Minor General Questions that Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

[longtimeman 8,987]

The remainder of the 3.5k goal is 2k 

 

Can she not spare enough change? I have to laugh

This isn't a thread for rhetorical questions.

[Veinsineon 76,993]

The remainder of the 3.5k goal is 2k 

 

Can she not spare enough change? I have to laugh

She just bought chuck a house and made an entire song dedicated to all the recent mass shootings. She doesn’t have to do everything

[trayertrash 7,211]

Does anyone have the alternative covers for either Kill Kill or AKA? I recall one of them having alt covers of her playing a guitar and them being on her myspace or something at some point? 

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,065]

A question/theory about No Kung Fu and another set of 2007 demos:

 

I didn't realize until today that the version of Get Drunk on the No Kung Fu tape is the same version that Lisandro re-leaked, albeit unedited, in 2017 -- along with a batch of unheard 2007 demos of Disco, For K Pt. 2, and Raise Me Up. I call this the 'bedroom session', to save any confusion with the Studio 356 sessions at the beginning of 2007 that produced a similar tracklist.

 

So, here's what intrigues me: I had always assumed that the No Kung Fu demos, with the exception of Put Me in a Movie/Ruby because it's obviously more produced/less raw, were from the same recording session. They all have that same, acoustic sound, with no real differences to suggest they were recorded at different times.

 

However, if the recording of Get Drunk present on NKF is actually from an earlier session, that either means that:

 

1. NKF is just an assemblage of various session tracks (actually explaining the presence of Ruby much better)

OR

2. The recordings of Brite Lites/Jump/Jimmy Gnecco/Yayo also stem from that 'bedroom session' that produced Get Drunk/Disco/FKP2/RMU.

 

I'm leaning heavily towards the first option, especially because the Mermaid Motel demo was tagged as a No Kung Fu demo, leading me to believe No Kung Fu was not a tape culled from a single session (plus Ruby), but just a catch-all tape for various recordings Lizzy saw potential in.

 

That's how I'm going to treat it for now, meaning that I'm going to, with a heavy heart, finally dismantle my No Kung Fu Demos album truly the end of an era

[LanaRayDelMar 2,743]

Anybody have the video where you can hear a unknown snippet playing in the background of Chuck's insta story in 2018?

[neon palms sway 1,338]

What are the dimensions of the target poster?

[bartenders 1,206]

Anybody have the video where you can hear a unknown snippet playing in the background of Chuck's insta story in 2018?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BilZRoYhFIs/

 

it was bartender by the way 

[trayertrash 7,211]

The Sparkle Jump Rope Queen page was created on May 30th 2008 and the last login was April 22

Her playlist says it has 4 songs, but only 3 are visible 

Has anyone figured out what the 4th song was or if there ever was one? 

[TheBoss 13,513]

I was checking the amazing masterpost from @@Coyote and there's an alternate mix for Lift Your Eyes listed, I've never heard from another mix and I'm not sure if they are different or not, are they real? 

 

V1 - https://dbree.org/v/793706

Alt. Mix - https://dbree.org/v/937613

[LanaRayDelMar 2,743]

@TheBoss Super fake. Apart of an old fan compilation mixtape titled '1949' wherein they tried to 'remaster' tracks and make it gapless hence why you can hear 'Match Made in Heaven' intro at the end

[TheBoss 13,513]

@TheBoss Super fake. Apart of an old fan compilation mixtape titled '1949' wherein they tried to 'remaster' tracks and make it gapless hence why you can hear 'Match Made in Heaven' intro at the end

 

Thank you so much! It sounded so strange to me haha

[daphnedinkley 13,501]

Hey guys I have a quick and slightly strange question relating to an article I'm working on atm - do y'all consider Bel Air a deep cut? I mean it has a music video bc of Tropico and idk if any song from a short EP can truly be considered a deep cut, but it's also not very well known to the general public and probably not the first song people associate with Lana?

[Beauty King 1,705]

Hey guys I have a quick and slightly strange question relating to an article I'm working on atm - do y'all consider Bel Air a deep cut? I mean it has a music video bc of Tropico and idk if any song from a short EP can truly be considered a deep cut, but it's also not very well known to the general public and probably not the first song people associate with Lana?

 

 

Anything that wasn't an official commercially-released and radio-serviced single could be classed as a deep cut, even if it has a music video. "Honeymoon", for instance, is a deep cut despite having a music video.

 

So yes, "Bel Air" is a deep cut.

[daphnedinkley 13,501]

Anything that wasn't an official commercially-released and radio-serviced single could be classed as a deep cut, even if it has a music video. "Honeymoon", for instance, is a deep cut despite having a music video.

 

So yes, "Bel Air" is a deep cut.

 

Fabulous thank you! 

[LanaRayDelMar 2,743]

Did Lana get her teeth done?

 

Is it just me or her whole smile seems different or maybe it's her new lip shape thats throwing me off (am watching the new 102.7KISSFM interview  )

[Thunder Revenant 20,960]

DOes someone still know in which Interview Lana said the songs on Born To Die were autobiographic?

[evilentity 13,345]

DOes someone still know in which Interview Lana said the songs on Born To Die were autobiographic?

Whoops! When I came back to this thread after researching I realized you'd only asked about BTD specifically. Anyway, the better question is when hasn't Lana talked about her music being autobiographical. Here is a non-exhaustive list of instances in interviews where Lana, or an interviewer paraphrasing her, has specifically used the word "autobiographical" to describe her music:

 

Her early songs

"autobiographical and very dark" source

 

AKA

"my first songs were pretty autobiographical... I talked about a lot of stuff in my first record" source

"my first LP with David Kahne... was unconventional, autobiographical and cinematic" source

"my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful" source

 

BTD

"dark, autobiographical, glamorous and something like exuberant and cinematographic" source

"my new songs are still autobiographical and cinematic" source

"consistently autobiographical" source

"As for subject matter, she's sticking to the autobiographical: 'Love is the easiest thing to write about, because I know it well....And loss is just as easy, because I know it well too.'" source

 

"Ride"

"That's autobiographical! ...It's about my own life" source

"her “Ride” video, which she tells me is autobiographical" source

 

"Ultraviolence" (song)

"autobiographical elements" source

"She’s vague on whether this theme might be autobiographical. 'I guess I would say, like, I’m definitely drawn to people with a strong physicality,' she says with a shrug, 'with more of a dominant personality.'" source

 

UV

Interviewer calls it "a collection of autobiographical songs" in between direct quotes. source

 

All her albums

Pitchfork: "Which of your albums is the most autobiographical? LDR: "All of them." source

"I feel that the three records [bTD, Paradise, and UV] were so heavy and autobiographical. It's been so cathartic." source

 

Her music generally

"But I don't long for a mythic past. I have my own mythic past. I don't talk about it, no one would believe me anyway. But I can say: All of my songs are autobiographical, I don't have to dramatize anything." source

"No, it's completely autobiographical. Yeah, 100%." source

"when it comes to my own music it’s 100% autobiographical" source

Implied her music was autobiographical like Biggie Smalls source

"the lyrics are autobiographical, and it’s mostly about death and love" source

"I'd say 90% [autobiographical]. Usually what happens is all of the verses are always autobiographical up until the chorus...by the time I get to the chorus I might start singing about the way I wished that they had been." source

"Everything I was writing was so autobiographical" source

Interview with James Franco where she insists she is generally "writing about things autobiographically", but says of "Florida Kilos": "That song in particular is not autobiographical." Says she "didn't monitor [herself]" on UV and that is was "candid". Suggests "Honeymoon" might not be as autobiographical as other albums. Describes her songwriting as "you get to tell your story", "documenting your life", and states "you don't know any story better than your own". source

 

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself; I am large - I contain multitudes.

"I find myself sometimes going back and forth between writing autobiographically and living vicariously through my own lyrics. It’s a form of escapism for me in some ways, now that I don’t go out much. So, definitely, if you’re lucky enough to do what you love, it can be your whole life. I’m very lucky." source

[Ultra Violet 18,991]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRmBIVfy85c

 

So i thought this was definitely fake/fanmade? I still love it tbh and listen to it now and then but is it actually a real leak?

[Dark Angel 202,526]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRmBIVfy85c

 

So i thought this was definitely fake/fanmade? I still love it tbh and listen to it now and then but is it actually a real leak?

 

Definitely fake

[Downtown Baby Doll 5,310]

So the search function isn’t working for me and I’m sure it’s been discussed before, but what’s Lana’s relationship like with her mom? We see Rob often (hanging out with Lana/Chuck/Marina, he was at Jones Beach last night, he’s active on Twitter/IG, Lana shouting him out in “hope”), but we never see or hear much about Mama Del Rey.