Lana Del Rey

^ Sorry for the terrible formatting of that post. Should be "diamonds and pearls".

For all the guff she (for the most part, deservedly) gets for her live performances, this is straight up amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWWX-y3oIk

(also, +1 for the Audrey Hepburn look -- but -1 for ending the song before the bridge)

Fuck yeah

http://pitchfork.com/news/69503-lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-lust-for-life/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

That trailer is very ridiculous and very amazing. I am so excited for this album now.

afraid of Weeknd guest spot but I believe in her

Loved Born to Die when it was released (I was in high school) but now it sounds a bit ridiculous. Her subsequent material has fewer cringeworthy lines (there are still a couple: "Oh that face makes me want to party"; "Baby you're so ghetto, you're looking to score"). As a whole, though, Ultraviolence and especially Honeymoon are great. Looking forward to the new album.

what does your username refer to btw

lol it's just my twitter name. which is just my name with "handsome" attached to it.

phew, I had feared the second bit was some ghastly ilxian claim to literary interest/prowess

know what you mean. English teachers always used to expect a lot from me in high school. name=self fulfilling prophecy, i suppose.

as for 'handsome'...well, nothing wrong with claims to beauty but observe sexyDancer as a cautionary tale...released several acclaimed noise-rock records and stopped posting to ilx. you have been warned

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/17883940_1516739251701853_4736089270494339133_n.jpg?oh=26219d3755ed8de23633601e00fc3b46&oe=598650A5

Weird (but cool!) to see her smiling on a cover. I'm stoked for this.

Not only did she cop Iggy's album title but his cover concept for said album as well?

the smile is weird. I love her but I don't think she should smile.

i like it

i want her to just glower at me

Is there a release date for this yet? This is one of my most anticipated albums of the year right now.

Young And In Love reminds me of a Heather Nova ballad, the 90s are truly back.

wiki sez the release date is 5/26

the smile is weird. I love her but I don't think she should smile.

― akm, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you for real? Wtf.

I am in fact for real. Her smiles seem forced like she's being told to smile by the photographer (here) and videographer (in the Love video)

I'm happy she's smiling

I'm happy she's smiling, too. It conjures with her optimistic message in the album trailer, too.

Saying "I don't think she should smile" about Lana, and anyone else for that matter, is nagl in my book.

Going for relative optimism just in time for Trump is a pretty classic contrarian pop artist move imo

There's def something sly and mischievous about her smile, which bodes well for her witchy image

i am guessing this is not the same truck that was used for starline tours then.
i think i like the cover.
mad font and all.

Honestly folks, she just seems like she's on her way to Coachella in that shot.

(I remain deeply 'eh' about her work.)

is it cool if I just copy/paste this conversation to the Wikipedia page for "male gaze"

go for it imo

akm's observations about LDR's smiles seeming forced are off-base-ish, but I do think smiling seems kind of off-brand for her, at least as her career has manifested itself so far. That said, she's one of the more in-control-of-her-own-art pop figures around at the moment, so you gotta figure if she's smiling on the album cover it's a strong hint as to the content...

otm, her smiling here is weird

god y'all are unbelievable

here's a thought! maybe lana is in a good place??? and she wants to share that with the world???

I'm totally with Josh here, that's what I hope

There is something odd about her smiling, but it's just because she hasn't done it much in the past. I'm all for it though. This is a woman who said she didn't care if she died a few years ago and now she does seem like she's in a much better place. I keep finding myself drawn to the Love video as those awkward little smiles are so endearing.

I'm really enjoying that she seems to be taken seriously now. After that massive backlash when Born To Die came out, I wouldn't have blamed her if she'd disappeared for a long time. It's also pretty cool how prolific she is.

wtf is this all about?

i love that promo video so much. <3

ragging on her smiling in the cover seems so out of left field to me. it seemed relatively clear to me that at this point she's put some distance between her subject matter and herself as a persona, so now she can lay back and not have to "feel" everything she's writing about (actually or performatively). smiling (pretty wryly, it seems obvious to me) as an embodiment of that distance and a soft subversion of ~moody indie sad girl~ seems like a great move, especially for an album she said was explicitly for her fans instead of for her.

Huffington Post take on the smile: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lana-del-rey-album-art-smile_us_58ed54abe4b0ca64d91a3649

oh great

^^ otm.

Both the misoginy on this thread and HuffPo's piece abt the ~radical power~ of a woman smiling are sides of the same stupid coin.

Driving In Cars.. on this album i wonder?

she's smiling in front of a truck so it's prob Driving in Trucks

sorry just adding to the needless projection itt

she has shit tons of unreleased stuff, driving in cars with boys being just one of them, and I have a feeling she will not go back and revisit that material anytime soon, or ever.

when someone's entire media image both A) is incredibly deliberate and B) largely revolves around being "hollywood sadcore" then it is, in fact, valid to point out a smiling album cover. it isn't a candid photo, it's a photoshoot. it exists for a reason.

XP Lana Del Rey Bootleg Series in 2030

(yes, xp, that was the point I was trying to make earlier, I don't think that was misogynistic)

I've snagged a lot of unreleased stuff off the web and on slsk; some of it I assume originated from her youtube channel, the rest I have no idea; I get the feeling she spends a fair amout of time in the studio with other people generating things before settling on what to do for an album; or at least did until the around Honeymoon.

I assumed the smiling album cover was just a direct reference to the Iggy Pop album