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I think Lanaboards is trying to hook me up with some Indonesian singles in my area? Hmm, i wonder if any of these Indonesian singles will end up being in the FRIENDZONE or in the FLIRTZONE. I'll let you guys know when i come back from my dates. P.S. I like how Lana Del Rey THE MUSE has an arrow perfectly pointing at a strand of her hair. P.P.S. Lana Del Rey THE MUSE sounds like a Love Lana Like Life song title, no?

It was intentionally condescending and i was including myself in the group being condescended to. Call me presumptuous, but i just heavily doubt that anyone here really knows about the complex web that makes up the various sects of the Illuminati throughout history. Even speaking very generally, what do we really know about it? Discussing it in the context of this forum is absurd. Can we really have a meaningful conversation about it? I would say not considering that the thread opened up with the OP asking us if we believe that Lana Del Rey is in the Illuminati (which, by the way, he offered no explanation whatsoever as to why he believes that she is). Re: Catholics and Masonry: Speaking only for myself here, look at the tense of what i wrote: "Lots of Masons were Catholics, by the way. A lot of that stuff was just white men getting together to drink and be assholes." You're talking about very recent Catholic doctrine. What is Masonry these days anyway? Widows of Masons gathered at the local library to play checkers? A compass and the letter G obscured on the facade of the theater in the center of town? EDIT: I just saw your edit and you're right--18th Century. That's what i meant, 1700s...dyslexia of sorts

By the way, lest my first post gets misunderstood, i was including myself in that--i don’t know shit about the Illuminati. My point was that, being that it is a rich culture and huge area of study that spans centuries, covering religion, government and politics, social class, war, history, etc. i sincerely doubt anyone here truly knows much about the actual Illuminati--not "the Illuminati" as it’s understood today in popular culture/conspiracy theorist circles--to "speculate" on anything about it. This thread just screams of trolling to me and there’s been an overwhelming amount of this shit around here lately. I’m sure i’m not the only one who’s tired of it.

You’re right, i spoke too soon. I should have known that Lana Del Rey fans who, like, once watched a video on YouTube about Rihanna with the word Illuminati in the title, or heard something about something from someone who knows someone, would be well informed on various secret 16th Century Bavarian organizations. Hey, maybe litewave will come into this thread and shut me up with the ultimate analysis of Lana Del Rey, which ties her to a rich lineage of Bavarian esotericists. Lots of Masons were Catholics, by the way. A lot of that stuff was just white men getting together to drink and be assholes.

Nobody here even knows what the Illuminati is.

But...isn't it all about what baby wants? Like, when baby wants McDonald's, baby should get McDonald's. And when baby wants Lizzi del Ray to do something, Lizzi should do what baby wants. Is this not the case? I am so such confusedest. Whare am i? You are making the walls of my reality tunnel come crumbling down.

Man, i really dislike these photos

What is it, a simulacrum of the ninth dimension? Maybe the hardcore fans thinking that it's real and that it's an album is part of that whole cult thing that ataraxia is always talking about .

I cannot believe how fixated the media (and the public) is on appearances and superficialities, and how "news" is totally created when there isn't any.

I think amidst the speculation in this thread, one thing is certain: The Kick Drums can suck Rocky's dick, bruh. In all caps, of course.

Even though i don't care at all for Burning Desire, i would totally get behind an LDR jailbreak video. That would be amazing. 1. I think what she meant in that interview is that the label (and even her team of writers/producers) felt weird about her simply recording the song. I don't think she was referring to its release as a single. She also mentioned that once she started working on the song, people changed their minds about it. And at this point it's very clear now that the song has "hit potential." 2. US radio doesn't play her music anyway, regardless of explicit language.

I'm not necessarily talking about the amount of equipment but the equipment itself (like, what are those little $100 shitty premaps even doing there?) and the fact that they're going into a Macbook, unless there's a board sitting right where the pictures are taken from, but i don't think so because look where the engineer's chair is set up and where the monitors are positioned (although that part makes no sense to me). But even more importantly is the room itself. Everything about this just looks like a little "project studio." It's definitely not a room for tracking--you obviously don't track in a room with shit hanging on the walls, gaudy lamps, and a big leather couch, haa. And look at those workstation keyboards, those seem to me like typical home/project kind of gear. I don't know that i'd call anything on BTD and Paradise amazing sounding from an engineering standpoint High fidelity and completely adequate for a big, major release, yes. But very by the book, lacking character kind of recordings. But i think you're right that they're recording ideas/sketches for some other, bigger project, perhaps, as you suggested, demoing something for those films she's mentioned. They are for sure recording though, it's not just a mock promo set-up.

I need to tell you guys something. I think i often will things into being. Two days ago i was thinking how frustrating it is that given how many pictures exist of Lana, there are never any of her recording, and how i much i wish that there were. And now here we are. This has happened with a bunch of other things before too. So...i’m now taking requests to will something else into being. Based on the room itself, the equipment, and the set-up, i'd say this is just a project studio and that she’s probably just recording some demo stuff (i pray this is not what a real session for a major label artist looks like these days), despite the fact that she’s singing into a $5,000 mic, ha. Also, remember when i made a joke that she probably doesn't use headphones when recording vocals? I guess it’s true! I fully endorse the headphones pictured hanging on that mic stand though, as i'm wearing those right now Or a collaboration with the band Trans Am

Gee, when you lay them all out like this and i read them all together, it really makes me pause and wonder how/why i got so heavily into this artist in the first place.

You might be surprised to know then that the US media really doesn't give a shit about issues like a white person wearing a Native war bonnet.

It's not. There are considerable differences. When people first started talking about hearing it on the radio a few days ago, my suspicion was that, like the Summertime Sadness radio mix, it would be based on the demo with a few changes (a reworking of it, not a rerecording). But i think this is actually a different recording altogether, though it's hard to tell because the quality is so low.

Second Arrest in Lana del Ray Fan Community (Associated Press) -- A user on an internet forum dedicated to pop sensation Lana del Ray has been arrested for bootlegging concerts. The user, who goes by the alias "Evil Entity" [sic], was reported to have uploaded a post to the forum, detailing his elaborate plan to start up a bootleg business of del Ray's concerts, encouraging other forum members to join his enterprise. The arrest marks the second within the singer's nascent fan community, coming just months after the FBI's involvement in putting an end to another fan's hacking of the personal computers of both del Ray and another popular, female vocalist. At this moment nothing is known about the user "Evil Entity" aside from being very, very old and heterosexual--a rarity amongst the singer's primarily young, homosexual fanbase. The web forum, www.LanasBored.com, despite often being erroneously indexed as a pornography website, is a place where fans from all over the world have been known to gather to dissect the controversial singer's enigmatic past. The 25 year old del Ray is currently preparing her next single, the explicit track, Coca Cola, from her latest release Born to Die in Paradise.

Lanalysis? I haven't even read that It's a lot simpler than that--what i meant was that everything else she's done (all the unreleased produced tracks, AKA, BTD, Paradise) carries the influence of other writers and producers, so what we're hearing has undoubtedly been, to a certain extent, filtered through and shaped by other people--it is the result of a collaboration. Sirens is simply her with an acoustic guitar, no production and, presumably, no co-writers, written and recorded at a time when she was creating with significantly less eyes and expectations on her; she, for all intents and purposes, didn't really have an audience, so it's more akin to creating in a vacuum. The a cappella demos, i would say, fit this description even more so because it's her at home on her computer, using nothing but her voice, being not only responsible for every single note of music and the way it's arranged, but also entirely dictating the direction of the recording, consulting no one, absent of anyone else's input (okay, maybe she asked Mike, "Hey, what do you think of this? ) and recording it not with the intention of showcasing it publicly. Lyrically, i don't see why any one project would be any more or less her than any of her other projects.

Sirens is probably the most "her" out of everything she's ever done, except maybe the a cappella laptop demos.

That's how i've always heard it labeled. It seems accurate for two reasons: Her singing on the 4:00 one is in the style that she's been moving toward since BTD (generally singing in a lower register and in a more, i don't know, "somber" and "sultry" manner), and the pre-chorus ("I wear my red lipstick...") in the 4:00 one is chopped in half--likely to be an edit from the longer, preceding version.

They're both the same, she only rerecorded her vocals. Same exact backing track. Supposedly the rerecorded vocals are the ones she sings low the whole way through, but, you know, that's probably hearsay. I thought we were all calling the pre-chorus one "demo 2"? And demo 3 is the really minimalist one (which i really doubt was the one that was on the sampler--that was probably, in actuality, the first demo recorded). Yes.

Whoa, i just awoke from a deep slumber in which an alien spirit contacted me and, with complete certainty, assured me that every single song on Born to Die (including the bonus tracks) and Paradise is going to be released as a single in various markets around the world over the next three years!

? 2/3 ain't bad Oh, i thought your whole thing was to mix TPE songs in with BtD to make TPE more "listenable," but i just went back and checked, and i see that it was non-BtD songs you were mixing in. Well, i think, besides AKA, everything of Lana's has the potential to be hit-or-miss. I gave her AKA first not only because i think it's the best stuff and what she would probably like the most, but also because it's such a solid album straight through. I thought she'd appreciate some of the BtD demos more than the album versions, and that she'd appreciate Paradise songs mixed in with different sounding stuff rather than as a straight-through album, so i thought this approach made sense. Basically, i wanted to showcase Lana's wide range of styles.

Dangerous combo.

I recently made my girlfriend 3 playlists and i thought i’d share them in this thread, though i don’t think they would be particularly well-liked (what does this emoticon mean?) I’m a big fan of playing really disparate things right next to each other but still following some sort of “logic,” and she likes that too, so that’s how i approached at least part of these. I had already given her a copy of AKA, and she eventually asked me for more stuff, but, rather than giving her the rest of the albums + a selection of unreleased stuff, i wanted to give her a collection that was all-encompassing (excluding AKA), dictated by which songs i thought she would like. I spent a good amount of time with the flow from song to song, as well as the overall arc of each playlist. I also had to play with the space in between tracks so that songs would flow from one another as i wanted them to--some songs sound great going right into the next, whereas others benefit from varying amounts of silence in between.