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I also love the Honeymoon cover, perfect for what the Honeymoon album was about- Eizabeth and Chuck on a bus tour of  celebrities homes of which Lana Del Rey's is one of them and the inner struggle between the two them with the agreement to go forward at the denouement
 
"Somewhere between Sunset Blvd. and Mulholland Drive lies Honeymoon"
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yeah i need a distraction from this late capitalist hellscape

If you aren't terrified by this you need to wake up

As we begin day 5 of Trump's presidency, let's review what he's done so far...   *Reinstated the gag rule *Approved the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines *Requires the pipelines hire only Americans *Removed America from the Trans Pacific Partnership *defunded international Planned Parenthood *Banned immigrants and refugees from 6 countries *Censored the National Park Service from posting climate facts *Threatened martial law on Chicago, which could potentially become a genocide mission *Limited what EPA employees can publish on social media and release to the press *Loosened environmental reviews and regulations to benefit climate ruining companies *Froze federal hiring *Requires that for every new federal regulation two existing regulations must be eliminated   What will / could happen in the next few days: *Supreme Court Judge replacement *Cancel federal funding to sanctuary cities *Overturn of anti-lgbt discrimination laws *Plans to defund public art programs, including NPR and PBS *Plans to build the wall some of y'all swore wasn't actually going to happen *Passing of a bill stating all life begins at conception, which could ban all abortions *Cutting of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Medicare and Medicaid; which is an attack on disabled, poor and elderly people *Complete federal defunding on Planned Parenthood *Full legalization of racial profiling *Defunding of part or all of NASA  
but you know... he's not really dangerous, we're all just "overreacting"
 
I'm honestly petrified right now. All of this damage in just a few days... what's going to happen in the next 4 years? 

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

Omg you guys are killing me with these bee memes I forgot what we were all really here for...for a second

Omg you guys are killing me with these bee memes I forgot what we were all really here for...for a second

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

Omg you guys are killing me with these bee memes I forgot what we were all really here for...for a second

Flying for 3 years,

is that enough for you bee?

Carry me to my hive,

I can't do this anymore.

 

i wish i was ur bee

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

As a present for helping you with your headphone situation..leak Your Girl
 
"You saved our lives. We are eternally grateful"
-Toy Story

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

So glad YAIL is Young and In Love, it's such a perfect Lana title imo. I'm excited we actually know SOMETHING about the album now!

"Video Games"

 



 

The song that started it all; a moody, dramatically romantic 5-minute ballad about “letting go of [her] musical ambitions and settling down into a simple life with a person [she] loved”.

 

Written by Lana Del Rey herself, composed by Justin Parker (who worked with Ellie Goulding, Rihanna and Sia right after collaborating with Del Rey) and produced by Daniel Omelio and Brandon Lowry (Robopop), “Video Games” features haunting sustained piano chords, gentle strings, subtle electronic elements, passionate vocals and some of her finest lyrics to date, introducing us to the Lana Del Rey world: beautiful, innocent women terribly in love with bad guys.

 

“Video Games” was an instant classic. “I knew right away that it was a pretty epic piece of work and that it would put her on the map and define her as an artist,” Omelio said back in 2012. “It was such a heartfelt and real piece of music, that I felt sure that people would connect with it right away.” And it definitely did; it went Top 10 in twelve European countries and even hit No. 1 in Germany and Luxembourg. This long, dreamy lullaby performed so well in the continent that it is considered to be one of most successful songs ever in France.

“I would play my songs [to my label], explain what I was trying to do, and I’d get ‘You know who is No. 1 in 13 countries right now? Kesha,” Lana told T Magazine. “It was too dark, too personal, too risky, not commercial. It wasn’t pop until it was on the radio.” That’s exactly what this song and the whole Lana Del Rey persona did: she turned what it was risky, anti-EDM into the mainstream. Suddenly, slower songs hit the charts on which Katy Perry and Lady Gaga were dominating. An entire indie culture met the pop world and transformed into a sudden obsession for “retro vibes”, visual and musical textures and post-Born to Die kids like Halsey and Lorde.

 

Its iconic video, a “moving collage” as described as Dazed, was just so brilliantly simple that the industry and general public started to conspire; Did she really edit this video herself? How did she get a contract with a major label? Is her dad a millionaire? Are her lips real? She’s not a feminist.

 

Lana Del Rey was then a young woman opening her heart to the whole world. Yes, “It’s all for you / Everything I do”, “Only worth living if somebody is loving you” – among other lines – could come off as controversial, but she’s just another human being deeply, wrongly in love. Of course men are able to sing about dying over perfect bodies and great sex with multiple women, but Del Rey wishing to spend her life with an unrequited love is a bad example to young girls.

 

At the end of the day, “Video Games” was just a taste of what was yet to come: the most interesting and unique female artist of the 2010s. A modern classic Del Rey should always be proud of.

 

Recommended article: Robopop on the process of “Video Games”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVyluf1a-oI

Lana Del Rey's major label debut Born to Die will turn 5 this month, and we will celebrate its 15 tracks during the next 15 days, until it officially turns half a decade old on January 27.

Now I desperately want her to do something super sexual like StarGirl plz.

i feel like the concept on hm and tly is pretty similar but tly is way better executed. i can understand how someone can dislike it though since it's pretty slow and "uneventful" so it can seem boring in the context of hm.
 
i just listened to hm and it's so weird how art deco is a standout track for so many on here but when you place art deco next to any other lana album it doesn't seem like a stand out track anymore. this pretty much shows why so many people say hm is the "most boring one". it's not bad but it's rather luke warm only.

Still mad about this bc her outfit and set looked gorgeous in colour from all the photos we got and then she put an ugly black and white filter on it

Now I desperately want her to do something super sexual like StarGirl plz.

I agree with this. It shows us the transition in Lana's sound. Kind of like how Big Eyes and Wait For Life were the transition sound from UV to HM imo.