"Ultraviolence", de Lana Del Rey, vai ser lançado em Junho

O disco sucessor de Born to Die chega ao público, dias antes da artista actuar na edição deste ano do festival britânico Glastonbury.

A data confirmada para o lançamento de Ultraviolence é o dia 16 de Junho.

O disco vai ser lançado em três formatos: CD, vinil e formato digital, contando também com uma edição de coleccionador.

Este segundo trabalho, cuja capa foi revelada há uns dias, vai incluir temas - já conhecidos - como Money Power Glory ou The Other Woman, que já tem como single de apresentação West Coast - ler aqui.

Lana del Rey lança novo single "West Coast"

A norte-americana Lana del Rey lançou ontem West Coast, o single de avanço de Ultraviolence.

West Coast é uma canção muito diferente dos temas melodramáticos do anterior Born to Die, tendo um som muito característico e teatral dos anos 80, baseando-se numa guitarra solitária e em vozes ansiosas e intensas que envolvem todo o tema.

Entretanto, Lana del Rey apresentou o single ao vivo, no festival Coachella, onde tocou no passado fim-de-semana - tendo sido incrivelmente bem recebido pela audiência presente.

Ultraviolence conta com a colaboração de Dan Auerback - conhecido por ser membro dos The Black Keys. A cantora descreve este Ultraviolence como "muito forte e intenso. É incrivelmente bonito - mais obscuro que o primeiro" - e tem como data prevista de lançamento, o dia 1 de Maio.

Lana Del Rey, Heart Shaped-Box (Nirvana Cover)

Lana Del Rey is more than a youtube sensation.

At this point she has a "love-hate" relationship. But nowadays with 26 years old, Lana Del Rey has made a statement of herself proving how talented and good singer she is.

With a album released - Born To Die - on January 2012, she has released previously an album commonly referred as Nevada but with the name Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant - through the label 5 Points Records on iTunes but shortly after it was removed because, according to Del Rey “I had signed to an independent label but they couldn’t fund the release of it.” 
She has now the rights of the record and plans to re-release it soon.

Along the way she has also released two EPs Kill Kill in 2008 and Lana Del Rey in 2012.

With huge hits like Video Games, Born To Die, Blue Jeans and her last National Anthem.

On late July, Lana Del Rey performed in Sidney one of the biggest Nirvana songs Heart-Shaped Box.
Heart-Shaped Box was the first single taken from In Utero, released in 1993 and really seems to be about Courtney Love - Kurt Cobain's wife.

Not imitating Cobain's vocals, Lana Del Rey did a great job interpreting the song on her own style giving this a more airy, cute, very similar to an epic anthem - at some point, almost sounding like a ballad.

Around the time, this cover was released, Courtney used Twitter to "explain" Lana Del Rey the song's meaning., quoting a part of the lyrics "Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back," to emphasize how the song was about her.
Those tweets were later deleted.

 

"She eyes me like a pisces when, I am weak

I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks

I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

I wish I could leach your cancer when you turn black"

A longer version here.

News // Lana Del Rey re-releases Blue Jeans

The new sensation Lana Del Rey made a new video for her already known single Blue Jeans, belonging to her debut album Born To Die.

This new video was directed by Yoann Lemoine, who previously worked with Katy Perry, Moby and Yelle and also brings back the actor Bradley Soileau - a previous work with Del Rey can be seen on Born To Die video here.

News // Lana Del Rey release Born To Die video

Lana Del Rey released a new video, yesterday.

The music sensation published on her Youtube account the video for Born To Die, a few hours before the video was leaked to a Russian website, the reason why Lana decided to release the video earlier and not on the way she first thought.

The video include tigers, a palace and a love-hate relationship.

Remember Lana Del Rey is known for songs like Blue Jeans and Video Games, and is going to release her debut album Born To Die next year.

Check the video below:

News // Lana Del Rey gets a tiger for her next video

The new music sensation Lana Del Rey decided to hire a baby tiger for the video of her new single Born To Die.

Lana that became a Youtube sensation with her song Video Games later published on our blog, with a low-budget video produced by herself, revealed to The Sun what she had to do to have such an exotic animal on her video.

"Tigers don't come cheap. It's a controversial video. You'll have to wait to see it but I got a generous budget. I wasn't allowed to be alone with the tiger at any time, for obvious reasons. It was a special experience."

This singer that recently gave her debut gig in Manchester, admitted she wished she hadn't been "so pouty" on her Video Games video. "Had I known so many people were going to watch the video, I'd have put some more effort into it". She also added "I would have got my hair and make-up done and tried not to be so pouty, seeing as everyone talks about my face all the time."

Lana Del Rey, Video Games

Lana Del Rey is the stage name for Elizabeth Grant.

The 25-year-old American singer's artistic name is a combination between Hollywood actress Lana Turner and Ford Del Rey.

From New York, Lana revealed she wanted to have a name that sounded more exotic and reflected the old Hollywood glamour of her music "Lana Del Rey just sounded good coming out of my mouth – it was exotic sounding, and I like exotic places and I like really gorgeous things. It sounded like a gorgeous woman. And once you have a name, you expect certain things from it (...)"

In 2009, she released an EP "Kill Kill" under the name Lizzy Grant.

Video Games is her debut single released on October 10 by Interscope Records, that also includes Lana Del Rey's other hit Blue Jeans.
On August 3, Pitchfork named "Best New Track".

The video was edited by Lana herself using several videos of skateboarders, cartoons, shots from old videos and self-filmed shot of herself singing.

"It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?"