The Silver Screen Lyrics
| Song | The Silver Screen |
| Artist | Lana Del Rey |
| Album | The Profile |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [00:00.947] | Delighted to welcome Lana Del Rey! Hello. |
| [00:01.692] | Hi! |
| [00:02.944] | How are you? |
| [00:03.943] | I’m good. And how are you? |
| [00:05.452] | I’m fine. I’ve ever noticed in your videos before the gold teeth. |
| [00:06.697] | Is that a recent edition? Have you chipped it? What’s going on there? |
| [00:08.694] | It’s a recent edition ya just… you know I just keeping in a real, just for a little bit.. |
| [00:11.200] | Are you dentally good though? |
| [00:13.198] | Ya, all good |
| [00:19.700] | Ya the brits are too, I don’t know what are they talking about? |
| [00:22.947] | It’s a terrible stereotype. |
| [00:24.445] | That’s stupid. |
| [00:24.945] | Although I … |
| [00:25.943] | I know all about that. |
| [00:27.953] | So you first caught our attention last summer when I saw a video of a couple of your songs online |
| [00:30.193] | And from saw the videos, the image I had of you in my imagination was this kind of Bohemian girl who’s perhaps a bit like jade wit life |
| [00:39.946] | Who probably lived in a small quite cluttered apartment full of bricabracan and nicknacks |
| [00:47.701] | And you spend your spare time go to garage sells |
| [00:50.452] | And buying a couple of scenic films |
| [00:53.693] | And splice them together by night. |
| [00:55.444] | How closed that truth? |
| [00:57.200] | I don’t know. I mean I feel like that… |
| [00:59.195] | I feel like that the vision is … |
| [01:01.946] | Like you’re talking about the same girl except I just |
| [01:04.199] | I don’t go to the garage or anything like that… |
| [01:08.193] | I’m really hunting for my film on YouTobe |
| [01:11.443] | (right) but … I don’t know … |
| [01:14.949] | It’s half a way there.. |
| [01:16.194] | |
| [01:18.445] | Ok it’s no get of truth in there |
| [01:20.197] | So you don’t got o the garage sells |
| [01:21.452] | What do you spend your money? |
| [01:22.695] | Or are you a thrifty person? |
| [01:24.447] | What I do my money spend on? |
| [01:26.201] | I don’t spend my money on anything. I just … |
| [01:29.195] | You re thrifty-yeah I’m thrifty. Yeah I hate spend my money. |
| [01:31.695] | But you’re not somebody who puts a lot of sentimental value on things. |
| [01:35.952] | You are more of an experienced person? |
| [01:37.196] | Not really, I mean… |
| [01:38.446] | You know like if I had a lot of money |
| [01:39.944] | Like I’ll buy something like really beautiful like maybe with little diamonds in it |
| [01:41.700] | About this little ring |
| [01:47.191] | But other than that |
| [01:49.443] | Like I spend money on you know |
| [01:55.886] | like it’s actually experience to get some of those films cleared like for video games |
| [01:59.636] | and things like that and I like to put my money back into the music usually |
| [02:00.888] | and are you from a film background or a music back ground |
| [02:01.886] | music |
| [02:04.141] | so you didn’t like… its just an interest you…came to yourself |
| [02:06.637] | ya I didn’t study it. |
| [02:08.136] | I was like a writer first and a singer. |
| [02:11.385] | And then kind of came into editing later |
| [02:14.391] | But it’s something I ended up feeling just as passionate about as singing, so… |
| [02:18.883] | So manage the picture and the voice(yeah) |
| [02:22.137] | And so… so quickly in terms of having a record out |
| [02:27.640] | And I don’t know how quickly is in terms of what’s going on your life |
| [02:29.891] | But certainly so quickly in terms of having release a record |
| [02:32.887] | It’s gone very massive it’s huge level of success |
| [02:36.380] | And then there’s been this a kind of unprecedented very modern kind of snippy backlash |
| [02:42.641] | How’s that…that is tentative for you? |
| [02:44.891] | Do you feel like you got everything you wanted on one hand but it has been tainted? |
| [02:49.142] | I don’t know if it’s been tainted, |
| [02:51.380] | It’s definitely been different from what I expected |
| [02:54.133] | But you know I have a lot of time to think about the record and what I want |
| [03:01.086] | Coz you know I’ve been written it since last year |
| [03:03.593] | So I sort of finished writing record before anything was really happening |
| [03:08.343] | And so…I don’t know I mean I don’t really think it’s tainted. |
| [03:14.089] | But I couldn’t have imaged that it like this. I guess that I’d say |
| [03:17.097] | I think most people’s way to image success is people are hearing your music ,you are out playing shows and people are liking it. |
| [03:23.344] | I don’t image that some snipping on a hipster blog or on a brochure review is a part of that. Though you re quite bulletproof to that criticism, do you think it? |
| [03:28.091] | I don’t know .you know, I don’t think it too much only because you know I’ve been in new York for about 7 years and a lot of people I started singing with don’t sing anymore, don’t write anymore. |
| [03:50.238] | So the fact I can still do that like come here, play shows, sing and write |
| [03:54.986] | You know, that’s kind of a gift, that’s kind of I sort of stay focus on like I keep writing |
| [03:58.993] | when I went back to New York and California |
| [04:00.244] | the last two weeks I got to come back into the studio and keep working so I find that when I’m working, it’s easier to just sinking to that. |
| [04:09.439] | You’re bad with down time then? |
| [04:12.691] | No, I actually really like down time but I haven’t had too much of it. |
| [04:15.685] | Well that probably get wild before you get any as well. - we’ll see. |
| [04:20.931] | And Lana Del Rey then the sort of name or the personal, is it you as a person or is a part you’re playing? |
| [04:25.681] | Definitely very much me.Emm…I just had… I just really wanted a name that was as beautiful as I thought the music was gonna be |
| [04:32.182] | Like where did you find where did you find the name come from? |
| [04:37.940] | Well. I was going with my sister a lot to Miami… |
| [04:41.434] | We were spending time with our friends from Cuba |
| [04:44.192] | And I wanted something that’s different sort of sound like… |
| [04:48.435] | Faded seaside glamour |
| [04:50.931] | And that was something that sounded beautiful but sonically |
| [04:53.186] | I just like a way it sort of rolled off the tip of tongue |
| [04:54.940] | Did you have a long list of the other option? |
| [04:57.692] | I had a very short list |
| [04:59.940] | What else is on the list? |
| [05:00.939] | I don’t know. |
| [05:02.182] | You do know-I wouldn’t tell you. I’m sure I wouldn’t tell you. |
| [05:04.935] | A question I want to talk to you is it real Nancy Sinatra being in touch |
| [05:09.184] | After having describe yourself as gangsta Nancy Sinatra? |
| [05:12.932] | No she hasn’t,no. |
| [05:18.876] | But you know I mean like again that I had something I just put on my Youtube page like for fun. |
| [05:25.874] | And the as soon as the song sort of got more attention and then people had grabbed that phrase of my Youtube and started recycling it before I could even get a hold on it |
| [05:32.621] | But that’s a way of the things you can ues phrases like that in bios and Tweeter or Youtube for years |
| [05:34.618] | And nobody knows them, but the second on spotlight is on. |
| [05:37.370] | But everything is hype-scrutinized. |
| [05:39.124] | I know, that’s was a real classy…classy decision, that’s great |
| [05:42.629] | Ask this question what music is die rise to you in fact |
| [05:46.877] | If you’ll be euthanized, what would be on the CD mistype for you to die to? |
| [05:51.128] | Well, I was…I didn’t have any another answer for you |
| [05:55.620] | But since you put it that way, I probably died to Jeff Buckley, |
| [05:59.624] | I guess there probably wouldn’t be another way. |
| [06:02.621] | It’s good way to go out yeah-good music. |
| [06:05.629] | Good music to die to, send me on the heaven,heavenly voice, heavenly tunes |
| [06:10.121] | But I have a couple of records that I sort of near endeared me. |
| [06:14.127] | I really like Nirvana and I really like Bob Dylan, and I like frank Sinatra’s voice. |
| [06:23.082] | Are you scared to death? |
| [06:26.076] | Well yeah yeah … |
| [06:28.582] | Do you think about your own death? |
| [06:29.835] | I used to think about it. |
| [06:32.332] | Did you see it like natural cases at old age or tragic starlet robbed of life? |
| [06:38.580] | No, I don’t know what I thought. |
| [06:43.084] | I just knew that it scared me, god! I don’t know. |
| [06:45.080] | Cos they say there are two types of people that the people who fantasized about their weddings and and people who fantasize about their own funerals |
| [06:50.587] | That’s true. |
| [06:51.324] | Yeh yeh do you think you are falling into other those categories? |
| [06:54.080] | Yeh I’m a modern day woman, I think I fall into both of them. |
| [06:56.329] | I fantasized about I was both of them. |
| [06:59.081] | Would you have a happy funeral or people really are clenching their teeth and wailing |
| [07:02.830] | And outpouring grief? |
| [07:04.331] | That’s a good question. |
| [07:06.086] | The same goes for wedding |
| [07:07.081] | Hopefully just the family would be their god, I don’t know |
| [07:10.268] | Oh emm…can you pinpoint a moment in your life where you feel that was the moment be it one second or ten minutes |
| [07:20.953] | Or whatever that you felt that you are content and happiest? |
| [07:24.701] | Yeh I mean for me it’s… I mean for me it’s really every day. |
| [07:26.210] | I mean I can’t really explain to you. |
| [07:28.952] | I’m really so grateful just to be alive and healthy every single day |
| [07:31.702] | That’s such a surprise for me given that the film |
| [07:34.709] | You used have a sense of nostalgia to them |
| [07:38.204] | I would expect you to be nostalgia of a summer or you know a boat journey |
| [07:41.710] | Or you know something you would romanticize that way-ah yeah i think i see... |
| [07:44.207] | I mean like I see everything in the pictures like when i think back to the way that things they were very vivid to me like and i do |
| [07:56.151] | When I kind of write I sort of write back to the picture that I can remember |
| [07:57.150] | But I mean that a lot of things that people said they thought they were said |
| [08:02.398] | I actually thought I were happy be |
| [08:03.396] | And like you know when I wrote Video Games |
| [08:05.148] | I mean to me it was real a love song |
| [08:07.157] | It was actually about sort of a happy time |
| [08:08.654] | But I think because of the melody is sort of sullen that... |
| [08:12.904] | Did you, when you came up with the melody which we heard just before |
| [08:15.655] | You know that lift in the chorus |
| [08:18.651] | You know, did you know you’re on to something |
| [08:21.146] | Because it’s something almost like military like |
| [08:22.655] | a military band or Last Post or something about it |
| [08:25.396] | I personally thought that I was on to something |
| [08:27.904] | I mean not on to something I mean in terms of |
| [08:30.899] | Writing a melody that I thought describe me perfectly |
| [08:35.904] | You know like that I thought was gorgeous and didn’t compromise |
| [08:40.650] | I definitely thought the song did that |
| [08:43.647] | But it was you know a choir 5min 30 sec |
| [08:47.151] | Love ballet with no instruments |
| [08:48.908] | So sentiment wasn’t necessarily you know |
| [08:51.902] | And you feel like the girl in that song still |
| [08:54.899] | Um yeah I mean I always feel...I mean |
| [08:57.647] | I always feel like the same person |
| [08:59.157] | Wherever I go sort of |
| [09:00.898] | But you know she’s not...she wasn’t sad you know like... |
| [09:03.896] | it doesn’t same like that... |
| [09:05.148] | Seems like something called slug...might be but can’t say the slug love |
| [09:09.154] | You know you’re just kind of happy to |
| [09:11.396] | Lie around with someone around(yeah)some wall slop out |
| [09:13.904] | Yeah, I mean I really enjoy... |
| [09:18.152] | You know I’m just... it’s nice to be in love.yeah...so... |
| [09:25.039] | And what you want? |
| [09:26.792] | I have everything I want. |
| [09:30.046] | That was OK...what you hope for? What you strike for? What’s your ambition? |
| [09:35.289] | I really can’t think of any. |
| [09:36.791] | I wouldn’t have to leave the house if I felt like that |
| [09:38.795] | I don’t wanna leave the house,I’m happy at home |
| [09:43.244] | I really am,I am! |
| [09:47.941] | Lana thank you so much for talking to us, |
| [09:48.441] | The best luck with the album Burn To Die |
| [09:50.195] | Thank you, I appreciate it, appreciate it. |
| [00:00.947] | Delighted to welcome Lana Del Rey! Hello. |
| [00:01.692] | Hi! |
| [00:02.944] | How are you? |
| [00:03.943] | I' m good. And how are you? |
| [00:05.452] | I' m fine. I' ve ever noticed in your videos before the gold teeth. |
| [00:06.697] | Is that a recent edition? Have you chipped it? What' s going on there? |
| [00:08.694] | It' s a recent edition ya just you know I just keeping in a real, just for a little bit.. |
| [00:11.200] | Are you dentally good though? |
| [00:13.198] | Ya, all good |
| [00:19.700] | Ya the brits are too, I don' t know what are they talking about? |
| [00:22.947] | It' s a terrible stereotype. |
| [00:24.445] | That' s stupid. |
| [00:24.945] | Although I |
| [00:25.943] | I know all about that. |
| [00:27.953] | So you first caught our attention last summer when I saw a video of a couple of your songs online |
| [00:30.193] | And from saw the videos, the image I had of you in my imagination was this kind of Bohemian girl who' s perhaps a bit like jade wit life |
| [00:39.946] | Who probably lived in a small quite cluttered apartment full of bricabracan and nicknacks |
| [00:47.701] | And you spend your spare time go to garage sells |
| [00:50.452] | And buying a couple of scenic films |
| [00:53.693] | And splice them together by night. |
| [00:55.444] | How closed that truth? |
| [00:57.200] | I don' t know. I mean I feel like that |
| [00:59.195] | I feel like that the vision is |
| [01:01.946] | Like you' re talking about the same girl except I just |
| [01:04.199] | I don' t go to the garage or anything like that |
| [01:08.193] | I' m really hunting for my film on YouTobe |
| [01:11.443] | right but I don' t know |
| [01:14.949] | It' s half a way there.. |
| [01:16.194] | |
| [01:18.445] | Ok it' s no get of truth in there |
| [01:20.197] | So you don' t got o the garage sells |
| [01:21.452] | What do you spend your money? |
| [01:22.695] | Or are you a thrifty person? |
| [01:24.447] | What I do my money spend on? |
| [01:26.201] | I don' t spend my money on anything. I just |
| [01:29.195] | You re thriftyyeah I' m thrifty. Yeah I hate spend my money. |
| [01:31.695] | But you' re not somebody who puts a lot of sentimental value on things. |
| [01:35.952] | You are more of an experienced person? |
| [01:37.196] | Not really, I mean |
| [01:38.446] | You know like if I had a lot of money |
| [01:39.944] | Like I' ll buy something like really beautiful like maybe with little diamonds in it |
| [01:41.700] | About this little ring |
| [01:47.191] | But other than that |
| [01:49.443] | Like I spend money on you know |
| [01:55.886] | like it' s actually experience to get some of those films cleared like for video games |
| [01:59.636] | and things like that and I like to put my money back into the music usually |
| [02:00.888] | and are you from a film background or a music back ground |
| [02:01.886] | music |
| [02:04.141] | so you didn' t like its just an interest you came to yourself |
| [02:06.637] | ya I didn' t study it. |
| [02:08.136] | I was like a writer first and a singer. |
| [02:11.385] | And then kind of came into editing later |
| [02:14.391] | But it' s something I ended up feeling just as passionate about as singing, so |
| [02:18.883] | So manage the picture and the voice yeah |
| [02:22.137] | And so so quickly in terms of having a record out |
| [02:27.640] | And I don' t know how quickly is in terms of what' s going on your life |
| [02:29.891] | But certainly so quickly in terms of having release a record |
| [02:32.887] | It' s gone very massive it' s huge level of success |
| [02:36.380] | And then there' s been this a kind of unprecedented very modern kind of snippy backlash |
| [02:42.641] | How' s that that is tentative for you? |
| [02:44.891] | Do you feel like you got everything you wanted on one hand but it has been tainted? |
| [02:49.142] | I don' t know if it' s been tainted, |
| [02:51.380] | It' s definitely been different from what I expected |
| [02:54.133] | But you know I have a lot of time to think about the record and what I want |
| [03:01.086] | Coz you know I' ve been written it since last year |
| [03:03.593] | So I sort of finished writing record before anything was really happening |
| [03:08.343] | And so I don' t know I mean I don' t really think it' s tainted. |
| [03:14.089] | But I couldn' t have imaged that it like this. I guess that I' d say |
| [03:17.097] | I think most people' s way to image success is people are hearing your music , you are out playing shows and people are liking it. |
| [03:23.344] | I don' t image that some snipping on a hipster blog or on a brochure review is a part of that. Though you re quite bulletproof to that criticism, do you think it? |
| [03:28.091] | I don' t know . you know, I don' t think it too much only because you know I' ve been in new York for about 7 years and a lot of people I started singing with don' t sing anymore, don' t write anymore. |
| [03:50.238] | So the fact I can still do that like come here, play shows, sing and write |
| [03:54.986] | You know, that' s kind of a gift, that' s kind of I sort of stay focus on like I keep writing |
| [03:58.993] | when I went back to New York and California |
| [04:00.244] | the last two weeks I got to come back into the studio and keep working so I find that when I' m working, it' s easier to just sinking to that. |
| [04:09.439] | You' re bad with down time then? |
| [04:12.691] | No, I actually really like down time but I haven' t had too much of it. |
| [04:15.685] | Well that probably get wild before you get any as well. we' ll see. |
| [04:20.931] | And Lana Del Rey then the sort of name or the personal, is it you as a person or is a part you' re playing? |
| [04:25.681] | Definitely very much me. Emm I just had I just really wanted a name that was as beautiful as I thought the music was gonna be |
| [04:32.182] | Like where did you find where did you find the name come from? |
| [04:37.940] | Well. I was going with my sister a lot to Miami |
| [04:41.434] | We were spending time with our friends from Cuba |
| [04:44.192] | And I wanted something that' s different sort of sound like |
| [04:48.435] | Faded seaside glamour |
| [04:50.931] | And that was something that sounded beautiful but sonically |
| [04:53.186] | I just like a way it sort of rolled off the tip of tongue |
| [04:54.940] | Did you have a long list of the other option? |
| [04:57.692] | I had a very short list |
| [04:59.940] | What else is on the list? |
| [05:00.939] | I don' t know. |
| [05:02.182] | You do knowI wouldn' t tell you. I' m sure I wouldn' t tell you. |
| [05:04.935] | A question I want to talk to you is it real Nancy Sinatra being in touch |
| [05:09.184] | After having describe yourself as gangsta Nancy Sinatra? |
| [05:12.932] | No she hasn' t, no. |
| [05:18.876] | But you know I mean like again that I had something I just put on my Youtube page like for fun. |
| [05:25.874] | And the as soon as the song sort of got more attention and then people had grabbed that phrase of my Youtube and started recycling it before I could even get a hold on it |
| [05:32.621] | But that' s a way of the things you can ues phrases like that in bios and Tweeter or Youtube for years |
| [05:34.618] | And nobody knows them, but the second on spotlight is on. |
| [05:37.370] | But everything is hypescrutinized. |
| [05:39.124] | I know, that' s was a real classy classy decision, that' s great |
| [05:42.629] | Ask this question what music is die rise to you in fact |
| [05:46.877] | If you' ll be euthanized, what would be on the CD mistype for you to die to? |
| [05:51.128] | Well, I was I didn' t have any another answer for you |
| [05:55.620] | But since you put it that way, I probably died to Jeff Buckley, |
| [05:59.624] | I guess there probably wouldn' t be another way. |
| [06:02.621] | It' s good way to go out yeahgood music. |
| [06:05.629] | Good music to die to, send me on the heaven, heavenly voice, heavenly tunes |
| [06:10.121] | But I have a couple of records that I sort of near endeared me. |
| [06:14.127] | I really like Nirvana and I really like Bob Dylan, and I like frank Sinatra' s voice. |
| [06:23.082] | Are you scared to death? |
| [06:26.076] | Well yeah yeah |
| [06:28.582] | Do you think about your own death? |
| [06:29.835] | I used to think about it. |
| [06:32.332] | Did you see it like natural cases at old age or tragic starlet robbed of life? |
| [06:38.580] | No, I don' t know what I thought. |
| [06:43.084] | I just knew that it scared me, god! I don' t know. |
| [06:45.080] | Cos they say there are two types of people that the people who fantasized about their weddings and and people who fantasize about their own funerals |
| [06:50.587] | That' s true. |
| [06:51.324] | Yeh yeh do you think you are falling into other those categories? |
| [06:54.080] | Yeh I' m a modern day woman, I think I fall into both of them. |
| [06:56.329] | I fantasized about I was both of them. |
| [06:59.081] | Would you have a happy funeral or people really are clenching their teeth and wailing |
| [07:02.830] | And outpouring grief? |
| [07:04.331] | That' s a good question. |
| [07:06.086] | The same goes for wedding |
| [07:07.081] | Hopefully just the family would be their god, I don' t know |
| [07:10.268] | Oh emm can you pinpoint a moment in your life where you feel that was the moment be it one second or ten minutes |
| [07:20.953] | Or whatever that you felt that you are content and happiest? |
| [07:24.701] | Yeh I mean for me it' s I mean for me it' s really every day. |
| [07:26.210] | I mean I can' t really explain to you. |
| [07:28.952] | I' m really so grateful just to be alive and healthy every single day |
| [07:31.702] | That' s such a surprise for me given that the film |
| [07:34.709] | You used have a sense of nostalgia to them |
| [07:38.204] | I would expect you to be nostalgia of a summer or you know a boat journey |
| [07:41.710] | Or you know something you would romanticize that wayah yeah i think i see... |
| [07:44.207] | I mean like I see everything in the pictures like when i think back to the way that things they were very vivid to me like and i do |
| [07:56.151] | When I kind of write I sort of write back to the picture that I can remember |
| [07:57.150] | But I mean that a lot of things that people said they thought they were said |
| [08:02.398] | I actually thought I were happy be |
| [08:03.396] | And like you know when I wrote Video Games |
| [08:05.148] | I mean to me it was real a love song |
| [08:07.157] | It was actually about sort of a happy time |
| [08:08.654] | But I think because of the melody is sort of sullen that... |
| [08:12.904] | Did you, when you came up with the melody which we heard just before |
| [08:15.655] | You know that lift in the chorus |
| [08:18.651] | You know, did you know you' re on to something |
| [08:21.146] | Because it' s something almost like military like |
| [08:22.655] | a military band or Last Post or something about it |
| [08:25.396] | I personally thought that I was on to something |
| [08:27.904] | I mean not on to something I mean in terms of |
| [08:30.899] | Writing a melody that I thought describe me perfectly |
| [08:35.904] | You know like that I thought was gorgeous and didn' t compromise |
| [08:40.650] | I definitely thought the song did that |
| [08:43.647] | But it was you know a choir 5min 30 sec |
| [08:47.151] | Love ballet with no instruments |
| [08:48.908] | So sentiment wasn' t necessarily you know |
| [08:51.902] | And you feel like the girl in that song still |
| [08:54.899] | Um yeah I mean I always feel... I mean |
| [08:57.647] | I always feel like the same person |
| [08:59.157] | Wherever I go sort of |
| [09:00.898] | But you know she' s not... she wasn' t sad you know like... |
| [09:03.896] | it doesn' t same like that... |
| [09:05.148] | Seems like something called slug... might be but can' t say the slug love |
| [09:09.154] | You know you' re just kind of happy to |
| [09:11.396] | Lie around with someone around yeah some wall slop out |
| [09:13.904] | Yeah, I mean I really enjoy... |
| [09:18.152] | You know I' m just... it' s nice to be in love. yeah... so... |
| [09:25.039] | And what you want? |
| [09:26.792] | I have everything I want. |
| [09:30.046] | That was OK... what you hope for? What you strike for? What' s your ambition? |
| [09:35.289] | I really can' t think of any. |
| [09:36.791] | I wouldn' t have to leave the house if I felt like that |
| [09:38.795] | I don' t wanna leave the house, I' m happy at home |
| [09:43.244] | I really am, I am! |
| [09:47.941] | Lana thank you so much for talking to us, |
| [09:48.441] | The best luck with the album Burn To Die |
| [09:50.195] | Thank you, I appreciate it, appreciate it. |
| [00:00.947] | Delighted to welcome Lana Del Rey! Hello. |
| [00:01.692] | Hi! |
| [00:02.944] | How are you? |
| [00:03.943] | I' m good. And how are you? |
| [00:05.452] | I' m fine. I' ve ever noticed in your videos before the gold teeth. |
| [00:06.697] | Is that a recent edition? Have you chipped it? What' s going on there? |
| [00:08.694] | It' s a recent edition ya just you know I just keeping in a real, just for a little bit.. |
| [00:11.200] | Are you dentally good though? |
| [00:13.198] | Ya, all good |
| [00:19.700] | Ya the brits are too, I don' t know what are they talking about? |
| [00:22.947] | It' s a terrible stereotype. |
| [00:24.445] | That' s stupid. |
| [00:24.945] | Although I |
| [00:25.943] | I know all about that. |
| [00:27.953] | So you first caught our attention last summer when I saw a video of a couple of your songs online |
| [00:30.193] | And from saw the videos, the image I had of you in my imagination was this kind of Bohemian girl who' s perhaps a bit like jade wit life |
| [00:39.946] | Who probably lived in a small quite cluttered apartment full of bricabracan and nicknacks |
| [00:47.701] | And you spend your spare time go to garage sells |
| [00:50.452] | And buying a couple of scenic films |
| [00:53.693] | And splice them together by night. |
| [00:55.444] | How closed that truth? |
| [00:57.200] | I don' t know. I mean I feel like that |
| [00:59.195] | I feel like that the vision is |
| [01:01.946] | Like you' re talking about the same girl except I just |
| [01:04.199] | I don' t go to the garage or anything like that |
| [01:08.193] | I' m really hunting for my film on YouTobe |
| [01:11.443] | right but I don' t know |
| [01:14.949] | It' s half a way there.. |
| [01:16.194] | |
| [01:18.445] | Ok it' s no get of truth in there |
| [01:20.197] | So you don' t got o the garage sells |
| [01:21.452] | What do you spend your money? |
| [01:22.695] | Or are you a thrifty person? |
| [01:24.447] | What I do my money spend on? |
| [01:26.201] | I don' t spend my money on anything. I just |
| [01:29.195] | You re thriftyyeah I' m thrifty. Yeah I hate spend my money. |
| [01:31.695] | But you' re not somebody who puts a lot of sentimental value on things. |
| [01:35.952] | You are more of an experienced person? |
| [01:37.196] | Not really, I mean |
| [01:38.446] | You know like if I had a lot of money |
| [01:39.944] | Like I' ll buy something like really beautiful like maybe with little diamonds in it |
| [01:41.700] | About this little ring |
| [01:47.191] | But other than that |
| [01:49.443] | Like I spend money on you know |
| [01:55.886] | like it' s actually experience to get some of those films cleared like for video games |
| [01:59.636] | and things like that and I like to put my money back into the music usually |
| [02:00.888] | and are you from a film background or a music back ground |
| [02:01.886] | music |
| [02:04.141] | so you didn' t like its just an interest you came to yourself |
| [02:06.637] | ya I didn' t study it. |
| [02:08.136] | I was like a writer first and a singer. |
| [02:11.385] | And then kind of came into editing later |
| [02:14.391] | But it' s something I ended up feeling just as passionate about as singing, so |
| [02:18.883] | So manage the picture and the voice yeah |
| [02:22.137] | And so so quickly in terms of having a record out |
| [02:27.640] | And I don' t know how quickly is in terms of what' s going on your life |
| [02:29.891] | But certainly so quickly in terms of having release a record |
| [02:32.887] | It' s gone very massive it' s huge level of success |
| [02:36.380] | And then there' s been this a kind of unprecedented very modern kind of snippy backlash |
| [02:42.641] | How' s that that is tentative for you? |
| [02:44.891] | Do you feel like you got everything you wanted on one hand but it has been tainted? |
| [02:49.142] | I don' t know if it' s been tainted, |
| [02:51.380] | It' s definitely been different from what I expected |
| [02:54.133] | But you know I have a lot of time to think about the record and what I want |
| [03:01.086] | Coz you know I' ve been written it since last year |
| [03:03.593] | So I sort of finished writing record before anything was really happening |
| [03:08.343] | And so I don' t know I mean I don' t really think it' s tainted. |
| [03:14.089] | But I couldn' t have imaged that it like this. I guess that I' d say |
| [03:17.097] | I think most people' s way to image success is people are hearing your music , you are out playing shows and people are liking it. |
| [03:23.344] | I don' t image that some snipping on a hipster blog or on a brochure review is a part of that. Though you re quite bulletproof to that criticism, do you think it? |
| [03:28.091] | I don' t know . you know, I don' t think it too much only because you know I' ve been in new York for about 7 years and a lot of people I started singing with don' t sing anymore, don' t write anymore. |
| [03:50.238] | So the fact I can still do that like come here, play shows, sing and write |
| [03:54.986] | You know, that' s kind of a gift, that' s kind of I sort of stay focus on like I keep writing |
| [03:58.993] | when I went back to New York and California |
| [04:00.244] | the last two weeks I got to come back into the studio and keep working so I find that when I' m working, it' s easier to just sinking to that. |
| [04:09.439] | You' re bad with down time then? |
| [04:12.691] | No, I actually really like down time but I haven' t had too much of it. |
| [04:15.685] | Well that probably get wild before you get any as well. we' ll see. |
| [04:20.931] | And Lana Del Rey then the sort of name or the personal, is it you as a person or is a part you' re playing? |
| [04:25.681] | Definitely very much me. Emm I just had I just really wanted a name that was as beautiful as I thought the music was gonna be |
| [04:32.182] | Like where did you find where did you find the name come from? |
| [04:37.940] | Well. I was going with my sister a lot to Miami |
| [04:41.434] | We were spending time with our friends from Cuba |
| [04:44.192] | And I wanted something that' s different sort of sound like |
| [04:48.435] | Faded seaside glamour |
| [04:50.931] | And that was something that sounded beautiful but sonically |
| [04:53.186] | I just like a way it sort of rolled off the tip of tongue |
| [04:54.940] | Did you have a long list of the other option? |
| [04:57.692] | I had a very short list |
| [04:59.940] | What else is on the list? |
| [05:00.939] | I don' t know. |
| [05:02.182] | You do knowI wouldn' t tell you. I' m sure I wouldn' t tell you. |
| [05:04.935] | A question I want to talk to you is it real Nancy Sinatra being in touch |
| [05:09.184] | After having describe yourself as gangsta Nancy Sinatra? |
| [05:12.932] | No she hasn' t, no. |
| [05:18.876] | But you know I mean like again that I had something I just put on my Youtube page like for fun. |
| [05:25.874] | And the as soon as the song sort of got more attention and then people had grabbed that phrase of my Youtube and started recycling it before I could even get a hold on it |
| [05:32.621] | But that' s a way of the things you can ues phrases like that in bios and Tweeter or Youtube for years |
| [05:34.618] | And nobody knows them, but the second on spotlight is on. |
| [05:37.370] | But everything is hypescrutinized. |
| [05:39.124] | I know, that' s was a real classy classy decision, that' s great |
| [05:42.629] | Ask this question what music is die rise to you in fact |
| [05:46.877] | If you' ll be euthanized, what would be on the CD mistype for you to die to? |
| [05:51.128] | Well, I was I didn' t have any another answer for you |
| [05:55.620] | But since you put it that way, I probably died to Jeff Buckley, |
| [05:59.624] | I guess there probably wouldn' t be another way. |
| [06:02.621] | It' s good way to go out yeahgood music. |
| [06:05.629] | Good music to die to, send me on the heaven, heavenly voice, heavenly tunes |
| [06:10.121] | But I have a couple of records that I sort of near endeared me. |
| [06:14.127] | I really like Nirvana and I really like Bob Dylan, and I like frank Sinatra' s voice. |
| [06:23.082] | Are you scared to death? |
| [06:26.076] | Well yeah yeah |
| [06:28.582] | Do you think about your own death? |
| [06:29.835] | I used to think about it. |
| [06:32.332] | Did you see it like natural cases at old age or tragic starlet robbed of life? |
| [06:38.580] | No, I don' t know what I thought. |
| [06:43.084] | I just knew that it scared me, god! I don' t know. |
| [06:45.080] | Cos they say there are two types of people that the people who fantasized about their weddings and and people who fantasize about their own funerals |
| [06:50.587] | That' s true. |
| [06:51.324] | Yeh yeh do you think you are falling into other those categories? |
| [06:54.080] | Yeh I' m a modern day woman, I think I fall into both of them. |
| [06:56.329] | I fantasized about I was both of them. |
| [06:59.081] | Would you have a happy funeral or people really are clenching their teeth and wailing |
| [07:02.830] | And outpouring grief? |
| [07:04.331] | That' s a good question. |
| [07:06.086] | The same goes for wedding |
| [07:07.081] | Hopefully just the family would be their god, I don' t know |
| [07:10.268] | Oh emm can you pinpoint a moment in your life where you feel that was the moment be it one second or ten minutes |
| [07:20.953] | Or whatever that you felt that you are content and happiest? |
| [07:24.701] | Yeh I mean for me it' s I mean for me it' s really every day. |
| [07:26.210] | I mean I can' t really explain to you. |
| [07:28.952] | I' m really so grateful just to be alive and healthy every single day |
| [07:31.702] | That' s such a surprise for me given that the film |
| [07:34.709] | You used have a sense of nostalgia to them |
| [07:38.204] | I would expect you to be nostalgia of a summer or you know a boat journey |
| [07:41.710] | Or you know something you would romanticize that wayah yeah i think i see... |
| [07:44.207] | I mean like I see everything in the pictures like when i think back to the way that things they were very vivid to me like and i do |
| [07:56.151] | When I kind of write I sort of write back to the picture that I can remember |
| [07:57.150] | But I mean that a lot of things that people said they thought they were said |
| [08:02.398] | I actually thought I were happy be |
| [08:03.396] | And like you know when I wrote Video Games |
| [08:05.148] | I mean to me it was real a love song |
| [08:07.157] | It was actually about sort of a happy time |
| [08:08.654] | But I think because of the melody is sort of sullen that... |
| [08:12.904] | Did you, when you came up with the melody which we heard just before |
| [08:15.655] | You know that lift in the chorus |
| [08:18.651] | You know, did you know you' re on to something |
| [08:21.146] | Because it' s something almost like military like |
| [08:22.655] | a military band or Last Post or something about it |
| [08:25.396] | I personally thought that I was on to something |
| [08:27.904] | I mean not on to something I mean in terms of |
| [08:30.899] | Writing a melody that I thought describe me perfectly |
| [08:35.904] | You know like that I thought was gorgeous and didn' t compromise |
| [08:40.650] | I definitely thought the song did that |
| [08:43.647] | But it was you know a choir 5min 30 sec |
| [08:47.151] | Love ballet with no instruments |
| [08:48.908] | So sentiment wasn' t necessarily you know |
| [08:51.902] | And you feel like the girl in that song still |
| [08:54.899] | Um yeah I mean I always feel... I mean |
| [08:57.647] | I always feel like the same person |
| [08:59.157] | Wherever I go sort of |
| [09:00.898] | But you know she' s not... she wasn' t sad you know like... |
| [09:03.896] | it doesn' t same like that... |
| [09:05.148] | Seems like something called slug... might be but can' t say the slug love |
| [09:09.154] | You know you' re just kind of happy to |
| [09:11.396] | Lie around with someone around yeah some wall slop out |
| [09:13.904] | Yeah, I mean I really enjoy... |
| [09:18.152] | You know I' m just... it' s nice to be in love. yeah... so... |
| [09:25.039] | And what you want? |
| [09:26.792] | I have everything I want. |
| [09:30.046] | That was OK... what you hope for? What you strike for? What' s your ambition? |
| [09:35.289] | I really can' t think of any. |
| [09:36.791] | I wouldn' t have to leave the house if I felt like that |
| [09:38.795] | I don' t wanna leave the house, I' m happy at home |
| [09:43.244] | I really am, I am! |
| [09:47.941] | Lana thank you so much for talking to us, |
| [09:48.441] | The best luck with the album Burn To Die |
| [09:50.195] | Thank you, I appreciate it, appreciate it. |
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