Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

He · May 27, 2014

Why are people wanting for her to go back to her hip-hop influenced sound? I love Off To The Races, and I would gladly take more of that. But she has clearly been moving away from it. Paradise, Young and Beautiful... She is obviously more invested in this guitar heavy understated sound at the moment.

Drew · May 27, 2014

He said:
Why are people wanting for her to go back to her hip-hop influenced sound? I love Off To The Races, and I would gladly take more of that. But she has clearly be moving away from it. Paradise, Young and Beautiful... She is obviously more invested in this guitar heavy understated sound at the moment.

Because they prefer it. Are you looking for a deeper answer than that?

He · May 27, 2014

I get that people prefer it, I also love it, but there are no signs pointing at this style being used again, in any way. It's setting yourself up for disappointment when she does not "deliver".

Island · May 27, 2014

The knee picture is funny but ridiculous. The back cover would have been nice as the actual album cover.

Suburbia · May 27, 2014

I have to be honest nothing I've heard so far has the replay value of the songs from Born to Die or Paradise. But then we've only heard three songs. I won't be happy until I have that one song that I fall completely in love with and have to listen to 50 times in a row.

tylerc · May 27, 2014

I just hope there is no digital only bonus this time around. It drives me nuts that Burning Desire has no home in my collection.

Edit: I see their is one, "Is This Happiness". Praying that the JP edition collects all the bonuses.

SageCommeUneImage · May 27, 2014

The styling has been so off, I don't get it? The Urban Outfitters T SHIRTS are so not the album cover look, boo.

Anathema · May 27, 2014

SageCommeUneImage said:
The styling has been so off, I don't get it? The Urban Outfitters T SHIRTS are so not the album cover look, boo.

I'm convinced she's not a very visual artist, going by her recent interviews it seems that the glamour during Born to Die was conditioned by ... someone else.

Noir · May 27, 2014

I don't think the styling is off. There's this whole Hope Sandoval circa 1993/Death Proof girl vibe going on that is great, but the album cover fails to portray it. The other promotional pictures we've seen so far are slightly more striking, even the ridiculously #softgrunge knee pic.

Drew · May 27, 2014

Anathema said:
I'm convinced she's not a very visual artist, going by her recent interviews it seems that the glamour during Born to Die was conditioned by ... someone else.

I read that she said something like that wasn't the real her or the artist she wanted to be or something to that effect. I hate when artists do that. "That last album wasn't want I wanted. This album is THE REAL ME". Yawn.

apric0t · May 27, 2014

Lana's styling is right on the #normcore trend. Girl knows what's up with the tumblr generation.

Rafa_el · May 27, 2014

I'm IN LOVE with Shades Of Cool. I also love the back cover... only the proper front cover i really don't like 'cos is boring Lana in a bad way. I can't wait for Ultraviolence. I just know it's gonna knock me out.

SageCommeUneImage · May 27, 2014

Noir said:
I don't think the styling is off. There's this whole Hope Sandoval circa 1993/Death Proof girl vibe going on that is great, but the album cover fails to portray it. The other promotional pictures we've seen so far are slightly more striking, even the ridiculously #softgrunge knee pic.

It's all very neither here nor there. I don't miss the glamour by any means, and I'm glad she's switching it up. It would be nice if there was a little bit more effort put into it. I think a grunge looks suits her but it just looks a little cheap.

Euphoria · May 27, 2014

If anything, Lana's main defense regarding her "styling" has been how she's constantly evolving. It doesn't mean she's disowning any of her previous work whatsoever, but rather implying that it's not going to always be the same thing. If she wants to drop the high fashion look & go for something a little more casual & relaxed, so be it.

tylerc · May 27, 2014

Shades of Cool is much better than West Coast. Brilliant track!

Andy French · May 27, 2014

Between Shades of Cool and Hollywood (both of which are incredible) I'm starting to wonder if she's been influenced by Goldfrapp recently.

Noir · May 27, 2014

Andy French said:
Between Shades of Cool and Hollywood (both of which are incredible) I'm starting to wonder if she's been influenced by Goldfrapp recently.

I don't hear any Goldfrapp influences in Shades of Cool, but Hollywood is practically a Supernature track. Wow.

evenwith · May 27, 2014

I can hear some Tales of Us era Goldfrapp in Shades of Cool but Hollywood is very VERY Goldfrapp in ever way.

Noir · May 27, 2014

evenwith said:
I can hear some Tales of Us era Goldfrapp in Shades of Cool but Hollywood is very VERY Goldfrapp in ever way.

That's because Tales of Us (and Goldfrapp's music in general) is very 70s-inspired and so is Lana Del Rey's recent output. I doubt she'd draw inspiration from one of Goldfrapp's lesser known albums. Or Goldfrapp in general. I don't know why, but she doesn't seem to be keen on that type of music (""""electronica""").

I wonder what kind of music Lana actually listens to? It seems to me that she isn't very insterested in brand new pop music in general except hip-hop; A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd and that kind of stuff. I remember her 'inspiration' section on Facebook circa 2011 cited Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Britney Spears.

Drew · May 27, 2014

She seems like she'd love Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground and whatever else hipsters are into. I think she said once that she loves "the greats of every genre" or something like that. She doesn't listen to lots of female artists. I remember her saying that when she said she loved Britney.