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  1. Say Yes to Heaven liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Wayamaya   
    Neat idea! Even if Lana never consciously linked the two tracks, I think Wayamaya must've unconsciously influenced Kill Kill and drawn from the same well of inspiration
     
    besides, they're both Surf Noir classics, and two of my favorite Lana tracks <3333333
  2. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Anthem in Snippets are letting us know that Lana's albums are still concept, and this one is really thought-out.   
    OT but seeing you type these out made it JUST hit me how hilarious Swan Song and DLMBM being one after the other is... she is literally saying "yes, I wrote a song called Swan Song, no, i'm not quitting music". Not that I think it is why she chose that cover, but a clever/funny piece nonetheless 
     
    I like this analysis re: LFL tracklist, CWIMM makes more sense and actually, to me, explains why I felt like it was "out of place" earlier... because it mixes the two sides of the album and is the bridge, it fits neither here nor there, but is its own part of the story. 
  3. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Say Yes to Heaven in Wayamaya   
    I think Wayamaya is an early concept thing of Kill Kill! Slow beginning with barely an inst, and then after the intro there's a "burst" of Hawaiian, beach sounding, instrumental. We get the choruses/verses after the burst of instrumental, same exact thing happens in Kill Kill. Take a look at how Kill Kill was originally set up in The Ocean, it ends with whispering! Just like how Wayamaya does! and we know Wayamaya was done in 2007 with who? Steven Mertens!!!! We also know the version we have is an edit done by Lana and Steven themselves I'm really convinced that Wayamaya was (if not a demo) a lay out for Kill Kill!
  4. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Thunder Revenant in German Lust For Life Interview   
    I'm not good with translations so please tell me if something doesn't make sense/ sounds off and I'll change it. I think there is some pretty interesting information on Change.
     
    "I've got more fun in life now"
    5 years ago shooting star Lana Del Rey amazed and enchanted the world of music with her debut album. On July 21 her fourth record will be released. Which's title is program.
     
     
    I: Mrs Del Rey, your debut record five years ago was called "Born To Die", the new one is called "Lust For Life". Are these album titles documenting where you were standing in your life during the respective time?
     
    LDR: Yes, I've developed in a quite good way, considering my overall feeling of happiness.I am still on the way and growth and chaos will keep me company through my life. But nonetheless I can clearly feel the change. I've got more fun in life than years ago.
     
    I: Is your new song "Change" about this transformation?
     
    LDR: Exactly. "Change" is the last song I wrote for this album. The four words I sing during the chorus are basically saying everything: honest, able, beautiful and stable. That's how I want to be. My whole life is defined by this quest, the quest to belong somewhere, to be part of something. I progressed a lot on this path.
     
    I: How do you know that?
     
    LDR: Because of my behaviour. And the way I deal with people.I've become a lot more relaxed and open-minded. I'msurely more self-assured aswell. In the beginning, I was very afraid, I did not know what people expected from me.I was under heavy surveillance, I lived under a cover everyone wanted to peak under.
     
    I: Why?
     
    LDR: The people were a lot more wary of me than with a lot of other artists. "Video Games", my first single, was very polarizing. I still don't really know why though. Because of that, I had the feeling that I was present in the world of music, but not really a part of it for a long time. By now I'm not afraid to approach people. It's no coincidence I invited a lot of other musicians to be on my new record.
     
    I: Like Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, who's joining you on "Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems"
     
    LDR: Stevie is a friend of my producer Rick Nowels. She's so great, I'd call her a friend by now. Stevie's been doing music for 50 years now, she#s been around in the 70s, she's seen everything. One could be jealous. The Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - this whole sound of that time, I love it to death. Since I ive in L.A., I've been looking for other artists - other people - who feel the same.
     
    I: Did you already got to know a lot of 60s- and 70s-pop fans?
     
    LDR: The funny thing is, I've build a fantastic circle of friends in L.A, who all share this passion. Father John Misty and his wife Emma Tillman belong to those friends. Or Miles Kane and Alex Turner, the two boys from The Last Shadow Puppets. We're some sort of small folk-community. We spread this Laurel-Canyon-vibe I like a lot.
     
    I: Sean Lennon's on the record aswell, participating on the track "Tomorrow Never Came". How did that happen?
     
    LDR: I'm talking about my ideal relationship on that song. The song is one of the few on this album that's now about me. I use John Lennon and Yoko Ono as an example. I imagine the two of them, sitting on a bank in Central Park intimately, this couple prompts romantic feelings for me. So it immediatly suggested itself to ask Sean, since I also really like his music. And he immediatly told me he'd be there.
     
    I: When was the last time you danced on the "H" of the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles , naked, like you discribe it in the duet "Lust For Life" with Abel Tesfaye alias The Weeknd?
     
    LDR: (laughs) Never, that's pretty high! You can't just reach it with a ladder. But there are some pretty cool cafés and the Beachwood Canyon, which has some beautiful, hidden corners.
     
    I: Your voice and The Weeknd's voice go together perfectly by the way.
     
    LDR: Thanks. Our chemistry's right. Abel was one of the first to post the clip for "Video Games" in 2011. I've contacted him and we became friends.
     
    I: a few weeks ago, you've revealed you put a witch-curse on Donald Trump. Did it work?
     
    LDR: (laughs) I don't know. Everything we see of him now is the same as it was during the voting campaigns. He's actually continuing to be the same. Because of that, I'm afraid the curse hasn't worked yet. I'd really wish for a peaceful, chill time, that's what I talk about on the track "Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind" for example. Where did it go, the golden hippie-age? Instead there are threatening scenarios and Trump keeps on adding fuel to the fire. He said some things, women should be afraid of. I just hope nothing bad happens within the next three-and-a-half years.
  5. blackenedrussianpoetry liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Get Free   
    I hear "take the dead out of the sea", in reference to the Dead Sea. 
     
    I think it fits well with the next line, "and the darkness from the arts".
     
    i.e., take the dead out of the dead sea and the darkness from the dark arts 
  6. sprkljumpropegangsta liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Minor General Questions that Don't Deserve Their Own Thread   
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    I wouldn't say the title is *definitely* fanmade
     
    A while back, I asked a similar question, and a member (forgive me for not remembering who) shared screenshots of the original torrent. So far as anyone knows, that torrent is where No Kung Fu originally leaked, and it was leaked under that title. The veracity of that title depends on who that original leaker was, but it seems it must've been someone close to Lizzy (with some speculating that it could've even been David Kahne). 
     
    I can't seem to find the screenshot that includes the leaker's description of the torrent, but here's another screenshot that shows that the NKF title has been linked to the tape since it leaked:
     

     
    So, I suppose there's just as much (if not more) reason to believe that the title's legittt
     
    (Also, assuming that the title "No Kung Fu" didn't just come off the top of a fan/leaker's head, where might it have come from? It's strange enough that I'm willing to believe Lizzy coined it. However, could it be code for something? It sounds like a bit of a stretch, but I can imagine "NKF" being the real initials of a Lizzy title, and in a personal source's reluctance to reveal it, they just assigned a bogus title to the real initials, so it could still contain some nod to the original. Or, perhaps, they got ahold of a CD that Lizzy had written "NKF" on, and they filled in the acronym? It's a puzzling title, to be sure.)
  7. bluejeanbaby liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in What is your favorite snippet from LFL?   
    WTWWAWWKD-- it mixes a sweet, old-fashioned sound and themes (almost WWI-ish to me; curls and corsets and such) with a more modern, loose sound ("throw your hands up and get loose", "lean into the fucking youth"). Aside from that, her high vocals are threatening to kill me deader than Honeymoon
     
    (Get Free and TNC are close runner-ups for me, though)
  8. HunterSThompson liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in What is your favorite snippet from LFL?   
    WTWWAWWKD-- it mixes a sweet, old-fashioned sound and themes (almost WWI-ish to me; curls and corsets and such) with a more modern, loose sound ("throw your hands up and get loose", "lean into the fucking youth"). Aside from that, her high vocals are threatening to kill me deader than Honeymoon
     
    (Get Free and TNC are close runner-ups for me, though)
  9. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by urbannoize in Lana's collaborators give Entertainment Weekly an inside look on Lust For Life   
    I can never get enough of the behind the scene stuff when it comes to a making of an album. Especially when it has to do with someone like Lana.
     
    http://ew.com/music/2017/07/14/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-behind-the-scenes/
  10. Say Yes to Heaven liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Get Free   
    I hear "take the dead out of the sea", in reference to the Dead Sea. 
     
    I think it fits well with the next line, "and the darkness from the arts".
     
    i.e., take the dead out of the dead sea and the darkness from the dark arts 
  11. cherriesandwine liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Get Free   
    I hear "take the dead out of the sea", in reference to the Dead Sea. 
     
    I think it fits well with the next line, "and the darkness from the arts".
     
    i.e., take the dead out of the dead sea and the darkness from the dark arts 
  12. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by graham4anything in Snippets are letting us know that Lana's albums are still concept, and this one is really thought-out.   
    Coachella being released when she did, stakes HER as the trendsetter, the one who led the way politically and once again shows how others have followed or will be following her
     
    (in the same way "Terence Loves You" was written and released and sung before David Bowie died (and it was not pushed afterwards as single like some others might have profited off of the song.) Lana's was there before.
     
    and btw, remember too that Coachella came PRIOR to the Selena Gomez concert and aftermath, but is so apropos of that too
     
    as I said, can't think of any song that will top Coachella, I withhold judgement on the album until after the entire album is released to let everyone hear it
     
    btw- on a different thread I said-
    Groupie Love is in a way the direct companion meaning wise to "High by the beach" and part of the meaning of Groupie Love is telling the kiddies if they see Lana at a concert and Lana is attempting to enjoy it as a private person in a public place, give her space. Of course she is so nice she will pose for the selfies and all, but remember, she is trying to enjoy
    the show or atmosphere herself as a regular person would.
     
    But placement is always important in all of Lana's albums, all of which are concept albums.
    (more after Lust for life is released)
     
    @Mr.Meeseeks glad to see another poster who loves concept albums and sees that all of hers are.
  13. the ocean liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Who's Lana on Lanaboards   
    I'm not Lana, but...
     
     
     
     
     
    Also, goodnewseveryone was the user that *continuously* viewed @@Eclipse's profile for... forever? It was an insanely long amount of time
  14. BeautifulAnywhere liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Get Free   
    I hear "take the dead out of the sea", in reference to the Dead Sea. 
     
    I think it fits well with the next line, "and the darkness from the arts".
     
    i.e., take the dead out of the dead sea and the darkness from the dark arts 
  15. Flowerbomb liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Get Free   
    I hear "take the dead out of the sea", in reference to the Dead Sea. 
     
    I think it fits well with the next line, "and the darkness from the arts".
     
    i.e., take the dead out of the dead sea and the darkness from the dark arts 
  16. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by BluVelvUnderground in Snippets are letting us know that Lana's albums are still concept, and this one is really thought-out.   
    I originally posted this in the Pre-Release thread, but thought it'd get more attention here. Wanna explain something I happened to notice while checking out the snippets.

    I honestly think "Love" was meant to set the mood for the album overall. It has the guitar, but it has the "wall of sound" hip-hop to it, as well. And then, from "Lust for Life" to "Coachella", it really is like a stretch of sexy, summer-driven hip-hop tracks and ends on a positive track that is political - and then, we get all the guitars, and the veteran folk singers (or related to them) rather than the contemporary artists that feature in the first half. I think it's very intentional that the last half is going to have a Woodstock-vibe, only through some of the familiar hip-hop additions that modernize classic sounds. "Tomorrow Never Came" sounds very 1967-71 rock. Definitely see where she's connecting the "two generations", and why she probably feels kids looking into vintage music may find it denser if they understand that history is sort of repeating itself through the anxiety of the current political American heat. It's exactly what she said she wanted to do with the album, and her chronology of the tracks seems to really suit that concept. Even at around the half-point of the album, if you count "Love" as just the intro/combination of the two sounds, and "Coachella" the track that moves the hip-hop into its poltical, folk-driven side.
     
    Lana still doing concept, for sure. 
     
    A SORT OF CHART (lol):
     
    INTRODUCTION (folk guitar strings open the album, but blends into spacey, "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)
    01. Love
     
    SEXY, SUMMER-Y, HIP-HOP (7 "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)
    02. Lust for Life
    03. 13 Beaches
    04. Cherry
    05. White Mustang
    06. Summer Bummer
    07. Groupie Love
    08. In My Feelings
     
    THE BRIDGE (a more stripped back hip-hop beat, letting the album kind of cool off a bit before getting more poltically-minded)
    09. Coachella..
     
    POLITICAL "GANGSTA" FOLKY-Y (7 "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises, but more laid back, with heavier guitar and folk featured artists)
    10. God Bless America..
    11. When the War Was at War...
    12. Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems
    13. Tomorrow Never Came
    14. Heroin
    15. Change
    16. Get Free
     
    It's like she takes us from "Coachella" to "Woodstock" by using that track as a bridge. As I predicted, the song works in concept of the album; but releasing it as a single is bizarre. From what we have in the snippets, this album seems to be very well-thought out. 
  17. American Bottom liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Who's Lana on Lanaboards   
    I'm not Lana, but...
     
     
     
     
     
    Also, goodnewseveryone was the user that *continuously* viewed @@Eclipse's profile for... forever? It was an insanely long amount of time
  18. fl0ridakil0s liked a post in a topic by sparklrtrailrheaven in Who's Lana on Lanaboards   
    I'm not Lana, but...
     
     
     
     
     
    Also, goodnewseveryone was the user that *continuously* viewed @@Eclipse's profile for... forever? It was an insanely long amount of time
  19. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Veinsineon in Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread   
    YALL IMM CTFU WTWWAWWKD SOUNDS LIKE THID
     

  20. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Beautiful Loser in Traditional LDR fan art by Clampigirl   
    I waited for help this morning at summer research school and doodled Lana before I realized I might have some articles to read instead.    It doesn't really look like her except for the hair (the nose... it's too straight. I doodled with pens and realized my mistake too late...)
     
     
     
     
    And I still have to finish my Lana the Witch picture (scroll up to see it), but I don't have the time... 
  21. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by Beautiful Loser in Traditional LDR fan art by Clampigirl   
    I sat in the grass a little while as the sun was setting and doodled this, I think' I'll try to finish it this week/weekend. It's Lana the Witch in a manga inspired look because I don't know how to draw humans without a real reference picture and I've always drawn manga so.
    Sorry for the blue quality, that was just how my phone wanted to take it.
     
     
     
  22. sparklrtrailrheaven liked a post in a topic by annedauphine in Groupie Love (ft. A$AP Rocky)   
    Deadass one of her absolute best released songs, really can't get over it. Just wanted to point out that everytime after "playing guitar" at the beginning I expect to hear "I could be baaad for you baaabe", it gives me big Hangin Around vibes which is fitting considering the theme of the song. I love this
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