Lana Del Rey

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 :)

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?