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  • Lana Del Rey Says It’s “Obvious” What Her Feminism Comments Meant

    Lana Del Rey Says It’s “Obvious” What Her Feminism Comments Meant

    Lana Del Rey gave a rare interview to friend James Franco for this month’s issue of V Magazine and took a moment to explain some things, including her thoughts on feminism and what she meant when she spoke on the topic recently.

    Del Rey told Fader last year that the issue of feminism didn’t really interest her, which brought a whole lot of backlash her way.

    “For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested,” Lana said.

    But in her latest interview, the singer says her words were taken a bit out of context. Her comments weren’t meant to be disparaging; rather, she feels it’s a given that doesn’t need to be explained.

    “The luxury we have as a younger generation is being able to figure out where we want to go from here, which is why I’ve said things like, ‘I don’t focus on feminism, I focus on the future.’ It’s not to say that there’s not more to do in that area. I’ve gotten to witness through history the evolution of so many movements and now I’m standing at the forefront of new technological movements. I’m not undermining other issues. But I feel like that’s obvious, like I shouldn’t even have to bring that up,” Lana Del Rey said.

    Del Rey and Franco have formed a friendship that has had the media speculating, but she has a boyfriend and Franco says they have a creative relationship…and that’s all.

    “Lana has become my friend. She is a musician who is a poet and a video artist. She grew up on the East Coast but she is an artist of the West Coast. When I watch her stuff, when I listen to her stuff, I am reminded of everything I love about Los Angeles. I am sucked into a long gallery of Los Angeles cult figurines, and cult people, up all night like vampires and bikers,” he wrote in the V article.

  • Lana Del Rey Announces New Single, Collaboration With The Weeknd

    Lana Del Rey has announced that High By The Beach will be the next single off her upcoming third album Honeymoon and will be released Aug. 10.

    The album art remains true to her typical pastel palette and features Del Rey standing next to a model sailboat, looking resplendent in a mint green silk lace robe over a floral print silk chemise.

    The latest single comes on the heels of the release of the title track of Lana Del Rey’s album last month. Although the full-length album’s release date has not been confirmed, this follow-up to her 2014’s Ultraviolence, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart last year, is due out sometime this fall.

    Del Rey made the announcement on both her personal Instagram account and her “Honeymoon” Instagram account.

    Billboard magazine is also reporting that Lana Del Ray will be featured on a track called Prisoner for The Weeknd’s upcoming album, Beauty Behind the Madness. While a rep for the Weeknd called the leaked tracklist “inaccurate and incomplete,” they didn’t specifically deny the Lana duet exists.

    'High By The Beach' Coming August 10th

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    Amazon apparently shared the 14-song track list off The Weeknd’s sophomore album. According to The Inquisitr, Ed Sheeran started the rumor that The Weeknd also collaborated with Kanye West, but their track didn’t make it on the final cut. Instead, the Can’t Feel My Face singer collaborated with Lana Del Rey.

    It seems as if Lana Del Rey’s personal life has been more prevalent than her music lately since she has been linked to actor James Franco.

    Perhaps this latest single will redirect focus on Lana Del Rey’s music rather than one her personal life.

  • Facebook Pages May Start Seeing More Hides In Their Insights

    Facebook announced a new tweak to its News Feed algorithm, which deals specifically with how people hide stories. Essentially, there are some people that hide a lot of stories. Most don’t hide many, but a small, unspecified amount of Facebook users hide a lot more than others. The update reflects this specific small group of users.

    Facebook explains in an announcement:

    Many people choose to hide stories they don’t like, but most people do this only occasionally. Hiding something is usually a strong indication that someone didn’t want to see a particular post. There is also a small group of people on Facebook who hide a very high number of stories in their News Feed. In fact, some people hide almost every post in their News Feed, even after they’ve liked or commented on posts. For this group of people, “hide” isn’t as strong a negative signal, and in fact they may still want to see similar stories to the ones they’ve hidden in the future.
    To do a better job of serving this small group, we made a small update to News Feed so that, for these people only, we don’t take “hide” into account as strongly as before. As a result, this group of people has started seeing more stories from the Pages and friends they are connected to than in the past. Overall, this tweak helps this group see more of the stuff they are interested in.

    Facebook says it doesn’t expect Pages to see any significant changes in distribution, but does say they may see an increase in the Hides metric in their Insights. This is because the small group of users who hide a lot of stories will start seeing more stories, which means they’ll probably continue to keep hiding a large percentage of them.

    Facebook does tell Pages on in their Insights that hides can decrease the number of people they reach, but from the sound of it, the new update won’t hurt you much in that department.

    Good news for Pages sharing a lot of content is that people are interacting with links more on Facebook, according to a recent study from Adobe.

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  • Lana Del Rey Is A Tragic Figure. James Franco Writes About Her.

    Lana Del Rey Is A Tragic Figure. James Franco Writes About Her.

    Lana Del Rey has been accused of being an odd duck. Her music is brooding. Her first album was called Born To Die. The Guardian of London published a controversial article claiming she said, “I wish I was dead already.”

    That kind of talk ran her afoul of Kurt Cobain’s daughter, Francis Bean, who said, “The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize. I’ll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl [sic] like u think it’s ‘cool.’”

    Lana Del Rey said she was misrepresented, misquoted, misled. But her persona as a tragic female figure has stuck, maybe purposefully. Lana Del Rey is a character.

    But one man thinks he gets the joke.

    James Franco is fast friends with Lana Del Rey. He has written about her before, and will soon publish another book about her.

    “Lana lives in her art,” James Franco wrote, “and when she comes down to earth for interviews, it gets messy, because she isn’t made for this earth. She is made to live in the world she creates. She is one who has been so disappointed by life, she had to create her own world. Just let her live in it.”

    When he talked with Lana Del Rey about writing a book on her, she was a bit coy about revealing too much of her true self.

    “I wanted to interview Lana for a book,” Franco writes, “and she said, ‘Just write around me, it’s better if it’s not my own words. It’s almost better if you don’t get me exactly, but try.’”

    When Howard Stern asked Franco if he’d hooked up with Lana Del Rey, he was adamant that he had not, but said he would “have sex with her music”.

    “There’s a weird thing with creative types,” Franco said. “Sometimes I love a person’s work and, like, I’m just so enamored with that and their persona in their work. But outside of that, it’s like, our dynamic is we’re just kind of friends, we get along so well. But all this sexual attraction is for the person and the work.”

    So Franco set out to write his book about Lana Del Rey — some of it her, some of it his own construction of her. The result is called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey.

    Maybe James Franco can explain her. Maybe he will add more to the mystique and tragedy around Lana Del Rey.

  • Lana Del Rey and James Franco Don’t Have Sex, But He Would With Her Music

    Lana Del Rey has a new album coming. She has released the first track, called “Honeymoon,” which is also the name of the full album. No one has said whether she and James Franco talked about their marketing and release timing, but maybe they should have.

    Franco has a book about Lana Del Rey hitting shelves in March of next year. It is called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey. The book is a combination of fiction and non-fiction elements, keeping with the writing philosophy of Franco’s co-writer and teacher, David Shields.

    James Franco has caused a stir of rumors in the past about the nature of his relationship with Lana Del Rey. He posted a photo of the two on Instagram, joking that they had gotten married.

    But he set that straight on Howard Stern’s show when the host asked him about it point blank.

    “No, she’s a friend of mine…We’re friends,” Franco said of Lana Del Rey. Stern pushed further, asking if they had hooked up. “No,” Franco said. “On my life.”

    The obvious question was, why not?

    “I’ll tell you why, maybe it’s a boring answer. There’s a weird thing with creative types. Sometimes I love a person’s work and, like, I’m just so enamored with that and their persona in their work. But outside of that, it’s like, our dynamic is we’re just kind of friends, we get along so well. But all this sexual attraction is for the person and the work. I would have sex with her music.”

    Oh snap, we got married. JUST KIDDING!!!

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    Franco’s answer to Stern is consistent with what he wrote about Lana Del Rey earlier this year in V Magazine.

    “When I watch her stuff, when I listen to her stuff, I am reminded of everything I love about Los Angeles. I am sucked into a long gallery of Los Angeles cult figurines, and cult people, up all night like vampires and bikers.

    “The only difference between Lana and me is her haunting voice. That carries everything. The voice is the central axle around which the spokes of everything else extend.

    “Lana lives in her art, and when she comes down to earth for interviews, it gets messy, because she isn’t made for this earth. She is made to live in the world she creates. She is one who has been so disappointed by life, she had to create her own world. Just let her live in it.”

    Apparently Franco has been planning writing a book about Lana Del Rey for a while, even before his essay about her in V Magazine. He hinted at the upcoming project then.

    “I wanted to interview Lana for a book and she said, ‘Just write around me, it’s better if it’s not my own words. It’s almost better if you don’t get me exactly, but try.’”

    It looks like that is exactly what he did.

  • Lana Del Rey Gets a New Book From James Franco

    Lana Del Rey has a big fan in the person of James Franco. The actor has been vocal about his love for Lana Del Rey in the past. He penned an essay about her in V Magazine earlier this year, now he is writing a book called Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey.

    Franco’s admiration for Lana Del Rey seems to hinge on the similarities between them, which he has more of an opportunity to observe than most mortals might. They are friends.

    “The only difference between Lana and me is her haunting voice,” Franco wrote. “That carries everything. The voice is the central axle around which the spokes of everything else extend.”

    But when he wanted to interview her for his article, Del Rey actually declined.

    “Just write around me,” Lana Del Rey told him “It’s better if it’s not my own words. It’s almost better if you don’t get me exactly, but try.”

    This kind of approach works well for Franco. He is a student of writing professor, David Shields.

    James Franco “has been my student the last several years in the Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program,” Shields explained when he and Franco worked together on the film I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel. Shields’ philosophy and approach to writing informs Franco’s earlier essay about Del Rey, as well as the new book, which Shields cowrites with him.

    Shields previously wrote a book called Reality Hunger, in which he outlines his manifesto, his assertion that there needs to be a new genre of writing that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction.

    That approach to the Lana Del Rey book results in the “Real and Imaginary Conversations” part of the title.

    In the past, Lana Del Rey has talked about her early years, her introversion, and how she sees her life differently than onlookers may. In fact, even though she is a pop singing success, Lana Del Rey says she felt successful before the music hit.

    When GQ Magazine asked her what she considers success in her field, Lana Del Rey said, “I already have it. I had it a long time ago. It’s nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I’m at peace and I’m a good person in my everyday life and that’s important.”

    Franco sees this part of Lana Del Rey, explaining that, “Lana lives in her art, and when she comes down to earth for interviews, it gets messy, because she isn’t made for this earth. She is made to live in the world she creates. She is one who has been so disappointed by life, she had to create her own world. Just let her live in it.”

    The new book is only 100 pages, but the conversations that Franco and Lana Del Rey have — both real and imaginary — should make for interesting reading.

  • Lana Del Rey Debuts New Song For Blake Lively Film

    Lana Del Rey is known for her haunting, sometimes melancholy ballads, and her new song is no different. The singer gave fans a bit of a teaser for the song “Life Is Beautiful”, which is featured in the film The Age Of Adaline, in a recent trailer for the film.

    The movie focuses on Blake Lively’s character, Adaline, who has an accident that leaves her unable to age. Throughout the decades, she becomes a mother and lives through several eras, witnessing history unfold as her loved ones continue to grow older. Harrison Ford also stars, and the song is the perfect score to the haunting imagery of the trailer, with lyrics such as “We don’t have to fight/Where we’re going/We can go anywhere/Right now.”

    Lana Del Rey shared the video on Twitter, calling the film “magical”.

    Lana Del Rey has seen her music featured in films before, such as Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, and Disney’s Maleficent, but rarely does one of her songs fit so perfectly in a movie. Fans are taking to social media this week to gush about the new music and the role it often plays on soundtracks.

    Del Rey will begin her Endless Summer tour in May, which kicks off in Texas, and her new album Honeymoon will reportedly be released sometime later this year.

  • James Franco To Make Film With Lana Del Rey?

    James Franco is enchanted by the lovely Lana Del Rey.

    Franco himself is an artist of many mediums and can appreciate the deep, dark crevices of Lana Del Rey’s mind that slowly become apparent in her music and style.

    But, will the two ever collaborate?

    James Franco hopes so.

    He wrote of her mystique, “I wanted to interview Lana for a book and she said, ‘Just write around me, it’s better if it’s not my own words. It’s almost better if you don’t get me exactly, but try.”

    My man, @klausbiesenbach. Much on MLK Day.

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    Interesting.

    James Franco went on to talk of a possible film collaboration.

    “She has this idea for a film. I want to do it because it’s a little like Sunset Boulevard. A woman is alone in a big house in LA. She doesn’t want to go out. She starts to go crazy, and becomes paranoid because she feels like people are watching her. Even in her own house.”

    He added, “It’s like an awesome B-movie that lives in Lana’s head. It’s about her, and it’s not about her. Just like her music.”

    (Studying) Bed Selfie. Gotta write that dissertation!

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    Even back in December, James Franco was gushing about Lana Del Rey and her music to Howard Stern. I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that she is absolutely beautiful, either.

    “There’s a weird thing with creative types,” James Franco said. “Sometimes I love a person’s work and, like, I’m just so enamored with that and their persona in their work. But outside of that, it’s like, our dynamic is we’re just kind of friends, we get along so well. But all this sexual attraction is for the person and the work.”

    What do you think? Would you love to see a collaboration between James Franco and Lana Del Rey?

  • Lana Del Rey Teams Up with Courtney Love for Summer Tour

    Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has announced that she is bringing a “very, very special guest” along with her on the summer tour.

    Del Rey, touring in support of her second album, Ultraviolence, will be paired up with Hole frontwoman Courtney Love who will be performing songs from her long-awaited solo album.

    The Endless Summer Tour, which actually only consists of eight joint tour dates for the duo, will launch on May 7 in Texas and travel across North America.

    Del Rey has already been hopping around the west coast with shows at Coachella, the Shrine Expo Hall, and Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

    This year Love has released two songs under her own name, “You Know My Name” and “Wedding Day,” both reportedly from her upcoming 2015 album. Both songs feature Tommy Lee on drums.

    In addition, Love is joining the cast of FX’s Sons of Anarchy for the show’s seventh and final season. The 50-year-old also has landed a leading role in Kansas City Choir Boy, a pop opera set to debut at the Manhattan arts center during their Prototype festival in January 2015.

    Earlier this year Love’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, attacked Del Rey after she made a death wish in The Guardian and on her album. Del Rey told an interviewer that she wished she was “dead already.”

    “I do!” she said. “I don’t want to have to keep doing this. But I am.”

    Frances Bean, daughter of Love and former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, took to Twitter to voice her disdain reminding her followers that the death of a young musician “isn’t something to romanticize.”

    “Well, it’s f**king not,” she continued. “Embrace life, because you only get one life.”

    Frances Bean also sent Del Rey a private message telling her that she is “too talented to waste it away.”

    The Twitter posts were later deleted and Frances Bean said that she was not attacking Del Rey, only trying to “put things in perspective.” Del Rey said that her initial comments made to The Guardian were taken out of context.

    “i regret trusting the guardian,” she Tweeted, saying that the interviewer’s questions about death and persona were “calculated.”

    The Del Rey and Love tour dates hit cities such as Dallas, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, and Ridgefield, WA. For full tour schedule, visit Lana Del Rey’s website.

  • Courtney Love To Tour With Lana Del Rey

    Courtney Love To Tour With Lana Del Rey

    Courtney Love and Lana Del Rey will reportedly be going on the road together next year in support of their respective albums, and several dates have just been announced.

    Del Rey–who recently released her second album Ultraviolence–will kick off the tour in Texas on May 7, and Love will join her for several dates on the West coast. Here are the scheduled shows, courtesy of ConsequenceOfSound:

    05/07 – The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion *
    05/09 – Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion *
    05/12 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
    05/14 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion *
    05/16 – Chula Vista, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheater *
    05/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *
    05/20 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre *
    05/22 – Ridgefield, WA @ Sleep Country Amphitheater *
    05/28 – Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center %
    05/30 – Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre %
    05/31 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre %
    06/03 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre %
    06/04 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre %
    06/11 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live %
    06/13 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion %
    06/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood %
    06/16 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Amphitheater %

    * = w/ Courtney Love
    % = w/ Special Guest TBA

    Love and Del Rey have been tweeting at each other for a while now, with Love hinting on the social media site that they would be dropping a big announcement before the tour dates were released. After Del Rey covered the Nirvana hit Heart Shaped Box in 2012, Love messaged her to let her know what the lyrics meant.

    “You do know the song is about my vagina right? ‘Throw down your umbilical noose so i can climb right back,’ umm. On top of which some of the lyrics about my vagina I contributed. So umm next time you sing it, think about my vagina will you? lol xc. You are gorgeous and very talented, it was all in good humor love, it is true however,” she wrote.

    Love has been taking a brief break from music while she works on a recurring role on Sons Of Anarchy as a preschool teacher. Her solo album is expected sometime next year.

  • Lana Del Rey Attacked By Eminem, Defended By Women

    Lana Del Rey is the latest verbal victim of the real Slim Shady.

    Lana Del Rey gets her clock cleaned, verbally, in a video intended to drum up attention for the new Shady Records compilation Shady XV.

    In it, Eminem raps about punching Lana Del Rey in the face.

    He then compares himself to Ray Rice.

    You know, the alleged wife-beater of a few months ago who was suspended from the Ravens after a video was released of him decking his then-fiance in an elevator?

    A photo posted by Lana Del Rey (@lanadelrey) on

    He says of Lana Del Rey, “But I may fight for gay rights, especially if they dyke is more of a knockout than Janay Rice/Play nice? Bitch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.”

    WARNING: There is serious language in this video. It is Eminem, after all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRbIp66VwY4

    That’s just a little scary!

    Besides, why Lana Del Rey? Doesn’t he know about her interview in February of 2012, in which she sang his praises?

    “It changed my life. I found out music could be intelligent. He wasn’t just rhyming for rhyme’s sake.”

    In addition to that, Lana Del Rey added that she loves Frank Sinatra as well. Seems like a bit of a weird pairing, but she explained, “Eminem is the master of lyrics whereas Frank Sinatra is the master of vocals… I f—-ing love Eminem.”

    Complex

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    So what gives, Em? Lana Del Rey has nothing but love for you!

    Lana Del Rey has not responded to the video, but those defending her have already left the gates.

    Britt Julious of The Guardian said of the attack, “Eminem’s uber-misogynistic lyric toward Lana del Rey is neither shocking nor surprising. For 15 years, he has used our culture’s feigned anger toward acts of misogyny, and our obsession with celebrity, as a shortcut to staying relevant.”

    What do you think of Eminem’s attack on Lana Del Rey? Not a big deal or does he need to be stopped?

  • Lana Del Rey Gets Punched In The Face Twice In Eminem Lyric

    Lana Del Rey has just been dissed by Eminem. Eminem released a video of his new freestyle rap to promote the compilation Shady XV. In the video, Eminem even referenced the incident involving Ray Rice and his wife Janay. “I may fight for gay rights, especially if they d–e is more of a knockout than Janay Rice. Play nice? B–ch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance / ‘Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.”

    Del Rey is only the latest celebrity to be targeted by Eminem in one of his songs. In the past, the rapper has attacked Britney Spears (who he also briefly mentions in the video), Christina Aguilera, and Kim Kardashian.

    An article published by The Guardian talks about Eminem’s use of misogyny in his lyrics as a means of furthering his career. “We pretend to be shocked by his words, and yet the world remains as misogynistic as ever. He causes temporary controversy until we move on to something else, forgetting why we were upset in the first place. As a method of inserting himself into the current cultural conversations surrounding women (and in particular, women in music), attacking women in his singles offers instant selling publicity,” it said in the article.

    Female rapper Azealia Banks took to twitter to defend Del Rey. “@LanaDelRey tell him to go back to his trailer park and eat his microwave hot pocket dinner and suck on his sister’s tiddies,” Banks tweeted.

    In a 2012 interview, Del Rey professed her love of Eminem’s work. She said, “He really changed my life. I didn’t know music could be intelligent. He wasn’t just rhyming for rhyme’s sake. That made me think I could actually talk about the way things actually were. He’s a genius.”

    Del Rey has yet to comment on the controversy.

  • Lana Del Rey Threat By Eminem Shines Light On Misogyny In Rap Music

    Who’d want to punch Lana Del Rey “in the face twice”? Eminem apparently.

    Or at least that’s the impression given in his controversial freestyle rap video.

    During the 18-minute rant set to music, the 42-year-old rap artist said the following about the “Young And Beautiful” singer:

    But I may fight for gay rights, especially if the dyke is more of a knockout than Janay Rice

    Play nice? Bitch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance

    ‘Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens

    So not only did Slim Shady brag about a desire to hit female pop artist, he used a highly controversial situation involving an alleged victim of domestic violence in order to make his point.


    Sadly, this type of imagery is hardly foreign to rap music.

    Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z made a reference to domestic violence on her track “Drunk In Love”:

    I’m Ike Turner … baby, no, I don’t play / Now eat the cake, Anna Mae

    Who is “Anna Mae”?

    Domestic violence survivor Tina Turner.

    The “eat the cake” line is a reference to a scene in the biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It?, which goes into the abuse that Turner said she suffered at the hands of her former husband in graphic and disturbing detail.

    There are other, far too many examples of anti-woman language that can be pulled from hip hop.

    Lana Del Rey and Janay Rice just happen to be the latest in a long line of women held up as examples of the contempt many male rappers have for women.

    Although many will rise to condemn rappers like Eminem and Jay-Z for their words and behavior, how many of the outraged will express this opinion towards the people who buy their music?

    Both men and women will continue to spend money on the misogynistic music made by these artists.

    The Lana Del Rey line and reference to abuse will hopefully help shine a brighter spotlight on the problematic attitudes casually expressed in modern rap music.

  • Lana Del Rey Song To Be Covered By Jessica Lange

    Lana Del Rey has a dreamy quality to her voice that lends itself well to haunting images, which is why her slow, creepy cover of “Once Upon A Dream” was perfect for Maleficent. Her songs are often the same, full of echoes and longing. Now, American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy has teased fans with a tweet that hints at one of her songs being included in the new season of the show, along with a juicy detail.

    Murphy consoled a fan on the social media site who said there were too many scary things in a promo for season four–which focuses on the last American freak show–saying there’s good reason to stick out a fear of clowns to watch the show: Jessica Lange. Of course, fans already know that the badass lady will bring her brilliance to the role just as she has on every other season, but this time around she’ll be showcasing more of her talents.

    Murphy hinted at the complexities of Lange’s character for season four back in October of last year, saying, “I can’t say anything. All I’ll say is, Jessica Lange has always wanted to play a Marlene Dietrich figure, and now she gets to.”

    American Horror Story: Freak Show premieres on FX on October 8 and will be a special 90-minute episode. This season stars Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Michael Chiklis, and Angela Bassett, among others.

  • Lana Del Rey Cancels Shows Due To Poor Health

    Lana Del Rey has had to cancel many of her upcoming European shows and performances due to health issues.

    “For medical reasons independent of our will, the artist has been forced to cancel all promotional activities planned in Europe over the coming days,” the Young and Beautiful singer’s label told MTV UK in a statement.

    Lana has been experiencing health problems for a while now and last summer she opened up about her struggles saying,

    “I’d been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn’t figure out. That’s a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can’t figure out why.”

    She said that she has suffered from the illness for several years and that her symptoms come and go and can range in severity. She also said that she had tried to hide her illness, but felt like her fans deserved an explanation.

    Doctors have not been able to determine exactly what is wrong with Lana, and therefore cannot cure or heal her. Until her doctors are able to find a diagnosis for her problems, it’s likely that Lana will continue to suffer from them.

    Last week, the singer canceled two private shows that she had planned to perform in Paris for Virgin Radio listeners.

    She has also been silent on Twitter since posting her video for Ultraviolence in June.

    Lana did not say how long she will be postponing her tour and appearances, and is scheduled for several performances in the US throughout October.

    Hopefully Lana will be able to recover in time to make the rest of her scheduled appearances and hopefully her doctors will find a way to treat her illness and determine exactly what is causing her to feel bad.

  • Lana Del Rey Wishes She ‘Was Dead Already’

    Lana Del Rey feels some type of way about her career and uncharted success.

    Although her first album, Born to Die, garnered impressive sales, with more than seven million copies sold, she still has a disillusioned perspective of life. However, given her recent experience, her embattlement may have merit.

    On October 27, 2013, the “Video Games” singer was scheduled to meet with legendary singer-songwriter to collaborate on a feature for her latest single, “Brooklyn Baby.” Unfortunately, Reed didn’t make it to the meeting, because he passed away that day.

    During an interview with the Guardian, the 27-year-0ld pop singer briefly recounted the shocking events of that day back in October. “I took the red eye, touched down at 7am … and two minutes later he died,” she said.

    The mention of Reed’s death led to the discussion of Del Rey’s “27 Club” idols like Amy Winehouse, Janice Joplin and Kurt Cobain. The singer also shared her shocking sentiments of death, revealing that she wished she were dead as well. “I wish I was dead already,” she said.

    Despite her monumental success, the Ultraviolence singer is still a target for constant ridicule. She even expressed that she’s tired of the negative drawbacks that come with being famous.

    In a nutshell, the New York native insinuated that her career is merely a job that pays the bills. “I don’t want to have to keep doing this,” she said of her music career. “But I am.”

    She went on to give a detailed comparison to the life she actually lives as opposed to the façade she depicts in her songs. She revealed that its definitely not as glamorous as her lyrics proclaim it to be. “Family members will come on the road with me and say: ‘Wow, your life is just like a movie!’” the singer said. “And I’m like: ‘Yeah, a really f—ed-up movie.’”

    Del Rey’s latest studio album Ultraviolence was released Tuesday, June 13.

    Image via Lana Del Rey, Facebook

  • Lana Del Rey’s New Album Consists Of Songs She Was Meant To Sing

    Lana Del Rey’s first full-length album “Born to Die” had mixed reviews and only had a few hit singles. The songs in her album labelled her as a sad pop star who sent mixed messages with the lyrics of her songs. Del Rey, however, was able to redeem herself with her second full-length album called “Ultraviolence.”

    “Ultraviolence” consists of great tracks that Del Rey was meant to sing, critics say. And although some say the lyrics to the songs are somewhat depressing, they give off an old-time glamour that is rare among today’s artists.

    Much has changed since Del Rey’s first album. She sought help from the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach to produce eight tracks out of the 11 in her new album. The result is magical, as the “stripped down” songs lifts Del Rey’s voice to the level where it is meant to be.

    ‘Shades of Cool’ From Lana Del Rey’s New Album ‘Ultraviolence’

    Reviews said that with “Ultraviolence” Del Rey sounds like she is comfortable in her own skin. The songs also match Del Rey’s powerful, yet cool voice.

    However, “Ultraviolence” also has its flaws. Based on reviews, some songs contained warbling vocals. Other say that a few tracks verge on boring. The lyrics are not far off from the depressing lines from “Born to Die.”

    Based on Billboard’s review, “Ultraviolence” is a record that talks about young women who fall for abusive guys who drive expensive cars and use drugs.

    In one of the tracks “Cruel World” Del Rey sings about lowlifes who mingle with men that carry handguns and drugs. It seems that Del Rey is in love with the image of a damaged beauty queen maybe because she sees herself that way.

    ‘Cruel World’ by Lana Del Rey

    With “Ultraviolence,” Del Rey has finally found her sweet spot in the music industry, and she is not sharing the spotlight with anyone else. She’s neither pop, nor R&B, and she should be happy exactly where she is.

    Lana Del Rey: ‘Ultraviolence’. Listen.

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  • Lana Del Rey Talks New Album, Downside Of Fame

    Lana Del Rey has a new album that just dropped this week, and she spoke a bit about what she’d originally intended for it and how fame has proved to have a very ugly side.

    The 27-year old singer said that rock legend Lou Reed was supposed to collaborate on the new album–specifically, the single “Brooklyn Baby”–but on the day the musicians were due to meet, he passed away.

    “I took the red eye, touched down at 7 a.m. … and two minutes later he died,” she said in a recent interview.

    Del Rey has been a frequent target for critics, for everything from her music to her style to the proportions of her face, and even after seeing her debut album Born To Die sell more than 7 million copies–and propel her to superstardom–she says she’s tired of it.

    “I don’t want to have to keep doing this. But I am. Family members will come on the road with me and say: ‘Wow, your life is just like a movie!’ And I’m like: ‘Yeah, a really fucked-up movie,’” she said.

    When Del Rey’s first single, “Video Games”, arrived online, it immediately went viral and was shared millions of times on Facebook and other social media outlets, with some fans lingering over the faded glamour of old Hollywood that the singer projected in both her looks and the images she chose for the video. Many wanted to know who this singer was, where she had come from, and whether she was the real thing, but the praise came with inevitable backlash. Now, she says, she can look back and say she didn’t get to see the good because the bad was so harsh.

    “I never felt any of the enjoyment. It was all bad, all of it,” she said.

    After her first album, Del Rey often said she wasn’t sure she would make a second one, but now she says the new songs came from a completely different mood and mindset.

    “I was in more of a sardonic mood. Like, if all that I was actually going to be allowed to have by the media was money, loads of money, then f**k it … What I actually wanted was something quiet and simple: a writer’s community and respect.”

    Ultraviolence is now available in stores and on iTunes.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Lana del Rey Reveals New Album Artwork, Track List

    “Ultraviolence” will be released on May 1 … oops, no scratch that. “Ultraviolence” will be released on June 16.

    After an accidental announcement of the release date of her new album, Lana del Rey is now ready to get her new music out there.

    “Ultraviolence,” the highly anticipated third studio album of the 27-year old singer, is produced by The Black Keys’ singer Dan Auerbach who, in the past, didn’t have the best opinion of Rey.

    “On some level,” he said. “we’ve seen that Lana Del Rey thing since we first started, like, all of a sudden this new band would be headlining festivals, and we’re like, ‘Wait, how did they get that? We’ve been here for two, three, four, five years and we’re still working our way up. But then they’re gone. Just as quickly as they get up there, they disappear.”

    However, Auerbach must have started to see something different because he soon changed his tune about the young singer.

    “She’s the real deal,” he said. “She impressed me every day.

    “There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business. So we bumped heads a little bit but at the end of the day we were dancing to the songs.”

    Earlier in the month, Rey posted the track listing for “Ultraviolence” via Twitter as well. Songs include “West Coast,” “Shades of Cool,” “F**ked My Way to the Top,” and “Guns and Roses.”

    The day after the track listing, Rey also posted a photo on the social networking site of what is believed to be the new album cover for “Ultraviolence.” Rey can be seen in the black-and-white photo leaning against an open car door wearing a white t-shirt.

    “It’s a live band experience, with Lana singing,” Auerbach said. “She sings live on 99 percent of the album, which was really cool. There was a seven-piece band playing in the live room and she’s in the next room with a handheld microphone singing live. It was very different from her first record.”

    “It’s so wrong and exquisite,” Rey said of the new album. “It is absolutely gorgeous, darker than the first.”

    Look for “Ultraviolence” to hit shelves on June 16.


    Image via Twitter

  • Coachella 2014 Reunites OutKast, Blows up Twitter

    The annual two-weekend, three-day Coachella Festival features 184 artists this year, with headlining acts including a reunited OutKast performing on Friday, Muse headlining the Saturday shows, and Arcade Fire set to close out Sunday nights.

    The 2014 festival also features notable acts including Lorde, Pixies, The Replacements, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Queens of the Stone Age, Nas, Calvin Harris, Broken Bells, Motörhead, Haim, Neko Case, MGMT, Girl Talk, Foster the People, Lana Del Rey, Pharrell Williams, Chromeo and Mogwai. A full list of the bands on the roster can viewed at the Coachella site.

    The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is held yearly at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley, situated in the Colorado Desert. The 2014 festival began on April 11, and will continue tonight, and again on April 18, 19, and 20. General admission tickets were sold out in less than 20 minutes, while VIP tickets which went for over $5,000 sold out in under 3 hours.

    Here is a clip of OutKast’s full set:

    While there had been rumors that Instagram crashed due to an overflow of festival pictures, Twitter saw heightened celebrity traffic.

    Lorde tweets about Saturday’s minor sandstorm that hit the area:

    Global superstars Lindsay Lohan and Rebecca Black convey their festival enthusiasm:

    Actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Kate Capshaw appear to be lost:

    Former rap game rivals Jay Z and Nas performed together onstage:

    Adam Levine seems unimpressed with the fest:

    International fashion icon Paris Hilton chimes in:

    White Girl Problems displays dignity:

    2014 Coachella desert-fashions:

    Twerking sensation Miley Cyrus was a Coachella-eque fashion visionary ahead of her time:

    Katy Perry attended the festival sans Riff Raff:

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  • “Maleficent” Trailer Gives Us New Lana Del Rey

    “Maleficent” is one of this year’s hotly anticipated films–and has been since the first photos of Angelina Jolie dressed as the wicked lady surfaced online last year–but now a new trailer has been released that features a sweetly haunting cover of “Once Upon A Dream”, and the song, which was leaked on Tumblr before its official release, has taken the web by storm.

    The tune is done by Lana Del Rey, whose dreamy voice goes perfectly with the song’s subject matter. Del Rey is rumored to have been hand-picked by Angelina Jolie herself to cover the song, which is the perfect backdrop for the trailer.

    The film stars Elle Fanning as the fair-haired beauty and will be released on May 30. According to the synopsis:

    “A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal—an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom—and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.”

    Image via YouTube