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I don't mind Paradise all that much, I do quite enjoy it. However I do prefer UV! It's just something I connect with more on every level. Sound wise, lyrically, and just overall emotionally. It get's me!
 
That being said I am excited for new music and I'm going to try and keep an open mind about it. I am a little apprehensive because I like(d) UV so much. I mean it was an amazing evolution. I just felt like it was a niche maybe she could have played with a little more, at least for me and my ears pleasure! I was really looking forward to it being expanded on.
 
Bottom line new is new lol and I'm sure I'll love it either way. Change is good! I just hope that it is a continued progression forward and not necessarily backward! It needs to start dropping like Y E S T E R D A Y though!

To you who said U l t r a v i o l e n c e slayed. . . . .  . . . . FUCK YES!
 
I'll probably get some flack for this but I think it is probably the one that I prefer over the others.
It just seems cohesive, mature, and just on point for real. Loved it, maybe that's cause I'm older.
 
It was funny at the Dallas show we were sitting next to some young teens and they were talking about 
how ULTRA was the worst album and it sucked blah blah blah, I was like excuse me DAFUQ children lol!
It was so fresh, idk. As for the RIDE cover up there, don't fuck with the original. J U S T D O N ' T !

This masterpiece 

To you who said U l t r a v i o l e n c e slayed. . . . .  . . . . FUCK YES!
 
I'll probably get some flack for this but I think it is probably the one that I prefer over the others.
It just seems cohesive, mature, and just on point for real. Loved it, maybe that's cause I'm older.
 
It was funny at the Dallas show we were sitting next to some young teens and they were talking about 
how ULTRA was the worst album and it sucked blah blah blah, I was like excuse me DAFUQ children lol!
It was so fresh, idk. As for the RIDE cover up there, don't fuck with the original. J U S T D O N ' T !

She believes in the kindness, cleanliness and healthiness of strangers 

I don't mind Paradise all that much, I do quite enjoy it. However I do prefer UV! It's just something I connect with more on every level. Sound wise, lyrically, and just overall emotionally. It get's me!
 
That being said I am excited for new music and I'm going to try and keep an open mind about it. I am a little apprehensive because I like(d) UV so much. I mean it was an amazing evolution. I just felt like it was a niche maybe she could have played with a little more, at least for me and my ears pleasure! I was really looking forward to it being expanded on.
 
Bottom line new is new lol and I'm sure I'll love it either way. Change is good! I just hope that it is a continued progression forward and not necessarily backward! It needs to start dropping like Y E S T E R D A Y though!

I agree that the post could be fake and her descriptions aren't that accurate.
But if this is indeed Lana's statement then I'm quite happy because no matter what "retrofuture" means the new album will not sound like BTD, Paradise or UV

Idk why but her calling it future retro (in case the statement is even real) gives me hope the album cover will have a similar visual ~aesthetic~ as the Endless Summer Tour posters, I'd just love that cause it was such a new and fresh look for her

could these Insta posts be fake? Just sayin

I don't mind Paradise all that much, I do quite enjoy it. However I do prefer UV! It's just something I connect with more on every level. Sound wise, lyrically, and just overall emotionally. It get's me!
 
That being said I am excited for new music and I'm going to try and keep an open mind about it. I am a little apprehensive because I like(d) UV so much. I mean it was an amazing evolution. I just felt like it was a niche maybe she could have played with a little more, at least for me and my ears pleasure! I was really looking forward to it being expanded on.
 
Bottom line new is new lol and I'm sure I'll love it either way. Change is good! I just hope that it is a continued progression forward and not necessarily backward! It needs to start dropping like Y E S T E R D A Y though!

I never found any deep coherence in BTD or Paradise tbh.
BTD is a collection of songs about love, relationships. There are some potentially autobiographical songs (Video Games, Carmen, TIWMUG, Radio?), the rest are conceptual songs but they do not have great coherence (as a result I like most of the songs individually but not as much as an album)
Paradise is an Americana homage, a mixture of imagery and is very hard to name very personal songs to her (autobiographical). As in BTD,  it seems that she develops ideas rather than actual experiences or the experiences are deeply entrenched under the tropes she uses (in my view there is nothing wrong with that until the music is good and the lyrics aren't to cliched)
UV seems to me much more personal than the previous releases. I think that CW, SoC, WC are about her complicated relationship with Barrie, BB, MPG, FMWUTT are about her reception and her critics, OM and TOW are evoking situations when she imagines herself looking back on her life and career. UV is a conceptual song in my view (Who the fuck is Jim?) as is SG but regarding the latter I feel that she's evoking something more personal (her sexual insecurities, that she's only good as a mistress). Maybe is just my interpretation but in UV case I could do these interpretations, so I can listen to the album with the feeling that she's deeply involved with the songs. This is the reason why I like UV more than the first two releases 

I don't mind Paradise all that much, I do quite enjoy it. However I do prefer UV! It's just something I connect with more on every level. Sound wise, lyrically, and just overall emotionally. It get's me!
 
That being said I am excited for new music and I'm going to try and keep an open mind about it. I am a little apprehensive because I like(d) UV so much. I mean it was an amazing evolution. I just felt like it was a niche maybe she could have played with a little more, at least for me and my ears pleasure! I was really looking forward to it being expanded on.
 
Bottom line new is new lol and I'm sure I'll love it either way. Change is good! I just hope that it is a continued progression forward and not necessarily backward! It needs to start dropping like Y E S T E R D A Y though!

I was hoping for Life is Beautiful to be on the soundtrack also! Just to tide me over. Whatever though I don't care. Give me the real shiiiiiitttt. H O N E Y M O O N all day all night, repeat and repeat! 

I love that concept

I hope for a new album that does not simply recycle old material. Lana is very creative and has shown she can cover many different genres well, so I'm hoping Honeymoon is something completely different to anything she's made before tbh.

I hope for an Ultraviolence 2.0

I'm afraid of that tbh. Her sound has been evolving beautifully from album to album thus far, so I'm praying she won't regress with this one.

Let me try to subtlety change the subject
 
Lana Del Ray - indie rock/indie pop. Coney Island/Nevada desert meets Lolita aesthetic.
 
Born to Die and Paradise- trip hop/baroque pop. Faded Hollywood glamour aesthetic.
 
Ultraviolence - desert rock. 70s Laurel Canyon, stripped-down aesthetic.
 
Honeymoon - ? Maybe blues/jazz fusion with a 50s New York aesthetic.
 
New releases are so exciting.

I was hoping for Life is Beautiful to be on the soundtrack also! Just to tide me over. Whatever though I don't care. Give me the real shiiiiiitttt. H O N E Y M O O N all day all night, repeat and repeat! 

To you who said U l t r a v i o l e n c e slayed. . . . .  . . . . FUCK YES!
 
I'll probably get some flack for this but I think it is probably the one that I prefer over the others.
It just seems cohesive, mature, and just on point for real. Loved it, maybe that's cause I'm older.
 
It was funny at the Dallas show we were sitting next to some young teens and they were talking about 
how ULTRA was the worst album and it sucked blah blah blah, I was like excuse me DAFUQ children lol!
It was so fresh, idk. As for the RIDE cover up there, don't fuck with the original. J U S T D O N ' T !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3xSd9m9bA

To you who said U l t r a v i o l e n c e slayed. . . . .  . . . . FUCK YES!
 
I'll probably get some flack for this but I think it is probably the one that I prefer over the others.
It just seems cohesive, mature, and just on point for real. Loved it, maybe that's cause I'm older.
 
It was funny at the Dallas show we were sitting next to some young teens and they were talking about 
how ULTRA was the worst album and it sucked blah blah blah, I was like excuse me DAFUQ children lol!
It was so fresh, idk. As for the RIDE cover up there, don't fuck with the original. J U S T D O N ' T !

ON REPEAT 4EVER !!!   Unreal  
performance !!! #MajorEargasm   She holds that note for 28 seconds.Its fucking unreal!! "so i can climb right baa(2:01-2:28)aack" and she 
 
hits the sweet spot at 2:22-2:28 !!Her voice sounds absolutely angelic/magical/ethereal/celestial at that point!! Its soooo otherworldly !! 

NO

I saw this in the Ultraviolence music video comments on YouTube; thought it was interesting and thought I'd share, but I don't know if this is reaching, or personal interpretation in it's own right.
 
"Man, the symbolism behind this video...I totally understand it. Lots of complaining in there about the video being boring but the kids just don’t get it. The symbolism behind this video is really beautiful…I totally understand it. The symbolism of this song, why Lana wrote it, why she made the music video this way is all part of her story of Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson. She is a Morrison fan as most of you should know, she must know the story behind Jim’s relationship with girlfriend Pamela Courson. He whisked Pamela off her feet at 18 years old and pretty much “raised her up”. Jim was a brilliant poet and great singer for The Doors but he was also quite a womanizer and when Jim drank he could be brutally violent. Pamela could have been described as Deadly Nightshade or Poison Ivy for the way she treated men to get back at Jim. Lana’s lyrics describes their relationship perfectly especially this part: ” We could go back to New York, Loving you was really hard, We could go back to Woodstock, Where they don’t know who we are..” Loving Jim Morrison was EXTREMELY hard from everything I read over the years. Read any bio book on him. Then add Jim’s fame with The Doors which made it even harder for their relationship. Something else in this video that grabbed my attention was that Pam begged Jim to marry her. They always got the marriage license and have that ready to go but Jim would buckle up and never go through with it. In the end, they never married. Jim died of a heroin OD at the age of 27 years old. In his last Will he left everything to Pam. This is why Lana appears alone in this video wearing a 60’s style wedding dress. Lana has a very fragile look throughout the whole video. Very little makeup. White. Hair straight and flowing down. Reminiscent of the way Pam looked during the Bronson Caves photos. Like Pam, Lana is alone in the end of the video. She reached the alter and no one is there. Jim died. She’s alone. In real life, Pam died 3 years later of a heroin OD as well. She too was 27 years old. Thank you Lana for putting so much thought and effort into your videos. That’s why I always love her work. I hope her fans could just dig into them a little more then just scratching just the surface."