BeautifulAnywhere

Eclipse said the songs sound like HM+ Untouchable5 or whatever so wtf r u guys going on about

Thank God! YIL is just not cute

You & me both dear! I hope she knows how to peg!

S h a k e n  a l r e a d y  (yet really not gonna get my hopes up )

Let's wish for midtempo, girl

Lubed open and ready to go

Thank God! YIL is just not cute

Thank God! YIL is just not cute

Thank God! YIL is just not cute

Is she insulting After the Afterparty in the cut off question right above that? Charli...own your shit
 
Also RT if you do listen to the verses

Lanaboards when the album drops 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNENGq98yQ4

I'm very curious as to what she's waiting to at least announce something.
 
Is she mixing the album still? Is she filming videos? Organizing marketing strategies?
It might be anything.

Will we be celebrating SNL ?

Oh yes, excited for this ! Born To Die... Such a special album in my heart ! 
I was a bit bored of what was being done at the time and then she just brought this breath of fresh air. I was amazed by what I was listening to: the lyrics, the melodies, the cultural references, the themes, the visuals, the interviews, the face, the vocals... It was so much ! 
Video Games (and more particularly Blue Jeans) pushed me to make videos myself and film more. I always thought: "You need to have studied editing/cinema to do these things" and she showed me that you just need a vision and love for that...
 
"Born To Die" sounds timeless (most of it)
I still can't get over "Off To The Races", the flow, the imagery, the strings, the vocals, the delivery, the hard beats, 
"Blue Jeans" is the song that stole my heart
"Video Games" is a modern classic,
"Diet Mtn Dew" is a bop and yet so melancholic (plus the demo versions are fire),
"National Anthem"'s chorus is so breathtaking,
"Dark Paradise" was so unusual to what could be heard back in the day,
"Radio"'s chorus was infectious and was on loop pretty much my whole spring/summer,
"Carmen"'s storytelling is superb,
"Million Dollar Man" needs to be a jazz standard,
"Summertime Sadness" is so gorgeous for so many reasons, those military drums swept me away, the bridge, the chorus,
"This is What Makes Us Girls" took me the longest time to appreciate but now I see the light, the lyrics paint such a vivid picture,
"Without You" is so easy to love,
"Lolita" is so dark and naughty and pow,
"Lucky Ones" is heartbreakingly naive...
 
I feel sorry for every BTD detractor who constantly feel the need to bash this superb album because the truth is; it has a strong identity rooted in a unique universe.
 
No, in all seriousness, I respect everybody's preference. Happy Birthday, BTD, a great album ! 

Damn, that was beautiful! I can't wait to see the rest! :')

Iconic

Pioneer - started a complete new genre of music

"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.

the mixtape is actually happening!!!!!! https://instagram.com/p/BPNxwCoB-9O/

lordt

Enjoy! 

The Blackest Day didn't even question Lana's devotion to her music? I'm sure she's still devoted to her work (she seemed pretty proud when she posted that instagram post) but she's clearly not as motivated at putting it and herself out there as she used to be (otherwise she would have done more than the uo thing and some festivals only..)
 
oh i forgot she also did the live lounge which is the only recorded live performances we've got within the last year(s) ? queen of bubbling under anyone's radar.

i only read the first paragraph cause you wrote too much. stop twisting my words. i never said anything about pop radio singles. plain and simple, i said i wish lana had beyonces WORK ETHIC as in i wish she tried as hard as beyonce on her job and PROMO GAME as in beyonce knows how to promote herself. God, i know youre delusional but stop saying i said something when i clearly didnt 
what is with people here always twisting my words? i go back and read my latest posts on this thread and theyre pretty clear. i think you think way too much into it