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I want to know what date the interview took place and the photos. Her comments about the Flipside book on the BBC interview and the tone of this interview (seemingly, let's wait to judge til we read it's entirety) don't seem in sync

^What?

Just saying -- it would be weird to take on the social stigma (especially being that her career is based on public-image to an extent) of being a recreational drug user if you've never been one. It is labeled as a deviant behavior and I doubt many sober people would find getting high as appealing or glamorize it as Lana has. She has publicly talked about struggling with alcoholism and it seems likely that she has struggled with depression, so it is not a stretch to think that she has ever used recreational drugs. Disregarding the fact, of course, that she references herself using drugs throughout her entire catalog, released and unreleased.

feather head piece is the new flower crown. you heard it here first at LanaBroads

I really like this shoot and wish something like this was used for the UV cover, so I made this

I'm sorry to disappoint you but it's just her usual autograph / signature. "Lots of Love. Lana Del Rey."  

Got this from a thread in LB. It seemed to be just unreleased songs, so I tried to add some released ones but undoubtedly I'm missing a lot.
 
Boarding School :                 "let's do drugs" ; "I do them drugs" ; "if you wanna get high with me" ; "doing crack" Daytona Meth Hawaiian Tropic:                   "on that crystal meth" Paradise                               "dope" Scarface:                              "Do I look high to you?" St. Tropez                             "Drunk and high"  You & Me:                             "No longer high" ; "make me higher"; "gettin' blazed" Yayo Methamphetamines American:                               "dope" Beautiful Player :                    "Valium" Born to Die :                           "let's go get high" Carmen:                                  "getting high for free" Carmen (demo)                      "cocaine heart" Disco                                      "heroin" Driving in Cars with Boys        "crazy like a drug" Get Drunk                              "using again" ; "Robitussin" Gods & Monsters                    "Dope" Heavy Hitter:                           "overdose"  Making Out:                            "taking drugs" Never Let Me Go                    "you can push your drugs" National Anthem                     "overdosing"; "on our drugs" Off To The Races                   "cocaine heart"  Puppy Love                             "overdose" Junkie Pride Spotlight De-lite                        "dope" Try Tonight                              "to not get high" Us Against the World                "get high for" Velvet Crowbar                         "crack" Jump                                         "mixture of cocaine and heroin" ; "junkie" Breaking My Heart                     "yayo" Florida Kilos                               "white lines"; "baking powder on the stove"; "turning diamonds into snow"; "you snort it like a champ" Cruel World                                "and all of your heroin" Brooklyn Baby                            "I get high on hydroponic weed" Pretty When I Cry                        "next to all your drugs" Sad Girl                                       "peepin' around while he gets high" Is This Happiness                       "takin'/crushin' violet pills" Hollywood                                  "shootin' heroin and speedballs" High By The Beach                    "all I wanna do is get high by the beach" Betty Boop Boop                        "crystal methamphetamine"

I think lana references drugs and getting high as a metaphor for escape from reality, a free ticket to paradise
 
some of her references are pretty hardcore - like I doubt she's shot up or cooked crack; maybe she hung out with people who knew people or whatever. that's the fun of being her fan, we won't know where fantasy and reality melt into one another. Bravo to her, she's got drug cred to a certain extent while seeming to avoid the depths of addiction so far - it's a line lots of people try to walk/snort but not everyone can still look at themselves in the mirror.

I've always felt like there was some kind of connection between them. Not like they met or even knew about each other at first (allthough they certainly did later) but more like they came out of the same movement of mellow, dark and moody music and have the same kind of "sad beauty" aestethic. I could easily see them recognizing themselves in eachothers music.
 
Which is exactly why I'm dissapointed in "Prisoner". They had the potential to do amazing things together and instead we got a really bland track that tries to hard to be "anthemy". Ugh. Hope they'll collaberate in the future when Abel is over his quest for fame. (Not that I blame him, he deserves the spotlight, but his music is suffering from it).

Her voice was so quiet imo. I have to put the volume up to hear her 
 
Nonetheless  I actually love the song 

hope the video is of lana visiting the weekend in prison with a big hat and sunglasses x

And its still increasing lol 

Love The Weeknd, love this sound with Lana, I think this song is gonna be a hit, top 5 and it's not even a single

Now #5 on ITunes.
 
#2 on billboard real time twitter tracks

i made that edit 

i love her

She looks so young! 

The guy with the big bulky black glasses looks so nice

Behind the scenes


http://instagram.com/p/7LUp_mN9DR/

I admit being perplexed nobody in the thread was mentioning it looking like "Loo" (Brit slang for toilet), so I might indeed be odd. You were the closest, so I responded to you. If a lot of people had the same idea, however, I think it's interesting, because photos are so easily duplicated and she could have made it less ambiguous, that is, if somebody around her had actually said "hey this looks like 'Loo of Love' ".  Maybe she was going for "Look of Love" and just changed her mind? Anyway, I don't think you have to interpret it quite as precisely as you do, because it could be a more general and vague "love is in the toilet" sentiment (i.e., she seems upset and quite sardonic). Then again maybe it's a Duchamp/Dada reference. Lana Del Rey, you never know™.

I agree with you but I think that's what makes these V photographs so beautiful - they remind me so much of the Paradise days and as I said before, back to even when I first saw Video Games. In fact I saw that lots of comments on her Instagram posts of these photos were celebratory words to the effect of 'Old Lana is back'.
 
I agree with you in that that I was beginning to doubt whether this era would be as beautiful as any before, especially with the disappointing album art (in my opinion). However, to me these photographs look like a combination of Ultraviolence and Paradise, and they have completely renewed my faith in Lana and I'm looking forward to Honeymoon more than ever. 

I agree with this but that Lana is gone forever. Most artists start really small and then they get bigger, more budget, bigger projects etc but for Lana it was the other way around. She started HUGE, huge marketing, big videos, short films, expensive photoshoots and she was SO successful. Now she's lucky if she gets 1 cameraman and maybe 1 or 2 extras. She's mostly by herself in her videos now.
 
It's her choice tho. We, as fans, enjoyed it but she wasn't enjoying any of it and it made her miserable. She's doing her own thing now and I guess the record label is not willing to invest. I'm glad we're still getting new music 

it says 'lots of love'? i mean i guess it kind of looks like an 'o' but that would be strange