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Hey everyone! I made this cover for YMLM based off of the album cover for the original musicals soundtrack.

Nothing crazy. I know the pic is old but I felt it fit. Hope you guys like it!
 

YOU MUST LOVE ME

Sorry my phone was at 1% so I stopped using it midway through the concert but WOW. What a day. So I got to the venue around 12 and there was this really lovely girl that helped me get a place in line. She arrived at the venue around 3 because everyone in line suddenly started running towards the parking lot and me and that girl were so confused but we followed and wow. It’s just so surreal seeing her in real life. Her beauty is no joke. Me and the other girl were seriously stunned. She has a really strong aura. I wish I got a selfie then because she did not come down to the barricade during the show
 
The process of getting to the pit was pretty smooth. We got into our respective lines around 4 and the staff took us to the merch tent before taking us to a waiting spot and then led us down to the venue. The opener was this DJ that played a lot of great tracks. Lana finally came on stage around 8 and kicked off the show with Summertime Sadness. Honestly, I think this show had the best vocals from the entire tour. Really solid all around. I didn’t expect it to be that good. Hearing her voice in real life is just an experience in itself. I was really shocked because she seriously sounded like the studio version of certain tracks at some points. She’s very natural on stage now and I really don’t know why I had doubts about the way she sings now because her voice had such a commanding presence.
I should mention that Ashley and Alex have amazing stage presence. They’re just 100% into the dance and you can feel the confidence and the sexiness radiating from them. Really added a lot to the show, imo.
 
It’s just impossible not to have a million thoughts seeing her perform in person. Thinking about how this is the same lady in all those amazing music videos, the person that wrote all those amazing albums. Yayo sounded heavenly. From what I remember off the top of my head, it was followed by (not in order) White Mustang, Shades of Cool, Cherry, National Anthem, Born to Die, Florida Kilos, High by the Beach, When the World Was at War, We Kept Dancing, Lust for Life, Serial Killer, Off to the Races, and a few verses of GBA. She performed the Change / Black Beauty / Young and Beautiful medley as well. No Wayamaya unfortunately. Lana Del Liar strikes again! She played around with a few lyrics, like in Florida Kilos she sang “people never die in Hawaii.” She also interacted with those hardcore stans a lot. She even threw one of them a necklace. Serial Killer sounds really nice live. Blake was on the piano and it sounded really beautiful. It was so amazing to see the crowd and how much people showed up to see her. I cannot talk enough about her stage presence. It’s just hard not to fall into a trance. When people praise her beauty and energy they’re not exaggerating. Everyone was just so in love, you could see it in their faces. I totally agree that she’s everything you expect her to be. Honestly though, she was kind of intimidating at times. Me and my friend were both scared to make eye contact with her because she seemed kind of annoyed when she looked in our direction LOL. Like idk how I feel about that But yeah, 20/10 experience. Everyone had a good time, barely any pushing besides when she came close to the crowd and I met some of the loveliest people! When we were leaving I actually saw Byron and gave him the letter I was planning to give to Lana when she came down and so I asked him if he could give it to her instead and he said yeah. He’s so chill.
Me and my friend went to wait by the driveway at the end of the concert in hopes we could still possibly snatch a pic with her but we got lazy lol. Omg me and my friend are still laughing about this but when the security guards were leaving, one of them said “thanks for coming, you guys give us a job” and one of those traveling stans were like “Omg I was just thinking about that, how we give them a job.” Like girl
But yeah, I’m really sad I didn’t take a pic with her when she arrived. I’ll probably never see her again. Hopefully she’ll get to read my letter one day!
 
I’m going to post the pics and videos I got from the show on @thegreatdesi.gn if you wanna check it out

I've made more comic inspired covers, I know I'm lazy af but they are cute tho
 

 

 

 
I also sychronized the audio of the professional recordings to some HQ footage of the Eurockéennes De Belfort show in 2012, any opinions? I liked the result and it was really fun to do so I'll probably do more.
 

2 random things i finished a little while ago
 

 

So, after scrolling through what's available on Rob's Facebook, I'm just kind of... in awe. I'd like to make a more detailed, coherent post later, after doing some more reading, to connect him to certain songs -- but, for now, I just need to get thoughts out. Firstly, I'm just heartbroken at all the people who seem to really miss his presence -- he seemed to be a truly sweet guy who really impacted everyone he was around.
 
Secondly, I'm feeling more and more that he's the missing link we've been looking for in Lana's music. I'm not sure if the time fits, but I can't help but reattribute a song like "Kill Kill" -- "I'm in love with a dying man/I have done everything I can..." -- to him, rather than K. I think she could've surrounded him with a lot of metaphorical death imagery, in her fear that she might lose him to drugs.
 
Also, from reading the Facebook posts by his family, I'm gathering that he traveled a lot -- could this be the real-life inspiration for a song like "1949" -- which is obviously lifted from "Lolita", but could also carry a personal meaning for Lana, as she wishes he could take her on one of these globetrotting trips with him? It fits with the themes of "Yayo", of escaping with him. 
 
Also, I can't help but think that he's almost certainly the subject of "For K, Pt. 2", with the original demo being called "Rehab", and such. So, my question is, could she have met Rob early enough that he could be the subject of even the earliest K songs? For one, I know the name K has been believed to refer to a different man in her life, whose name I won't say here, but I really think K could be Rob -- couldn't the "death row" references just be another metaphor for her fear of losing him to death? I'm feeling that she knew he'd hear these early songs (maybe she even played them for him!), so she gave his character a pseudonym, and a fictionalized vice, so he wouldn't know that she was singing about his drug problem.
 
It's a lot to take in, and I may be far off the mark. I read all the info late last night, so I need time to reprocess it, but I thought I'd at least get this initial information out of my head in some way.
 
Also, I don't think this is *actually* significant, but... it's kind of funny. Names and pictures (except for his first name) have been blacked out for privacy, so I hope it's okay to post this here:
 

 
K

i don't recall ever reading this in the lanalysis thread -- in one of the handful of blog posts Chris C did on Lizzy, he shared screenshots of their messages and a poem she commented on:
 



 
the blog is pretty telling. Chris was married w/kids, but talking to Lizzy and another girl named Sarah online. looks like he ended up meeting Sarah, but never met Lizzy before things dissolved. he also seems to suggest that Lizzy didn't really harbor the same feelings for him that he had for her, and he regarded her as more of a muse than a lover
 



 
also, sorry if this has already been shared! it was very new to me

So, last night she performed Get Free again with very nice band participation. Loved the rendition. But I noticed something interesting - when she sang "for Amy and for Whitney" she crossed her fingers, which usually means someone is telling a lie. I know it had been speculated that those two names were just place fillers for the actual names she cut out, but this gesture sort of confirms that.
(1:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBaMbOoHRQI

i don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but it's kind of interesting that the Por Vida cover seems to have been replaced by this image, at least on Amazon and Spotify:
 

 
it seems to me that this could be a means to set Por Vida apart as a mixtape-style project, and not a proper album
hopefully this means the album is on its way

i don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but it's kind of interesting that the Por Vida cover seems to have been replaced by this image, at least on Amazon and Spotify:
 

 
it seems to me that this could be a means to set Por Vida apart as a mixtape-style project, and not a proper album
hopefully this means the album is on its way

Trying to chill in my hotel room before I go and I turn on the tv to this smh

oh my god this slams

I've wanted to do a lana video edit to this song for a while now so I finally did it!
 

Fun edit in the style of James White shoot
 

 

So, after scrolling through what's available on Rob's Facebook, I'm just kind of... in awe. I'd like to make a more detailed, coherent post later, after doing some more reading, to connect him to certain songs -- but, for now, I just need to get thoughts out. Firstly, I'm just heartbroken at all the people who seem to really miss his presence -- he seemed to be a truly sweet guy who really impacted everyone he was around.
 
Secondly, I'm feeling more and more that he's the missing link we've been looking for in Lana's music. I'm not sure if the time fits, but I can't help but reattribute a song like "Kill Kill" -- "I'm in love with a dying man/I have done everything I can..." -- to him, rather than K. I think she could've surrounded him with a lot of metaphorical death imagery, in her fear that she might lose him to drugs.
 
Also, from reading the Facebook posts by his family, I'm gathering that he traveled a lot -- could this be the real-life inspiration for a song like "1949" -- which is obviously lifted from "Lolita", but could also carry a personal meaning for Lana, as she wishes he could take her on one of these globetrotting trips with him? It fits with the themes of "Yayo", of escaping with him. 
 
Also, I can't help but think that he's almost certainly the subject of "For K, Pt. 2", with the original demo being called "Rehab", and such. So, my question is, could she have met Rob early enough that he could be the subject of even the earliest K songs? For one, I know the name K has been believed to refer to a different man in her life, whose name I won't say here, but I really think K could be Rob -- couldn't the "death row" references just be another metaphor for her fear of losing him to death? I'm feeling that she knew he'd hear these early songs (maybe she even played them for him!), so she gave his character a pseudonym, and a fictionalized vice, so he wouldn't know that she was singing about his drug problem.
 
It's a lot to take in, and I may be far off the mark. I read all the info late last night, so I need time to reprocess it, but I thought I'd at least get this initial information out of my head in some way.
 
Also, I don't think this is *actually* significant, but... it's kind of funny. Names and pictures (except for his first name) have been blacked out for privacy, so I hope it's okay to post this here:
 

 
K

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Siren Song  Inspired by her California surrounds, chanteuse Lana Del Rey finds that life imitates art
Lana Del Rey has always been a California girl at heart. Even before she put down roots in Los Angeles, the New York native had an affinity for the West Coast way of life. “I’m very liberal and I always have been. I also really love the organic lifestyle and all the outdoor activities. I’m a real happy transplant,” says the singer-songwriter over the phone. She’s calling from Columbus, Ohio, one of the stops in her world tour, “LA to the Moon,” which kicked off in January in support of her latest LP, the Grammy-nominated Lust for Life.
Del Rey made the move to L.A. in 2012, partly inspired by a greater migration of friends from the music world, including her longtime collaborator, producer and songwriter Dan Heath. She had spent the previous four years “looking for that community [of musicians] that I had heard was in New York when The Strokes and people like Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches were there. I just kind of hadn’t found it. I think a lot of people moved West.”
“It’s where I have the most space to be creative and have time alone and have a lot of privacy—but at the same time, have a lot of amazing, artistic friends”

The music icon quickly discovered what she was looking for. “It’s where I have the most space to be creative and have time alone and have a lot of privacy—but at the same time, have a lot of amazing, artistic friends,” says Del Rey, who rose to fame with her 2011 hit single “Video Games.”
  
 N°21 SHIRT, $1,165. JENNIFER FISHER EARRING, $225. GLYNNETH B JEWELRY RING (LEFT), $89. LILLIAN SHALOM RING, PRICE UPON REQUEST. That streak continued with back-to-back studio albums, starting with her 2012 major-label debut Born to Die, which landed in the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200 and never left the list. (It recently earned the distinction as one of only three albums by a female artist to spend 300 weeks on the chart.) Later that year, Del Rey released an EP, Paradise, which earned her a Grammy nod, as did the song “Young and Beautiful” on The Great Gatsbysoundtrack. Ultraviolence, Del Rey’s first album to reach pole position on the U.S. charts, arrived in 2014, followed by 2015’s Honeymoon.
California has been a source of inspiration for Del Rey in the last few years, often from behind the wheel of her truck (“It’s brand-new, it’s not a nostalgic, 1950s pickup,” she quips. “I’m over my old-car obsession—I’m happy with Bluetooth”), driving along the Pacific Coast Highway. The tony San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, which was devastated in the winter mudslides, was always a favorite destination for Del Rey to recharge.
“I’d say the last two years have been relatively peaceful,” says Del Rey of her current frame of mind, which has since seeped into her work. “I think that’s kind of why my newer record has a little bit of a brighter tone to it, whereas before I was definitely working a lot and on the road 24/7,” she says. “I’m still traveling a lot but I had a lot more to work through a couple years ago, I guess.”
 LOUIS VUITTON BLOUSE AND PULLOVER, PRICES UPON REQUEST. SPRWMN PANTS, $795. ANITA KO EARRING, $2,000.  That shift in perspective shines through on ballads such as “Change,” the last song Del Rey wrote for the album, which addresses the fact that she was seeking change in her life but didn’t know how to go about it. “It was just more like a small bubbling of wanting to turn things around aesthetically in my art and personally as well. I really like the idea that life imitates art and I’ve noticed that in my own work. I knew that good things could follow if I put it out there that I was still trying to grow.”
Born Elizabeth “Lizzy” Woolridge Grant, Del Rey admits to being “one of those people who annoyingly was singing before they were talking,” she says. (“I’m that kind of singer—singing all my sentences. I still do.”) Growing up in Lake Placid, N.Y., Del Rey always knew music would be an important part of her life, but “I didn’t really think I could do it, and sort of have a real career.” After attending a boarding school in Connecticut, Del Rey graduated from Fordham University with a degree in philosophy—all the while chasing her dreams on New York’s nightlife circuit as Lizzy Grant, releasing her debut EP, Kill, Kill, in 2008.
But it wasn’t until she took on the enchanting stage name of Lana Del Rey, and honed in on her signature retro-glam image (think beehives, plumped-up lashes and winged eyeliner) that the artist began to
rack up both musical accolades, and a cult-like following—not to mention more than a handful of infatuated fans. (During her Orlando tour date, police thwarted a kidnapping attempt by one.)
 BOTTEGA VENETA DRESS, $16,400. DAVID YURMAN RING (LEFT), $7,200. TITO PEDRINI RING, $9,500. TIGHTS, STYLIST’S OWN.  While Lust for Life doesn’t break free from Del Rey’s signature, melancholy-tinged songs, it charts new territory with songs such as “Coachella—Woodstock in My Mind,” which reflects on the current political climate. It’s also the first time Del Rey has featured collaborations with other artists on her albums, including The Weeknd, Sean Lennon and Stevie Nicks (the latter is featured on the ballad “Beautiful People Beautiful Problems”).
“I think I was too nervous to do it. I wasn’t sure what people would say. When I got Stevie Nicks to sing with me I wasn’t sure they’d think I was worthy of a Stevie collab, but she was so fabulous in person and she was a fan. So it kind of made me put my guard down a little bit.” 
On days Del Rey is scheduled to perform, she does an entire run-through of the show with her band, before watching a performance by the likes of Whitney Houston or Ariana Grande. “It could be anybody but just something that I can sing along to, to warm up my entire range—to go from my lowest octave, like in ‘Ride,’ to my high Cs and Ds in a song like ‘When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing,’” she explains. 
 VERSACE TRENCH, $3,675, AND CHOKER, $1,225. ANITA KO EARRINGS, $385. JIMMY CHOO SHOES, $695. TIGHTS, STYLIST’S OWN.  Part of her warm-up also includes a guided meditation for 1 hour and 40 minutes—the same length as her show. “I try and kind of balance out how much time I’m going to put out to sort of put that much time in. I mean, saying it out loud, the whole thing sounds kind of crazy, but I don’t think I would do it as much if I wasn’t doing arenas,” she says. “Now I’m going to sound so L.A.”
Standing before packed stadiums, Del Rey is surrounded by a set design that takes cues from her California surrounds, including an oceanscape from Big Sur, projected onto a screen. After all, Del Rey’s world has become her stage. Just take the opening lyric of “Lust for Life”: Climb up the H of the Hollywood sign…In these stolen moments, the world is mine.” 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I THOUGHT BOWIE WAS DEAD

i don't recall ever reading this in the lanalysis thread -- in one of the handful of blog posts Chris C did on Lizzy, he shared screenshots of their messages and a poem she commented on:
 



 
the blog is pretty telling. Chris was married w/kids, but talking to Lizzy and another girl named Sarah online. looks like he ended up meeting Sarah, but never met Lizzy before things dissolved. he also seems to suggest that Lizzy didn't really harbor the same feelings for him that he had for her, and he regarded her as more of a muse than a lover
 



 
also, sorry if this has already been shared! it was very new to me

Yes it seems Heroin is undoubtedly about Rob. I found all of these references to the moon particularly interesting
 

 
I'm flying to the moon again, dreaming about heroin.
 
He seemed to have a strong affinity to the moon

I think so too for many reasons but this is the most obvious
Just from this line alone
“Life rocked me like Mötley bad beginning to my new year” he died dec 30 2011.

I’m sure now Heroin is undoubtably about Rob.

Am I the only one who doesn't like that song omg