Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon Song - Out Now
I personally don't think that it's lead single worthy, however it is a beautifully haunting ballad.
Hoping that this is just a promo single and the widely rumoured 'Music to Watch Boys To' is in fact the lead single to sell the album
Hoping that this is just a promo single and the widely rumoured 'Music to Watch Boys To' is in fact the lead single to sell the album
It's a beautiful ballad but at this stage I'm craving just something a little more commercial from Lana with a quicker tempo.
Lana Del Rey:
If Ultraviolence was inspired by Chet Baker so I hope we get now a little more Bitches Brew.
Quote:
“ Here it is, the first and title track off my record – Honeymoon. In some ways I feel it's where the record begins and ends... there are so many other tracks on the record, 13 others to be exact- Some with a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night Miles Davis drives… But I love this song because it encapsulates all of the things that come naturally to me.”
“ Here it is, the first and title track off my record – Honeymoon. In some ways I feel it's where the record begins and ends... there are so many other tracks on the record, 13 others to be exact- Some with a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night Miles Davis drives… But I love this song because it encapsulates all of the things that come naturally to me.”
If Ultraviolence was inspired by Chet Baker so I hope we get now a little more Bitches Brew.
God its beautiful, just wonderful. Could be her most cinematically hauntingly ethereal song yet.
The song appears to be so far getting a great reception from critics:
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/l...ngle-honeymoon
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/89...song-honeymoon
Personally I'm delighted she gone with something like this as it shows she is still Lana Del Rey, still plays by her rules, and if you don't like it (to quote Brooklyn Baby) then "Beat it Baby."
The song appears to be so far getting a great reception from critics:
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/l...ngle-honeymoon
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/89...song-honeymoon
Personally I'm delighted she gone with something like this as it shows she is still Lana Del Rey, still plays by her rules, and if you don't like it (to quote Brooklyn Baby) then "Beat it Baby."
It stinks of regression and had me lulled into a coma. Yes it's cinematic, lushly orchestrated but is it all that different to what else she has done and which she has done better not really no. I love Lana and Ultraviolence stands as a favourite but this is just a bit dull. And I seriously hope she does not return to BTD or Paradise as she has stated Ultraviolence was a step up and above I want her to continue to progress.
It's beautiful. I do think it hilarious that Lana has turned out to be the antithesis of the kind of artist the usual suspects were declaring her to be in late 2011/early 2012. You know, manufactured, a label puppet etc. She's arguably the 'free-ist spirit' signed to a major label today.
Lana is my favourite singer and BTD & U are two of my favourite albums, but I'm also hoping that the rest of Honeymoon isn't like this. Obviously it's a great song but it feels very "been there, done that."
I'm quite a big Lana fan but I'm just not feeling this one. She has far better songs of this ilk that are going to be hard to top. Time to move on to something a bit different.
Not really a patch on her very best tracks, Ride, Video Games etc.
Not really a patch on her very best tracks, Ride, Video Games etc.
http://pitchfork.com/news/60663-lana...-by-the-beach/
New single will be launched on August 10th, and it appears to be yet another song: High By The Beach.
New single will be launched on August 10th, and it appears to be yet another song: High By The Beach.
Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“http://pitchfork.com/news/60663-lana...-by-the-beach/
New single will be launched on August 10th, and it appears to be yet another song: High By The Beach.”
“http://pitchfork.com/news/60663-lana...-by-the-beach/
New single will be launched on August 10th, and it appears to be yet another song: High By The Beach.”
Well yeah, it will be another song.
This has to be one of her most dramatic and haunting songs yet. I could easily imagine this on a movie soundtrack.
Originally Posted by kirbyreed:
“Well yeah, it will be another song.”
“Well yeah, it will be another song.”
Not really sure what else it would have been really. Spoken word stuff like Shatner?
Weeeell hard to say Spacey Girl, as I'm sure you've already seen the original lyric video starts with a snippet of what appears to be a video and then it just flips over to the lyrics. Whether that snippet indicates she's bringing out a full video later or that's it is anyone’s guess. It was rumoured she's filmed two videos and they were thought to be Honeymoon and Music To Watch Boys By.
At the risk of setting off certain cheeky scamps
over my perhaps unfortunate choice of words in my last post, this is what caused me to write a flabbergasted "appears" as neither of those songs are the lead single. Consider me 
. It’s a very unusual move to build a song up and then go with something totally different as the lead single, but hey it’s Lana and she’s the Queen of the Unexpected.
I'm totally intrigued as to what High By The Beach will sound like. The promotional photo/artwork is gorgeous. Bring it on
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At the risk of setting off certain cheeky scamps
over my perhaps unfortunate choice of words in my last post, this is what caused me to write a flabbergasted "appears" as neither of those songs are the lead single. Consider me . It’s a very unusual move to build a song up and then go with something totally different as the lead single, but hey it’s Lana and she’s the Queen of the Unexpected. I'm totally intrigued as to what High By The Beach will sound like. The promotional photo/artwork is gorgeous. Bring it on
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Just add to that: I would love to hear William Shatner cover some of Lana's songs in his spoken word style, I'm sure he could top his Common People cover 
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0
Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“It’s a very unusual move to build a song up and then go with something totally different as the lead single”
“It’s a very unusual move to build a song up and then go with something totally different as the lead single”
it's not that unusual, artists release promo tracks all the time!
It’s not unusual? Well I guess Tom Jones would agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRZBa4cKWA
Ahem, back to topic...
Mmmm I would have to say it is a bit unusually for Lana to do something like this. All of her single releases from Born to Die to Ultraviolence have seen her cryptically release snippets/trailers of the songs/videos before hitting us with the full technicolour glory of the finished video/single.
With Honeymoon she's gone down the road of doing all that...and then in a last minute twist announced she's going with another song. Leaving the likes of me and Spaceygal confused as to whether we are going to get a full Honeymoon video. Could it even be a double A side release like what she did with Video Games/Blue Jeans way back when she first came to our attention. Or was Honeymoon always just a treat for her fans who follow all this on the web?
Either way we’re getting more potentially fabulous music sooner rather than later, it’s all good and its certainly creating more fascination around the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRZBa4cKWA
Ahem, back to topic...
Mmmm I would have to say it is a bit unusually for Lana to do something like this. All of her single releases from Born to Die to Ultraviolence have seen her cryptically release snippets/trailers of the songs/videos before hitting us with the full technicolour glory of the finished video/single.
With Honeymoon she's gone down the road of doing all that...and then in a last minute twist announced she's going with another song. Leaving the likes of me and Spaceygal confused as to whether we are going to get a full Honeymoon video. Could it even be a double A side release like what she did with Video Games/Blue Jeans way back when she first came to our attention. Or was Honeymoon always just a treat for her fans who follow all this on the web?
Either way we’re getting more potentially fabulous music sooner rather than later, it’s all good and its certainly creating more fascination around the album.
Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“Just add to that: I would love to hear William Shatner cover some of Lana's songs in his spoken word style, I'm sure he could top his Common People cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0”
“Just add to that: I would love to hear William Shatner cover some of Lana's songs in his spoken word style, I'm sure he could top his Common People cover
:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0”
Shatner doing Ride would be an automatic buy for me!
I hope this new track is a bit different to Honeymoon, which I was disappointed in. It seemed like a standard Lana Del Rey ballad but just not quite as good.
Also, does anyone think that Lana might release a compilation of her rare and unreleased tracks that are all over YouTube etc? There's some damn good stuff out there that deserves a proper release.
Shatner performing Ride would indeed be something else!
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.
Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“Shatner performing Ride would indeed be something else!
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.”
“Shatner performing Ride would indeed be something else!
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.”
Ok first of all, what part sounds like Nicki Minaj? I get the hip hop beats but you can definitely tell that it is a Lana song. It sounds like a radio song which is fine by me but Nicki Minaj doesn't fit into the equation as it's far different to what she would put out. Also, what is wrong with having a radio-friendly single?
Second of all, Honeymoon is definitely a brilliant song but it isn't single worthy as it is so slow. Honeymoon, for me that is, is the sort of song that you have to listen to to really appreciate it.
Lastly, I am pretty sure Interscope supported her all the way through Ultraviolence, with it being successful throughout America, touring the world and generating loads of money.
Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“Shatner performing Ride would indeed be something else!
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.”
“Shatner performing Ride would indeed be something else!
Well a lot of people seem to have been calling for Lana to do more uptempo material you've got what you all wanted: High By The Beach has leaked and it does sound more poppy and beat orientated:
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-musi...iere-news.html
The hip hop beats are back, it sounds like something that will get played on radio...and then there in we have the problem. It sounds horribly generic like something Nicky Minaj would do.
Honeymoon sounds deep enough to swim in. It’s like an ocean that song, dark and forbidding yet full of wonder. It’s another Del Rey classic. High By The Beach sounds like a paddling pool.
It’s almost as if some D* Head at Interscope listened to Honeymoon and said "Why the F**k do you keep wasting all our money making all the gorgeous dark songs-make something braindead we can play on the Radio with hippaddy hop beats. Nobody listens to your dark songs, they've only sold millions of copies over the world and made us loads of money. What were you thinking of!??!? Make something radio friendly that will be forgotten about in 5 seconds for Christ's sake."
I am increasingly moving over to a position where I do not care if Lana's songs get played on the radio if the price is she cannot release what she is great at doing. It really proves what a load of sh*t radio is these days than Lana is doing anything wrong. More than that I just wish Interscope would grow a pair and actually support their multi million selling artist in what she does best.
I suggested a Double A side of Honeymoon and High By The Beach might be a good idea. If anybody at Lana's idiot record company has any brains please make this happen as Honeymoon really is a much stronger song.”
Generic? What? It sounds absolutely nothing like anything Nicki Minaj would do.....at all.
99% of the leaks from Lana sound similar to 'High By The Beach' so it's hugely clear that this isn't down to the label. I don't see how 'Honeymoon' is one of Lana's classics either, HBTB is much stronger in every sense.
Interscope supported Lana the whole way with Ultraviolence? Never read this then:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...eased-20140718
Yeah they supported her all the way...
As for HBTB I'm not saying it’s a terrible song by any means and perhaps my initial comment sounds too harsh. If you personally enjoy it more than Honeymoon great I don't really want to have a pointless acidic argument over that, everyone has different tastes.
Sonically it does bode well in terms of the finished album having a great mix of different songs on their too. It seems to have gone down really well with the segment of Lana's fan base that want her to be more of a pop star. I hope it sells a gazillion copies and secures huge amounts of airplay and becomes a big summer hit.
BUT personally I got into Lana because she makes the "Hollywood Sadcore." Music with an edge to it. By the logic that slow songs shouldn't ever be released as singles Video Games, Born To Die and the rest should never have been hits. She should have never attracted a fan base. Yet she most certainly did.
I think it would be a great shame if Lana gets forced to make what is deemed to be more commercial sounding music just to fit in with narrow minded conceptions society seems to have these days. What makes Lana brilliant is she is different to all the chart cack out there, and I don't want her to ever lose that edge cause it makes her special.
It’s those feelings that fuelled my disgruntled post.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...eased-20140718
Quote:
“Lana Del Rey's new album, Ultraviolence, qualifies as a radical statement from a pop star in 2014 – it's mostly produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who relies on electric guitar and other live instruments, and none of its eleven tracks sound much like a potential radio hit. And as Auerbach reveals in Rolling Stone's new Del Rey cover story, her major labels (Interscope and the U.K.'s Polydor) were initially resistant to the idea of releasing it.
"There was a lot of bullshit I'm not used to," Auerbach tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they ****ing hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me. Really rubbed me the wrong way. I got really defensive because I thought it was bullshit.
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"”
“Lana Del Rey's new album, Ultraviolence, qualifies as a radical statement from a pop star in 2014 – it's mostly produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who relies on electric guitar and other live instruments, and none of its eleven tracks sound much like a potential radio hit. And as Auerbach reveals in Rolling Stone's new Del Rey cover story, her major labels (Interscope and the U.K.'s Polydor) were initially resistant to the idea of releasing it.
"There was a lot of bullshit I'm not used to," Auerbach tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they ****ing hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me. Really rubbed me the wrong way. I got really defensive because I thought it was bullshit.
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"”
Yeah they supported her all the way...
As for HBTB I'm not saying it’s a terrible song by any means and perhaps my initial comment sounds too harsh. If you personally enjoy it more than Honeymoon great I don't really want to have a pointless acidic argument over that, everyone has different tastes.
Sonically it does bode well in terms of the finished album having a great mix of different songs on their too. It seems to have gone down really well with the segment of Lana's fan base that want her to be more of a pop star. I hope it sells a gazillion copies and secures huge amounts of airplay and becomes a big summer hit.
BUT personally I got into Lana because she makes the "Hollywood Sadcore." Music with an edge to it. By the logic that slow songs shouldn't ever be released as singles Video Games, Born To Die and the rest should never have been hits. She should have never attracted a fan base. Yet she most certainly did.
I think it would be a great shame if Lana gets forced to make what is deemed to be more commercial sounding music just to fit in with narrow minded conceptions society seems to have these days. What makes Lana brilliant is she is different to all the chart cack out there, and I don't want her to ever lose that edge cause it makes her special.
It’s those feelings that fuelled my disgruntled post.
Right enough of me whinging. HBTB is getting its debut tomorrow as per this article on Lana fan:
http://lanadelreyfan.com/lana-del-re...bbc-radio-one/
If you've not already seen it I would totally recommend clicking on the link because that is one seriously badass picture of Lana packing the super gun to end all super guns. Bloody hell its Gangster Nancy Sinatra meets Ellen Ripley of the Alien films!
Something tells me HBTB is going to have one hell video.
http://lanadelreyfan.com/lana-del-re...bbc-radio-one/
Quote:
“The newly anticipated single from Lana Del Rey – ‘High by the Beach’ – will première exclusively on both Beats 1 Apple Music and BBC Radio 1.
You can tune in on Monday (August 10) to Beats 1 Apple Music at 9:30am PST/5:30pm BST on BBC Radio 1 and 11:30am PST/7:30pm on BBC Radio 1.”
“The newly anticipated single from Lana Del Rey – ‘High by the Beach’ – will première exclusively on both Beats 1 Apple Music and BBC Radio 1.
You can tune in on Monday (August 10) to Beats 1 Apple Music at 9:30am PST/5:30pm BST on BBC Radio 1 and 11:30am PST/7:30pm on BBC Radio 1.”
If you've not already seen it I would totally recommend clicking on the link because that is one seriously badass picture of Lana packing the super gun to end all super guns. Bloody hell its Gangster Nancy Sinatra meets Ellen Ripley of the Alien films
! Something tells me HBTB is going to have one hell video.
