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I had a really similar experience to this! Moved from sunny Los Angeles to work in China for a bit. It was winter and freezing cold all the time. Listening LDR kept me warm.

Western Nights is so beautiful

I think a lot of people feel this way actually, it's a whole different style and that's why her work can be so divisive.
I absolutely adore everything Hayden makes, but almost everyone I share her with just likes American Teenager and Crush--which to be fair, are also the songs that got me into her as well. A lot of her slower work draw some comparisons to how some people feel about Lana's piano ballads lol. It's a love it or hate it thing, but I really dig the nuance that comes out of repeated listens. For me, with both LDR and EC, my first run through of their discogs always focus on the poppier, catchier songs, but long term listens gravitate towards the slower, "more boring" songs. You definitely have to be in a particular kind of mood to go through Preacher's Daughter with full attentiveness though.

Stevie Nicks is an absolute legend but I hope she never does another collab with Lana. Lana has such a unique voice and style but it just does not jive with Stevie's at all.

Doing karaoke with friends while on a group trip to Disneyland. We were in a hotel room and were chilling before we went out for dinner. I decided to sing Terence Loves You and it brought out some bad memories. I went into the bathroom sobbing and came out several minutes later. My crush hugged me and nudged her leg against mine under the covers. We ended up falling in love that trip, dating, and a few months later went through the worst breakup of my life lol. Truly a Lana moment 

I started studying in a foreign country, had zero friends, and discovered Blue Jeans and Video Games. It was winter and, literally, I had days of just walking and listening to her music. It saved my ass. Couldn't wait for the album.

Doing karaoke with friends while on a group trip to Disneyland. We were in a hotel room and were chilling before we went out for dinner. I decided to sing Terence Loves You and it brought out some bad memories. I went into the bathroom sobbing and came out several minutes later. My crush hugged me and nudged her leg against mine under the covers. We ended up falling in love that trip, dating, and a few months later went through the worst breakup of my life lol. Truly a Lana moment 

Doing karaoke with friends while on a group trip to Disneyland. We were in a hotel room and were chilling before we went out for dinner. I decided to sing Terence Loves You and it brought out some bad memories. I went into the bathroom sobbing and came out several minutes later. My crush hugged me and nudged her leg against mine under the covers. We ended up falling in love that trip, dating, and a few months later went through the worst breakup of my life lol. Truly a Lana moment 

Doing karaoke with friends while on a group trip to Disneyland. We were in a hotel room and were chilling before we went out for dinner. I decided to sing Terence Loves You and it brought out some bad memories. I went into the bathroom sobbing and came out several minutes later. My crush hugged me and nudged her leg against mine under the covers. We ended up falling in love that trip, dating, and a few months later went through the worst breakup of my life lol. Truly a Lana moment 

Doing karaoke with friends while on a group trip to Disneyland. We were in a hotel room and were chilling before we went out for dinner. I decided to sing Terence Loves You and it brought out some bad memories. I went into the bathroom sobbing and came out several minutes later. My crush hugged me and nudged her leg against mine under the covers. We ended up falling in love that trip, dating, and a few months later went through the worst breakup of my life lol. Truly a Lana moment 

By this I mean what was your most memorable moment in life listening to Lana? My example: I met an online friend for the first time, we spent a 3 day vacation in Venice together and taking the train home, I listened to VB. The Venice train station has train tracks that go directly by the sea/ through the water, so I was sitting in this vintage looking train compartment all by myself, the sea and sunset moving past me and I was crying, thinking I may never see my friend again and already missing her and listening to VB… If my life was a movie that would definitely be my cinematic ending scene

A guy once tried serenading me by playing Lana, god bless america - and all the beautiful woman in it was playing when he whipped out his dick (it didn't work)

Stevie Nicks is an absolute legend but I hope she never does another collab with Lana. Lana has such a unique voice and style but it just does not jive with Stevie's at all.

My #1 song of all time is West Coast (radio mix). The vibes are fucking immaculate. On some days I'll listen to it for several hours straight during a commute or at the gym.

Hayden's been dropping lots of references to B-Sides lately. So exciting!
I'm so curious to see how they've evolved since the demos.

Hayden's been dropping lots of references to B-Sides lately. So exciting!
I'm so curious to see how they've evolved since the demos.

I gave a guy a lapdance to Gibson Girl once 

Haha, I discovered Preacher's Daughter right around the time of a really bad breakup, so House in Nebraska hit me hard. I do think that the more I explore her discography, the more I gravitate towards some of her older stuff and demos due to their darker tone.
 
God's Country is indeed frickin' awesome. Have you heard the two demos? They're both amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsYtx2Wpa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLltCqQpis
 
Can't wait for her to release the PD B-sides. Hopefully they're out soon!

well in my case from 2012 when i found marina and then got into lana through her part of it certainly was the fact that they each had their own unique sound from other artists at the time.. in contrast i guess lanas was way more theatrical and baroque while marinas was more synthish and electronic and what have you (along with piano ballads) in sound 
and this was  during lana and marinas heavily and prime old americana inspired eras which is something i also deeply resonated with since my mom was obsessed with that aesthetic and literally had our kitchen made into a 50s diner theme at my childhood home (which is more of a personal thing more than anything skskss). my nana is also similar as well.. so aesthetically i found something that i really connected to and admired. they’re also both immigrants so i think being the first born in the states the  american dream and idealization kind of thing was just kind of like…. part of me
 
 
 i think the most important element is how personally connected they are to their own lyrics too. but can also play them up into some sort of extremes or fantasy as well. 

also i was just incredibly mentally ill without any outlet since like talking about my experiences was always something i felt i had to avoid  SKDKDKD   
but uh. it was really nice to have these artists to finally connect to with who wrote about alcohol/ drug addiction, different forms of abuse, difficult relationships, and parental/family issues and just reflections of themselves and how they’d want to present themselves to others.
 cause that’s like all i knew at the time. and they somehow made it comforting and i finally has something to connect to at that age since i couldn’t really get that with anyone else LOL
 
 
also lana and marina are both Leo moons… as am i… our moons are in Leo indeed…
so i think it was just destined to be from the moment the stars formed. born to be a lana del rey fan. 
you know what i havent listened to buy the stars in a hot minute… so that’s what im going to do now 

 

oh, I mean - I love Preacher's Daughter and it was my second favorite album last year. 
 
btw, my favorite songs on Inbred are God's Country, Unpunishable and the title track!

OK so I'm genuinely curious about the overlap between Lana and Marina fans. I tried her stuff out years ago (like ~2015) and wasn't into it, even though everyone kept saying how "similar" they were. Is this an actual thing or is it just testament to Lana's unique sound when the stylistically closest artists are still so different?

I think a lot of people feel this way actually, it's a whole different style and that's why her work can be so divisive.
I absolutely adore everything Hayden makes, but almost everyone I share her with just likes American Teenager and Crush--which to be fair, are also the songs that got me into her as well. A lot of her slower work draw some comparisons to how some people feel about Lana's piano ballads lol. It's a love it or hate it thing, but I really dig the nuance that comes out of repeated listens. For me, with both LDR and EC, my first run through of their discogs always focus on the poppier, catchier songs, but long term listens gravitate towards the slower, "more boring" songs. You definitely have to be in a particular kind of mood to go through Preacher's Daughter with full attentiveness though.

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