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Post by vipanonymous on Jun 12, 2014 11:10:13 GMT -5
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Post by dbhmr on Jun 12, 2014 11:22:43 GMT -5
"Brooklyn Baby" is fantastic. Not downloading the leak, but so far I'm excited. I'm not sure it will have the same mesmerizing pull as Born To Die for me, but I'm really enjoying the new stuff.
Whoa, awesome numbers for her.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jun 12, 2014 12:01:35 GMT -5
I've run through it a couple times. Not a complete miss, but not nearly as dynamic as her last two efforts. Everything is perfectly listenable, but there are way too many skippable tracks. Something is just... missing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 12:29:33 GMT -5
So, I was right about the numbers in your opinion thread
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Jun 12, 2014 14:01:22 GMT -5
Nothing hits quite as hard as BTD (i.e. isn't as dramatic), but i don't think it's intended to be that sort of album. Some really great stuff.
Some of the production reminds me of William Orbit, which is random. Cruel World, West Coast...
Unsure on favourites but I'm drawn to Brooklyn Baby and Old Money at the moment. The chorus of the latter is great.
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Post by Spidey on Jun 12, 2014 14:09:33 GMT -5
I've downloaded the album yet, but I did just listen to "Old Money". I'm in love with that song.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jun 12, 2014 14:39:41 GMT -5
Born To Die was the AOTY for me so I already know this won't top that. What made that album so great was its cinematic scope, singular vision, and subversive catchiness. She continues to do her own thing, which I respect, and I'm sure I will like the album once I have it in full though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 16:55:42 GMT -5
She has arrived and while sticking to her sound, YASSS LANA! get that sun baby
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Post by vipanonymous on Jun 12, 2014 17:05:48 GMT -5
Lana Del Rey: 'I wish I was dead already'Depression is a terrible thing. Her bf plays a role in that i think. I hope she gets help. What worries me it's that she's 27 now. (9 days to 28) but still. :'( I wish her the best.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jun 12, 2014 21:22:55 GMT -5
I had a feeling her numbers would be higher than expected. Great for her. The cd is ok. I just can't get into it like BTD and Paradise, but it also took me a long time to love BTD so maybe Lana is just an artist that needs to simmer for me. I also think I like subtle stuff about her the best and I haven't had a chance to really dig into the subtle parts just yet.
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Post by SoMuchToSay on Jun 12, 2014 22:31:41 GMT -5
This sticks to her weird style. I'm not a major fan, but I could certainly see both Brooklyn Baby & Ultraviolence achieving some level of success. I'm very curious to see if she can pull and Adele w/ this album. It seems like there is a lot of hype for this. It's been killing it on Itunes and hasn't officially been released yet.
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Post by popbox on Jun 13, 2014 0:50:08 GMT -5
Born To Die was the AOTY for me so I already know this won't top that. What made that album so great was its cinematic scope, singular vision, and subversive catchiness. She continues to do her own thing, which I respect, and I'm sure I will like the album once I have it in full though. Same. Haven't listened to the leak, but I've already accepted that BTD will be album of her career for me. As much as I'd love her to top it, I just know deep down it won't be. But I still like most of her other music, so I'm sure I'll like this.
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Post by brucelover on Jun 13, 2014 0:55:56 GMT -5
I don't understand why you wouldn't listen to the leak. It's out there in perfect quality, why wait?
This is clearly AOTY. And I respect her so much for not watering down her sound and/or lyrics and go for an easy, radio-friendly hit like Adele or Lorde do. After the last era she could have easily catered to radio and produced some generic s**t but she stays true to her Hamptons girl self who obsesses about sugar daddies she doesn't need and gets a kick out of feeling sad. Fitting that the hipster industrial complex, with all its insecure pandering, would rally against an artist who is truly authentic in a way they will never understand.
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Post by dbhmr on Jun 13, 2014 1:24:26 GMT -5
I don't understand why you wouldn't listen to the leak. It's out there in perfect quality, why wait? This is clearly AOTY. And I respect her so much for not watering down her sound and/or lyrics and go for an easy, radio-friendly hit like Adele or Lorde do. I don't download music illegally, so if I download leaks then I have to replace the files and blah blah. It's annoying. And girl gone at this out-of-nowhere jab at some of the least deserving of it. Adele came out with an album that was the anithesis of what pop radio was gobbling up and struck gold with it. Lorde is a bit of a byproduct of that, but this is her debut album--she wouldn't have been watering down from anything. Lana's work is strong enough without the s**t, elementary, and--in this case--nonsensical digs at other great artists doing their own thing.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jun 13, 2014 9:01:20 GMT -5
Speak on that. LOL @ Lana all of a sudden being this bastion of authenticity. She's cool and her music is dope, but...yeah, let's not. But, if you are really that hung up on authenticity, I would think you would wait to hear the album in its intended form, and not some pirated version, no matter how good you think the quality may be.
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Post by AngelsForever on Jun 13, 2014 9:31:51 GMT -5
This album is amzing tho.
But it's so sad more so than born to die.
None of BTD songs are as sad as some of the songs on UV.
There's like no happy song on this album lol that's why I think it's so hard to digest at first.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 9:39:29 GMT -5
Album: Ultraviolence
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Post by Carlitoz on Jun 13, 2014 9:48:07 GMT -5
I can't wait!!!!
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 13, 2014 10:38:26 GMT -5
If the album were more in the vein of Brooklyn Baby, I'd probably love it. That song is easily my third favorite Lana song period (behind BTD and Radio).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 14:52:40 GMT -5
Speak on that. LOL @ Lana all of a sudden being this bastion of authenticity. Do not really know what is so laughable about her authenticy. Sha has been herself from the day one there is NO any sudden change in that
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Post by Jack on Jun 13, 2014 15:37:39 GMT -5
Sublime.
Money Power Glory as the next single after West Coast please.
More thoughts later.
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Post by vipanonymous on Jun 13, 2014 16:04:21 GMT -5
Sublime. Money Power Glory as the next single after West Coast please. More thoughts later. Ultraviolence video was already shoot. And apparently Shades of Cool too.
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Post by Jack on Jun 13, 2014 16:26:48 GMT -5
^ Right, but the radio singles/songs she does videos for/promo stuff all sort of blend together with no rhyme nor reason that connects them. I'd go to radio with MPG.
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Post by vipanonymous on Jun 13, 2014 18:09:23 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 19:16:14 GMT -5
Lana Del Rey: 'I wish I was dead already'Depression is a terrible thing. Her bf plays a role in that i think. I hope she gets help. What worries me it's that she's 27 now. (9 days to 28) but still. :'( I wish her the best. This is sad. No one should have to feel that way. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach that people act like celebrities are immune to mental health issues simply because they're better off than the majority. Lana is really talented and unique, and I respect that she isn't like every other typical vain celebrity out there. People who say she's just doing it for attention are the lowest, and it's no wonder so many celebrities keep this stuff quiet. It seems really alarming that she thinks an early death is glamorous, and I hope she can find some happiness, instead of just accepting this is the way it has to be.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 22:15:30 GMT -5
her last album may have had opened with only 77K but it still sold over a million in the US, so this should be i guess seen more as a obvious progression than a surprise, she kinda set the foundation last era.
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Post by moore746 on Jun 14, 2014 12:04:57 GMT -5
On first listen I didn't know what to make of this album. My initial thought was "This isn't as strong as Born To Die or Paradise." Then again, I thought BTD was absolutely bizarre the first time I heard it, so I knew I needed to let Ultraviolence sink in before making any conclusions. I'm glad I did. After four listens through, I feel ready to discuss it.
This is really a great album. Perhaps her best. There is real growth in the lyrical content, especially compared to BTD, and the production straddles the line between understated (by LDR standards) and absolutely soaring. The album also shows a great level of cohesiveness, with the 1970s psychedelia theme serving both as a risk but also (what feels like, to me) a natural progression. Despite this change in sound, I loved the lyrical and production references to BTD and Paradise found throughout.
By biggest complaint is the inclusion of The Other Woman at the end of the standard edition. The bluesy standards-sound just feels too disjointed. It would be better served as a bonus track or being put on Paradise--and then replaced with Black Beauty as the last song.
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Post by moore746 on Jun 14, 2014 12:09:51 GMT -5
Entertainment Weekly's review:
The title of Lana Del Rey's new album is a portmanteau coined in Anthony Burgess' bloody dystopian fantasy A Clockwork Orange, which Stanley Kubrick turned into one of his signature films in 1971. Kubrick would have loved Del Rey — a highly stylized vixen who romanticizes fatalism to near-pornographic levels, creating fantastically decadent moments of film-noir melodrama. It's an aesthetic that demands total commitment from both artist and listener, and it would be difficult to buy into if she didn't deliver such fully realized cinema. Ultraviolence masterfully melds those elements, and completes the redemption narrative of a singer whose breakout-to-backlash arc on 2012's Born to Die made her a cautionary tale of music-industry hype.
The addition of producer Dan Auerbach enhances Ultra's air of everyday menace, and finds Del Rey digging deeper. The Black Keys frontman doesn't push — he'd rather let her shape-shifting moan brush up against dusty drum loops and dead-eyed bass drones. The spacey, sinister groove of ''West Coast'' proves that frequent Auerbach collaborator Danger Mouse's style has rubbed off on him too, and ''Pretty When You Cry'' evolves from a woozy mumble into a widescreen blast of guitar heroics. Del Rey's dark urges — for love, for money, for pure pleasure — don't evoke the Clockwork droogs as much as they do Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Harford from Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Like Harford, Del Rey has spent countless hours stalking the night, searching for answers and trying on various guises — and Ultraviolence is the masked bacchanalia that finally unleashes the full potential lurking beneath the hype. A
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 12:14:21 GMT -5
in case you did not see it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 12:16:57 GMT -5
Entertainment Weekly's review: The title of Lana Del Rey's new album is a portmanteau coined in Anthony Burgess' bloody dystopian fantasy A Clockwork Orange, which Stanley Kubrick turned into one of his signature films in 1971. Kubrick would have loved Del Rey — a highly stylized vixen who romanticizes fatalism to near-pornographic levels, creating fantastically decadent moments of film-noir melodrama. It's an aesthetic that demands total commitment from both artist and listener, and it would be difficult to buy into if she didn't deliver such fully realized cinema. Ultraviolence masterfully melds those elements, and completes the redemption narrative of a singer whose breakout-to-backlash arc on 2012's Born to Die made her a cautionary tale of music-industry hype. The addition of producer Dan Auerbach enhances Ultra's air of everyday menace, and finds Del Rey digging deeper. The Black Keys frontman doesn't push — he'd rather let her shape-shifting moan brush up against dusty drum loops and dead-eyed bass drones. The spacey, sinister groove of ''West Coast'' proves that frequent Auerbach collaborator Danger Mouse's style has rubbed off on him too, and ''Pretty When You Cry'' evolves from a woozy mumble into a widescreen blast of guitar heroics. Del Rey's dark urges — for love, for money, for pure pleasure — don't evoke the Clockwork droogs as much as they do Tom Cruise's Dr. Bill Harford from Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Like Harford, Del Rey has spent countless hours stalking the night, searching for answers and trying on various guises — and Ultraviolence is the masked bacchanalia that finally unleashes the full potential lurking beneath the hype. AYES for the A !!! ![](http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mby8pmjPGs1rir4jgo1_400.gif)
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