and calling it an Ultraviolence Version, but no one is noticing the soft jazz, the vintage sounds, the piano and the strings as the part that is distinctly Lana. In fact, the album sounding too "classic rock" is exactly what Dan Auerbach said was wrong with the original record before he produced it.
I absolutely get that rock is probably easier for amateur musicians to do on their computers, but yeah, I still kinda see it as making Ultraviolence more shallow than it is. It's such a complex album, I'm always searching for more and never being satisfied!

Her life is her poetry, her love making is her legacy...

This discussion is so fucking annoying honestly… why are we bothered that someone is not “poor enough” for our understanding? Why do you feel that there is only one version of poverty and struggle? Black-and-white mentality is getting proper ridiculous at this point.

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Well, the coldest place in the Atlantic USA, a population of 2000 and the analysis of the median income suffices, for me, to make a soft reading of the economic lifestyle of this town when there was previous comments about the area as well. Those ski towns are usually pretty rundown old mountain towns. There's just mom and pop shops, no substantial development. Its more similar to now days what they refer to as food deserts, where the only food is one supermarket within a 50 mile radius. 

You used examples from my post to make the very strange claim that people sharing their personal stories are trying to essentially out-poor each other and then proceeded discredit them. To even assume that anyone was sharing those things because they felt offended and defensive is weird. I am a nobody from Missouri. Lana's post didn't have me frantic trying to prove myself to LB members. Go outside. 

I think you are talking about indentured servitude scenarios in third world countries and exaggerating that the word poor only applies to the most extreme scenarios. The word I think that is better that you are looking for is poverty or poverty stricken. The lower class is considered overall poor. The lower class can afford a plane ticket. If you have 3 kids and a middle class job you are generally poor or on the edge of middle class. 
 
Poverty is a condition or state that describes a lack of financial means to meet one's basic needs, like food, shelter, energy, water or clothes, or attain a quality of life beyond basic needs. There are four kinds of poverty typically discussed: absolute, relative, situational, and generational.

So Honeymouns said Pearl Watch Me, Ring A Bell & Pyscho Lifeguard are  real Ocean Blvd outtakes. I don't know why but I always thought they weren't real songs & just titles or alt titles  Maybe I'm having a dumb moment right now or I'm late to the party 

So it's probably:
Ocean Blvd
Pearl
Watch Me on
Ring a Bell
Psycho
Lifeguard

Seahorse unicorn coral reef bong, his name is Blake… (Lifeguard) 💅

i wish Psycho Lifeguard is real song title. it sounds too good to not exist

Is there a receipt you could provide from Honeymouns?

the piano is very cinematic and the outro id absolutely gorge

I'm still in denial that this exists  A photographer wouldn't accidentally release all the photos of an album cover shoot.

Yee-Haw... Love it