Random Lana Discussion Thread

[Ultra Violet 18,986]

21 hours ago, lanaismamom said:

so the question is - was that alt bridge version really "pulled out of someone's ass"?

Kinda sounds like it was made up, because the "baby you're my sign" is a misheard lyric of "lady of Versailles" (which I used to think was "lady on the side" lol).

Also mishearing it from "Cause Lady of Versailles" wouldn't make sense either, so I just really doubt this one.

[lanaismamom 11,544]

19 minutes ago, Ultra Violet said:

Kinda sounds like it was made up, because the "baby you're my sign" is a misheard lyric of "lady of Versailles" (which I used to think was "lady on the side" lol).

Also mishearing it from "Cause Lady of Versailles" wouldn't make sense either, so I just really doubt this one.

that means someone just pulled out it of their ass

[Raise Me Up 2,399]

when lana will she finally change her phone, I mean, she is a multimillionaire she could at least go and have it repaired 

[Lanaparadiserey 23,574]

Does anyone have the updated masterpost? I can’t find the updated one that has actual working links

[Dark Angel 202,376]

10 minutes ago, Lanaparadiserey said:

Does anyone have the updated masterpost? I can’t find the updated one that has actual working links

 

https://lanatrailercollection.tumblr.com/

 

https://mega.nz/folder/7EtjBBgL#dUcfeceW2Ll1Vml7Jp0uDg

[That Venice Bitch 28,157]

Nathan Fielder and his casual love for Lana Del Rey:

 

 

https://x.com/men4fielder/status/1630660071129489428?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

Fielder attending a concert in what looks like late 2017.

 

https://x.com/mollylambert/status/1548854567172857856?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

Fielder also reportedly attended the 2019 Hollywood Bowl concert. 

 

https://x.com/men4fielder/status/1729324458303778881?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

A 2013 photo of Lana in Nathan Fielder’s office in an episode of his TV series, Nathan For You

[taco truck 33,003]

48 minutes ago, That Venice Bitch said:

Nathan Fielder and his casual love for Lana Del Rey:

 

 

https://x.com/men4fielder/status/1630660071129489428?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

Fielder attending a concert in what looks like late 2017.

 

https://x.com/mollylambert/status/1548854567172857856?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

Fielder also reportedly attended the 2019 Hollywood Bowl concert. 

 

https://x.com/men4fielder/status/1729324458303778881?s=46&t=PC_JqthBNIYi6ibjaT6EsQ

A 2013 photo of Lana in Nathan Fielder’s office in an episode of his TV series, Nathan For You

Nathan For You is my favorite TV show and I’ve always been obsessed with this random crossover 

[Embach 42,593]

Found this comment under an Instagram post about the Blue Jeans SNL live performance!

The Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzWnI1Zowz_/?igshid=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==

[HeyBlueBaby 3,332]

On 11/23/2023 at 11:46 PM, lanaismamom said:

listing to you all known unleaked uv outtakes (from september 2012 - april 2014)

 

tropico sound (september 2012 - july 2013)

Earthquakes (final)

Preacher

Unknown Tropico Song

If You Lie Down with Me og version and more songs made with barrie

 

ultraviolence (october 2013 - april 2014)

Angels Forever, Forever Angels (final)

Hollywood (2013 Version)

Fine China (final, rick nowels version)

I Can Fly (og version)

The Other Side (we don’t know the month but i’d guess it’s around this time)

I Talk to Jesus (2 final mixes)

 

rumored

Trans-Am

Elvis studio version

 

as for dan songs, he made with her only 13 songs that were reported by mixing engineer, the ones on the album + money power glory his version (it makes 10), and the rest 3 songs he reworked but lana decided to discard his contribution on these songs, there are unleaked versions of pretty when you cry, guns and roses and i talk to jesus made by him 

Thanks for this! Crazy to think we almost have everything from the UV era. Hopefully there’s more we don’t know about that comes out!

 

The ‘Tropico’ era songs were so beautiful and special I wish she had released an album with songs like that but I can’t imagine her discography without UV. 

 

Would you pretty please list all Tropico related songs for me? Even ones that were potentially reworked for other albums 

 

I associate Madly, Earthquakes, UFB, Melancholia, Cult Leader with it. Wasn’t Pink Champagne on that leaked list too?

[lanaismamom 11,544]

6 hours ago, Americanboy said:

Thanks for this! Crazy to think we almost have everything from the UV era. Hopefully there’s more we don’t know about that comes out!

 

The ‘Tropico’ era songs were so beautiful and special I wish she had released an album with songs like that but I can’t imagine her discography without UV. 

 

Would you pretty please list all Tropico related songs for me? Even ones that were potentially reworked for other albums 

 

I associate Madly, Earthquakes, UFB, Melancholia, Cult Leader with it. Wasn’t Pink Champagne on that leaked list too?

sure, tropico tracks are

 

september-december 2012

1. Sweetheart (laptop demo)

2. The Devil (laptop demo)

3. Connection (laptop demo, the part of this will later be used on nectar of the gods)

4. 80’s Baby (laptop demo)

5. Melancholia (laptop demo)

6. He Hits Me Becausr He Loves Me (laptop demo)

7. I Talk to Jesus (5:43 Version)

8. Mike (Wild One 2012 mix)

9. Money Power Glory (unleaked version, described to be almost the same as released)

10. Old Money (we have demo and that was done in 2012, meaning the song almost hadnt changed)

 

1. Earthquakes (2012-early 2013)

2. Lake Placid (2012-early 2013)

3. Guns and Roses (Demo, unleaked, don’t even know when it could be made but it was on that tropico draft)

 

january-july 2013 (approximate point of her scrapping that tropico sound)

1. Ave Maria

2. Angels Forever, Forever Angels (Both Leaked Demos, i have 0 idea when final could be done but the song has unleaked final version keep in mind)

4. Cherry Blossom

5. Nectar of the Gods

6. Dragonslayer (don’t know the month but it’s 2013 and sounds too tropico)

7. Cult Leader (very likely from tropico times)

8. Living Legend

9. Unidentified Flying Bill

10. Flipside (Made june 2013)

11. If You Lie Down with Me (OG Version)

12. West Coast (Early version aka Radio Mix, the song was done with Rick Nowels in april 2013 and this was the same form lana wanted to scrape the song in, but then she reworked it)

13. Brooklyn Baby (Demo unleaked, made June 1 2013)

14. Black Beauty (Demo unleaked, made January 5 2013)

15. Hollywood (2013 Version, supposedly reworked during tropico times but later was strongly considered for Ultraviolence)

16. JFK (the song was reconsidered for the project and firstly slightly changed (unleaked version), then lana decided it was perfect as it was (the version we’ve got) and was considered to be used but was discarded)

17. The Other Side (don’t know the month so this can be after tropico times)

 

during tropico times songs don’t stop, queen of hearts, numbness were done, but they for sure were considered for other people’s projects, so don’t pay attention on those)

 

rumored

1. Trans-Am

2. Elvis (Studio Version)

3. Preacher (The last track on Tropico draft but I personally think it’s written LEADER hence Cult Leader)

4. Unknown Tropico Draft Song (Unreadable 11 and 12 positions, one of these songs are rumored to be early version Money & Power, the other one is unknown, it’s just illegible; my personal thought are that those tracks are already known tracks Nectar of the Gods and Money & Power)

5. Pink Champagne (Early 2013 version)

6. More unknown songs made with Barrie

 

covers

1. Summertime

2. Summer Wine

3. Chelsea Hotel No 2

4. LA Woman (@Unknowndo u have any idea about this cover? it’s been around for years but we never got any information about it resides the year, 2013)

 

Madly was made on October 1, 2013, Pink Champagne the version we have was made on October 23, 2013, we don’t know in what form the song had been existed by january 2013, maybe a voice memo or made with dif producer but evidence are that it had)

[Raise Me Up 2,399]

I'm tired of coming across this photomontage every time I search for "born to die"

 

 

AND SAME FOR AKA LIZZY GRANT

 

[rocknrollgroupie 4,496]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey-ive-been-on-my-guard-for-so-long-5qq2shmqr
So who has a subscription 

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6 minutes ago, rocknrollgroupie said:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey-ive-been-on-my-guard-for-so-long-5qq2shmqr
So who has a subscription 

not me but i was able to screenshot the first paragraph to read before it locked me out and it confirmed in fingertips she says “thought mine was his to COUGH in his mouth” 

[southbeachswing 3,897]

17 minutes ago, rocknrollgroupie said:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey-ive-been-on-my-guard-for-so-long-5qq2shmqr
So who has a subscription 

 

here but the full interview now has a thread 

 

Spoiler

Lana Del Rey’s great-uncle Dick was so dazed the night before he died that he accidentally grabbed the singer’s wrist and coughed into her hand. “I just cried,” she recalls in her soft, airy American twang.

She was at his home at a vigil alongside 30 members of her extended family. “I shouldn’t have been the one crying,” she says. “The people around me were his children — I’m just this star who walked in.”

Then suddenly everyone started singing the old folk song Froggy Went a-Courtin’ — once covered by Bob Dylan — in a 13-part harmony. “It was a pivotal moment because I realised that they could sing as well as I do, but I just happen to be the one who made it. That was the missing piece I needed. I felt part of a very wide network, a grain of sand on the beach.”

“I get dressed up for my shows while some folks don’t. For some reason that was a problem,” says Del Rey

NEIL KRUG

So did the experience bring this star back to earth? “Yes!” she says. She laughs loudly, before slipping into the third person. “And for Lana Del Rey to be levelled out is a f***ing miracle!”

It is evening when I arrive at a sweet suburban house on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. This is where Del Rey comes to “decompress” after touring, instead of at home in Los Angeles. The singer, whose ninth album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is our album of the year, welcomes me with an explanation of the overpowering scent inside: “I have burnt a heavy sage!” She really has. This quiet sanctuary, filled with guitars, vintage chess sets and magazines about Jackie Kennedy, smells strongly of the herb that people use for good energy and relaxation. Her sitting room is certainly full of the latter.

Darkness falls beyond the candlelight as Del Rey, 38, settles back on the sofa, wearing a white cardigan, crucifix necklace, tight jeans and cowboy boots, smoking a vape. It all feels very intimate as our conversation meanders. She talks about her ancestors in the American Civil War — “It didn’t go well for them” — and a close relative who died just before Del Rey had to sing privately for the Prince of Monaco. “I invite his spirit every night to come sit next to me,” she says. “I think that’s real …”

I leave more than two hours later, after a revealing, sometimes odd and frequently funny conversation with the 27th most-listened-to pop star on Spotify. Singing aside, what is she best at? Talking — “I’m rambling! — about life, death and fame. What is she scared of? “God, I see a spider!” What is she not great at? Ordering coffees on her app. One order is cancelled; another sits on the porch after she misses the notification. “Am I an idiot?” She opens the door to two cold coffees.

Del Rey is an anomaly. Those Spotify numbers mean she’s now more popular than Harry Styles and Beyoncé. Yet most of her songs are ballads hailing from a different era — Hollywood in the 1950s, say, or Mad Men 1960s. Her music is better suited for a sad journey home than a big night out. Just check out the video Elders Read Lana Del Rey’s Hit Songs on YouTube and watch pensioners enraptured by her songs — one old man says in awe: “Younger people are listening to that?”

What is more baffling is that her songs on Did You Know … are even further removed from the present crop of algorithm-led factory pop. Her latest tracks are complex, personal (Great-Uncle Dick pops up on one) and, frankly, incredibly long, often stretching well over five minutes. “It’s weird,” she admits of her ever-increasing popularity. “It’s not necessarily what I saw coming!”

On song: Del Rey at 2023’s Glastonbury

JOSEPH OKPAKO/WIREIMAGE

Last month Did You Know … secured five Grammy nominations, while Del Rey was announced as the headliner for the 2024 Reading Festival, after the success of big gigs in London and Glastonbury over the summer, where the age of her devoted crowd ranged from teenaged up to, yes, a surprising number of seventysomethings.

To find out how Del Rey got here, let us go back to the start. Not to the open-mike nights in her early twenties — “awkward when nobody listens” — but to when Del Rey was 26 and her game-changing single Video Games was released. It was a song that drivers would pull over to listen to — a classic of love and longing.

Other hits followed quickly, but some people had an issue. Del Rey was born Elizabeth Grant and released music as Lizzy Grant before having the gall to change her name and adopt a new, sultry femme fatale persona steeped in the iconography of American pin-ups and the silver screen.

Many pop stars — Bowie! Elton! Eminem! — reinvent themselves, but purists fell over each to denounce the new-look Del Rey as a fraud, an industry construct and fake feminist. This criticism got to her. “I will never sing again,” she laments in Swan Song, released four years after the giddy heights of Video Games.

 

 

“When I hear Swan Song now I think, ‘Oh girl, they brought you to that point. That sucks for you,’” Del Rey says with a sigh. “I get dressed up for my shows while some folks don’t. For some reason that was a problem. I had books thrown at me in San Francisco by liberal female groups. I’ve been punched in the face in Brooklyn. Ten years ago, mentally I badly needed some beauty to come out of the chaos. For something to make sense.” She sighs again. “I’ve been on guard for so long.”

On guard from whom? “Jerk-offs!” she yells. “F***ing narcissists! Take that cotton out of your ears and stuff it in your mouth.” Naysayers insisted Del Rey did not mean a word she sang. “Listen,” she says angrily. “You can hear I mean it. You might not know what I am getting at, but wouldn’t you be curious to know? Maybe you could learn something? Or just listen to someone else.”

“I don’t need positive feedback,” she continues. “But you cannot just make things up.” She mentions wealth. An early column in The Guardian called her father a millionaire — something she refutes. “It’s crazy if you say something that’s tabloid-psycho untrue about me but I can’t get a word in? Congratulations! You’re going to ruin how people listen to my music.”

There is a lot of talk today about pop stars and their mental health. How did she cope when it wasn’t much discussed ? “Well, you really have to take care of yourself,” she says, somewhat sadly. “Because putting your faith in the public is like building your house in the sand. They’ll turn and turn. I’ve experienced that in all parts of my life. People reveal sides of themselves years after you meet, so you have to ground yourself all the way down to your knees …

“But, back then, it is no wonder I felt I did not have a voice in a particular movement — they quieted me.”

 

 

Does she still think she would not be taken seriously if she wanted to speak out or get political? “That was then,” Del Rey says firmly. “I couldn’t do anything. Singing about a boyfriend, playing a video game and chilling out? That’s a joke, dude. I’d have looked stupid. Now I would feel pretty confident, and I do feel passionately about Black Lives Matter and women’s issues. Now I’m not afraid. But I was. I read what they said about me: ‘Do not step forward. Do not pass Go.’ ”

She shrugs. “But I’ve been trying and trying,” she says about writing more political songs. Four years ago she wrote a one-off single, Looking for America, with her regular producer Jack Antonoff, in response to a spate of mass shootings in the US. The impact of the shootings “just hit us”, she says with a nod. “We all sat at the back of cinemas for a while so we could be by the exit.

“And there were seven political songs on one album and nobody cared,” she adds, referring to 2017’s Lust for Life. “For instance, When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing. I talked about Trump and the worry of him having his finger on the red button. But the problem, right now, is there is just such a lot going on.”

Did You Know … largely skips politics, and writing it made her nervous. The lyrics deal with death, ageing and when she might become a mother. (The singer’s relationship status remains something of a rumour.) Throughout you can hear her early detractors, who wondered how “real” she was, being forced to scoff humble pie. It plays like autobiography. The singer is remembering people, while wondering if she will be remembered.

Del Rey was born in Manhattan and raised in Lake Placid in upstate New York. Her father, Rob, worked in various businesses before finding his success with domain names. Her mother, Patricia, was a teacher. It was a Roman Catholic family and Del Rey, one of three siblings, was a worried child. Indeed she was so concerned about the meaning of life and death that she studied philosophy at university. “I was trying to help myself,” she says of her degree. “I was constantly reading and applying what I learnt to figure out how we got here. That has been in me since I was three!”

“There were things that bothered me at a young age,” she continues. “Like what does it mean if people come into the world as quadriplegics while people say that everything plays out the way it should? Or when you meet people who are severely sociopathic and think, ‘How’s God fitting into all this?’ I’m still trying to figure out the bigger questions.”

It is fast approaching midnight. “I’m not saying I’m going to answer,” she begins, mischievously, as we start wrapping up, “but did you have a horrible question you were going to ask me?” Not really, I say; we’ve covered enough. “You could’ve said, ‘Are you married?’ Why didn’t you?!” Do you want me to ask? “No!” She takes a beat. “But no, I’m not!” She bursts out laughing.

Del Rey was 26 when her game-changing singleVideo Games was released

I ask about Glastonbury. Booked to headline the Other Stage this year, Del Rey turned up late and was cut off before she could even play Video Games. On stage the singer said her hair took a while to perfect, while the crowd were left stunned and disappointed.

“I’ve heard of curfews before,” she explains. “But I didn’t know they actually turned the lights off! I didn’t feel great about it, but I was a little confused because I don’t think I was ever in a position where somebody said, ‘If you do not finish by this time, everything will go out.’ I was only 15 minutes late.”

She will simply have to come back another year to headline the Pyramid Stage, because, for someone obsessed with her own legacy, it feels as if she is edging closer to her idols, who now talk of her as a peer. Stevie Nicks adores her. Joan Baez invites her to dance parties on Zoom. “She just creates a world of her own and invites you in,” Bruce Springsteen gushes.

Did You Know … is a beautiful but intense album — like having a therapy session on a Californian beach. But what comes next for her? “I’m tired now,” Del Rey admits. “So keeping it simple is probably the way that it’s going to go. I dug around a lot writing this [album] and don’t think I have to go there again.”

As such, she has plans to write an album of standards — classic, simple songs that could reach even more people than she does now. A bit like the gorgeous, piano-led cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver that she released on Friday, or the Elvis Presley version of Unchained Melody that she recorded at Graceland for a Christmas TV show. She is a star who not only finally feels understood, but also finally understands.

“That’s why God didn’t give me children yet,” she says tenderly about what may or may not come next. “Because there is more to explore. I know people who’ve tested every water. It’s burnt them, like Icarus. But I’m willing to go there. I see it coming for me. We’ll see.” She is speaking quickly now, excitedly. “We’ll see what melts the wings.”

What’s your favourite Lana Del Rey track? Let us know in the comments below

 

Edited December 3, 2023 by southbeachswing

[violettiaras 3,462]

6 minutes ago, southbeachswing said:

 

used an archive website to download the text  here

 

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Lana Del Rey’s great-uncle Dick was so dazed the night before he died that he accidentally grabbed the singer’s wrist and coughed into her hand. “I just cried,” she recalls in her soft, airy American twang.

She was at his home at a vigil alongside 30 members of her extended family. “I shouldn’t have been the one crying,” she says. “The people around me were his children — I’m just this star who walked in.”

Then suddenly everyone started singing the old folk song Froggy Went a-Courtin’ — once covered by Bob Dylan — in a 13-part harmony. “It was a pivotal moment because I realised that they could sing as well as I do, but I just happen to be the one who made it. That was the missing piece I needed. I felt part of a very wide network, a grain of sand on the beach.”

“I get dressed up for my shows while some folks don’t. For some reason that was a problem,” says Del Rey

NEIL KRUG

So did the experience bring this star back to earth? “Yes!” she says. She laughs loudly, before slipping into the third person. “And for Lana Del Rey to be levelled out is a f***ing miracle!”

It is evening when I arrive at a sweet suburban house on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. This is where Del Rey comes to “decompress” after touring, instead of at home in Los Angeles. The singer, whose ninth album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is our album of the year, welcomes me with an explanation of the overpowering scent inside: “I have burnt a heavy sage!” She really has. This quiet sanctuary, filled with guitars, vintage chess sets and magazines about Jackie Kennedy, smells strongly of the herb that people use for good energy and relaxation. Her sitting room is certainly full of the latter.

Darkness falls beyond the candlelight as Del Rey, 38, settles back on the sofa, wearing a white cardigan, crucifix necklace, tight jeans and cowboy boots, smoking a vape. It all feels very intimate as our conversation meanders. She talks about her ancestors in the American Civil War — “It didn’t go well for them” — and a close relative who died just before Del Rey had to sing privately for the Prince of Monaco. “I invite his spirit every night to come sit next to me,” she says. “I think that’s real …”

I leave more than two hours later, after a revealing, sometimes odd and frequently funny conversation with the 27th most-listened-to pop star on Spotify. Singing aside, what is she best at? Talking — “I’m rambling! — about life, death and fame. What is she scared of? “God, I see a spider!” What is she not great at? Ordering coffees on her app. One order is cancelled; another sits on the porch after she misses the notification. “Am I an idiot?” She opens the door to two cold coffees.

Del Rey is an anomaly. Those Spotify numbers mean she’s now more popular than Harry Styles and Beyoncé. Yet most of her songs are ballads hailing from a different era — Hollywood in the 1950s, say, or Mad Men 1960s. Her music is better suited for a sad journey home than a big night out. Just check out the video Elders Read Lana Del Rey’s Hit Songs on YouTube and watch pensioners enraptured by her songs — one old man says in awe: “Younger people are listening to that?”

What is more baffling is that her songs on Did You Know … are even further removed from the present crop of algorithm-led factory pop. Her latest tracks are complex, personal (Great-Uncle Dick pops up on one) and, frankly, incredibly long, often stretching well over five minutes. “It’s weird,” she admits of her ever-increasing popularity. “It’s not necessarily what I saw coming!”

On song: Del Rey at 2023’s Glastonbury

JOSEPH OKPAKO/WIREIMAGE

Last month Did You Know … secured five Grammy nominations, while Del Rey was announced as the headliner for the 2024 Reading Festival, after the success of big gigs in London and Glastonbury over the summer, where the age of her devoted crowd ranged from teenaged up to, yes, a surprising number of seventysomethings.

To find out how Del Rey got here, let us go back to the start. Not to the open-mike nights in her early twenties — “awkward when nobody listens” — but to when Del Rey was 26 and her game-changing single Video Games was released. It was a song that drivers would pull over to listen to — a classic of love and longing.

Other hits followed quickly, but some people had an issue. Del Rey was born Elizabeth Grant and released music as Lizzy Grant before having the gall to change her name and adopt a new, sultry femme fatale persona steeped in the iconography of American pin-ups and the silver screen.

Many pop stars — Bowie! Elton! Eminem! — reinvent themselves, but purists fell over each to denounce the new-look Del Rey as a fraud, an industry construct and fake feminist. This criticism got to her. “I will never sing again,” she laments in Swan Song, released four years after the giddy heights of Video Games.

 

 

“When I hear Swan Song now I think, ‘Oh girl, they brought you to that point. That sucks for you,’” Del Rey says with a sigh. “I get dressed up for my shows while some folks don’t. For some reason that was a problem. I had books thrown at me in San Francisco by liberal female groups. I’ve been punched in the face in Brooklyn. Ten years ago, mentally I badly needed some beauty to come out of the chaos. For something to make sense.” She sighs again. “I’ve been on guard for so long.”

On guard from whom? “Jerk-offs!” she yells. “F***ing narcissists! Take that cotton out of your ears and stuff it in your mouth.” Naysayers insisted Del Rey did not mean a word she sang. “Listen,” she says angrily. “You can hear I mean it. You might not know what I am getting at, but wouldn’t you be curious to know? Maybe you could learn something? Or just listen to someone else.”

“I don’t need positive feedback,” she continues. “But you cannot just make things up.” She mentions wealth. An early column in The Guardian called her father a millionaire — something she refutes. “It’s crazy if you say something that’s tabloid-psycho untrue about me but I can’t get a word in? Congratulations! You’re going to ruin how people listen to my music.”

There is a lot of talk today about pop stars and their mental health. How did she cope when it wasn’t much discussed ? “Well, you really have to take care of yourself,” she says, somewhat sadly. “Because putting your faith in the public is like building your house in the sand. They’ll turn and turn. I’ve experienced that in all parts of my life. People reveal sides of themselves years after you meet, so you have to ground yourself all the way down to your knees …

“But, back then, it is no wonder I felt I did not have a voice in a particular movement — they quieted me.”

 

 

Does she still think she would not be taken seriously if she wanted to speak out or get political? “That was then,” Del Rey says firmly. “I couldn’t do anything. Singing about a boyfriend, playing a video game and chilling out? That’s a joke, dude. I’d have looked stupid. Now I would feel pretty confident, and I do feel passionately about Black Lives Matter and women’s issues. Now I’m not afraid. But I was. I read what they said about me: ‘Do not step forward. Do not pass Go.’ ”

She shrugs. “But I’ve been trying and trying,” she says about writing more political songs. Four years ago she wrote a one-off single, Looking for America, with her regular producer Jack Antonoff, in response to a spate of mass shootings in the US. The impact of the shootings “just hit us”, she says with a nod. “We all sat at the back of cinemas for a while so we could be by the exit.

“And there were seven political songs on one album and nobody cared,” she adds, referring to 2017’s Lust for Life. “For instance, When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing. I talked about Trump and the worry of him having his finger on the red button. But the problem, right now, is there is just such a lot going on.”

Did You Know … largely skips politics, and writing it made her nervous. The lyrics deal with death, ageing and when she might become a mother. (The singer’s relationship status remains something of a rumour.) Throughout you can hear her early detractors, who wondered how “real” she was, being forced to scoff humble pie. It plays like autobiography. The singer is remembering people, while wondering if she will be remembered.

Del Rey was born in Manhattan and raised in Lake Placid in upstate New York. Her father, Rob, worked in various businesses before finding his success with domain names. Her mother, Patricia, was a teacher. It was a Roman Catholic family and Del Rey, one of three siblings, was a worried child. Indeed she was so concerned about the meaning of life and death that she studied philosophy at university. “I was trying to help myself,” she says of her degree. “I was constantly reading and applying what I learnt to figure out how we got here. That has been in me since I was three!”

“There were things that bothered me at a young age,” she continues. “Like what does it mean if people come into the world as quadriplegics while people say that everything plays out the way it should? Or when you meet people who are severely sociopathic and think, ‘How’s God fitting into all this?’ I’m still trying to figure out the bigger questions.”

It is fast approaching midnight. “I’m not saying I’m going to answer,” she begins, mischievously, as we start wrapping up, “but did you have a horrible question you were going to ask me?” Not really, I say; we’ve covered enough. “You could’ve said, ‘Are you married?’ Why didn’t you?!” Do you want me to ask? “No!” She takes a beat. “But no, I’m not!” She bursts out laughing.

Del Rey was 26 when her game-changing singleVideo Games was released

I ask about Glastonbury. Booked to headline the Other Stage this year, Del Rey turned up late and was cut off before she could even play Video Games. On stage the singer said her hair took a while to perfect, while the crowd were left stunned and disappointed.

“I’ve heard of curfews before,” she explains. “But I didn’t know they actually turned the lights off! I didn’t feel great about it, but I was a little confused because I don’t think I was ever in a position where somebody said, ‘If you do not finish by this time, everything will go out.’ I was only 15 minutes late.”

She will simply have to come back another year to headline the Pyramid Stage, because, for someone obsessed with her own legacy, it feels as if she is edging closer to her idols, who now talk of her as a peer. Stevie Nicks adores her. Joan Baez invites her to dance parties on Zoom. “She just creates a world of her own and invites you in,” Bruce Springsteen gushes.

Did You Know … is a beautiful but intense album — like having a therapy session on a Californian beach. But what comes next for her? “I’m tired now,” Del Rey admits. “So keeping it simple is probably the way that it’s going to go. I dug around a lot writing this [album] and don’t think I have to go there again.”

As such, she has plans to write an album of standards — classic, simple songs that could reach even more people than she does now. A bit like the gorgeous, piano-led cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver that she released on Friday, or the Elvis Presley version of Unchained Melody that she recorded at Graceland for a Christmas TV show. She is a star who not only finally feels understood, but also finally understands.

“That’s why God didn’t give me children yet,” she says tenderly about what may or may not come next. “Because there is more to explore. I know people who’ve tested every water. It’s burnt them, like Icarus. But I’m willing to go there. I see it coming for me. We’ll see.” She is speaking quickly now, excitedly. “We’ll see what melts the wings.”

What’s your favourite Lana Del Rey track? Let us know in the comments below

 

THANKK YOUUU!!! glad they asked about her family cause that interests me. also standarda and classics mention!!! 

[Carmen Del Rey 2,075]

does anyone know Lana's coffee order? I swear I saw "chai latte w almond milk" written on a coffee cup in a mirror pic recently but I'm not 100%. can't even remember what photo it was now

[Elle 121,309]

31 minutes ago, Carmen Del Rey said:

does anyone know Lana's coffee order? I swear I saw "chai latte w almond milk" written on a coffee cup in a mirror pic recently but I'm not 100%. can't even remember what photo it was now

She’s known to order a myriad of things! Here’s some recent ones I jotted down because I wanted to try them lol -

 

Tall hot matcha latte with oat milk - September 2023

Venti London fog with oat milk & one pump of vanilla - July 2023

Venti Peppermint Mocha with Nonfat Milk - November 2022

Matcha latte with whole milk - November 2022

S’mores latte - December 2021

 

& here’s the photo I believe you’re talking about from behind the scenes of her Harper’s Bazaar shoot - though it’s unclear if the drinks are hers or her team’s x

[bluechemtrails 26,775]

sounds too good to be true

https://espiral21-com.translate.goog/lana-del-rey-y-dua-lipa-se-atreven-con-careles-whisper/?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[Embach 42,593]

Oh no, not the comments 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0b0eUyiX7U/?igshid=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==

[taco truck 33,003]

5 minutes ago, Embach said:

Oh no, not the comments 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0b0eUyiX7U/?igshid=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==

Oh my fucking god, I can’t stand this crowd of people that don’t even give a fuck about Palestine, they just want to use “Zionist” as their new word to cancel people. All Lana did was sign that letter which we don’t even know 100% if she actually did. Also all the comments just having blatantly wrong information makes me so mad.