Random Lana Discussion Thread

[anwdelrey 9,270]

I don’t know if anyone else feels this way but I feel like at some point in 2017-2018 something shifted. It seems like she got sick of celebrity culture and decided to cosplay as a normal valley girl (hence the less eclectic boyfriends, the more reserved and laid back style, and the LA socialite friend group). She kind of acknowledged it in that Interview magazine convo with Jack but it’s just so interesting to me. Every few years it’s like she decides to be a different person. ? 

[bigspender 8,368]

Does anyone else ever think of how horrible this industry is based on Lana alone? She made the name "Lana del Rey" before she actually got famous, and when she finally got signed, she signed a contract for it to only be her name. They changed her hair color, her style, the type of singing she does, and her sound. The leap from AKA -> BTD was done almost entirely by her label. If anything, BTD (excluding LFL bc that album was just a grab at relevancy) is her most "un-lana" album. In the ultra violence era, she clearly didn't want to keep doing what she was doing anymore, and made some amazing songs but they're all quite depressing and worrying. I think NFR! and COCC are the most real lana albums to date. I also think the reason she still performs BTD songs at concerts is because it's in her contract still. which is why she shows no effort during those songs, hardly sings, and does lazy dances. And I think she wants a lot of us to realize this. She said multiple times in VBBOTG that she is just a poet. She doesn't want this crazy industry mess, she's always just wanted to say what she needed to.

[IanadeIrey 62,021]

27 minutes ago, bigspender said:

Does anyone else ever think of how horrible this industry is based on Lana alone? She made the name "Lana del Rey" before she actually got famous, and when she finally got signed, she signed a contract for it to only be her name. They changed her hair color, her style, the type of singing she does, and her sound. The leap from AKA -> BTD was done almost entirely by her label. If anything, BTD (excluding LFL bc that album was just a grab at relevancy) is her most "un-lana" album. In the ultra violence era, she clearly didn't want to keep doing what she was doing anymore, and made some amazing songs but they're all quite depressing and worrying. I think NFR! and COCC are the most real lana albums to date. I also think the reason she still performs BTD songs at concerts is because it's in her contract still. which is why she shows no effort during those songs, hardly sings, and does lazy dances. And I think she wants a lot of us to realize this. She said multiple times in VBBOTG that she is just a poet. She doesn't want this crazy industry mess, she's always just wanted to say what she needed to.

I think the industry can be a terrible place sometimes, but I actually disagree. Lana has always been in control of her life and what you mentioned about the label choosing her look and style is exactly the kind of narrative the media used to spew about her - that she was “manufactured” by her label. The records are true of Lana’s life at the time, and perhaps those earlier records that you feel are the most unlike Lana are from when she was working through a lot of difficult things that had happened in her life that maybe she’s gotten clarity on now, and thus, hasn’t explored in NFR/COTCC. People evolve over the course of a life but I don’t think the earlier records are inauthentic to Lana. AKA and her catalogue pre-fame naturally grew into BTD, she has even said this. 

[strangeandwild 141]

22 minutes ago, bigspender said:

Does anyone else ever think of how horrible this industry is based on Lana alone? She made the name "Lana del Rey" before she actually got famous, and when she finally got signed, she signed a contract for it to only be her name. They changed her hair color, her style, the type of singing she does, and her sound. The leap from AKA -> BTD was done almost entirely by her label. If anything, BTD (excluding LFL bc that album was just a grab at relevancy) is her most "un-lana" album. In the ultra violence era, she clearly didn't want to keep doing what she was doing anymore, and made some amazing songs but they're all quite depressing and worrying. I think NFR! and COCC are the most real lana albums to date. I also think the reason she still performs BTD songs at concerts is because it's in her contract still. which is why she shows no effort during those songs, hardly sings, and does lazy dances. And I think she wants a lot of us to realize this. She said multiple times in VBBOTG that she is just a poet. She doesn't want this crazy industry mess, she's always just wanted to say what she needed to.

i've never thought this... about BTD, I think that's what she wanted to do. If you hear the pre-BTD songs they already have this LDR vibes, I mean, same themes that she put on that album. She dyed her hair at 2010, and if u see her in that year or before, she kinda start wearing clothes with BTD style and stuff. She clearly had a stylist/image consultant in that era, she said that in an interview, bc she said she "had no clue of fashion" (that explains why she was mostly wearing just jeans, but even in BTD era u can see hear wearing that kind of clothes too). Basically, I feel she was doing what she wanted, and she was the same person, not made up

[World At War 4,704]

Does anyone remember which interview it was that Lana said she wanted to write a novel about a starlet who found a dead fan in her pool or something along the line? Looking up "Lana novel" or similar stuff only gets me Violet results

[rightofjupiter 16,592]

7 minutes ago, World At War said:

Does anyone remember which interview it was that Lana said she wanted to write a novel about a starlet who found a dead fan in her pool or something along the line? Looking up "Lana novel" or similar stuff only gets me Violet results

 

i vaguely remember this but can't recall which interview it's from

[Fingertips 72,034]

Heroin is such a good song omg..i've always loved it, but I especially love it now

 

This is my Lust for Life time of year. I love how each Lana album suits my mood for each season 

[IanadeIrey 62,021]

10 minutes ago, World At War said:

Does anyone remember which interview it was that Lana said she wanted to write a novel about a starlet who found a dead fan in her pool or something along the line? Looking up "Lana novel" or similar stuff only gets me Violet results

It’s from her October 2015 Billboard cover story! It was actually about a movie idea she had -

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/cover-story/6737539/lana-del-rey-billboard-cover-pop-stardom-relationships-anxiety

[World At War 4,704]

1 hour ago, IanadeIrey said:

It’s from her October 2015 Billboard cover story! It was actually about a movie idea she had -

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/cover-story/6737539/lana-del-rey-billboard-cover-pop-stardom-relationships-anxiety

oooh so that's why i wasn't finding it!! thank you.

[Beautiful Loser 48,811]

I've never seen this picture before lmao

[annedauphine 35,889]

I’m extremely bored to the point of searching “bored” on YouTube and the results include Lana’s cover of Ariana... This is a wake up call I’m going to get fresh air

[anwdelrey 9,270]

Do you guys think she’ll do interviews again? Or even attend Hollywood events post controversies? I can’t imagine how she’d respond in person to questions about qftc/the mesh mask and why she decided to wear it in the first place. 

[strangeandwild 141]

6 hours ago, anwdelrey said:

Do you guys think she’ll do interviews again? Or even attend Hollywood events post controversies? I can’t imagine how she’d respond in person to questions about qftc/the mesh mask and why she decided to wear it in the first place. 

she has done interviews after that, haven't you read them? and yeah, I think she will

[shady 3,752]

My gay ass friend when I said that I don't want a LFL vinyl as a birthday present because it's 6/10.

 

 

[Fingertips 72,034]

I played "Yosemite" right after "Change" on Lust for Life. It really fits beautifully...

[Pink Flamingo 17,145]

I'm the only one who, even though I want another interaction between Lana and Taylor, feel that a collaboration between them would be somewhat strange because feel that their voices do not match but, who knows... they could shut my mouth.

[Fingertips 72,034]

Seasons will turn
The world it will turn
The only thing we'll turn, is the pages of all the poems we burn

 

Yosemite has been hitting different lately

[Doll Harlow 12,367]

 

I saw this on reddit.

[CinnamonGay 10,527]

I hope she releases her demos or other versions of the songs one day...

 

FREAK demo is the best. I have no idea why she scrapped that ... 

 

Alt versions of all songs pls. Dark paradise too

[Dark Angel 202,188]

4 hours ago, Contemplating God said:

Seasons will turn
The world it will turn
The only thing we'll turn, is the pages of all the poems we burn

 

Yosemite has been hitting different lately

 

same, i've been pretty obsessed with it lately, although it's always been one of my favorites from cotcc, the bridge especially <3