Lana Del Rey

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

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 :)