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  1. annedauphine liked a post in a topic by joshuasean2900 in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon - The Burnt Norton Edition 
    -Featuring a 1 hour, psychedelic poetry lecture read by Lana Del Rey (Deluxe Edition includes Lana's "I'm hiiiigh af" outtakes)
    -Some of Lana's favourite TED talks about Tesla and the other stuff she really likes (Deluxe Edition includes Lana's views on feminism   )
    -LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (the part that was in the AoA trailer)
     
    Walmart exclusive
  2. analwinterofmylife liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Choose the Promo Singles for Honeymoon you   
    Art Deco most definitely. Salvatore cause it's my fav. Religion because it saves lives. And HBTB because this song fuckin rocks and yall can turn your locations on
  3. brooklynbaby91 liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana will be at Rough Trade Store in London for a Honeymoon signing.   
    Omfg bless you, you being happy for me makes me if it was even possible even happier Well about being vegetarian, because I started being vegetarian partly because of her for the kicks, but it ended being an enormous part of how I'm curing my ED so it's really important for me to know if I'm basing it all on a lie or not. It has been confirmed on twitter by her father but I want to hear it from the empress herself. I do have the tshirt, it was a cheap Pepsi Cola tshirt I bought but as I'm a crafty piece of white trash I added "MY PUSSY TASTES LIKE" above the logo, and "I have a bad mind, and I have gold in my veins" on the back because YGLM is my fav song EVER and it's one of my favourite lines. And I wrote as part of my course an essay on the relationship between fandom and religion and based it entirely on her. It was one of my first posts here, actually why I started posting, you can read it here
  4. brooklynbaby91 liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana will be at Rough Trade Store in London for a Honeymoon signing.   
    So who's going? This is the best day of my worthless fucking life, I'm so happy and excited. Plus it's on release day!
     
    Personally, I want to ask her if she's vegetarian, I want to ask her to kiss me cuz I'm hella gay, I'm going to wear my very lame "My pussy tastes like pepsi cola"/You're Gonna Love Me tshirt, and I'm extremely wondering if I could give her a copy of my essay....
     
     
    FUCK I'M SO HAPPY I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING
  5. Januli liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
  6. DeadAgainst liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    Done
     
    How did you lived the incomprehension facing your album Ultraviolence last year?
    I inherited from my father's philosophical side: if things aren't too bad, then they go well. I feel privileged to be able to continue making what I adore. I don't care about critics of my records but they change the way people are going to listen to my music, so as well receive favourable echoes...
     
    Did you then needed this lightness in your life, this nonchalance?
    In a way, it was an antidote to what happened in my life. I needed to make an album that sounds exactly like what I had in head. It was the only way to preserve my vision. I always needed this kind of simplicity. I felt a real nonchalance in regards to the way the music was going to be received and at the same time I was totally obsessed by my craft, my songs. It is the best possible state of mind when you're making an album.
     
    Around you, were there too many people to give their opinion, their advice?
    There is constantly a lot of people and they all emit many opinions about my current album. It's not because I despise them all but... When it comes to produce, in particular the voice, I feel comfortable only if I remain faithful to what I hear in me. I did not recorded Ultraviolence in reaction to anybody or anything: it's just the record I wanted to write, and the way I wanted it to sound like.
     
    Do you worry, in the name of expectations, in front of the blank page?
    I feel very distant from these expectations, doubtless because the reaction from people to my music remains fundamentally different from mine. I just felt overwhelmed at a moment when everywhere everyone said that my music was only extreme sadness, even harmful. The best remedy was to close shutters and to continue to work.
     
    You then thought of escaping?
    Yes, that can be the real temptation, in several possible manners... My brain and my imagination tend to turn at top speed, my escapes are thus rather physical - to move out for example. I feel the need to live something different, neurologically or physically... I always found ways to escape. And without resorting to imaginary friends; I have never had some.
     
    Can you sometimes just slam the door?
    It is always possible to run away. The big problem, is that everywhere where I go, I leave with my own self. Thus it is complicated for me to escape as I would wish it. The two places were I succeed it are at the beach and while driving. For a long time, my own music was my most beautiful source of escape... When it became more concrete over the years, it became my reality, what I tried to escape. Nevertheless, I have a visceral relation to music, it is one of the most intimate and most natural things for me. In terms of pleasure, I place it on the same level as sex.
     
    Why does music took such a place in your life?
    Because I was intended to make some. I contented with making what I was supposed to make and that totally invaded my life. It is what arrives when we are on the right track. Until a few years ago, I considered certain musicians as an enormous inspiration. I felt a lot of love for them, but in a healthy way! I recently lost a little of this connection.
     
    You sing a bit of a text from David Bowie on the album. Was he always in your pantheon?
    Sometimes, when you sing and improvise, sentences appear from nowhere... I hope that he won't mind. But I am convinced that his words appeared for a reason, thus I never changed this line. He's such an exciting soul. He comes of an extraordinary period, with all this music, the art, the energy of the time. (We tell her about a photo gathering, in 1973, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed) I would have adored living in this era, with incredible friends!
     
    To what extent did your relationship to the craft of singing evolved since your beginnings?
    Since a decade, I completely dived, with delight, into this craft. I remember with tenderness my first steps, even if it's very far... But recently, I less cared about structures, compositions, I let things create themselves, naturally. To be honest, this musical freedom is exciting, I feel blessed. It's as if you escaped from structures which until then defined you and that you evolved in another psychic dimension, that you pushed back the limits of your soul thanks to the words and to the melodies...
     
    Are you technically very involved?
    In terms of sounds, arrangement, production, it's fundamental for me to be very precise. On an album, the part dedicated to the mixing and to the mastering takes an enormous deal of time. With my producer and my engineer, I am totally involved in this work. With me, long after I stopped composing songs, the production evolves constantly, until the last minute. I am thus very fastidious on this aspect too, which takes me a lot of time. I however felt more fluid, more eloquent with the "language of the music" when I was younger... I have already said many things in my records and I had many experiences these last two years which eventually ended up parasiting the transmissions, the translations between the muse and me.
     
    What did you change in your working methods for Honeymoon?
    Not much, I contented this time with not looking for a second producer to disrupt the sound of the album as it had begun. Last year, I made everything with Rick Nowels before taking this album to Dan Auerbach. This time, I stayed in studio with Rick and we finished everything together. He is at the same time my partner and a dear friend.
     
    Did a word, an idea defined the aesthetics of this new album?
    The song Honeymoon defined the tone, with Music to Watch Boys to. I adore the idea of "honeymoon", it's the peak of a romantic relation... It's even supposed to be the most beautiful moment of the life of a woman... I probably tried to make my life more beautiful than it was. All the feelings, all the concerns which I feel, all the questions I ask myself about the future influence the words, of course, but also the melodies... Other than that, I did not feel outside influences for this album, if it is not for jazz and trap music, that marked the production of both songs.
     
    Do you remember your first guitar?
    My uncle Tim had lent me his, I did not kept it, it stayed at his home.
     
    Where does your nostalgia comes from?
    I'm thinking all the time, I'm rather contemplative, my passion for beautiful movies doubtless explains why my aesthetics can be thought of as nostalgia... I also am very romantic: the combination of all this is maybe called nostalgia. I prefer to think that I just have very good tastes! Will I one day compose my own soundtrack? Who knows, it's maybe written in my future...
     
    What would you like to change in you?
    I would want to live without concern, without fear.
     
    This interview is so amazing, I really love her answers here
  7. delreyfreak liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Pre-Release and Discussion Thread   
    I've found some HM promo completely by chance while going to find her a florist to give her blue hydrangeas for tomorrow!!!! It's a giant screen so I couldn't take good photos but I'm so motherfucking hyped I can't even swallow I'm DYING of stress!!! I'm so glad she's doing promo!! 
     


    Btw I went to Rough Trade again to see if they're starting to prepare things up but nah. I looked on the events poster and Lana is NOT listed. So I'm thinking it's a last minute move from her just out of promo and love for the fans. Fml. I adore her.
  8. writtenxrabbits liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Pre-Release and Discussion Thread   
    I've found some HM promo completely by chance while going to find her a florist to give her blue hydrangeas for tomorrow!!!! It's a giant screen so I couldn't take good photos but I'm so motherfucking hyped I can't even swallow I'm DYING of stress!!! I'm so glad she's doing promo!! 
     


    Btw I went to Rough Trade again to see if they're starting to prepare things up but nah. I looked on the events poster and Lana is NOT listed. So I'm thinking it's a last minute move from her just out of promo and love for the fans. Fml. I adore her.
  9. delreyfreak liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
  10. BlueJeans liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Trash Magic * Lizzy Grant Lower East Side Jams 🎶   
    I'm dead. You're really the best covers maker. She should hire you your whole work is as iconic as she is in my mind, it's like indissociable.
  11. renaissance liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
  12. lafleursauvage liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    That's ok I'm halfway done anyway
  13. AngelHeadedHipster liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    Done
     
    How did you lived the incomprehension facing your album Ultraviolence last year?
    I inherited from my father's philosophical side: if things aren't too bad, then they go well. I feel privileged to be able to continue making what I adore. I don't care about critics of my records but they change the way people are going to listen to my music, so as well receive favourable echoes...
     
    Did you then needed this lightness in your life, this nonchalance?
    In a way, it was an antidote to what happened in my life. I needed to make an album that sounds exactly like what I had in head. It was the only way to preserve my vision. I always needed this kind of simplicity. I felt a real nonchalance in regards to the way the music was going to be received and at the same time I was totally obsessed by my craft, my songs. It is the best possible state of mind when you're making an album.
     
    Around you, were there too many people to give their opinion, their advice?
    There is constantly a lot of people and they all emit many opinions about my current album. It's not because I despise them all but... When it comes to produce, in particular the voice, I feel comfortable only if I remain faithful to what I hear in me. I did not recorded Ultraviolence in reaction to anybody or anything: it's just the record I wanted to write, and the way I wanted it to sound like.
     
    Do you worry, in the name of expectations, in front of the blank page?
    I feel very distant from these expectations, doubtless because the reaction from people to my music remains fundamentally different from mine. I just felt overwhelmed at a moment when everywhere everyone said that my music was only extreme sadness, even harmful. The best remedy was to close shutters and to continue to work.
     
    You then thought of escaping?
    Yes, that can be the real temptation, in several possible manners... My brain and my imagination tend to turn at top speed, my escapes are thus rather physical - to move out for example. I feel the need to live something different, neurologically or physically... I always found ways to escape. And without resorting to imaginary friends; I have never had some.
     
    Can you sometimes just slam the door?
    It is always possible to run away. The big problem, is that everywhere where I go, I leave with my own self. Thus it is complicated for me to escape as I would wish it. The two places were I succeed it are at the beach and while driving. For a long time, my own music was my most beautiful source of escape... When it became more concrete over the years, it became my reality, what I tried to escape. Nevertheless, I have a visceral relation to music, it is one of the most intimate and most natural things for me. In terms of pleasure, I place it on the same level as sex.
     
    Why does music took such a place in your life?
    Because I was intended to make some. I contented with making what I was supposed to make and that totally invaded my life. It is what arrives when we are on the right track. Until a few years ago, I considered certain musicians as an enormous inspiration. I felt a lot of love for them, but in a healthy way! I recently lost a little of this connection.
     
    You sing a bit of a text from David Bowie on the album. Was he always in your pantheon?
    Sometimes, when you sing and improvise, sentences appear from nowhere... I hope that he won't mind. But I am convinced that his words appeared for a reason, thus I never changed this line. He's such an exciting soul. He comes of an extraordinary period, with all this music, the art, the energy of the time. (We tell her about a photo gathering, in 1973, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed) I would have adored living in this era, with incredible friends!
     
    To what extent did your relationship to the craft of singing evolved since your beginnings?
    Since a decade, I completely dived, with delight, into this craft. I remember with tenderness my first steps, even if it's very far... But recently, I less cared about structures, compositions, I let things create themselves, naturally. To be honest, this musical freedom is exciting, I feel blessed. It's as if you escaped from structures which until then defined you and that you evolved in another psychic dimension, that you pushed back the limits of your soul thanks to the words and to the melodies...
     
    Are you technically very involved?
    In terms of sounds, arrangement, production, it's fundamental for me to be very precise. On an album, the part dedicated to the mixing and to the mastering takes an enormous deal of time. With my producer and my engineer, I am totally involved in this work. With me, long after I stopped composing songs, the production evolves constantly, until the last minute. I am thus very fastidious on this aspect too, which takes me a lot of time. I however felt more fluid, more eloquent with the "language of the music" when I was younger... I have already said many things in my records and I had many experiences these last two years which eventually ended up parasiting the transmissions, the translations between the muse and me.
     
    What did you change in your working methods for Honeymoon?
    Not much, I contented this time with not looking for a second producer to disrupt the sound of the album as it had begun. Last year, I made everything with Rick Nowels before taking this album to Dan Auerbach. This time, I stayed in studio with Rick and we finished everything together. He is at the same time my partner and a dear friend.
     
    Did a word, an idea defined the aesthetics of this new album?
    The song Honeymoon defined the tone, with Music to Watch Boys to. I adore the idea of "honeymoon", it's the peak of a romantic relation... It's even supposed to be the most beautiful moment of the life of a woman... I probably tried to make my life more beautiful than it was. All the feelings, all the concerns which I feel, all the questions I ask myself about the future influence the words, of course, but also the melodies... Other than that, I did not feel outside influences for this album, if it is not for jazz and trap music, that marked the production of both songs.
     
    Do you remember your first guitar?
    My uncle Tim had lent me his, I did not kept it, it stayed at his home.
     
    Where does your nostalgia comes from?
    I'm thinking all the time, I'm rather contemplative, my passion for beautiful movies doubtless explains why my aesthetics can be thought of as nostalgia... I also am very romantic: the combination of all this is maybe called nostalgia. I prefer to think that I just have very good tastes! Will I one day compose my own soundtrack? Who knows, it's maybe written in my future...
     
    What would you like to change in you?
    I would want to live without concern, without fear.
     
    This interview is so amazing, I really love her answers here
  14. Shades liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    Done
     
    How did you lived the incomprehension facing your album Ultraviolence last year?
    I inherited from my father's philosophical side: if things aren't too bad, then they go well. I feel privileged to be able to continue making what I adore. I don't care about critics of my records but they change the way people are going to listen to my music, so as well receive favourable echoes...
     
    Did you then needed this lightness in your life, this nonchalance?
    In a way, it was an antidote to what happened in my life. I needed to make an album that sounds exactly like what I had in head. It was the only way to preserve my vision. I always needed this kind of simplicity. I felt a real nonchalance in regards to the way the music was going to be received and at the same time I was totally obsessed by my craft, my songs. It is the best possible state of mind when you're making an album.
     
    Around you, were there too many people to give their opinion, their advice?
    There is constantly a lot of people and they all emit many opinions about my current album. It's not because I despise them all but... When it comes to produce, in particular the voice, I feel comfortable only if I remain faithful to what I hear in me. I did not recorded Ultraviolence in reaction to anybody or anything: it's just the record I wanted to write, and the way I wanted it to sound like.
     
    Do you worry, in the name of expectations, in front of the blank page?
    I feel very distant from these expectations, doubtless because the reaction from people to my music remains fundamentally different from mine. I just felt overwhelmed at a moment when everywhere everyone said that my music was only extreme sadness, even harmful. The best remedy was to close shutters and to continue to work.
     
    You then thought of escaping?
    Yes, that can be the real temptation, in several possible manners... My brain and my imagination tend to turn at top speed, my escapes are thus rather physical - to move out for example. I feel the need to live something different, neurologically or physically... I always found ways to escape. And without resorting to imaginary friends; I have never had some.
     
    Can you sometimes just slam the door?
    It is always possible to run away. The big problem, is that everywhere where I go, I leave with my own self. Thus it is complicated for me to escape as I would wish it. The two places were I succeed it are at the beach and while driving. For a long time, my own music was my most beautiful source of escape... When it became more concrete over the years, it became my reality, what I tried to escape. Nevertheless, I have a visceral relation to music, it is one of the most intimate and most natural things for me. In terms of pleasure, I place it on the same level as sex.
     
    Why does music took such a place in your life?
    Because I was intended to make some. I contented with making what I was supposed to make and that totally invaded my life. It is what arrives when we are on the right track. Until a few years ago, I considered certain musicians as an enormous inspiration. I felt a lot of love for them, but in a healthy way! I recently lost a little of this connection.
     
    You sing a bit of a text from David Bowie on the album. Was he always in your pantheon?
    Sometimes, when you sing and improvise, sentences appear from nowhere... I hope that he won't mind. But I am convinced that his words appeared for a reason, thus I never changed this line. He's such an exciting soul. He comes of an extraordinary period, with all this music, the art, the energy of the time. (We tell her about a photo gathering, in 1973, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed) I would have adored living in this era, with incredible friends!
     
    To what extent did your relationship to the craft of singing evolved since your beginnings?
    Since a decade, I completely dived, with delight, into this craft. I remember with tenderness my first steps, even if it's very far... But recently, I less cared about structures, compositions, I let things create themselves, naturally. To be honest, this musical freedom is exciting, I feel blessed. It's as if you escaped from structures which until then defined you and that you evolved in another psychic dimension, that you pushed back the limits of your soul thanks to the words and to the melodies...
     
    Are you technically very involved?
    In terms of sounds, arrangement, production, it's fundamental for me to be very precise. On an album, the part dedicated to the mixing and to the mastering takes an enormous deal of time. With my producer and my engineer, I am totally involved in this work. With me, long after I stopped composing songs, the production evolves constantly, until the last minute. I am thus very fastidious on this aspect too, which takes me a lot of time. I however felt more fluid, more eloquent with the "language of the music" when I was younger... I have already said many things in my records and I had many experiences these last two years which eventually ended up parasiting the transmissions, the translations between the muse and me.
     
    What did you change in your working methods for Honeymoon?
    Not much, I contented this time with not looking for a second producer to disrupt the sound of the album as it had begun. Last year, I made everything with Rick Nowels before taking this album to Dan Auerbach. This time, I stayed in studio with Rick and we finished everything together. He is at the same time my partner and a dear friend.
     
    Did a word, an idea defined the aesthetics of this new album?
    The song Honeymoon defined the tone, with Music to Watch Boys to. I adore the idea of "honeymoon", it's the peak of a romantic relation... It's even supposed to be the most beautiful moment of the life of a woman... I probably tried to make my life more beautiful than it was. All the feelings, all the concerns which I feel, all the questions I ask myself about the future influence the words, of course, but also the melodies... Other than that, I did not feel outside influences for this album, if it is not for jazz and trap music, that marked the production of both songs.
     
    Do you remember your first guitar?
    My uncle Tim had lent me his, I did not kept it, it stayed at his home.
     
    Where does your nostalgia comes from?
    I'm thinking all the time, I'm rather contemplative, my passion for beautiful movies doubtless explains why my aesthetics can be thought of as nostalgia... I also am very romantic: the combination of all this is maybe called nostalgia. I prefer to think that I just have very good tastes! Will I one day compose my own soundtrack? Who knows, it's maybe written in my future...
     
    What would you like to change in you?
    I would want to live without concern, without fear.
     
    This interview is so amazing, I really love her answers here
  15. luminom liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Pre-Release and Discussion Thread   
    I've found some HM promo completely by chance while going to find her a florist to give her blue hydrangeas for tomorrow!!!! It's a giant screen so I couldn't take good photos but I'm so motherfucking hyped I can't even swallow I'm DYING of stress!!! I'm so glad she's doing promo!! 
     


    Btw I went to Rough Trade again to see if they're starting to prepare things up but nah. I looked on the events poster and Lana is NOT listed. So I'm thinking it's a last minute move from her just out of promo and love for the fans. Fml. I adore her.
  16. guardian liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Pre-Release and Discussion Thread   
    I've found some HM promo completely by chance while going to find her a florist to give her blue hydrangeas for tomorrow!!!! It's a giant screen so I couldn't take good photos but I'm so motherfucking hyped I can't even swallow I'm DYING of stress!!! I'm so glad she's doing promo!! 
     


    Btw I went to Rough Trade again to see if they're starting to prepare things up but nah. I looked on the events poster and Lana is NOT listed. So I'm thinking it's a last minute move from her just out of promo and love for the fans. Fml. I adore her.
  17. Trash Magic liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Trash Magic * Lizzy Grant Lower East Side Jams 🎶   
    I'm dead. You're really the best covers maker. She should hire you your whole work is as iconic as she is in my mind, it's like indissociable.
  18. Lana De Los Reyes liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
  19. lazybooklet liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
  20. Arzi liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    Done
     
    How did you lived the incomprehension facing your album Ultraviolence last year?
    I inherited from my father's philosophical side: if things aren't too bad, then they go well. I feel privileged to be able to continue making what I adore. I don't care about critics of my records but they change the way people are going to listen to my music, so as well receive favourable echoes...
     
    Did you then needed this lightness in your life, this nonchalance?
    In a way, it was an antidote to what happened in my life. I needed to make an album that sounds exactly like what I had in head. It was the only way to preserve my vision. I always needed this kind of simplicity. I felt a real nonchalance in regards to the way the music was going to be received and at the same time I was totally obsessed by my craft, my songs. It is the best possible state of mind when you're making an album.
     
    Around you, were there too many people to give their opinion, their advice?
    There is constantly a lot of people and they all emit many opinions about my current album. It's not because I despise them all but... When it comes to produce, in particular the voice, I feel comfortable only if I remain faithful to what I hear in me. I did not recorded Ultraviolence in reaction to anybody or anything: it's just the record I wanted to write, and the way I wanted it to sound like.
     
    Do you worry, in the name of expectations, in front of the blank page?
    I feel very distant from these expectations, doubtless because the reaction from people to my music remains fundamentally different from mine. I just felt overwhelmed at a moment when everywhere everyone said that my music was only extreme sadness, even harmful. The best remedy was to close shutters and to continue to work.
     
    You then thought of escaping?
    Yes, that can be the real temptation, in several possible manners... My brain and my imagination tend to turn at top speed, my escapes are thus rather physical - to move out for example. I feel the need to live something different, neurologically or physically... I always found ways to escape. And without resorting to imaginary friends; I have never had some.
     
    Can you sometimes just slam the door?
    It is always possible to run away. The big problem, is that everywhere where I go, I leave with my own self. Thus it is complicated for me to escape as I would wish it. The two places were I succeed it are at the beach and while driving. For a long time, my own music was my most beautiful source of escape... When it became more concrete over the years, it became my reality, what I tried to escape. Nevertheless, I have a visceral relation to music, it is one of the most intimate and most natural things for me. In terms of pleasure, I place it on the same level as sex.
     
    Why does music took such a place in your life?
    Because I was intended to make some. I contented with making what I was supposed to make and that totally invaded my life. It is what arrives when we are on the right track. Until a few years ago, I considered certain musicians as an enormous inspiration. I felt a lot of love for them, but in a healthy way! I recently lost a little of this connection.
     
    You sing a bit of a text from David Bowie on the album. Was he always in your pantheon?
    Sometimes, when you sing and improvise, sentences appear from nowhere... I hope that he won't mind. But I am convinced that his words appeared for a reason, thus I never changed this line. He's such an exciting soul. He comes of an extraordinary period, with all this music, the art, the energy of the time. (We tell her about a photo gathering, in 1973, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed) I would have adored living in this era, with incredible friends!
     
    To what extent did your relationship to the craft of singing evolved since your beginnings?
    Since a decade, I completely dived, with delight, into this craft. I remember with tenderness my first steps, even if it's very far... But recently, I less cared about structures, compositions, I let things create themselves, naturally. To be honest, this musical freedom is exciting, I feel blessed. It's as if you escaped from structures which until then defined you and that you evolved in another psychic dimension, that you pushed back the limits of your soul thanks to the words and to the melodies...
     
    Are you technically very involved?
    In terms of sounds, arrangement, production, it's fundamental for me to be very precise. On an album, the part dedicated to the mixing and to the mastering takes an enormous deal of time. With my producer and my engineer, I am totally involved in this work. With me, long after I stopped composing songs, the production evolves constantly, until the last minute. I am thus very fastidious on this aspect too, which takes me a lot of time. I however felt more fluid, more eloquent with the "language of the music" when I was younger... I have already said many things in my records and I had many experiences these last two years which eventually ended up parasiting the transmissions, the translations between the muse and me.
     
    What did you change in your working methods for Honeymoon?
    Not much, I contented this time with not looking for a second producer to disrupt the sound of the album as it had begun. Last year, I made everything with Rick Nowels before taking this album to Dan Auerbach. This time, I stayed in studio with Rick and we finished everything together. He is at the same time my partner and a dear friend.
     
    Did a word, an idea defined the aesthetics of this new album?
    The song Honeymoon defined the tone, with Music to Watch Boys to. I adore the idea of "honeymoon", it's the peak of a romantic relation... It's even supposed to be the most beautiful moment of the life of a woman... I probably tried to make my life more beautiful than it was. All the feelings, all the concerns which I feel, all the questions I ask myself about the future influence the words, of course, but also the melodies... Other than that, I did not feel outside influences for this album, if it is not for jazz and trap music, that marked the production of both songs.
     
    Do you remember your first guitar?
    My uncle Tim had lent me his, I did not kept it, it stayed at his home.
     
    Where does your nostalgia comes from?
    I'm thinking all the time, I'm rather contemplative, my passion for beautiful movies doubtless explains why my aesthetics can be thought of as nostalgia... I also am very romantic: the combination of all this is maybe called nostalgia. I prefer to think that I just have very good tastes! Will I one day compose my own soundtrack? Who knows, it's maybe written in my future...
     
    What would you like to change in you?
    I would want to live without concern, without fear.
     
    This interview is so amazing, I really love her answers here
  21. writtenxrabbits liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    asahjkhjaksh is she naked
     


    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
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    She looks so youthful and plump her cheeks are as pink as her lips
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    I've found some HM promo completely by chance while going to find her a florist to give her blue hydrangeas for tomorrow!!!! It's a giant screen so I couldn't take good photos but I'm so motherfucking hyped I can't even swallow I'm DYING of stress!!! I'm so glad she's doing promo!! 
     


    Btw I went to Rough Trade again to see if they're starting to prepare things up but nah. I looked on the events poster and Lana is NOT listed. So I'm thinking it's a last minute move from her just out of promo and love for the fans. Fml. I adore her.
  24. annedauphine liked a post in a topic by Kommander in Lana covers Les Inrockuptibles (France) September 2015   
    Come through Lizzy !
     
    Thx for the translation <3
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    Done
     
    How did you lived the incomprehension facing your album Ultraviolence last year?
    I inherited from my father's philosophical side: if things aren't too bad, then they go well. I feel privileged to be able to continue making what I adore. I don't care about critics of my records but they change the way people are going to listen to my music, so as well receive favourable echoes...
     
    Did you then needed this lightness in your life, this nonchalance?
    In a way, it was an antidote to what happened in my life. I needed to make an album that sounds exactly like what I had in head. It was the only way to preserve my vision. I always needed this kind of simplicity. I felt a real nonchalance in regards to the way the music was going to be received and at the same time I was totally obsessed by my craft, my songs. It is the best possible state of mind when you're making an album.
     
    Around you, were there too many people to give their opinion, their advice?
    There is constantly a lot of people and they all emit many opinions about my current album. It's not because I despise them all but... When it comes to produce, in particular the voice, I feel comfortable only if I remain faithful to what I hear in me. I did not recorded Ultraviolence in reaction to anybody or anything: it's just the record I wanted to write, and the way I wanted it to sound like.
     
    Do you worry, in the name of expectations, in front of the blank page?
    I feel very distant from these expectations, doubtless because the reaction from people to my music remains fundamentally different from mine. I just felt overwhelmed at a moment when everywhere everyone said that my music was only extreme sadness, even harmful. The best remedy was to close shutters and to continue to work.
     
    You then thought of escaping?
    Yes, that can be the real temptation, in several possible manners... My brain and my imagination tend to turn at top speed, my escapes are thus rather physical - to move out for example. I feel the need to live something different, neurologically or physically... I always found ways to escape. And without resorting to imaginary friends; I have never had some.
     
    Can you sometimes just slam the door?
    It is always possible to run away. The big problem, is that everywhere where I go, I leave with my own self. Thus it is complicated for me to escape as I would wish it. The two places were I succeed it are at the beach and while driving. For a long time, my own music was my most beautiful source of escape... When it became more concrete over the years, it became my reality, what I tried to escape. Nevertheless, I have a visceral relation to music, it is one of the most intimate and most natural things for me. In terms of pleasure, I place it on the same level as sex.
     
    Why does music took such a place in your life?
    Because I was intended to make some. I contented with making what I was supposed to make and that totally invaded my life. It is what arrives when we are on the right track. Until a few years ago, I considered certain musicians as an enormous inspiration. I felt a lot of love for them, but in a healthy way! I recently lost a little of this connection.
     
    You sing a bit of a text from David Bowie on the album. Was he always in your pantheon?
    Sometimes, when you sing and improvise, sentences appear from nowhere... I hope that he won't mind. But I am convinced that his words appeared for a reason, thus I never changed this line. He's such an exciting soul. He comes of an extraordinary period, with all this music, the art, the energy of the time. (We tell her about a photo gathering, in 1973, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed) I would have adored living in this era, with incredible friends!
     
    To what extent did your relationship to the craft of singing evolved since your beginnings?
    Since a decade, I completely dived, with delight, into this craft. I remember with tenderness my first steps, even if it's very far... But recently, I less cared about structures, compositions, I let things create themselves, naturally. To be honest, this musical freedom is exciting, I feel blessed. It's as if you escaped from structures which until then defined you and that you evolved in another psychic dimension, that you pushed back the limits of your soul thanks to the words and to the melodies...
     
    Are you technically very involved?
    In terms of sounds, arrangement, production, it's fundamental for me to be very precise. On an album, the part dedicated to the mixing and to the mastering takes an enormous deal of time. With my producer and my engineer, I am totally involved in this work. With me, long after I stopped composing songs, the production evolves constantly, until the last minute. I am thus very fastidious on this aspect too, which takes me a lot of time. I however felt more fluid, more eloquent with the "language of the music" when I was younger... I have already said many things in my records and I had many experiences these last two years which eventually ended up parasiting the transmissions, the translations between the muse and me.
     
    What did you change in your working methods for Honeymoon?
    Not much, I contented this time with not looking for a second producer to disrupt the sound of the album as it had begun. Last year, I made everything with Rick Nowels before taking this album to Dan Auerbach. This time, I stayed in studio with Rick and we finished everything together. He is at the same time my partner and a dear friend.
     
    Did a word, an idea defined the aesthetics of this new album?
    The song Honeymoon defined the tone, with Music to Watch Boys to. I adore the idea of "honeymoon", it's the peak of a romantic relation... It's even supposed to be the most beautiful moment of the life of a woman... I probably tried to make my life more beautiful than it was. All the feelings, all the concerns which I feel, all the questions I ask myself about the future influence the words, of course, but also the melodies... Other than that, I did not feel outside influences for this album, if it is not for jazz and trap music, that marked the production of both songs.
     
    Do you remember your first guitar?
    My uncle Tim had lent me his, I did not kept it, it stayed at his home.
     
    Where does your nostalgia comes from?
    I'm thinking all the time, I'm rather contemplative, my passion for beautiful movies doubtless explains why my aesthetics can be thought of as nostalgia... I also am very romantic: the combination of all this is maybe called nostalgia. I prefer to think that I just have very good tastes! Will I one day compose my own soundtrack? Who knows, it's maybe written in my future...
     
    What would you like to change in you?
    I would want to live without concern, without fear.
     
    This interview is so amazing, I really love her answers here
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