Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread

[evalionisameme 13,900]

You know things are getting serious when rob posts one of his essays

I love Rob always defending his daughter @graham4anything arrange a q and a with her please

Thanks

[Beatrix 228]

Honestly I'm here for Honeymoon 2.0 I'm so sick and over everyone's bashing this beautiful masterpiece like ENOUGH!!!!

[Terrence Loves Me 72,892]

Yeah Honeymoon is a better album (as a whole) than BTD and Paradise. It's beautiful and atmospherical.

[BeautifulAnywhere 5,417]

Y'all jump to conclusions too much. It won't be a Honeymoon 2.0 but it will have an essence of Honeymoon. Much like how you had an air of BTD in Paradise, an air of Paradise in UV, & an air of UV in HM. Also, I guess we're going to get a deluxe poster this era yay! Though, I wish it was actual bonus songs, a poster will suffice!

[lustforlife 19,008]

Spotted in Target today. Exculsive poster! No sign of exclusive tracks.

omg i ready for the leak

[Terrence Loves Me 72,892]

Will we find out when the vinyl release is on the 12th as well?

[cashcomesquick 5,381]

yall annoying af. Honeymoon is her best album ready for its sequel!

 

like srsly tho

[Dominikx4 25,418]

Just gonna post the first part here, I couldn't do much actually since I something interrupted me and I can't stay too long anymore. There's still 1 and a half pages left

 

Please excuse me if the translation is not 100% correct, I only have B2 level in French

 

You haven’t released anything since Honeymoon in 2015. How do you know or feel when you are ready for a new album?

My problem is not to begin, it is to stop. Even when I think I am done with an album I continue to create, I always want to add one more song, and again one more. If I am not occupied with mixing in the end of the creation of an album, I continue to write. For example, two songs from the new album were composed during the finalizing of the predecessor. I can’t stop myself from working, I adore being in the studio, it makes me feel good. It has been like that for five years in the same place, in Los Angeles, where I work with the same small equipment at the studio of producer Rick Nowels. We spend our life there, as a gang.

 

So this means you have never known the fear of a blank sheet?

It was a fear which overwhelmed me before I started to record real records. It was very present during the period before my success when I recorded simply for my own pleasure, when I wrote only for myself. I had the certainty that inspiration was gonna slip away and it was like that regularly, sometimes I was incapable of composing for six months.  But for 10 years now, I find inspiration easily – or it finds me. I have learned to be stimulated by it. Especially refusing to be lonely, I meet friends, I observe what is happening without any stress. I use my phone non-stope in the dictation mode, I have recorded countless melodies and words… It’s a bit scary, I must have 700 rough drafts of songs on my phone. I know the experience when a melody pops up in my head, I run towards my phone to record it, even if it is in the middle of the night. A good melody does not knock twice on your door. If you don’t welcome it, it’s gonna show up at another door. For example, during the recordings of Honeymoon, I always heard a melody inside my head which tortured me and which I did not capture. It sounded like the music of the Renaissance… I hummed this melody for months before it ultimately became Terrence Loves You (Sings for a long time)

 

Teenager, you have the reputation of being a dare-devil. How does this express itself nowadays?

My challenges are not physical, I take different risks. When I was 18, I drove like I was crazy, I was on sprees for days and nights without sleeping. I was more free, more spontaneous, I didn’t care much for the consequences… I have a lot of responsibilities today, towards my relatives, my partners… I am obligated to, for example, be on time. In the past, I had enough work to do with myself, just to maintain a living, before I could find time to occupy mself with others. In 2017, the risks I take is the level of melodies, my musical choices. But I think I have passed the dare-devil part and I am more of a nerd now (laughs)

 

What do you mean by “musical risks”?

The co-existence of different songs on the same album, like the very complex Lust for Life with the desert-like Yosemite, it is not very reasonable. One tries to put me off, one tells me the contrast is too extrem, but I love the two songs too much to exclude one because of the other one. These are the songs which make me life, and more than that, as well: they have some experience.

Have you become more patient the older you got?

I did. I allow myself much more free-time nowadays. I can go to the studio at any time, I don’t have the pressure of a deadline anymore. Of the blow, I have let myself go a little with the song Lust for Life… I have worked on it on multiple days a week for one and a half year. It has passed every stage, it has started with a futuristic and dark vein like Blade Runner. Also, I have decided to return to a radiant Shangri-La like style… After working for some months, Abel (The Weeknd) joined to add his part. This song became my baby, an unmanageable and maleficent baby which made me crazy. I quickly understood that this album would sound like a trip, a mix.

Working with The Weeknd, did you learn new methods to work in the studio?

I already once learned that I love to play with the buttons, the reverb, I feel more and more comfortable on the other side of the window. I can pass hours with a sound, it captivated me. Also, I spend time with the console in the studio, it doesn’t seem like working; it’s fun, exciting. I even read technical reviews, I’m a true geek (laughs)… Technically, nowadays, I would be capable of producing for other artists. The real question is, however: Even if I can, should I? Often when I jam with my friends, I can hear how the studio version would sound like. Maybe that’s my future. There is a serious lack of female producers in the music industry!

 

Your last two albums, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon, were made on the West Coast and were influenced by it. How about Lust for Life?

 Four songs on the album reference Los Angeles, but the mood and aesthetic are definitely not West Coast like. I drove myself to remove this blurry, dreamy atmosphere. Songs like Tomorrow Never Came and Yosemite pick up the sounds of 70s folk, and if I would have to create an album concept in a day, it would surround the legendary Laurel Canyon particularly.  

 

One of the strong songs on the album is called God Bless America. How do you feel about the US nowadays?

 Around me, in the artistic milieu, we all share the same feeling of uncertainty, of fear, and the talk which arises. Women the subject of this song, are the most affected, the most referred to by the arrival of Trump. I have written this song prior to the big marches which seemed inevitable to happen. This rhetorical hate is not dignified for a head of state. The day after the elections was one of the hardest days in my life. I went to the studio nonetheless, to talk to the others. I want to be informed by reading everything, and see if I can get anything at all. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything that convinces me. (?)

 

You have tweeted magical recipes to get rid of Trump…

It was a joke. I read how witches of the entire world tried to federate at these dates and times to put a spell on Trump, I just relayed. But wha5t is true is that my new videos contain references to magic and occult science. With the more cheerful, less dark side. I know people who converse with what is beyond. My music has relations to ghosts. But I don't  

 

[NamiraWilhelm 5,050]

' I have recorded countless melodies and words… It’s a bit scary, I must have 700 rough drafts of songs on my phone'

 

 

that phone is worth all the money in the world

[Flowerbomb 65,595]

"Songs like Tomorrow Never Came and Yosemite pick up the sounds of 70s folk"

[lmdr 10,905]

"desert-like Yosemite" I bet it will sound like something from Ultraviolence

[white gold 4,242]

my mom always listens to the "70's on 7" satellite radio station--so I've always loved Lana's 70's vibe. So excited to hear that more 70's-inspired Lana is coming!!!

[WhiteHydrangea 4,216]

Now, That's an interview.

 

I mean, I love the shit chat but the juicy details are so much interesting and fun

[Pink Champagne 9,592]

Are you kidding. We aren't getting Honeymoon 2.0 just because two songs were written at the end of Honeymoon's production.

[Paris Hilton 9,988]

Honeymoon is a beautiful jewel, I don't know why some people hate it.

[white gold 4,242]

Honeymoon is a beautiful jewel, I don't know why some people hate it.

 

it's a great record but it pales in comparison to the rest of her releases 

[expandableclitoris 9,093]

wow she really loved Yosemite, she mentions a lot of times 

and even when it doesnt fit the album overall theme, she still put in the tracklist

 

i think that tracklist was fake guys

[Nick Del Rey 5,279]

Idk how I'm gonna go to work at target every day passing by boxes of lust for life resisting the urge of grabbing a copy

[Lust 4,031]

Just gonna post the first part here, I couldn't do much actually since I something interrupted me and I can't stay too long anymore. There's still 1 and a half pages left

 

Please excuse me if the translation is not 100% correct, I only have B2 level in French

 

You haven’t released anything since Honeymoon in 2015. How do you know or feel when you are ready for a new album?

My problem is not to begin, it is to stop. Even when I think I am done with an album I continue to create, I always want to add one more song, and again one more. If I am not occupied with mixing in the end of the creation of an album, I continue to write. For example, two songs from the new album were composed during the finalizing of the predecessor. I can’t stop myself from working, I adore being in the studio, it makes me feel good. It has been like that for five years in the same place, in Los Angeles, where I work with the same small equipment at the studio of producer Rick Nowels. We spend our life there, as a gang.

 

So this means you have never known the fear of a blank sheet?

It was a fear which overwhelmed me before I started to record real records. It was very present during the period before my success when I recorded simply for my own pleasure, when I wrote only for myself. I had the certainty that inspiration was gonna slip away and it was like that regularly, sometimes I was incapable of composing for six months. But for 10 years now, I find inspiration easily – or it finds me. I have learned to be stimulated by it. Especially refusing to be lonely, I meet friends, I observe what is happening without any stress. I use my phone non-stope in the dictation mode, I have recorded countless melodies and words… It’s a bit scary, I must have 700 rough drafts of songs on my phone. I know the experience when a melody pops up in my head, I run towards my phone to record it, even if it is in the middle of the night. A good melody does not knock twice on your door. If you don’t welcome it, it’s gonna show up at another door. For example, during the recordings of Honeymoon, I always heard a melody inside my head which tortured me and which I did not capture. It sounded like the music of the Renaissance… I hummed this melody for months before it ultimately became Terrence Loves You (Sings for a long time)

 

Teenager, you have the reputation of being a dare-devil. How does this express itself nowadays?

My challenges are not physical, I take different risks. When I was 18, I drove like I was crazy, I was on sprees for days and nights without sleeping. I was more free, more spontaneous, I didn’t care much for the consequences… I have a lot of responsibilities today, towards my relatives, my partners… I am obligated to, for example, be on time. In the past, I had enough work to do with myself, just to maintain a living, before I could find time to occupy mself with others. In 2017, the risks I take is the level of melodies, my musical choices. But I think I have passed the dare-devil part and I am more of a nerd now (laughs)

 

What do you mean by “musical risks”?

The co-existence of different songs on the same album, like the very complex Lust for Life with the desert-like Yosemite, it is not very reasonable. One tries to put me off, one tells me the contrast is too extrem, but I love the two songs too much to exclude one because of the other one. These are the songs which make me life, and more than that, as well: they have some experience.

Have you become more patient the older you got?

I did. I allow myself much more free-time nowadays. I can go to the studio at any time, I don’t have the pressure of a deadline anymore. Of the blow, I have let myself go a little with the song Lust for Life… I have worked on it on multiple days a week for one and a half year. It has passed every stage, it has started with a futuristic and dark vein like Blade Runner. Also, I have decided to return to a radiant Shangri-La like style… After working for some months, Abel (The Weeknd) joined to add his part. This song became my baby, an unmanageable and maleficent baby which made me crazy. I quickly understood that this album would sound like a trip, a mix.

Working with The Weeknd, did you learn new methods to work in the studio?

I already once learned that I love to play with the buttons, the reverb, I feel more and more comfortable on the other side of the window. I can pass hours with a sound, it captivated me. Also, I spend time with the console in the studio, it doesn’t seem like working; it’s fun, exciting. I even read technical reviews, I’m a true geek (laughs)… Technically, nowadays, I would be capable of producing for other artists. The real question is, however: Even if I can, should I? Often when I jam with my friends, I can hear how the studio version would sound like. Maybe that’s my future. There is a serious lack of female producers in the music industry!

 

Your last two albums, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon, were made on the West Coast and were influenced by it. How about Lust for Life?

Four songs on the album reference Los Angeles, but the mood and aesthetic are definitely not West Coast like. I drove myself to remove this blurry, dreamy atmosphere. Songs like Tomorrow Never Came and Yosemite pick up the sounds of 70s folk, and if I would have to create an album concept in a day, it would surround the legendary Laurel Canyon particularly.

 

One of the strong songs on the album is called God Bless America. How do you feel about the US nowadays?

Around me, in the artistic milieu, we all share the same feeling of uncertainty, of fear, and the talk which arises. Women the subject of this song, are the most affected, the most referred to by the arrival of Trump. I have written this song prior to the big marches which seemed inevitable to happen. This rhetorical hate is not dignified for a head of state. The day after the elections was one of the hardest days in my life. I went to the studio nonetheless, to talk to the others. I want to be informed by reading everything, and see if I can get anything at all. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything that convinces me. (?)

 

You have tweeted magical recipes to get rid of Trump…

It was a joke. I read how witches of the entire world tried to federate at these dates and times to put a spell on Trump, I just relayed. But wha5t is true is that my new videos contain references to magic and occult science. With the more cheerful, less dark side. I know people who converse with what is beyond. My music has relations to ghosts. But I don't

 

Wait she said "my new VIDEOS contain references to magic and occult science" that means there might be more music videos with similar aethetics to the album trailer!!

[Pink Champagne 9,592]

She said she maybe wants to produce for people. I never knew that!!