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I love this song so much, one of the best on Born To Die. I've seen many fans look down on it just because it's her most popular but either way it's beautiful, especially the bridge

I love this song so much, one of the best on Born To Die. I've seen many fans look down on it just because it's her most popular but either way it's beautiful, especially the bridge

I love this song so much, one of the best on Born To Die. I've seen many fans look down on it just because it's her most popular but either way it's beautiful, especially the bridge

“Summertime Sadness”

 



 

“I realized that she was a brilliant songwriter and a magical artist,” said Rick Nowels on the process of “Summertime Sadness” – “She writes the kind of music I want to listen to”.

 

The duo met in summer 2011 and they’ve composed some of the finest pieces in Lana Del Rey’s career. Most of the time, Lana writes the words and Nowels works on chord progressions. “I could hear the chords to songs from a young age, so I would always figure out how to play songs that I liked,” he says. In 2013, a remix by Cedric Gervais made the song globally popular, making “Summertime Sadness” Del Rey’s highest charting single to date. At first, she was okay with it. “I didn’t know I could dance to my music,” she said to NYLON. However, during a show in Las Vegas, Lana publicly expressed her negative feelings towards the remix.

 

Its music video, one of her most popular to date, features Lana and Jaime King as a suicidal couple. The storyline was controversial enough to gain attention from both critics and the general public. The focus, however, shouldn’t be the suicide itself – “It's about not being able to live without the one you love,” King explained.

 

Sitting in my room right now, listening to each song. 
 
"Video Games" came on and I just started crying because I still love this song so much, even after all these years. It's probably my favourite song on this album just because of the fact that it was the first Lana song I've ever heard. I fell in love with her immediately. 
 
And now, even after five years, it still has that special atmosphere, I feel so safe and peaceful when I listen to it. 
 
She wrote so many beautiful songs for this record and I'm so thankful for having been able to witness her grow and evolve musically. She's the only artist that makes me feel as excited as I get for Christmas when waiting for her to release a new record. 
 
I really love Lana.    

I am almost sure that I will be taken out of context again but,
Let's just say that, from what I've heard so far, she's not going for heavy strings this time around.
If we take Young And In Love as an example (I like that song), the demo is heavy on the strings but the final has lots of drums and sound samples.
I can almost call it a lite, stripped back Born To Die sound. Without the huge hip-hop tempo/beats.
Anyway, I'm not the best when it comes to descriptions so don't quote me on this later.
 
It's nothing like Honeymoon. Not like Ultraviolence too.
 
And from what I've heard, the other track I've heard is an ugly demo and the final is much better.
Fingers crossed.

I agree, this song just captures the dual "lifestyle" you are living in that situation.
 
How others perceive you vs. how you perceive yourself....how everyone just encourages you and sees you having "fun"...inside and when you are alone, making dark decisions to get your fix..that's what others don't see.
 
She encapsulates it so well with this song. One of my favorites. 
 
My favorite live version, I think it really took her back emotionally to that place:
 

I mean to say this in the least pretentious way but I think you gotta have some personal connection to addiction/know what it's like in order to really appreciate Carmen

“Carmen”

 



 

One of the most personal tracks on Born to Die, “Carmen” is a dark ballad about a woman dealing with drugs, alcohol and an attention-seeking behavior. “It is a song I can't say too much about because it's so close to my heart,” Lana said to The Sun. “It's the song on the record I relate to most closely. It's set partly in Coney Island, a place that's been important to me throughout my New York City career.”

 

Its music video, similar to “Video Games”, premiered in April 2012.

 

Imagine sabotaging your favourite artist's entire new album campaign before she has even made any comment about the new album whatsoever just so you can get some attention online and feel exclusive over something the entire world will be able to hear from now til forever when it is released within the next 3 months

@Miss America is right though, just because you stan some unknown indie artist doesn't make your taste better than everyone's, stop with the "I only listen to real music" bullshit, why are you all so conflicted with mainstream pop music? Grow up, a bop is a bop no matter what.

You guys get so offended when someone criticizes your favorite artists but are quick to shout "kill yourself" and shit on other artists when someone else expresses another musical taste. First of all, all the Ariana / Lana collab thing is an OBVIOUS joke. Second, y'all need to check your priorities if an internet joke in a Lana Del Rey forum gets you so worked up .
 
 
Also aleko any problem if i jam to the Summertime Sadness remix? Go pay for stems and disappear

I remember when everyone found the HM cover on the amoeba website the meltdowns, the insults, the denial. The revelation once Lana herself posted about it on instagram. The fake acceptance.
 
We hit rock bottom with that cover, the next one can only ever be better

Hopefully it will be as good as Teenage Dream! 
 

if it is I'm selling my little brother to buy every single thing that will come out of this era, nothing on earth is better than pop lana, not even lana herself

Circus by Britney Spears made me gay in 5th grade

"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

@Masochism an insider after all?!

sis those are lyrics from halsey

Don't insult UV like that

I would be here for a songs full with strings but with some electronica elements added to it, like Frozen 

Not here for drama or anything, I'll keep my visit short. Read at your own caution. Seriously.
 
I am serious. My opinions might spoil your experience. Go away.
 
 
 
 
Oh and if you think I'm lying after all this time, good luck trying to snatch that twitter, instagram, tumblr urls for the album title after it's announced.
Yours truly

Lana is a major artist, signed to a major label, she probably has a similar contract to other pop girls out there. That doesn't mean that she has to make bops and pull a 2010 gaga, but some of u make it sound like she never intented to reach the charts at all? She knew what she was doing when she signed that contract, she knew what she was doing when she was the face for two huge H&M campaigns, her first one was bigger in Germany than the Beyoncé one. Tropico had enourmous budget, you can compare that to the weekend's starboy film. She was the main theme song for a huge baz luhrman movie. And then some of u say that basic irrelevant remix (which was basically irrelevant here and she already had a multi selling record and platinum singles in europe) ruined her being a bubbling under indie artist aka the next coming of fiona apple?
 
You need to realise that her label and team want to get some coins from her and I honestly can't understand how they let her handle things as she did with hm. UV had some kind of schedule at least (which was cancelled). There was a tougher promo schedule for 25 and Adele didn't even need it, just to remind you, she sold out 4 stadium concerts within minutes just a week ago. Lana doesn't need to make a trap record but something that doesn't put her OWN fanbase to sleep would be a good start and probably helpful for her career.

If only Lana served us great quality with Honeymoon. And it's not true that only mass production and lack of quality sells. Urban artists have great sales because they serve actual quality and have a very devoted fanbase. And they are huge on streaming as well.
 
I loathe Hitlor Swift to death, but in the context of a commercial pop record, 1939 was actually good. And this is just one popular example.
 
Halsey and Melanie went Platinum and Gold because of streaming, because their audience is young and is streaming the heck out their albums on Spotify. Even when Lana released the video for Freak, she didn't re-enter the BB200, because her streaming numbers for Honeymoon were the pits that week.
 
And no, nobody is judging the quality by the success, but in the case of some artists and Lana is one of them, quality is crucial to success. People will forgive crappy music a Selena Gomez or Justin Bieber (whose album had some good catchy pop songs on it actually) because they are young and cool to like among teenagers and kids. Lana is an artist that attracts listeners who actually appreciate quality. And when the quality isn't there, people are more critical or desinterested and the album fails. They also lose interest in the long term.
 
It really is that simple guys. Take your stan glasses off. 
 
And for that one member who is saying that the music industry is not changing, dear God. Where have you been? The next week's No.1 on the BB100 is predicted to sell 65k (like, no kidding, 65k!!!). And it's december