How Lust For Life Freed Lana Del Rey
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- In this fourth installment of my Lana Del Rey retrospective series, we'll look into Lust for Life, her fourth major-label album which opened the floodgates and marked a return to pop and traditional promo for Lana. In this video, we'll remember the songs, the era, and why I think while it may not be her best era musically, it was one that more or less allowed her to drop the heaviness of her earlier eras. #lanadelrey #popmusic #lustforlife
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In summary: this was Lana's almost-happy era lol
Oh for sure! She seemed really happy on the promo cycle to be able to reclaim the narrative a bit and just vibe. Interscope playing along and not steering her as hard as they try to steer other artists is a gift very few get but she definitely earned it. Lana’s pure sales and critical reception is fairly consistent.
@lennier Beat me to it
I remember hearing her saying that 'Yosemite was too happy' in 2017
her first smile on the album cover, get free, the whole era. :(( so bittersweet. she was so happy :,)
She was happy during a very sad time in history, I applaud her bravery to urge us to find joy
She’s happy now too
I feel so lucky for been in that ICONIC concert at Lollapalooza Brasil
Omg you witnessed living history! Like I argue that was her best ever set of all time!
I can't listen to Get Free too often because I just break into tears immediately. Such a magical track.
For real! Genuinely a classic track!
real. whenever it comes in my playlist i just be like “hell nah” sjdjdj
one of her best songs along w venice biatch
its my fav lana song
My favorite song off the lust for life album 😭😭💛
Honestly lust for life will forever hold a special place in my heart as my favourite lana album (despite being quite an unpopular opinion) and also being closely followed up by nfr, though I do like lust for life just a lil more. It was through the songs lust for the life and love showing up on my recommendation page back in 2017, that then opened up the gateway to Lana's music for me. I till this day still think get free is easily a top 3 in her discography with tomorrow never came, love, lust for life, heroin and summer bummer all also being within her top 10.
I won’t disagree with anything you say. This record felt like a perfect blend between Alt and Pop Lana in some ways. Get Free is def Top 3 of all time. The fact people would chant for her to sing it on tour speaks power to the song. Radiohead knew how powerful it was.
Summer Bummer is maybe the only song I don’t like, and some songs are ok, like Tomorrow Never Came and Beautiful People Beautiful Problems. But there are some truly amazing songs like Cherry and Lust for Life. I don’t like half of the tracklist, yet it’s my second favorite?
Lust for life saved my life and I’m not even playing. I’ve been a fan since 2011 but lust for life when it came out was huge. I was in a very depressive state, and LFL was the only happy thing I had. I love LFL so much and it will forever be my #1. Newer fans and NFR fans don’t understand the impact it had. Somehow they stay oblivious to how huge the album was. It’s severely over hated. Summer bummer is also one of my faves. People hate it so much for what. I always say the coquette girls don’t like the hip hop, and the emo sad girls don’t want to be happy. I’m glad there’s people like you who understand the beauty of her best album.
I had the same pipeline to Lana! Love showed up on my recommended and I was hearing the LFL collab with the weekend and it all just clicked
omg fr finally sb says that abt get free!! i totally think it's her best song!!
NFR is upon us🙏🏼
That one’s probably gonna be the longest one I think 🌊
@@EljohnMacaranas as it should be. an all time masterpiece
@@EljohnMacaranas we won
On LFL Lana wrote about things bigger than herself and her failed relationships. It’s so versatile too. Pop, trap, strings, folk, piano ballads, and hip hop all on one album. And seeing her smiling on the cover was a breath of fresh air. This is why it’ll always be one of my favorites.
ohmygod yes to the smiling and also the bigger topics, I just realized that. this album I see it as her social commentary to the trump era.
Your take on the albums being split into trilogies is so true! “ocean Blvd” is the start of a next trilogy for Lana !!
I adore the idea that her records are all inherently united together in some way or form. LFL never quite felt like it fit so much as it served as an epilogue to those first three extremely stylized albums.
I feel like Ocean blvd is more of a lfl album, a transitional one. She incorporated a lot of NFR samples, some chemtrails and bb mentions, while also portraying the vibes of these 3 albums into one personal masterpiece. It also has very different tracks, same as LFL, but way more polished. And it also has this feeling of the something big happening after it, especially after she ended the album with VB remix. So yeah, I think the next album is gonna be a very different vibe from her, just as NFR was after lust for life.
@@ilonanylsen wait I love that!
@@fckitiloveyou I see the trilogy’s as btd/prd/ulv hnm/lfl/nfr coc/blb/ocb, those all share the same vibe to me and I can’t wait for lasso to start the next trilogy
lust for life was the first Lana era I was a fan during and it holds such a special place in my heart ❤ love this series
Thank you for watching! We all remember our first Lana record ❤️ she’s truly THE American Songwriter (sorry T*ylor love both tho)
Same !❤️
Lust for life introduced me to her , people hating on the album are just people who are afraid and rejects change , now I’m very much into Ultrviolence and Blue Banister but without Lfl I don’t think I’d ever look into other albums on their own
Each of Lana’s works build on top of each other, to hate one would mean to hate all of them tbh, BB itself is a collection of demos for the most part across a bunch of different albums 💙
tomorrow never came has to be my most listened song by lana… it’s just so good
It's so underrated!
Lust for life give me careless vibes , like your reached that point where you are done with getting caught up in everyday world (politics, rules, hustling ,taking mundane life too seriously ) and now you just want to exist in the present and to just let go of what holding you in a mental cage ,whenever I want to just be and exist I listen to the whole album.
That’s a lovely reading of the record ❤️
this album is so special to me. if you were a fan of lana when it came out, this album felt really special and it truly was a gift to us. the album has its emotional highs and lows but you can just tell she was having a good time making it, so the album feels all the more fun to listen to, and songs like get free and change feel like she’s trying to speak directly to us. i love this album so much
Loved this comment! It channels what it was like to be a Lana stan in 2017 ❤️
I remember attending the ‘LA To The Moon’ tour supporting LFL. It was one of the best tours I’ve ever attended! The album is one of her best!
I was at the Miami show and it was magical. Get Free Live is a dream!
This was such a fun exciting era to be around for. The album really is timeless to this day!
Following Lana around this time was so much fun considering how dark the times were, she really gave her most wholesome era at the time.
I love this Lana series. Please keep it up.
My thoughts: I feel like there's two concepts with LFL. Her personal lust for HER life and the hope she has for the WORLD. Somehow, she connects both very well.
The first half mostly centers around her, and the second half is her message to the world. She ties it nice with the last song, "Get Free," because while she is talking about her struggles to free herself, she is encouraging us to free ourselves too.
This is one of her best record ever, all the different sounds, emotions, lyrics, makes it so unique! Cherry is one of her top songs 🍒
If this is her “sellout” record, it just means she’s truly another class of artist
@@EljohnMacaranas she is 🌟🌟🌟
Lust For Life is amazing. I love the folk and trap songs on here and it feels actually complete for me.
No one was doing it like her then and even now.
@@EljohnMacaranas Exactly.
I’ve always said that Lust for Life was where Lana said good bye to the “Lana Persona” and that NFR to Blue Banisters was a return to Lizzy Grant. My top tracks are
•Heroin
•Cherry
•13 Beaches
•When the world was at war
•Change
•Get Free
•Tomorrow Never Came
I do think Ocean Blvd is the start of a new trilogy and possibly going to be a mixture of Lizzy and Lana but also something new♥️
YES! I love that bye to the persona reading. I think Ocean Blvd will be a better balance of Lana and Lizzy (the latter being the focus on the last trilogy of records) also love your picks!
@@EljohnMacaranas If my entire perspective of Lana’s albums and the storyline throughout all of them wouldn’t take up pages I would write it all out lol. I think you might agree with a lot of it tbh. Your videos and the way you interpret her music etc is on par with my perspective.
I completely agree with your persona on each album! I'm really excited for Did You Know because I think it will be really honest and vulnerable but still playful like we saw with Jimmy Jimmy Cocoa Puff.
The moment I first heard Get Free in fact changed my life...
I had actually been going through my first real serious breakup and it honestly really set me on the right path to living for me 😭 man that song can mean so much
I was in the Lollapalooza concert in Brazil and it is one of the best memories of my life.
You witnessed history! 😭
I don’t know why but When I look at Lana Del Rey’s Discography I have always been drawn towards Lust for Life
It’s combination of the variety in sounds and probably her most welcoming cover art to date. Like the cover lets u know ur welcome
lust for life really is such a beautiful album. I started really adoring her during that era. So many underrated songs
Literally a joyful time to be a Lana stan!
lust for life is so overhated, personally it’s my favorite lana album and era
I think it’s the fact it was her first poppy era after two very alt records, then NFR and the 2021 duo came out, but it’s still v important not just bc she charted moderately well but also bc she shed the persona and let us see more of Lizzy Grant
Get Free is perhaps my favorite song from her discography
But I have to say it's a little sad that many fans hate Radiohead due to the "lawsuit" when in fact they did nothing !
Get Free is a classic but agreed, it was the publishing company that got greedy!
LFL is what Katy Perry thought Witness was, “Purposeful Pop”. Songs on the album from Coachella and onward are still so relevant to the climate of the world. She made this album for the people and captured the feeling of living in such a divided world in constant war with itself where it feel like anyway the world could end in an instant. Tomorrow never came is a favorite of mine because of that, a love story in a nuclear age. And she ended the record with hope of change and a batter tomorrow where Get Free is a proclamation of a shift in Lanas life. There is so much more I could say but Lana says it herself in the album. It is why I believe Lana is such an important voice and artist in this generation.
Also the first half is mostly bangers so she kept the pop girlies fed
Honestly, in terms of modern pop protest records, this one's definitely up there. I felt like this record was a necessary addition.
YES OMG purposeful pop is the word! also the catchy songs. god bless America was the first chorus in the record that truly hooked me, lust for life lead single aside. then the rest came. 13 beaches, groupie love, beautiful people, coachella.@@SummersFrost
Love and Cherry are my all time favs, this album had the variety I like in my favorite artists ❤️
The variety on the record makes it feel like a Greatest Hits album of sorts up until 2017 for Lana
Summer bummer and love are my shit and this album is my jam! And cherry goes back and forth with FMWUTTP and pretty when you cry as my favorite Lana song ever. I’ve never understood how fans could rank it as their least favorite. I’ve always thought it lived up to the albums that came before. And it’s Lana so there’s never too many tracks.
The best album, definitely.
Definitely her most rounded out pop album for sure
I am LOVING this series of breaking down Lana Del Rey’s albums. So beautifully constructed and delivered, gives off documentary vibes! With all the information you’ve compiled of all Lana’s albums it’s furthered my connection to her. Keep up the absolute good work and can’t wait to more content on my queen 🥹😍🙌💖
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoy these breakdowns, my goal was to sort of help fans who weren't so familiar with Lana's work to get acquainted but I never realized fans who already loved her would be able to use these to remember where they were or what happened with older eras too.
I'm really enjoying these album analyses! They're rekindling my need for listening to them!
Keep up the good work! 🎉
Thank u sm! My original intention was to recap the records for my own personal use for the Ocean Blvd review I’ll post sometimes next week, a lot of the first video was recorded on my Voice Memos app and not through a regular mic! But I wanted to share them so Lana fans old and new could hear me out and have a space to chat on RUclips about it
In my opinion lust for life is a flawless record !
I feel like it’s aged beautifully, it sounds timeless, its only flaws are being wedged in a one of the most brilliant discographies of all time. But honestly, compared to most of the records in 2017, it ranks highly just behind Melo
Damn! your take on Get Free and how it’s correlated is so freaking accurate , loved it
I was shocked how intertextual it was with her previous works.
@@EljohnMacaranas im waiting for NFR 👀 … my fav project off of her catalogue thus far.
Tomorrow never came is one of my my favourite Lana songs of all time 💖
It’s so underrated 😭
i am a heroin stan through and through. no other song makes me replay it just to hear the ethereal intro once again.
Oh my god yahhhh that intro has me soaring everytime… this album deserves so much more
I became a fan after honeymoon, so lust for life was the first era that I was fully around for. it will always have a place in my heart for that. plus, heroin, change, and get free is one of my favorite lineups ever. those songs helped me through a lot as a teen.
ALSO!! it came out 4 days after my 15th birthday! so it was a nice b-day present:)
I remember really loving the song heroin. That song was, ironically, a gateway to her other music for me. Even though it wasn't the first song of hers I loved, that song showed me that her whole discography was worth it, that she literally doesn't have a bad song.
omg i remember being at the bars and we were all in the one lockable bathroom listening to Love when it dropped. 😭😭❤️
That sounds like an iconic moment!
Lfl is the album that had just come out when I found her, and was what truly got me into Lana. I love it sm
I love how LFL was a renaissance of mainstream Lana, I’d love for her to do another sweep into the consciousness even if she’s happy being indie alt
Your videos are phenomenal! Cannot wait for the video on NFR!
Also after DYKTTATUOB gets released, make a video on her leaked songs and how that even happened.
NFR! is a big challenging but like it’s probably one of her more interesting rollouts to date (and many fans’ favorite record)
Lust for life was Lana’s first album that I got to experience new at the same time as everyone else. For that reason it has a special place in my heart. It’s also the year we got Melodrama. That was the best summer of my life so far. So many core memories with these albums.
Oh the music of 2017 itself was genuinely great even if the times were scary
When I first started listening after UV this album was really jarring, but I really love it. Aside from the music I keep coming back to the cover, wondering if that smile is supposed to be bittersweet or not. Beautiful
I love the cover a lot, it’s apparently a candid Chuck took behind the scenes of the Love video and the first candid pic she chose for album art!
GET FREE GET FREE GET FREE
One of her greatest songs of all time like best closer
Get free and tomorrow never came always made me cry with the moat therapeutic way
Like the album was so perf for 2017, she saw the world on fire and gave it therapy ❤️
I just want to applaud your analysis on all her albums 🙌💖 I've been listening to Lana since the beginning and just love all albums for their individuality... But you really put to words my feelings on these albums. I was so here for Lust for Life and got to see a show on tour and it totally felt freeing! Bravo!!!
Glad you like them! I genuinely have had these thoughts lying around and after my Taylor videos kinda did OK, I went… no it’s Lana time, she deserves to have these essays most of all the artists I’ve covered so far (other than Charli and Lorde)
i absolutely love tomorow never came. definitely my favorite. i want her to collaborate with sean lennon again
It’s so underrated and the songwriting styles they have are so compatible! So underrated!
i dont think ive felt a music release as internally as when she released the title track.... i was all over that. 2017 was an overwhelmingly strange year looking back on it... humorously, stylistically and politically. she managed to soundtrack all of those new societal shifts with cinematic and youthful songs, incorporating trendy sounds to blend with her own style and narrating the witnessing of history without it sounding cliche or done a thousand times already (like every musician now releasing music relating to the pandemic). it is the definition of a 'blockbuster record' for me. the track list might be long and inconsistent, but there was so much to say. the euphoria of this one is unmatched too... maybe because 2017 was a good year for me personally. even if this aint my fave lana album, the sound and feeling on this one is the first thing that comes to mind when i think of her. she captured a moment in time so perfectly with this one
For me, this album when I started listening to Lana I thought it is her best record she created (but that was before I got to NFR! and Blue banisters which I'll get to that in a minute..) but it is so hard for me to put this kind of album in a ranking, you might remember it being my #4 behind honeymoon but now it feels even more complicated I sometimes have to tie both of them (especially when knowing they are right next to each other).
Overall, I personally think it is definitely her most overlooked album in both general public and her fanbase (can say about honeymoon but there are so many honeymoon stans I can't technically say it still love it tho)
The aesthetics, the sonics and the messaging she gave us with this record is honestly so iconic, I can't wait to take a photo with marigolds on my hair once April rolls around cause yes those flowers on her hair are gorgeous....
Anyway can't wait for NFR! Video since it is my fav of the bunch from her but can't deny how both Blue banisters and Lust for life are timeless masterpieces, imagine someone finding a Lust for life CD in the near future and they consider it "vintage" during 2017 lol
Them calling it vintage would make me feel so old but yes, I agree with a lot of what you said. It’s tough to be an album within Lana’s discography, I’d argue it’s harder to name an album in her discography you like least than it is for you to pick out the worst T*ylor album. Only bringing her up bc they have discographies of similar lengths!
@@EljohnMacaranas why censoring Taylor, did she hurt you or something? 😭
Lust for Life will forever be my favorite album ever
❤️❤️❤️
LFL holds a special place in my heart because this was the era I got into Lana or honestly music at all. Being in a 3rd world country I only listened to mainstream music and then somehow I discovered Lana and the rest was history. There was something so special about her that spoke to my soul. Heroin was THE song for me honestly.
Yessss! We never forget the artist or the album that made us really get into music. Also Heroin ❤️ ugh a Top 10 of all time song for her
would have loved to hear you talk about the song demos witchy dark vibe vs the released pop radio friendly versions, i think that’s a really important aspect to consider when talking about this era
I definitely blame Max Martin for sorta giving suggestions for the title track (changing a verse to the chorus, etc.) as well as Interscope to some degree they definitely wanted to test the waters and see if Lana could do “pop again”
i love these lana videos!!!
Thank u for watching!
Lust for life is my favorite era/ album
Glad you love that era!
Honestly I love this album as her journey was (somewhat) mirroring mine. It came out when my political outlook became more disillusioned as much of the world seemed to have taken a frightening lurch to right wing politics. And lana too seemed to feel the same and was now speaking up.
Conversely, this was a great year for me personally when I was feeling the happiest I had for a long long time, after years of mental illness and low self-esteem. And to see lana , an artist known for her sad image, smiling on the cover and singing songs about love and embracing life, just really resonated with me! I was also travelling that year so was in different countries whenever a new song came out - listening to them still brings me back to those wonderful places
So overall, it felt that both lana and I had gone more cynical in terms of politics, yet had found more personal happiness and fulfilment. Also the features in it are just perfect
Aaaaaah! Love to read you had a journey to joy within life! I think being able to parallel your life with your fave musician is a privilege few get. I had that with Lorde to a degree from PH to Melo and it was just otherworldly to have a musician just “get” me.
These videos are phenomenal!!!
Thank u sm! I want to make queen Lana proud.
this is my favorite lana era ever! nfr! is my fave album but i got to know lana with lust for life and fell in love inmediatly tbh, not only she gave us so much content but the aesthetic and the visible development on her as a person make this album so speacial and good, i agree that is the end to her first era (btd, uv and hm) but i see lfl and nfr! as the second era idrk why maybe it's the aesthetic or the change lyric and production wise but those two are always together (chemtrails and blue banisters are on the fence tbh i can't seem to find a place for them that makes sense), love the video and the saga!
i forgot, the music videos this era were THEE MUSIC VIDEOS like i am OBSSESED, still waiting for the cherry mv
Thank u for watching! But yes, I will say the shift away from like a colder distant persona was very welcome. I adore early Lana but she felt like a movie star then, sorta this far away figure, LFL and onwards she became more accessible and less cryptic. She still has the mystique but we see the person behind the music more.
This is personally my favorite album from Lana, although I think her best is NFR. Tracks like Love, Lust for Life, 13 Beaches, Cherry, White Mustang, Groupie Love, In My Feelings, WTWWAWWKD, Heroin, and Change are some of my favorites from her and so underrated compared to the rest of her discography. This album has definitely the most political themes in her discography as well as a call back to some of her influences.
I think it’s such a great legacy record. Which is wild bc up until that point she had been around for just 6 years in the mainstream consciousness. But because she had released so much music, she could reflect back on themes and ideas she had in depth.
"Heroin" was everything to me
It’s her favorite off the album! And if I weren’t so attached to Get Free would be my favorite!
Lust For Life is my favorite record from her
and 13 Beaches is my favorite song from her
Love to see the album get some love!
I adore this album and honestly don’t understand why it’s so underrated.
I think it came out during a crowded summer in 2017 and was wedged between cult fave Honeymoon and her seminal NFR.
@@EljohnMacaranas Thatmakes sense ty. I still see Lana Stans trashing the album which still baffles me.
I love your Lana videos 🥰
THANK YOU!
I AM LOVING ALL THESE LANA VIDEO ESSAYS KEEP GOING I WANT BLUE BANISTERS
LOVEEE these videos so much. can’t wait for the NFR video!!!
Thank u sm! I’m finishing up NFR today, hoping for a launch on Sunday morning 🌊
This album gave us Herion. This song has yet to be topped for me. In My Feelings for me into Lana.
One of my fav albums of all time!
Yaaaaas ❤️
This album is FLAWLESS ❤❤❤❤
I really think next to Melodrama it’s my favorite 2017 record.
i love the weeknd and lana together. they were my whole childhood and i hope they collab again soon
I feel like they might (on the Weeknd’s next era, rn he’s crazy for Ari who i also love but Lana and him were perf)
MY FAVE EVER ALBUM
YES
Great episode! Thank you for doing all this research and putting together this great content.
Thanks for watching! I love reading her older interviews, they do a great job explaining some of her actions and words and the era's overall vibes.
Never got super into this album but Heroin is absolutely one of her best tracks. I didn't know Lana and I had the same favorite songs on Honeymoon and LFL 😍
Your taste is immaculate!
Did you know that 12 years ago, on September 26th The Weeknd discovered Lana Del Rey through tumblr, and was the first one to ask BBC Radio 1 to put 'Video Games' on their playlist. In fact in an interview Abel admits that when he met Lana, he felt that he had found the girl who was writing in her songs, that is, I found her muse for her songs. The Weeknd and Lana met in 2010, the year in which the Weeknd launched "Trilogy", and it is seen that they became very good friends, so much so that the voice of a woman who sounds in "Lonely Star" is inspired by Lana del Rey and it should be clarified that Lana helped a producer the album, "BBTM".On the surface, The Weeknd and Del Rey might seem like very different artists. After all, The Weeknd’s music hip hop and soul sound feels more in line with someone like Ariana Grande. Meanwhile, Del Rey’s career lives much more in line with rock-infused pop. However, the two artists are much more similar than the genres of their music might reveal.For instance, The Weeknd and Del Rey both often capture a dream-like quality in their songs. In addition, their lyrical content dips into dark territory, such as their preoccupation with drug references. So it makes sense they would work well together. And so they have. Beginning with The Weeknd’s 2015 single “Prisoner,” they’ve worked together on five songs.Although the Grammy Awards have yet to bestow a trophy to Del Rey, her work certainly makes a huge impact on The Weeknd. In fact, the “Blinding Lights” singer once revealed just how vital she is to his own music. In a 2015 interview with Pitchfork, The Weeknd explained the interconnected nature of Del Rey’s music and his own.
“Me and Lana have been friends for a long time. I’ve inspired her. She’s inspired me. I feel like we’ve always been talking to each other through our music. She is the girl in my music, and I am the guy in her music. It’s just this ghostly collaboration that feels the most natural on the whole [Beauty Behind the Madness] album.
Even the whole monologue intro on “Lonely Star” from [my 2011 mixtape] Thursday - I just realized now that that’s Lana. That’s Lana’s voice. I mean, it’s my voice pitched up, but it’s her. It’s who she is. She was definitely the first feature that I wanted to bring on this album.”
The Weeknd and Del Rey are more than just collaborators, it seems. The pair’s music - according to The Weeknd - is spiritually linked. Perhaps this revelation puts into context not only the collaborations between these two but their respective catalogs as well. As great collaborations he has Prisoner, Party Monster where Lana makes Background vocals, Stargirl Interlude, Lust for Life and Money Power and Glory an unreleased remix by The weeknd for the album Kissland but the original is from Lana's album Ultraviolence.Anyway, long life to this wonderful collaboration. Abelana Forever September 26 Abelana Anniversary. 12 years ago The Weeknd discovered Lana on Tumblr and they became friends
This history between the two of them is so magical. Like wow!
this album has everything and it's all great!!!
I don’t know if you know this, but the next best American record was a lust for life cut and was originally supposed one of the singles
Honestly, it would have fit thematically but I’m glad it’s on NFR since NFR is the next best american record 😭
i live for this album
Honestly just as underrated as Blue Banisters
LFL will forever be my top Lana album, because it was the first one I fully listened to and it gave such catchy songs. I was gagged when the chorus to God Bless America came. Such a hook. To me this record was her response to the Trumpian chaos at the time. It has the usual themes of Americana that she muses on but with a playful, carefree, at times sarcastic touch to it lol. Remember the trailer to this era? The one with her as a lone homemaker inside the Hollywood sign. She rarely shows humor like that.
Lust for Life - liberation 🕊️
YESSSS!
i can hear you talk all day. your voice>> plus plus plus lana del rey
Thank u 😭 I used to be v insecure about my voice acc so I’m v touched by the comment!
This is easily my least fave Lana album but this video is amazing and made me gain a new appreciation for it! Loved it when it dropped because I think it’s what the world needed at a time where people felt such an overwhelming sense of anxiety regarding the future and devastation about trump’s win in the 2016 election. Summer 2017 I listened to the album non stop but after that I have never really cared to revisit it. I was 15 when the album dropped and 21 now so my taste has changed a lot and there’s a handful of misses for me on this album. But even listening to the songs I dislike from this album now makes me feel like I’ve been transported back almost 6 years ago, reliving that summer. It’s almost like a time capsule in that way. There are some songs from this album I adore though and will never get tired of (tomorrow never came and beautiful people beautiful problems to name a few). Kinda went off on a tangent but thanks for making this video! I still think it’s Lana’s worst album for me personally but this video reminded me why I used to adore it and I think it serves its purpose among the rest of her discography, transitioning into her new era. If it wasn’t for LFL we wouldn’t have had NFR or Chemtrails or Blue Banisters
I feel like Lana’s so good at making music even her least best album still has a great impact on her fans and her own music. If LFL really is her worst moving forward, she’s getting so many lifetime achievement awards. And YES. I swear in 2017 everyone was on edge about the future and what could and would happen and Lana was there staying optimistic when the rest of the pop world leaned into the darkness. Truly someone who refuses the trends.
Beautiful People Beautiful Problems
Change
Tomorrow Never Came
💗🥺
Two underrated tracks we need to make more noise about!
ur slaying
Thank u sm 😭❤️
i became a fan around late 2016, age 14, this is my first lana era i experienced
You got to dodge some of the ugliest years she faced 😭
LFL gave us 13 Beaches, Cherry and White Mustang and I’ll forever appreciate that even tho it’s not my favorite Lana album
LFL gets overhated even if it really isn’t the strongest Lana record
1:07 literally she has a song called ‘Get Free’ on the album lol
My fave Lana record.
Worthy of that distinction, it’s underrated!
Honestly in my opinion, this album was the 70s America in the term of the song, imagery and themes it deals with
I think that really works to explain why it was the way it was!
Her best in my opinion
Get Free, in my opinion is her best song ever released.❤
Oh, you kinda spilled
You're gonna do NFR right? Great video btw, loved your analysis of Get free which is also my favorite
I’m writing it rn actually lol
Also thx Get Free deserved the longest commentary
I never cared for this album. It's so scattered. I love certain songs on it but I remember being disappointed in it. That being said, it's still a stunning piece of art ❤
I think it being scattered and sorta a mess was part of the whole aesthetic, it felt like a bridge to the Lana we have today, early Lana’s still spectacular but there was always a feeling she was holding out from us, guarded probably bc of how bad the media was to her
this album is soo nostalgic to me from the visuals to some songs it really was like lanas best era and unpopular opinion but i still miss the bel air diva queen era from born to die Of her something is just so magical about that era /flowers zypresse trees mansions cars luxurious
i noticed in your untraviolence vidoe you never brought up the song flipside, but thanks for these videos they are amazing
Hey! Thanks for watching! I did sorta acknowledge Flipside in a comment on the UV video I should have pinned: “It’s the fact it isn’t on streaming, people would talk about it more or recognize it. But alas… I omitted it for that reason, but think it’s a lovely addition. Ties into Cruel World quite well and could be a decent finale if the deluxe tracks were a bit more cohesive.” I was responding to someone asking why ppl don’t talk about it more and why I omitted it.
imo the trilogy following lfl is nfr chemtrails and ocean bld since jack hinted that during the nfr making him and lana made 3 types of sounds nfr, one that was a calmer continuation of nfr ( chemtrails ) and a last one that is in Jack's opinion their greatest work together which can be refered to A&W since jack said it was his favorite track ever made with lana + Lana revealed that blue banister wasn't an album for the public but to respond to allegations and an open letter to whom wanted to know how she was feeling
I'm not a big fan of this album, but Change, Heroin and Get Free is a wonderful sequence. It antecipates NFR thematically.
It’s a perfect little career interlude. A hint at better things to come!
why did I think the title said feed Lana del rey
She fed us lmao ❤️
lust for life was my favorite album ever and you can say what really got me into lana back then. i agree album is kinda mess but it holds such important place in her career and in my heart and the ignorance it gets is crazy.
and the era in general the aesthetic or music videos, everything is just another level.
Lust for Life and Chemtrails Over The Country Club are her best newer albums in my opinion, while Ultraviolence and Born To Die are her best of the classic albums 🫶🏻
Ultraviolence is such an underrated record 🫡
pls do the whole discography 🙏
Trust I will ❤️
Very well researched your take on this amazing record!
Thank you! I legit worked off memory but had to verify a lot of it searching interviews and looking for photoshoots I loved!
Lust for life paved the way so NFR could walk 🍒🍒🍒
I feel like NFR overshadows it bc at the time it was really loved and praised like I recall my friends who were not Lana stans loving it
BLUE BANISTER AND CHEMTRAILS PLEASE
Will do ❤️