DUKE

Looks a little unusual, I think. She kind of looks like a hooker with those bangs - but in a good way. All the curly hair always made her look kind of dreamy and innocent, but this is so much more fierce and self-assured. Like others said before, hopefully she shot a video for "Cola" with this look. I love how rigorous and straight the hair cut is.

:woot:
 
Sorry my hair's a mess I was happy Paradise arrived

No, I am not on drugs, I am just happy "Paradise" arrived on time in Germany from the US. Only God knows how this went so quickly. I don't know if we were supposed to send it via e-mail or if we should post it in here as I just did. In case you include names: I am Felix from Germany.

No, I am not on drugs, I am just happy "Paradise" arrived on time in Germany from the US. Only God knows how this went so quickly. I don't know if we were supposed to send it via e-mail or if we should post it in here as I just did. In case you include names: I am Felix from Germany.

You're so attractive...

No, I am not on drugs, I am just happy "Paradise" arrived on time in Germany from the US. Only God knows how this went so quickly. I don't know if we were supposed to send it via e-mail or if we should post it in here as I just did. In case you include names: I am Felix from Germany.

The 26-year-old chanteuse sat down with JustJared.com for an exclusive interview before performing an acoustic session of her new song “Ride.”
Here’s what Lana shared with JJ:
JJ: How auto-biographical are your songs?

LDR: They are, I’d say 90%. Usually what happens is all of the verses are always autobiographical up until the chorus. I usually leave some room for my imagination to step in. If I’m singing about the way that things used to be, by the time I get to the chorus I might start singing about the way I wished that they had been. JJ: Do you have favorite lyrics from any of the songs that you’ve ever put out?

LDR: I like the juxtaposition of the verse and the chorus in Born to Die. I like the idea of the verse, ‘Feet don’t fail me now, take me to the finish line.’ That kind of feels like the struggle of every day life and how hard things can be, but by the time I get to the chorus I sing, ‘Come and take a walk on the wild side, let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain.’ I feel like it’s those two worlds of dark and light coming together. The struggle of every day, but also feeling fleeting moments of happiness and true love, and kissing in the rain. JJ: Does the album have a next single already?

LDR: Cola. I have a couple of art projects going with people and I really hope that I can weave Bel Air and Gods and Monsters into a short film. JJ: What kind of art projects?

LDR: Me and Anthony Mandler we’re still working together, still talking. We had one project in mind but I’m not sure if we’re actually going to do that. We might just go off on our own and mix his eye for film with my music, and kind of create a twenty minute short film. JJ: Based on the new songs off of Paradise?

LDR: Actually based on more of an idea we came up with together, but hopefully just weaving the music into it and making it make sense. JJ: What are your Top 5 movies?

LDR: Good question! I love Godfather I & II. I like American Beauty. I like Don’t Look Back, a documentary about Bob Dylan by D. A. Pennebaker. I like Sin City. JJ: What is your biggest inspiration whether it be a thing, person, or place?

LDR: That’s a good one. My own imagination, and my own vision for the way my future could look is inspiring to me. The landscape of California, the energy of New York. The potential I see in possible new innovative technological advances we’re making day by day. JJ: What vision do you see for yourself?

LDR: I’m close to the vision I always had, which is just being lucky enough to have time to turn my life into a work of art. To sculpt my life into the way I want it to look from the people I know to the music I make to the art I want to keep trying to do, and time with my family. I feel in line with the vision I have. JJ: Since you have accomplished so much in the music industry, is there another industry in entertainment you would like to dive into?

LDR: The only thing I can really myself slipping into easily is… The guy who composed the Paradise edition doesn’t really work in pop music, he’s a composer for films in California and he’s one of my oldest friends. I could see us just naturally scoring music for films, and that would be a really comfortable transition. It’s nice to stay in Los Angeles, it’s nice to be at home, but go out late at night and work on pieces that move you for movies you love. That would be great. JJ: Would you ever do any holiday stuff?

LDR: Would I ever do any holiday stuff? It would probably end up being really sad, so I don’t know. I might not be the best holiday candidate! JJ: What can we expect from Lana del Rey in 2013?

LDR: Probably just more of the same. I really love the Paradise edition, to me it feels even more natural than the original Born to Die. I really want to just get into it. I’m going to tour with my boyfriend [barrie James O’Neill], he’s coming with me! We’re touring together for 70 days in Europe. I’m excited for that. JJ: Is he [barrie] working on it too, or is he just accompanying you?

LDR: He’s singing. His band, Kassidy, is going to sing. So we’re going to Vienna, Italy, and hopefully all of our friends will come, too. We’re going to have a caravan. JJ: What’s the most favorite photograph that your sister [Chuck Grant] has taken?

LDR: When we used to live together in New York I used to buy these electric fish tanks from the dollar store, and I used to make her take pictures of me in front of the fish tanks. My nails were really long at the time and I would press up against the fish tanks and it just looked crazy. Our style started to develop together creatively to kind of reflect our love for Americana kitsch. Whenever she’d leave for work she’d come back and there would be streamers in the house and banners from the party store that she hated, but it started this style that I started to set the short videos to. JJ: What’s the most romantic place for you in the world?

LDR: I don’t know, I’m very romantic… so I can find it in so many places. I love taking long walks. I love California, I love New York, and I also like Paris. JJ: What’s the most romantic thing that you’ve done for someone?

LDR: When I met my boyfriend… we always say that the entire time we were writing for each other, but we didn’t know it until we met each other. So, you feel like even though you didn’t know the person then all the songs are for them now. That’s romantic. JJ: What’s the most romantic song for you?

LDR: I do love this one lullaby that Barrie wrote, I think it’s beautiful. I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.
 
JJ: What’s the best fan gift you’ve received? LDR: When I used to stay at the Chateau Marmont, there was this younger kid that came and made me this big book of his own version of my album covers, and he mixed it with tabloids from the 50’s and 60’s. So I’ll have like these potential album covers he thought I should make were mixed with film noir, pop-art newspaper clippings that I thought were so good.
JJ: Where do you store all of your fan gifts?

LDR: I have a box under my bed! JJ: Do you have a most embarrassing moment from tour?

LDR: From tour? There’s so many embarrassing moments! It’s like, all embarrassing because it’s live. We share lots of personal moments together. All of my dresses are really short, and I stand really close to the audience… I don’t know. JJ: What has been the most surreal experience for you since breaking?

LDR: I think feeling so comfortable in places like China, it feeling so natural to be in Shanghai or be in Singapore and feel like I have friends there. I’d say feeling like you have friends wherever you go is surreal when you come from a more isolated town. It really opens up the world for you. JJ: Do you have a most memorable performance?

LDR: Believe it or not it was recently. I started working with Jaguar, and I went to Paris where they were unveiling their new F-Type. I had to walk down this 200 ft carpet just as this thunderstorm stopped in this long white dress, and my friend had to escort me down with an umbrella all the way down to the microphone. I got down there and I sang the song that I had written for their new car, and I said I was proud of Ian who was the designer who had submitted a sketch of the car when he was seven and finally brought it to life all these years later. So I got finished singing and these two sports cars started weaving around the stage and vrooming and it was really electric. The audience was just dazzled by the cars and the lights and the sound, it was very surreal. JJ: Can you comment on the rumors that you’re going to be the new face of Versace?

LDR: I have to be honest, I don’t know where that came from! Versace is a brand that we love, but… we’re not working together though. JJ: Living or dead, is there someone that you haven’t met yet that you would love to?

LDR: There’s so many people I’d like to talk to. There’s so many people I’d like to just sit with. I’d like to sit with Elvis and that crew back in Graceland. JJ: How are you spending Thanksgiving?

LDR: Charlie, my brother, and I, we’re going to be somewhere in London. We’ll just be finished talking about the record, so we’ll be in London. Then for Christmas hopefully we’ll be back here and have everyone. Source: JustJared

Did I seriously just start a whole conversation with this?

wut

No, I am not on drugs, I am just happy "Paradise" arrived on time in Germany from the US. Only God knows how this went so quickly. I don't know if we were supposed to send it via e-mail or if we should post it in here as I just did. In case you include names: I am Felix from Germany.

"Cola" definitely is one of her best songs so far, I think. I love how polarizing the opening lyrics are. The media has attempted to draw this very superficial character of her and there seems to be a constant misconception about her personality. She is easily put off as a shallow, asexual and innocent Hollywood rehash which is totally uninteresting in real life. What I have found so fascinating about her from the beginning on was that she was far from being a one-sided character. In fact, she doesn't fit any particular stereotype of women, even if she portrays herself as such sometimes. Sexually explicit lyrics like "My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" and even her numerous ambiguous double-entendres on Born to Die smash any attempt made to reduce her to some homogenous cliché.
 
Seeing, at least in the German media, how this is now categorized as a small controversy, I can only applaud her courage to stand by the sexually-charged lyrical imagery she creates, even though she was advised to drop it.

The verses of that song are basically just a list of reasons why she's a bad bitch.
 
- Her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola
- Her eyes are wide like cherry pies
- She has a taste for men who are older (no surprise)
- She falls asleep in an American flag
- She wears her diamonds on Skid Row
- She pledges allegiance to her dad (for being so informative)
 
It's basically her version of a Chuck Norris joke

The fuck is this
 
Also can I split my vote in half? I can't pick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UoJzV-A1LYg

I think I can share criticism on here without being ripped to shreds or declared a two-faced hater as I have on a very certain Gaga forum.
 
Gaga's current attitude is totally annoying me. I love her, she has been tremendously influential in my life, but meeting her hasn't made me blind. In fact, it has made me even more see her as a human and keep a certain critical distance to what she does. The way she confronted Calvin Harris the other day on Twitter with first, making this highly ambiguous statement on how people like to abuse her name for publicly, and second personally confronting him making this utterly theatrical emancipated parole about not being taken seriously as a female making EDM music. She was perfectly right with the arguments has brought up, and even her explanation on LittleMonsters.com did shed some light on what was happening, but the way she chose to make her point clear does contradict her message of "not giving negativity any energy." Even more ironic is her 2010 uploaded video as the Queen of Twitter declaring one shall only share positivity on Twitter.
 
I know she is having a hard time with hospitalization cases in her family and not being in so good health, but no matter which circumstances surround her, something like this does not stay the only situation. A while ago, she posted her "Telephone" performance from Music Station Japan from 2010 with the words saying 'Hahahahhahaha' after Little Monsters insulted Nicki Minaj for allegedly copying this look. She deleted her post a few minutes afterwords and composed a short apologetic message saying she didn't mean to insult anyone with this.
 
The point is that her mind is not free of negative thinking towards other people, and artists. She may repress it, not give it energy - sometimes -, and ignore criticism, but it is little moments when she raises her eyebrow or makes ambiguous and short remarks about something, usually in moments the public does not see, that make clear she is very well having these thoughts. To me, it is our irony that Little Monsters have declared "Hating on Madonna" their new favorite hobby since she made a few really insignificant remarks and comments on Gaga which have been complementary, but also of critical nature sometimes. The infamous "reductive" headline has been blown so out of proportion and has been put in contexts which are totally untrue and made up. Madonna has never explicitly said that Gaga is reductive, if you pay attention to the way she answers the question, which we don't hear in the edited footage of the ABC interview, she starts with "IT feels..." One doesn't need to be a linguist to analyze this does not at all have something to do with the interpretations some really extra troubled and passive-thinking Gaga fans came up with.
The most harmless and tongue-in-cheek-ish jokes Madonna has made, while always complementing her, are immediately interpreted as "shade" (fuck this word and the entire popularity of it) and some vicious vicious attack to destroy Gaga. Believe me, Madonna has more important things to do in her daily life than thinking about ways to get rid of concurrence. I don't even have to point out what.
 
All of the sudden, Twitter and fan forum blow up with hateful comments about artists and those that pretend to be that have allegedly said something utterly destructive and cruel about Gaga. Opinions are expressed, paroles are composed and ridiculous attempts to diminish the other one was started - all of this basing on somebody's stupid and inaccurate, subjective and irrelevant coverage of an occurrence. It is just sad.
 
But the saddest of all, which puts me so off of this fan base is how her fans are unable to see these exact same flaws about her when talking about others. She is human. Not a saint. Not God. She is as human as Madonna. And humans do, and should, think. Which involves commentary like this. While Madonna does speak out about things, Gaga has this conversation behind closed doors and allows her employees and coworkers, starting from her make-up artist, over to her hair dressed, continued with her body guard, and ending with the worst of them all - her producer DJWS - to make remarks about artists that mentioned Gaga in a critical and negative context. She rarely responds, and when she does, she finds the prettiest way to make a totally immature and unprofessional comment like a 12-year old on Facebook.
 
But yet, her fans go "Goo GUUURL!!!" when she does this as if it makes her different to anybody else. As if this is justified.
I don't see her as holy, because I am well-aware of that she is not. She is a wonderful person that breeds a lot of awareness, tolerance, positivity and acceptance in the world, but she is a human after all. Like Madonna. And like anyone else.
 
Just needed to say this.

I think I can share criticism on here without being ripped to shreds or declared a two-faced hater as I have on a very certain Gaga forum.
 
Gaga's current attitude is totally annoying me. I love her, she has been tremendously influential in my life, but meeting her hasn't made me blind. In fact, it has made me even more see her as a human and keep a certain critical distance to what she does. The way she confronted Calvin Harris the other day on Twitter with first, making this highly ambiguous statement on how people like to abuse her name for publicly, and second personally confronting him making this utterly theatrical emancipated parole about not being taken seriously as a female making EDM music. She was perfectly right with the arguments has brought up, and even her explanation on LittleMonsters.com did shed some light on what was happening, but the way she chose to make her point clear does contradict her message of "not giving negativity any energy." Even more ironic is her 2010 uploaded video as the Queen of Twitter declaring one shall only share positivity on Twitter.
 
I know she is having a hard time with hospitalization cases in her family and not being in so good health, but no matter which circumstances surround her, something like this does not stay the only situation. A while ago, she posted her "Telephone" performance from Music Station Japan from 2010 with the words saying 'Hahahahhahaha' after Little Monsters insulted Nicki Minaj for allegedly copying this look. She deleted her post a few minutes afterwords and composed a short apologetic message saying she didn't mean to insult anyone with this.
 
The point is that her mind is not free of negative thinking towards other people, and artists. She may repress it, not give it energy - sometimes -, and ignore criticism, but it is little moments when she raises her eyebrow or makes ambiguous and short remarks about something, usually in moments the public does not see, that make clear she is very well having these thoughts. To me, it is our irony that Little Monsters have declared "Hating on Madonna" their new favorite hobby since she made a few really insignificant remarks and comments on Gaga which have been complementary, but also of critical nature sometimes. The infamous "reductive" headline has been blown so out of proportion and has been put in contexts which are totally untrue and made up. Madonna has never explicitly said that Gaga is reductive, if you pay attention to the way she answers the question, which we don't hear in the edited footage of the ABC interview, she starts with "IT feels..." One doesn't need to be a linguist to analyze this does not at all have something to do with the interpretations some really extra troubled and passive-thinking Gaga fans came up with.
The most harmless and tongue-in-cheek-ish jokes Madonna has made, while always complementing her, are immediately interpreted as "shade" (fuck this word and the entire popularity of it) and some vicious vicious attack to destroy Gaga. Believe me, Madonna has more important things to do in her daily life than thinking about ways to get rid of concurrence. I don't even have to point out what.
 
All of the sudden, Twitter and fan forum blow up with hateful comments about artists and those that pretend to be that have allegedly said something utterly destructive and cruel about Gaga. Opinions are expressed, paroles are composed and ridiculous attempts to diminish the other one was started - all of this basing on somebody's stupid and inaccurate, subjective and irrelevant coverage of an occurrence. It is just sad.
 
But the saddest of all, which puts me so off of this fan base is how her fans are unable to see these exact same flaws about her when talking about others. She is human. Not a saint. Not God. She is as human as Madonna. And humans do, and should, think. Which involves commentary like this. While Madonna does speak out about things, Gaga has this conversation behind closed doors and allows her employees and coworkers, starting from her make-up artist, over to her hair dressed, continued with her body guard, and ending with the worst of them all - her producer DJWS - to make remarks about artists that mentioned Gaga in a critical and negative context. She rarely responds, and when she does, she finds the prettiest way to make a totally immature and unprofessional comment like a 12-year old on Facebook.
 
But yet, her fans go "Goo GUUURL!!!" when she does this as if it makes her different to anybody else. As if this is justified.
I don't see her as holy, because I am well-aware of that she is not. She is a wonderful person that breeds a lot of awareness, tolerance, positivity and acceptance in the world, but she is a human after all. Like Madonna. And like anyone else.
 
Just needed to say this.

^ The majority of the negativity in that post is focused on others, though. Her tremendously annoying fan-base and her staff. Her staff are independent thinkers. They can tweet about who they like. Sure, it's often a response to something involving Gaga. But do I believe she tells them to go after these people for her? No.
 
Most of her fan-base is incurably deluded. Lana fans are so refreshing in that aspect. I do my Gaga worship in private or in real life--I have to stay removed for the most part from the online aspects. That's not Gaga's fault. She had good intentions, catering to the young and insecure, but it kind of got out of control.
 
As for the few times she's commented on others, unprofessional as they may have been, they really don't develop into full-on feuds and usually end with class compared to most (see: Nicki Minaj). I kind of find it hard to comment on her reaction to Die Antwoord and Calvin Harris simply because I'm not as famous as she is and it's probably a pretty unique feeling to know that people use your name for attention. I think I would have blown up a long time ago if I were in her situation. For me, it's commendable that she isn't constantly lashing out (see: Rihanna).
 
I mean, I mostly agree with you. I just don't think any of this really has to reflect on her as a musician or an icon.

I've been a Madonna fan since 1986, and seen her a ton of times. Had the pleasure of meeting her a few times too; she's a true performer though her current single releases are bizarre choices...
 
See my collection of Madonna ticket stubs here. (alphabetical) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26664847062.47919.702417062&type=1&l=f2dff78006
 
And my HMV photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150153925927063.293347.702417062&type=1&l=81d5514fe6
 
And Girlie Show photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150154002862063.293359.702417062&type=1&l=80ec7fbd98

I'm quite excited to hear how many elements she incorporated from old and unreleased songs into the new material. From what I've heard so far, "American" uses elements from "Never Let Me Go."

I thought the fur thing was fake? However I agree on the rest. And that whole "hey guise look @ me i smoke w33d" act is getting kinda annoying.

Someone called?

Not that it makes me happy but I started laughing out loudly after seeing this. I entered this thread and had an advertisement asking me wether I was depressed and needed medication for it.
 
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My story.
 
The warm feeling of understanding a song, a book or a film, and feeling it resonate with who I am is what makes me happy and feel... understood.

My story.
 
The warm feeling of understanding a song, a book or a film, and feeling it resonate with who I am is what makes me happy and feel... understood.