Dan Auerbach Talks "Ultraviolence" & Being Open To Working With Lana Del Rey Again

[American Whore]

I don't really know where to post this, so it's here, but mods if you can find the right place, help a twink out? This article just came out, before the new Black Keys album releases tomorrow and Dan talks about working on UV and being open to working with Lana again in the future. 

 

Here's what was said and I'll link the article here as well:

 

You became very prolific as a producer over the years, and won a Grammy for it in 2013. One of my favorite things you’ve worked on is Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence. It was interesting to go back and read interviews because I kind of forgot how weird that story was at the time. It seemed like you were sort of defending her and the fact that you worked with her.

 

AUERBACH: Oh, really?

 

Well, she’d been such a divisive figure. And you were sort of underlining her musicianship, talking about how she was singing live in a room with a full band and how nobody makes pop albums like that anymore.

 

AUERBACH: She didn’t brag on herself. I wanted to brag on her, and let people know what she was doing. Because I thought it was really fucking cool.

 

There was also the thing about label pushback and they got Adele’s producer to listen to it and he said not to change a thing.

 

AUERBACH: [Laughs] I hadn’t worked with anyone in that part of the industry. I hadn’t worked with anyone with any outside opinions at all — except for like, their parents or their siblings. You know what I’m saying? That was a first for me. Maybe it seemed like a big deal to me at the time.

 

How did that whole thing start to come about?

 

AUERBACH: We met at Electric Lady in New York City, hung out and just got along. Quickly after that we made plans for her to come down here and try out some of these songs. I don’t think she was totally satisfied with the recording situation. I love that record. I’m glad she decided to do it with me.

 

Is that a collaboration that felt like a one-off or would you want to work with her again?

 

AUERBACH: I feel like on any given week I could get into the studio with someone like Lana and make something really cool. She’s so creative. I’m always down to get into the studio with people who are like that. You could feel the tension going on. She was being pulled in a lot of different directions, plus she was around all these musicians she didn’t know. And she fired the drummer on the second day. [Laughs] Or, I had to fire the drummer. But I think it was that tension that got something special. I don’t try to fight any of that stuff. Tension or not, we’re recording. [Nashville engineer] David Ferguson he always says, “ABC, always be fucking recording.”

[takeitdoen]

[DeadSeaOfMercury]

[Crimson and Clover]

I’m weary because his music..isn’t good anymore but I’m open to it 

[West Coast]

To me that just cements my thought that when there is tension it gets your creative juices flowing. No need for a "yes man", making art with someone else isn't all rainbows & unicorns. 
 

Dan clearly views Lana as a creative and interesting artist and he really believes in her capabilities, hence why he pushed and did the most for Ultraviolence to be released and get the attention it deserved from her label.

 

I stan and I want more. 

[American Whore]

23 minutes ago, Crimson and Clover said:

I’m weary because his music..isn’t good anymore but I’m open to it 

 

hmmm weird opinion but okay  no but really tho i loved turn blue and want something like that for a lana album, uv was kinda that but i want more 

 

19 minutes ago, West Coast said:

To me that just cements my thought that when there is tension it gets your creative juices flowing. No need for a "yes man", making art with someone else isn't all rainbows & unicorns. 
 

Dan clearly views Lana has a creative and interesting artist and he really believes in her capabilities, hence why he pushed and did the most for Ultraviolence to be released and get the attention it deserved from her label.

 

I stan and I want more. 

 

thanks for stealing my thought you brain stealer 

[West Coast]

4 minutes ago, Hydroponic Weeds said:

thanks for stealing my thought you brain stealer 

[plastiscguy]

We need him back... Please...

[Crimson and Clover]

8 minutes ago, Hydroponic Weeds said:

 

hmmm weird opinion but okay  no but really tho i loved turn blue and want something like that for a lana album, uv was kinda that but i want more 

that's more black keys and 2014 and I agree his work then was amazing, i'm thinking more his solo 2017 album which leaves a lot to be desired (I might be biased though because they would always play his song Shine On Me at my old ice cream shop job  it gave Weezer)

[West Coast]

Also, it's funny when people say that Lana must've hated working with him or anything like that; while it's obvious there was tension, 8 years down the line, Dan still clearly respects Lana as an artist and LOVED recording Ultraviolence with her. Must not have been so bad, even if just on his end.

 

They need to meet again. 

[Ultra Violet]

Fired the drummer? I want to hear more haha

[Vanilla Icy]

the thought of ultraviolence being an adele sounding adult contemporary album is horrifying

[West Coast]

Just now, Vanilla Icy said:

the thought of ultraviolence being an adele sounding adult contemporary album is horrifying

I think they just brought Paul Epworth along to gauge how he'd react... and, well, he loved what he heard and they ate shit up. 

[Deadly Nightshade]

i think that they were a match made in heaven 

 

[annedauphine]

[WhiteHydrangea]

9 hours ago, West Coast said:

To me that just cements my thought that when there is tension it gets your creative juices flowing. No need for a "yes man", making art with someone else isn't all rainbows & unicorns. 
 

Dan clearly views Lana has a creative and interesting artist and he really believes in her capabilities, hence why he pushed and did the most for Ultraviolence to be released and get the attention it deserved from her label.

 

I stan and I want more. 

 

[Veinsineon]

9 hours ago, plastiscguy said:

We need him back... Please...

the way my pussy moved in a way it hasnt in years bc of this thread..

[Blue Ink]

[West Coast]

14 minutes ago, Veinsineon said:

the way my pussy moved in a way it hasnt in years bc of this thread..

Another thing Dan did (besides producing Lana's best album), he made Veinsineon's pussy throb. Naur it's true. 

[GeminiLanaFan]

I’d love for them to work again, as long as the album has hints of UV influences but maybe mixed with something else, and not a copy of UV. 
as for thé tensions in the studio while working together, it made a beautiful piece of art in the end, but is it worth the tensions while making it? He seems to think so, but she likes when work flows and isn’t contrived, so ??