Lana Del Rey

^^ 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

We all like motorcycles to some degree

sorry, pls, everyone talk about whether ldr should smile or not

I deeply regret bringing it up in the first place

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/IggyPopLustForLife.jpg
http://static.idolator.com/uploads/2017/04/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-cover-1491930821-413x413.jpg

Smiling Lana just intensifies her persona as the Naomi Watts audition scene in Mullholland Drive

does anyone know what the font is from? it feels like 70s Readers Digest or something.

i thought i didn't like honeymoon, but then i put it on today and remembered that it had my two favorite ldr songs: terrence + blackest day. i think the album loses me on the stretch of high by the beach/freak/art deco which are imo admirable attempts at trip-hop with modern trap beats, but they largely don't do anything for me.

forgive my ignorance of the genre, but are there any other triphop acts with trap-style beats?

"terrence loves you" might be my favorite lana song. it's truly transcendent.

Love the Nancy Sinatra quoting strings on that one

i was lukewarm on that album when it first came out but it's grown on me a lot, the point where I prefer it to Ultraviolence (though I still think West Coast is probably my favorite song of hers)

The font is called "Loretta Lynn" xpost

Ultraviolence is great because it's very committed to its particular style - and it rarely deviates from being a sublime come-down album.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/35578/1/lana-del-rey-courtney-love-lust-for-life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cTIXoBnuw

not bad :)

my boyfriend's back
and he's cooler than ever

^^ lol

(i like this a lot)

The way she sings, "take off, take off, take off all your clothes" reminds me so much of the, "hello hello" bit in Without You from Born To Die. That's also the bit that Taylor Swift borrowed for Wildest Dreams.

This new album is shaping up very nicely. Really hope that rumoured May 26th release date is right.

I like both new songs. Reading that she's really into the mixing process and is very particular about it was cool, maybe more women (musicians or otherwise) should interview female musicians

Does the song survives besides that weeknd collaboration?

Any artist who cites Shangri-Las as an influence on their new record is cool with me

i dunno if i'm supposed to be thinking of mandela when quoting invictus, but i always think of tim mcveigh

re: the font, I don't recognize that specific one, but it's very reminiscent of Bookman Swash Italic which was all over the place in the '70s.

I was skeptical of the Weeknd collab, but I think it works well. They share that decadent, sleazy vibe -- a more natural fit than him w/Beyonce, e.g.

yea Im not sure yet I love this but it is v earwormy, been stuck in my head a few days

plus this image is gorg

http://popcrush.com/files/2017/04/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life.png?w=630&h=630&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

This song is incredible.

Hate the Weeknd collaboration, and the fact that the album also includes collaborations with Sean Lennon and Stevie Nicks has me basically running the other way.

ideologically she has more in common w/Nicks han with the Weeknd

"Tin Weekned and Nicks han coming
When will Lana record on her own?"

sean lennon is fine
stevie nicks is fine
weeknd is fine

she hasn't done an album of collabs before like this, so I'm fine with it as long as that's not what she does from now all the time

larry Clayton is fine

mmm he sure is

ideologically she has more in common w/Nicks han with the Weeknd

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 28, 2017 9:24 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what 'ideology' is that?

Worshiping beautiful young men while dancing with them in cowboy boots.

Maybe one of these days I'll see what you're all seeing in her but it's still not the time.

It's taken several years; I started cracking in January after prolonged exposure to "West Coast" in my work environment.

I kinda suspect she's like Antony/ANOHNI for me -- someone a lot of people I know go "GAH" over (not to mention open Marc Almond fandom, usually a good sign for me) that makes me go "I guess the trappings are okay?" because the songs aren't much. I can see why the fandom exists, but I have no need.

That's always the way I've felt until this title track.

I kinda suspect she's like Antony/ANOHNI for me -- someone a lot of people I know go "GAH" over (not to mention open Marc Almond fandom, usually a good sign for me) that makes me go "I guess the trappings are okay?" because the songs aren't much. I can see why the fandom exists, but I have no need.

Interesting; ANOHNI is definitely a "you've got to be fucking kidding me" artist for me, but I have basically loved everything LDR's done since the Paradise EP (I liked a lot of Born To Die, but it's patchy and definitely her weakest album).

her songwriting chops have grown so much since that album. "Honeymoon" and "God Knows I Tried" sound like standards.

......no, Lana, no.

OK, "political" LDR is the funniest LDR yet. Reminds me of when Christina Applegate's character on Married...With Children started a cable access show called Vital Social Issues 'n' Stuff - With Kelly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjDfD_RtYiA