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I mean, the BB cover is probably a bit of an acquired taste-- it reminds me a bit of those (sort of tacky  ) blankets and tapestries with wolves or unicorns on them: 

 
But, for someone who has the same interest as Lizzy did in kitsch and other things generally considered tacky, I love it! 

you're so sweet. I worked really hard on BB but almost everyone else I showed it to hated it so I almost didn't post it

My favorites <3
 
I'm soooo digging the  a e s t h e t i c  on the BB cover, and the So Legit cover is ingenious! You sell yourself short, these are great!

I'm really not great at this and most of it is just slapping text on things but the last 3 are my fav since I spent a bit of time on them 
 
In order: B-Sides, From The End, Sirens, The Remixes, The Videos (Lizzy era) The videos (Lana era) Young Like Me

 

I believe @@evilentity, @@annedauphine, and other members are working on an Interviews section as we speak! 

I believe @@evilentity, @@annedauphine, and other members are working on an Interviews section as we speak! 

I believe @@evilentity, @@annedauphine, and other members are working on an Interviews section as we speak! 

she could do a diff. melody with the 'methamphetamines' lyrics 
 
 
wouldn't midnite dancer girlfriend just be Go Go Dancer 

she could do a diff. melody with the 'methamphetamines' lyrics 
 
 
wouldn't midnite dancer girlfriend just be Go Go Dancer 

she could do a diff. melody with the 'methamphetamines' lyrics 
 
 
wouldn't midnite dancer girlfriend just be Go Go Dancer 

This may have been mentioned before, but what do we know about Lana's relationship with Aaron Peer, who made and starred in the short film "Poolside" with her? It struck me that his character is called "Ray" in the film-- at first, I dismissed it as coincidence or perhaps creative input from Lana, but come to think of it, could Ray be a nickname for someone named Aaron? My brother's name is Aaron, and I can't help but think of the way our southern great-grandmother prounounced it-- "Ay-ron"-- which in turn reminds me of Ray.
 
This is a big stretch, of course, but perhaps it would be an interesting avenue to explore-- if Aaron Peer was indeed the "Ray" Lana has sung about (and even apparently named herself after), this could be the first step in unlocking some big mysteries. 
 
Just a thought! 

she could do a diff. melody with the 'methamphetamines' lyrics 
 
 
wouldn't midnite dancer girlfriend just be Go Go Dancer 

Instrumental: Caught You Boy
 
Acoustic Track: Your Band is All the Rage
 
Acapella Track: Methamphetamines
 
Melody: Axl Rose Husband

she could do a diff. melody with the 'methamphetamines' lyrics 
 
 
wouldn't midnite dancer girlfriend just be Go Go Dancer 

I hope this isn't confusing lmfao but what would you want Lana to reuse? There's 4 questions. 
 
Which instrumental would you choose for Lana to reuse?
 
Which acoustic track would you choose for Lana to turn studio?
 
Which acapella track would you choose to be given an instrumental?
 
Which melody would you choose for Lana to rework?
 
Here are my answers
 
Instrumental: Jump
 
Acoustic Track: Disco
 
Acapella Track: Midnite Dancer Girlfriend 
 
Melody: Angels Forever, Forever Angels (Bridge)

This may have been mentioned before, but what do we know about Lana's relationship with Aaron Peer, who made and starred in the short film "Poolside" with her? It struck me that his character is called "Ray" in the film-- at first, I dismissed it as coincidence or perhaps creative input from Lana, but come to think of it, could Ray be a nickname for someone named Aaron? My brother's name is Aaron, and I can't help but think of the way our southern great-grandmother prounounced it-- "Ay-ron"-- which in turn reminds me of Ray.
 
This is a big stretch, of course, but perhaps it would be an interesting avenue to explore-- if Aaron Peer was indeed the "Ray" Lana has sung about (and even apparently named herself after), this could be the first step in unlocking some big mysteries. 
 
Just a thought! 

a few manips I have saved for a while - I have tons more saved
 

 

This may have been mentioned before, but what do we know about Lana's relationship with Aaron Peer, who made and starred in the short film "Poolside" with her? It struck me that his character is called "Ray" in the film-- at first, I dismissed it as coincidence or perhaps creative input from Lana, but come to think of it, could Ray be a nickname for someone named Aaron? My brother's name is Aaron, and I can't help but think of the way our southern great-grandmother prounounced it-- "Ay-ron"-- which in turn reminds me of Ray.
 
This is a big stretch, of course, but perhaps it would be an interesting avenue to explore-- if Aaron Peer was indeed the "Ray" Lana has sung about (and even apparently named herself after), this could be the first step in unlocking some big mysteries. 
 
Just a thought! 

I don't know if this is the right thread for this or not, but I wanted to say this somewhere (and my status isn't enough room)
 
I was re-watching this performance of "Video Games": 
 
 
Seeing Lana break down and cry like that gave me so many feelings. Despite the fact that this heaux has made a lot of artistic decisions I don't care for, and doesn't always do the things I wish she did, I am so proud of her, and I feel like I can't criticize too harshly, because she has worked so hard to get to this point. I bet the girl who was drinking and hangin' around in Lake Placid, or the girl who wrote songs in her trailer in New Jersey, or the girl who played songwriters' competitions and local clubs never, ever thought she'd reach this point. When she was singing "you're gonna love me, I'm gonna make you," did she know how true that was going to be? Did she know she would cover magazines and perform at festivals and have crowds and crowds of people cheering her name? When she took the stage for the first time and sang, did she know what was to come? Thinking about all of this is what makes me love her so much more. She's not perfect, she's certainly flawed-- but she is living her dream and I am so happy for her. I wish the Lizzy Grant of ten-or-so years ago could look forward to now and see what she's become-- I think she wouldn't believe it. Even if her music were to go down the drain, I'll always believe in the artist Lana Del Rey is, and forever be proud of her for having a dream and seeing it through. 

the good sis bey saw the HM vid before it leaked!!
 
leak ha telephone calls so we can hear lana letting bey get insp. from ha video

ooooooh my god, this is my favorite festival appearance so far! she looks sooooo good (no white dress, finally) and she sounds killer!  here's hoping this one's for DVD

Let me apologize in advance for tldr, but in broad strokes she's had several different kinds of impacts:
 
To Pop music: Attention to detail, as in lush orchestrations, melody, emotional expression in melody, and the patience and confidence to go slow. Details are also historical in the sense that she is the fan of older-era music and thinks that there is more to be mined there in terms of extending styles and in terms of dropping references. She's certainly not the first artist to do any of these things, of course. I think she shares with Kate Bush a kind of courage to break from the mainstream and a conviction to do the kind of stuff she likes, and as with Kate Bush, to the extent she succeeds, she encourages other artists to do the same. Also as with Kate Bush, her videography is significant. Comparing LDR's videos to others often seems like comparing The Seventh Seal to The Revenge of the Nerds pt. 3.
 
To Music criticism: BTD debunked music criticism in the sense of showing the critical community could be against something that the general public actually liked. In effect, the critical community could not predict or understand why people liked her music, and as such showed itself woefully deficient at doing their jobs. The issue of "authenticity", while people made a big deal of it, always seemed to me to be a red herring. It was the singing and the music, not an implied message or musical pedigree, that people responded to (and critics did not). I recommend looking at the Tiny Mixtapes reviews of BTD, UV, and HM to see an especially eventful evolution in a critical opinion of her. 
 
To Feminism: I think when the smoke clears it will be the case that LDR's ambivalent stance on feminism actually made her a feminism poster-girl, simply because she did all the stuff expected from males but got blamed for it far more than they did. As such she implicitly defines someone who should be given positive attention by feminists, not negative. Liz Phair made this point about LDR well before LDR's feminism-quote faux pas (I wonder if she still holds that opinion). Another way of stating the argument is this: LDR has songs where she's hung up on a guy, but you don't think Van Halen, Chris Isaak, Frank Sinatra (or countless others) have similar amounts of songs about obsessive love interests? Well if you're ragging on her but not them, then you are in some sense anti-feminist by not supporting gender-irrelevancy in freedom of choice for (legal) human behavior. I think videos like Ride complicate the issue, but they don't undermine them. There the issue is whether art has any moral or social obligation to promote feminism, or any other kind of humanism or pro-social cause, no matter what. Certainly a lot of art does this, and that's fine, but the deeper issue is whether it's a requirement for something to be art (e.g., a lot of people think Nabokov's Lolita is a great book, but the book was still banned by some on moral grounds and/or was not considered art by some).
 
Shout out to Morrissey: I might cite this guy as an "influence" on LDR, but in fact he is just a great precursor with respect to her, meaning he's similar to LDR, imo, but much much more extreme on certain dimensions of behavior. It is therefore interesting to compare his experiences with the media with LDR's. I think he's a great singer/songwriter. He's also sadcore like LDR yet more often upbeat musically. However, his sadcore lyrically is so much more extreme than LDR's, that he's one of the reasons I don't get why people refer to LDR's songs as being sad (I mean compared to him, LDR seems closer to Kimbra). He's also VERY unfiltered with respect to what he will say to the media on issues that are important to him. In particular his comments on suicide are just mind-boggling (e.g., "it's admirable" though he would not elect to do so himself--Larry King 2015 about 16:30 into the interview, and he was one of the few people, in 1995, to have ever said he admired Kurt Cobain's suicide). He is an acknowledged depressive, so the media goes easy on him. He is male too, of course, and I suspect that also helped him. He doesn't like current pop. Larry King 2015 asked him about Sam Smith and Noel Gallagher (17:30) into the interview, he basically declined from saying anything other than he didn't like anything at all; however, when Larry asked him about Sinatra, Morrisey did a shout out to Nancy Sinatra, which makes me wonder how he would have responded if Larry had asked about LDR. Probably very disdainfully, but we'll probably never know.
 
Just some minor quibbles.
 
Chris Isaak on the influencee list: I recall LDR being compared to CI many times but not the other way around. I vaguely remember a video interview where LDR said she liked him (around the same time I heard about the French referring to LDR as CI's "granddaughter"--wish I could find the cite for that). I think it makes perfect sense that LDR would like CI quite a lot, as he's kind of an evolved Elvis, and CI cites Elvis as a major influence.
 
Name Dropping as an LDR influence on others: I see LDR's name dropping as part of her assimilation of a general hip-hop/rap influence where name dropping is common (e.g. Tyler the Creator dropping Bruno Mars' name in Yonkers, in 2011). I give LDR credit for doing name-dropping especially good, though sadly she does this the best in her unreleased  (e.g., Last Girl on Earth, Axl Rose Husband). On the other hand, it may be the case that name-dropping became more popular in pop after her, idk.
 
Lana bringing retro back: I think both LDR and Adele have cited Amy Winehouse as the main influence on that. But ditto my last "on the other hand".

Lana created the human kind, so it is no surprise that she has impacted basically everything.

Additional Informations
 
Artist: Lana Del Rey
Festival: Monte-Carlo Sporting Summer Festival
Venue: Salle des Etoiles
Date: 23 July 2016
Price: 1200 € per person excluding drinks
Sort of events: Dinner show
Dress Code: Tuxedo mandatory for the Monaco Red Cross Gala
 
Booking is only by phone
Website
http://www.montecarlolive.com/monte-carlo-sporting-summer-festival-en/programmation/lana-del-rey-monaco-red-cross-gala/