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God exists to make the magic of Ultraviolence happened    

I don't know this Kim Gordon woman but if she is a highly acclaimed artist shouldn't it ever pass her mind that some things are escapism? And why does so many people assume that everything LDR do in her Ride video is what she does everyday ? 

I like this opinion because it's a fun argument, but I also love the demos that have a really different take on the song (NA, DP, Lolita, Lucky Ones)

Especially National Anthem Demo - what a shame Lana didn't release it as an Alternative Mix or something. One of the best tunes that goes well with the lyric

Am I the only one who thinks she is trolling us (as she has always been) by following an random account named 'honeymoon' on instagram? My best bet is a fan made it when she annouced the name of new album.

I don't get your problem with her saying she night write some non-"autobiographic" lyrics. Let's be real ... singing about love, the american way of life and bad boys is not getting more interesting. I am sure there still will be a lot of songs like this but I would be glad if she wrote songs that actually tell a story or a thought/feeling of her that's not linked to a love affair (or at least not from the "I will love you until the end of time no matter what happens" - perspective). I also like her idea of doing more cinematic songs (visually + lyrics-wise). A little bit of diversion never killed somebody.

For an artist whose vision has been ingrained since her very first works, unfortunately I don't think Lana will ever change. Sorry

I'm not sure why. I think it might be a programming problem - the first 6 songs on BTD build up a lot of excitement, and DP slows everything down. Also, the demos hint at it being potentially a very different sort of song, and lots of fans prefer that for some reason. 

I actually think that DP is a good cohesive move for the album. One can argue that BTD is not as good cohesively as other Lana's albums but I don't think it is DP's fault. 

One reason that I can think of why so many people don't like DP is that it sounds like a generic pop song? I liked it at first but after 100+ listens it gets boring

She is a true artist and given her previous commercial success, her art will be highly appreciated.

Holy cow I can't believe Lana can write a song as bad as Wait For Life   Thank God it is not on the masterpiece of Ultraviolence

 

That dress 

That chair tho 

Also I can't unsee that massive engagement ring 

The way she set up the hype for Honeymoon so far is incredibly weird. Bombarding Instagram with selfies? The most that she's done with UV / Tropico is promotional stuff! I bet the album is coming very very soon, sooner than all of us can imagine....

I'm kinda confused, I thought the only Universal Lana belongs to is the German one? (US: Interscope, UK: Polydor)

8 months constantly listening to Ultraviolence and I got to say that Sad Girl is the best song on the album.

That Digital Spy article on Mororder someone posted earlier just meant that another producer is more suitable / understand the vision Lana had for Honeymoon, i.e. mainly producing this album. it would be sensible to think that it is Ronson but we still not having any more information.......

I still can't believe that this thread is not locked yet.

The production on A Kiss Goodbye and Falling Apart is so much more interesting than on this. I mean.. It's a good song and all but it feels like a repetition of his work on BTD (which was repetitive enough already.)

Agreed. Getting boring after the 5th listen

anyone knows where online in the UK do they sell Ultraviolence poster? I mean the pack-shot picture? Thanks lots!

quite off-topic but anyone got iTunes file for Falling Apart? Can you PM it please? 

I'd be inclined to think she wrote the lyrics, most features like this work like that. If not though, she would've at least contributed quite significantly w/ co-writing it.

I checked your uploaded MP3 ID tag, it only says Emile Haynie as the composer. So I bet he's written both melody and lyric then.

And also thanks for the MP3. where did you buy it?

Some people here are so fucking delusional. What if Lana stopped making music and hide herself would you be happy? Stop demanding for every fucking thing. She is an artist she can do whatever the fuck she wants and should not be judged by whiny stupid people with no taste in music. If you don't like her go find a perfect artist to stan!

 

It's a very relative thing just how good the Ultraviolence video is (e.g., compared to Lorde's Tennis Court video, I'd say UV is "Gone with the Wind"). While my initial thoughts about it were "oh man, this isn't going to go over well", since then I've watched the video most of any from the UV era. It's very enjoyable.

 

The video is like a blog entry from an artist that doesn't blog/tweet her own thoughts that often. The act of having her boyfriend (admittedly a well-known fashion photographer) film it on her phone is kind of like that. It was also possibly done in defiance of the label, which didn't seem to want to be associated with it *initially* ("Vice is running shit"), but after 2 million views at Noisey (with no copyright notice at the end), it goes to LanaDelReyVevo (and ends with a copyright Polydor notice). Finally, the speculation has been made (twitter 1/6/15 @DelReyLane) that the theme of the video is related to the next album Honeymoon, but what kind of honeymoon can there be if the groom doesn't show up to the wedding?

 

Good job noticing that. Maybe the UV video that we have is her vision of the song. I have to say that I really like UV video as well!

thank god she god rid of that white iPhone 5c 

I Can Fly

I was bathing in sunlight 

to

I was there in mid-July   

Kill Kill

Bound up the stairs

I'm in the shower

Do you know, where he's gone

to ditch him

The dress is lovely, but she looked like a pregnant mermaid - and is that a massive engagement ring on her left hand?

She might pull a Beyoncé this time for all we know

Yaaaaas but it has 9 altogether (and it would've had ten if she hadn't offered Y&B to Baz Luhrmann) so why didn't they just release it as a seperate record?

It was part of the business strategy by Interscope to 'bundle' Paradise with BTD to boost BTD sales (The Paradise Edition was counted towards same BTD sales with the regular ones), and to further promote BTD for people who haven't heard of Lana (e.g. they like the song 'Ride' --> Buy The Paradise Edition --> ends up like BTD as well). And usually when they 'bundle' an album like that, it would usually be an extension, hence called an EP not an LP (called an extension an album only makes people confused why they didn't sell that separately and so on)

As far as I know Paradise was sold separately as an EP only in the US (CD version) and vinyl everywhere else (there isn't an The Paradise Edition vinyl - I guess you can't just sell triple vinyl?).

This strategy has been used by many other singers as well as someone mentioned above and from my point of view it is purely business.

Thank God Paradise is similar artistically to BTD otherwise LDR would have been another mainstream puppet. From interviews Lana seems to imply that she treats Paradise as an separate 'era' as well.