Listening to it on speakers for the first time right now since I'm home from work—thanks, veterans!—and it really does need to be allowed to fill the room. "God Knows I Tried" has been my favorite song all along, but through speakers it's pretty overwhelming.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
This album is pretty close to perfection. Especially with wine and an empty apartment.
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 12 November 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
I have given this album several goes and I cannot get into it for the life of me. The only tracks I could sing bits of from memory are Salvatore and High By The Beach. Maybe three years from now I'll sit crying after a breakup I did not instigate and put it on and finally get it.
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Honeymoon the track is really striking and beautiful imo, esp once I clipped the first like 2 mins of it off
that & freak (has become prob 1 of her fav tracks of mine ever) & blackest day are the only tracks I listen to
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2015/12/02/lana-del-rey-fan-arrested/
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 December 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
Shades of Cool still sounds soooooo boss to me
actually the whole Ultraviolence album is \m/ \m/ imo
― the tune was space, Thursday, 10 March 2016 06:24 (eight years ago) link
"Ultraviolence" is her best album.
New song
http://pitchfork.com/news/71155-lana-del-rey-returns-with-new-song-young-and-in-love/
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 19 February 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
new song is great, but the video is...odd? her smiling creeps me out. maybe it's meant to.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
yea the song is good
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
it's good but it's more directly pop than usual for her
ultraviolence is easily her best yeah, i'm still hoping she'll do something similar to that with some jazzy ambience someday
― ufo, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
Love this song and video, gorgeous
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 24 February 2017 07:29 (seven years ago) link
I like this. My favorite thing by a long shot on Ultraviolence is "Fucked My Way to the Top."
Is the original video for "Video Games" still on the internet anywhere?
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 24 February 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
(Or maybe the one online is the original? Thought I'd read her edit got pulled)
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 24 February 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
She's bored me for years, and I like the new song a great deal.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
This statement, from a BBC interview, fills me with dread.
I started out thinking that the whole record was gonna have a ’50s/’60s feeling, like some kind of Shangri-Las, early Joan Baez influences. But as the climate kept on getting more heated politically, I found lyrically everything was just directed towards that. So because of that, the sound just got really updated, and I felt like it was more wanting to talk to the younger side of the audience that I have. I guess it’s just a little more socially aware. It’s kind of a global feeling.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 24 February 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
eep
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
yea thats not good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
tbf though she has always been terrible at describing her own music iirc
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link
album will probably sound exactly like the last two
― akm, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
although, 'younger' sound was exactly what the Born to Die had (and the last two didn't) and I know a lot of people who really love that about that album.
― akm, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
i have a hard time imagining her doing anything explicitly political, although it would be amusing if she put out a fugazi album or something. her videos have often had a kind of running commentary on american culture anyway.
― akm, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/71868-yes-lana-del-rey-is-promoting-an-anti-trump-witchcraft-ritual/
― piscesx, Saturday, 25 February 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
of course she is
― akm, Saturday, 25 February 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link
I was a bit underwhelmed with this song at first, but the video has made me fall in love with it. It is very odd to see her smiling so much. I guess she's not really done a lot of that in her videos before.
I have a hard time deciding between her albums. They're all pretty equal for me. Honeymoon was a massive grower.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Also, I've just realised that Love has a hint of Joy Division's Atmosphere about it.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
The new song (which is excellent BTW) prompted me to spend the last several days digging into the expanded version of her debut (that is, Born to Die: The Paradise Edition). I've always had a bit of a thing for artists before their "find their voice" -- i.e., when they are trying out personas and styles to see how they fit. Obviously, the hit/miss ratio is going to be greater. But I also think they tend to take greater risks.
BTD alone has several songs that I count among her best -- yes, "Video Games," "Blue Jeans" and "Summertime Sadness," but also "National Anthem" and "Radio" (*huge* earworm). I'm also fond of "Dark Paradise" (which is, uh, dark), the title track and "Off to the Races." As for the EP, "Ride" is generally excellent -- but its bridge is positively thrilling. "Cola" is a complete fave of mine -- kind of "Blue Jeans Part II" musically. Johnny Fever's comment upthread that it was "absurd and terrible and great" was spot on. It's kind of LDR in a nutshell.
Now, are there clunkers? Absolutely -- sometimes within these songs as has been pointed out. I'm still not sure why a line like "Take this party downtown" shows up in multiple songs -- it's almost as if LDR has a McCartney-esque thing for placeholder lyrics that she never swaps out. And the production is, perhaps, a bit glossy in places -- the beats in general sound kind of overly polished.
But on the last few records, it's all sluggish tempos and quaaludes. I get why she did them -- records like Ultraviolence and Honeymoon have helped her mature a bit and, yes, find her voice. They've also positioned her less as a big pop star than as an artist on the fringes, which is where I think she derives a lot of her inspiration. And in general, I love the panoramic sound of these records -- Ultraviolence in particular has a great "Scott Walker as filtered through a Space Echo" sound to it.
Still, on most of her recent material, I've missed the tunes ("Young and Beautiful" excepted), the diversity and even the slight hip hop touches that made her kind of exciting to me. I'm hoping "Love" is a sign that she's moving back in that direction.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
good writeup, agree w a lot of it - yea the chaff in born to die is kindof striking considering its peaks
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, you make some good points there. You've pretty much picked my favourite songs from Born To Die. I'm surprised that Radio was never released as a single. I thought it was the obvious hit as soon as I heard the album. Nice to see you mention Dark Paradise which was always the most underrated song on the album. I'd add Without You from the deluxe edition as another highlight. One of her best vocals. Diet Mtn Dew and Million Dollar Man are the only songs I'd say sound like filler to me. Neither of them are terrible songs, they just seem a bit flat. As for Paradise, I couldn't get into that beyond Ride which is one of her best songs and Bell Air which is so beautiful. The rest of it leaves me cold.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
"Gods and Monsters" is an underrated track from Paradise. I like in the song "Ultraviolence" where the backing vocal sings "Lay me down tonight with your diamonds at pearls" is awesome when repeated later as part of "Fucked My Way To The Top".
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
^ Sorry for the terrible formatting of that post. Should be "diamonds and pearls".
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
For all the guff she (for the most part, deservedly) gets for her live performances, this is straight up amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWWX-y3oIk
(also, +1 for the Audrey Hepburn look -- but -1 for ending the song before the bridge)
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Fuck yeah
http://pitchfork.com/news/69503-lana-del-rey-announces-new-album-lust-for-life/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
That trailer is very ridiculous and very amazing. I am so excited for this album now.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
afraid of Weeknd guest spot but I believe in her
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link
Loved Born to Die when it was released (I was in high school) but now it sounds a bit ridiculous. Her subsequent material has fewer cringeworthy lines (there are still a couple: "Oh that face makes me want to party"; "Baby you're so ghetto, you're looking to score"). As a whole, though, Ultraviolence and especially Honeymoon are great. Looking forward to the new album.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
what does your username refer to btw
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
lol it's just my twitter name. which is just my name with "handsome" attached to it.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
phew, I had feared the second bit was some ghastly ilxian claim to literary interest/prowess
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 30 March 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
know what you mean. English teachers always used to expect a lot from me in high school. name=self fulfilling prophecy, i suppose.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
as for 'handsome'...well, nothing wrong with claims to beauty but observe sexyDancer as a cautionary tale...released several acclaimed noise-rock records and stopped posting to ilx. you have been warned
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/17883940_1516739251701853_4736089270494339133_n.jpg?oh=26219d3755ed8de23633601e00fc3b46&oe=598650A5
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Weird (but cool!) to see her smiling on a cover. I'm stoked for this.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Not only did she cop Iggy's album title but his cover concept for said album as well?
― vmajestic, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
the smile is weird. I love her but I don't think she should smile.
― akm, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
i like it
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
i want her to just glower at me
― akm, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
Is there a release date for this yet? This is one of my most anticipated albums of the year right now.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Young And In Love reminds me of a Heather Nova ballad, the 90s are truly back.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
wiki sez the release date is 5/26
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
― akm, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Are you for real? Wtf.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link