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The official Lana Del Rey thread; New album "Lust for Life"
Topic Started: Sep 27 2011, 12:15 PM (11,953 Views)
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My ratings for the album. It's undeniably front-loaded with the best stuff, but pretty much everything on it is high quality.

Cruel World - 10/10
Ultraviolence - 9/10
Shades of Cool - 9/10
Brooklyn Baby - 7/10
West Coast - 9/10
Sad Girl - 8/10
Pretty When You Cry - 8/10
Money Power Glory - 7/10
Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 8/10
Old Money - 9/10
The Other Woman - 6/10

Bonus tracks:
Black Beauty - 7/10
Florida Kilos - 5/10
Guns and Roses - 7/10
Is This Happiness - 7/10
Flipside - 7/10
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Been listening to it properly this evening. Yes, it's all a bit "one note", but it's all so beautifully done. The songs separate themselves from one another after a few listens. The melodies are gorgeous and it all sounds wonderfully atmospheric and moody. Seriously high quality once again from Lana.
It's a gloriously realized album. A true experience. I adore it and I went in ready to hate it.
:shock: Why did you want to hate it?

I just adore this woman's music. So, so glad she's around.
Because I really loved the first album and a half and I thought 'oh she abandonded pop and went all rawk and pretentious' but it's all utterly sublime. I can't stop listening.
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Finally got over my initial disappointment.

Old Money, Pretty When You Cry, Ultraviolence, West Coast, Is This Happiness and Shades of Cool are the standout tracks for me.
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Jun 15 2014, 02:42 PM
Finally got over my initial disappointment.

Old Money, Pretty When You Cry, Ultraviolence, West Coast, Is This Happiness and Shades of Cool are the standout tracks for me.
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The video for "Shades of Cool":

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I like the album a lot, but little jumps out at me like the first record and then the Paradise edition.

It still shits over almost every other female artist out there.
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I think it's more of a slow-burner. The songs aren't as immediately catchy, but I'm addicted to it now!
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Yes, it's definitely a grower. The first album was more instant for me.
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Frances Bean Cobain Tells Lana Del Rey Not to Glamorize Her Father’s Early Death

Twenty years after Kurt Cobain’s tragic suicide, the late musician’s daughter, Frances Bean, has spoken out publicly about her father’s death. The statements from Frances Bean were not offered up in any kind of official interview forum, but on Twitter, in response to remarks Lana Del Rey made recently, in which she appears to glamorize Kurt Cobain’s early death.

Speaking with The Guardian in June, Del Rey spoke about her musical heroes including Cobain and Amy Winehouse, both of whom died at the age of 27. The singer-songwriter is reported to have said, “I wish I was dead already,” and to have agreed that she considered early death to be glamorous.

Frances Bean, who was only one year old when her father committed suicide, responded yesterday with a flurry of tweets insisting that there is nothing glamorous about early deaths. “@LanaDelRey the death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize. . .I’ll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl like u think it’s ‘cool’. . . .Well, it’s f---ing not. . .Embrace life, because u only get one life. The ppl u mentioned wasted that life. Don't be 1 of those ppl...ur too talented to waste it away.” In a later Tweet, Frances Bean clarified, “I’m not attacking anyone. . .I have no animosity towards Lana. I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience.”

Last week, Del Rey tweeted her own response to the controversial Guardian piece, suggesting that the journalist interviewing her asked leading questions.

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/frances-bean-cobain-lana-del-rey

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I think much like Gaga, people take Lana a bit too seriously sometimes. She often says things because they will make a good headline or because they fit the mood of her albums. I don't think she REALLY wants to die.
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Jun 24 2014, 07:04 AM
I think much like Gaga, people take Lana a bit too seriously sometimes. She often says things because they will make a good headline or because they fit the mood of her albums. I don't think she REALLY wants to die.
Agree completely.

I don't feel like I can get mad at the Bean though, bless her :manson:
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Her full Glastonbury set:

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From her recent Complex magazine interview:

"Feeling really happy and just circumstantially like nothing’s going wrong, which becomes more difficult but that’s only my experience. I think a lot of people think the whole thing is really great. Making Brooklyn my home base for the last two and a half weeks has really helped me out, like I’ve actually started thinking conceptually that I have this addition, an addition to this record that could come really easily. That hasn't happened in a long time. Not since I wrote that Paradise addition to Born to Die, which I really loved."
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'Big Eyes': The Story Behind Lana Del Rey's Stunning Secret Songs


Will two tracks from the Tim Burton film double her chances for an Oscar nomination?


Lana Del Rey made several top 10 lists last year with “Summertime Sadness,” and this winter, she’ll be giving a voice to the sadness of Amy Adams’ character in Big Eyes, the Tim Burton film that opens Dec. 25. Her contributions are not just a bit of the old Ultraviolence (to cite the title of her most recent album), but two entirely new tracks, kept secret until the Christmas release started screening for insiders a few days ago.


Whether the languid songstress is doubling her chances for an Oscar nomination by contributing two tunes remains to be seen. A rep from The Weinstein Co. says the studio hasn’t made any Oscar-season determination about whether to emphasize “Big Eyes,” the title tune that prominently appears mid-movie, or “I Can Fly,” which runs over the end credits. Both songs were clearly written from the psychologically evolving viewpoint of the movie’s heroine, Margaret Keane — a possible plus for voters who, as Time magazine put it, “brutally snubbed” Del Rey’s less obviously endemic contribution to The Great Gatsby, “Young and Beautiful,” early this year.


“Tim showed her the film and she fell in love with it,” says Larry Karaszewski, a producer on Big Eyes, as well as its co-writer. If the film’s tone strikes a tricky balance between comic satire and prototypical “women’s picture,” Del Rey’s contributions are very much in tune with its more dramatic, feminist inclinations. “Women in particular seem to get the movie, and Lana really got the movie,” Karaszewski says. “The whole thing is about a woman who can’t find her voice,” and when the title song — with its “big eyes, big lies” refrain — plays at a critical juncture, “it almost becomes a musical. Lana’s song expresses what Margaret is feeling so perfectly, it’s like a soliloquy of her inner thoughts.”

“Big Eyes” wasn’t originally slated for a prominent mid-movie slot. Del Rey and the song's co-writer, Daniel Heath, had conceived it as an end-credits number, but there was no mistaking that it felt too defeated for a film that means to send audiences out on an upbeat note. Then — sorry, scorer Danny Elfman! — the filmmakers discovered Del Rey’s ballad fit perfectly as what Karaszewski calls “a centerpiece number” over two mostly dialogue-free scenes that in earlier cuts sported Elfman’s orchestration. The number begins as an instrumental when Adams spots her paintings being sold in a supermarket, then turns to a vocal piece with a big, pronounced beat as the character returns home determined to develop a new style of painting; it slips back out of the vocals as Christoph Waltz’s character returns and confronts his artistically straying spouse.


Not to leave Burton empty-handed in the clinch after “Big Eyes” got bumped up, Del Rey hooked up with co-writer Rick Nowels to come up with “I Can Fly” for the end credits. That finale isn’t quite R. Kelly-level inspirational, but it’s as close as a celebrated melancholist like Del Rey is going to come, celebrating Margaret’s escape from a pre-feminist cage with lines like “I had a dream that I was fine / I wasn’t crazy, I was divine.”

Which piece of work will get the awards push, to avoid vote-splitting? Although “I Can Fly” may sound a bit more airplay-friendly, it seems likelier that The Weinstein Co. will go “Big” and have the boldly spotlighted title song be their designated hitter in this suddenly crowded category, where Del Rey will be competing for a spot amid other big-name contenders ranging from Coldplay (Unbroken) to Common (Selma).
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Hear part of Lana's "Big Eyes" song:

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/hear-lana-del-reys-brand-new-big-eyes-song-104097199757.html
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The two songs from "Big Eyes" can be heard here:

http://lanadelreybrasil.tumblr.com/tagged/tim-burton
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"Big Eyes" is absolutely incredible! :drama:
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