Lana Del Rey

I find it kind of dull but I keep coming back to it. Feels like there's a lot of little flourishes there that my conscious mind isn't picking up on. A subliminal bop.

Am I the only one who hears Dido in this?

i found "high by the beach" a little bizarre at first and didn't like the way the staccato line sounded in the chorus but i'm coming around to it now. kind of hypnotic.

hasn't really worked for me. I guess 'yet' yea but idk

01 Honeymoon
02 Music to Watch Boys to
03 Terrence Loves You
04 God Knows I Tried
05 High by the Beach
06 Freak
07 Art Deco
08 Burnt Norton (Interlude)
09 Religion
10 Salvatore
11 The Blackest Day
12 24
13 Swan Song
14 Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

I can only assume that track 8 is LDR sing-speaking the entirety of this http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/fq.html

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11937443_981125398596577_8187802876390429723_n.jpg?oh=27c70226d6e98d3a766b3872bd8bc263&oe=5672D4A9

Lana Del Rey reads the Cantos seems like a money maker. x-post

"Terrence Loves You": https://player.spotify.com/album/4xlfiqbKSVzrbUzjbYe2Ia/3NkWdvbs6xEVk3c0vPGhXN

so this is out now. thoughts? I don't like it as much as Ultraviolence; compositionally it seems a little weak and monochromatic. I imagine anyone who thought UV was boring is going to hate it. I do like Terrence a lot. thrilled she is reading TS Eliot on this.

I am generally pro-LDR but man this is a slog

i had a nice moment to honeymoon the song just recently while stoned on an elliptical but yea im lowkey worried abt this, gonna wait til tmorrow to listen to it all

Yeah, I'm gonna check it out in the morning myself. I loved Ultraviolence.

man this is a languid album ain't it, even by lana standards

Yeah, it is pretty hazy and slow. I like it about as much as Ultraviolence, and better than Born to Die. Need to listen to it a few more times, though.

yup super languid, I like it okay; freak is p nice

Salvatore shouldn't work but it does...really well. I'm wondering if soft ice cream = coke?

xp freak is my favorite

most of the singles are really strong except high by the beach (which is fine, it just kinda sits there), also like religion a lot once it gets going in the second half. almost all the songs tho, including the best ones, are too long

Listened to it on the train this morning while reading; didn't pay any attention to track titles, so it's basically one big song for me still.

Honeymoon has really made me appreciate the variety present on Ultraviolence.

the cover is rotten and doesn't convey at all the haziness of this album. it's grown on me over the past day; still no UV but pretty good. The production choices on BTD seem very juvenile in comparison.

yea i h8 the cover also

I'm into the cover, but then for me cheap sunglasses and floppy sun hats are generally a winning combination, so YMMV.

What is the track being ref-d at end of "Terrence Loves You"? She hums a slippery melody which the strings play off of, some sort of '60s Barry/Mancini thing.

Ah yes, John Barry it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8uYxTJ530

I love the cover bc I've been obsessed with those passenger vans with the roof chopped off for a while now. like can I get one of those as my personal vehicle?

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5949320491_83270fa6ef.jpg

p.s. I dig the tunes too.

it's like easily her best album cover, makes me actually want to listen to the record

I loved Born To Die and Ultraviolence but Honeymoon is such a drag. I liked the singles and there a few other good songs (24, Freak and Swan Song) but the rest of the songs leave no impression at all. I'm shocked to see she's getting such good reviews all over the place.

Don't know why I kept going in this thread to bash her. The albums are not too bad. Got caught up in the hype/anti-hype.

I love this. It's not as immediate as Ultraviolence but has the same kind of internal coherence.

I don't like it as much as Ultraviolence

Ultraviolence is some kind of weird classic. It's begging to be redicovered by hipsters 20 years from now.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-0919-lana-del-ray-20150920-story.html

Her beef is that the guys in helicopters — not to mention the guys trailing her outside Ralphs or through New York City mass transit — are taking images of the wrong moments, damaging the glamorous but unknowable persona she's so carefully cultivated.

[...]

Her first words on the album go even further: "We both know that it's not fashionable to love me," she sings, luxuriating in each syllable. This is obviously nonsense: Del Rey has never been more in demand among trendsetting mavericks, be it Kanye West, who hired her to sing at his wedding, or the Weeknd, who drafted her for a duet on his new album. But the line gives an indication of how she's absorbed the polarized reaction to her work, which has spawned as many enemies as acolytes.

[...]

She ends the record with a beautifully spooky rendition of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that two or three years ago — back when Del Rey was regularly taken for some kind of phony record-label invention — would've felt like an appeal for objective clarity.

Now it's the opposite: See me the way I want to be seen, the song demands.

garbage music

the more LDR doubles down on her aesthetic the realer she gets imo. if born to die failed because there were too many moments where the spell was broken through clumsiness, the more monochrome ultraviolence and honeymoon pretty much solve that problem, even if they sound initially samey throughout...

I now find it impossible to hear her without scanning for lyrics that could be chili pepper lyrics, in part because there are so many

She should cover "Under the Bridge".

californiambienication

they did steal the melody in "salvatore" from the sax line of "careless whisper", right?

epitome of "genius steals" if so.

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/61340-lana-del-rey-answering-hotline-from-honeymoon-album-art/

It's called marketing

wait there's seriously a track that's just her reading eliot?

yes!

ㅠㅠ

there's also a secret 2-hour long track of her watching sunset boulevard

born to die went platinum, it didn't fail in any respect

she owes no one anything, in the real world she's already on mount rushmore with beyonce and taylor swift and whoever else, people who try to insist that she still has literally anything left to prove only succeed in outing their own pathetic naïveté

idk how anyone could prefer this to Ultraviolence. Everything blurs.

ultraviolence was a bit too rocky for my liking. i never really got into it. i find this more true to her essence.

What are people's favourite songs on this? I hear a mood I like but I don't hear any standouts.

Terrence Loves You, 24, Swan Song, The Blackest Day and Freak are my favourites.

Gutted that 24 won't be the theme tune for a series of 24

in the real world she's already on mount rushmore with beyonce and taylor swift and whoever else

sigh, his name is THEODORE ROOSEVELT, get an education

also are the black keys on mount rushmore in the real world, they have platinum album from around that time