Well my own "return to form" comment was just purely about the videos-she never lost that form musically as far as I am concerned. Adored the UV album -that was not in question. I was just glad to see Lana back with a visually stunning video that was on par with her Born To Die era videos. I found it great fun to watch.

Just moving that on to what FMKK mentioned: As far as UV works out it wasn't a flop commercially, I believe it sold over a million copies and was no.1 in loads of countries. As we've all said before it could have done better still if her label had supported it.

Perhaps the real issue is that a certain album called Born To Die sold 6 possibly even 7 million copies or more. Which in an era of mass piracy+ streaming resulting in depressed sales for albums is pretty special.

In effect you could say Lana is a cross over artist. At heart she is an alternative artist but because she has had the massive global album hit with Born To Die it raises the bar and puts pressure on her to keep having hits. She also has lots of different groups of fans that expect different things from her. Some want pure alternative and at the other end of the spectrum some want pure pop. Neither are happy if they don't get what they want.

Ultimately from what I heard so far of the new album I think she's doing a good job at trying to satisfy both groups. I would be interested in seeing if she did any tracks with producer Mark Ronson or whether that got canned. I'm not expecting Lana to do something like Uptown Funk with him, but I perhaps wouldn't be against a dash of his Winehouse era material, Lana style.

A great song

Reminds me of 'Gods & Monsters' with it's synth tone. The lyrics don't do much for here, but it's got a cool sound to it.

Love it. Of course it won't get to number 1 (or even Top 40) in the singles chart but when you look at the total crap that dominates that chart these days that's no surprise.

The video is fantastic (so simple but so different).

A lot of people are speculating the songs lyrics (given the video) are really a massive diss track towards the paparazzi, press and critics that have slated her:


You know Lana comes across as a very nice person, and the press have exploited that to get close to her and then stick the knife in afterwards so many times. However when you've enraged her god help you, she'd slaughter you just like in this video. I love how she doesn't give a damn what anybody else says about her and always does things her way .

And yeah like what Koney suggests I don't care where/if it charts. To me I just want Lana to keep making her music, her way because she's one of the few people making music worth listening to anymore.

Well, what do I know about the charts? Almost 250,000 copies sold in the USA in the first 3.5 days of release. #7 on the Hot 100 I'm shocked/amazed/delighted.


Bizarre.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...-del-rey-debut

Not my favorite song by Lana, I liked the stuff from her first album Born To Die the best.

I can't stop playing this. It's really got itself stuck in my brain (a good thing!). The video is great, too.

I am so excited for Lana's new album. She gets better and better.

Sadly, Billboards chart report was indeed too good to be true. They've revised it:


Well aside from saying "d'oh" for whoever originally wrote that article at Billboard, 67,000 midweek and counting isn't perhaps so bad is it? As we know Lana's music gets little radio play over there so its done its done well despite the odds stacked against it.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised but I'm more shocked that bloody awful autotune warbling Cheerleader song by OMI seems to be still seems to be dominating the US charts .

Perhaps whoever wrote the original incorrrect Billboard article placing Lana so high was just desperately trying to do something, anything, to try and get them into better music ?!?!?

A few seconds later...




Lol.

Crap song.

Liked parts of Born To Die, hated others.
Liked the tone of UV (although some of the songs were a bit undercooked moreso on the second half).
Was hoping this would be UV with better songs, however this is an utter crook of shit.
She seems to have an identity problem - people love the Hollywood Sadcore when the songs are great (Video Games, Born to Die, Ride etc....). But when the songs aren't instant classics the radio ignores them (the singles of UV). Now we get this throwaway crap aimed at radioplay, ugh.

I do listen to that album more than Ultraivolence but I do like the second album too. It's still in my car though I haven't played it for some time.

Tracklisting of Honeymoon has been revealed with yet another snippet of a new song:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...oon-track-list

Lana has also revealed Art Deco is her fave of the songs. She simple says its "jazzy."

Overall I honestly don't think this album will be Lana having an identity crisis, just doing a good mix of songs.

And in response to Semierotic I will simply laugh and admit it doesn't take a lot to change my mind .