Lana Del Rey

lmao I'm not really wild about that bit but I do think they sound nice together. the back stretch of the album has some of her best songs

I get it -- it's breaking down the fourth wall in a big way. But it works for a few reasons. First, hanging with famous cats is so (old) Hollywood -- it feels very appropriate to LDR's ethos. It's also perfectly in keeping with her approach to lyrics, which remain this unique combination of woozy pathos, classic romantic imagery ("Roses out in your treehouse") and quirky hipster lingo (faces making her want to party and whatnot). I would also add: this kind of thing is something John and Yoko did a lot in their own work, which squares the circle a bit.

Generally, tho: it's exactly the kind of courageous-to-the-point-of-being-ridiculous-while-also-being-unexpected-ness I look for from her.

im not that familiar with her work but that john/yoko/sean verse absolutely rules imo, for all the reasons stated above

In the interview I posted Lana talks about stalkers as well

newest record is probably my favourite over-all now. "God Bless America", "White Mustang", "Cherry" and "In my Feelings" are some of his strongest work to date

her* my bad

all I wanna do is get high at the beach

Oops "by the beach"

overall like it but i'm still boggling at the decision "you know, one song with A$AP Rocky just isn't enough, we need two to take this album to the next level"

the thing about being stalked is that by its very nature it is risky to talk about it in public, lest that prompt further contact

ultraviolence still her best record imo

But could a person as good intentioned as I not perhaps with my presence bring attention to the fact that something should change and that a singer with a loving energy can help shift the energetic vibration of a location for the higher good even if it’s just for a minute?

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) August 19, 2018

probably not her finest hour tbh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-45246279

Lana Del Rey: Israel gig 'not a political statement'

She’s totally a dreamer

i still listen to "ride" all the fucking time

Yup

pic.twitter.com/Ii1kxFFxBL

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) August 31, 2018

New song, it's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFv9Ts7Sdw

this is really wonderful, a real extension of the kinds of songs I liked most on the last two albums. I love that she just releases shit whenever she feels like it on youtube.

Yeah, it's awesome how prolific she is. This is another brilliant single. New album coming in January apparently.

oh nice, jan is my bday, lana is one of my favs - exciting news

v nice song

i have to assume she must be really easy to work with, with the amount of backlogged and released material she always has ready. people don't clamor to work with someone who is a pain in the ass.

that recent interview for lust for life made it seem like she was super chill

Gorgeous song

Kinda feel like Lana is one of those artists who writes the same song in a beautiful new way

Lana Del Rey Announces New Album Norman Fucking Rockwell

The 9-minute single “Venice Bitch” precedes the 2019 record

https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-teases-new-song-venice-bitch-listen/

Elsewhere in the interview, Lana said that she she hopes to release a book of poems and short stories, under the working title
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

haha. she really likes the word 'bitch'

uh wow i was totally not expecting this to be a 10 minute epic based on the teaser but this fucking rules

mariners apartment complex is also great, these are probably my favourite tracks of hers since ultraviolence so i am extremely hyped for norman fucking roswell and apparently the next single is out next month

really would not have expected her + antonoff to work so well, these tracks don't really have any of his trademarks and for the better

this is pretty awesome? the music is surprisingly out there.

like this is almost the diametric opposite direction of what the Weeknd and co. collabs on the last album suggested

Mariners Village Apartment Homes
Apartment building in Marina del Rey, California
Address: 4600 Vía Marina, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

these last two songs are GREAT

i think this is my favourite thing she's ever done. i am super glad she's finally going further in the direction of ultraviolence's guitar atmospherics

i am so fucking about "venice bitch"

boy, she's good with titles, eh?

Very

I mean, she could've titled it "Venice, Bitch" and I would've bowed

this is so good

wow, lana del rey is really out here releasing red house painters songs in 2018

DAMN that song is great! Venice Bitch I mean. I love the other one too. Like I said great fucking album title. Listened to some stuff from Ultraviolence after these two tracks and it clicked for me in a way that it never had before.

Oh wow, Venice Bitch so great. I know I shouldn't be ungrateful as she's one of the most prolific artists around, but I really wish we didn't have to wait until the new year for the album.

9 minute single tho

+ Mariners Apartment Complex

Yeah, this is great. The whole nine minutes weren't necessary (the 'solo' is kind of lame), but it's blissful all the same. She's inching towards who she aspires to be as an artist, one great song at a time. With Lana we all get to see her following that path, running but with the occasional stumble. Daring to be this vulnerable to open up and let the world see your cards, and pull it off with grace all the same... It's bare and honest. And the music is great. She's getting there.

Venice Bitch is stunning start to finish.

Has anyone commented on the "out of context / apartment complex" rhyme from "Mariners" yet? I take it the similarity to the lines from The Postal Service's "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" is not coincidental? (I mean, it's not the first song to use the "candle in the wind" metaphor either, but that one's much more generic.)

The chorus melody of "Venice Bitch" reminds me of the chorus of Lorde's "Writer in the Dark" (maybe due to Antonoff link?; or just coincidence).

She’s so great. She reminds me of Roxy Music a lot and Venice Bitch is her Mother Of Pearl

love this

ultraviolence is my favourite sprawling comedown record since Mazzy Star’s classic albums. Honeymoon is a curious follow up but it seems she found a good balance on the last one between her break out pop and later style

Excited for this

Sacrilegious, I suppose, but "Venice Bitch" is too long. I prefer her hemmed in by Rick Nowels' structures.