celeb news A&R talks Lana Del Rey origins: Born To Die was recorded for $183K.

[Dolce Vita]

and they were right to take a risk on her during a time when edm was smashing

[Mr. Peanutbutter]

 

Some of the BTD demos kind of eat up the album version

[Aethereal]

9 hours ago, Aethereal said:

She cannot sing BTD songs live the same they sound in studio. It's time to leave that in the past. Paros, Texas is a top teir song anyways.

@NOW, this was not directed to you or the OP tho. Just those who want BTD 2.0.

 

I'd love to see it, but I understand her reasoning for adapting a more natural style for herself.

[ahauntingnearu]

Still pity the DMD haters!

[NOW]

8 hours ago, MatiRod said:

 

That's absolute peanuts for a major label lol. The profit margin is insane.

I think that's my biggest takeaway from the interview - she wanted the resources/support but not necessarily the biggest budget possible, just enough to put her vision to life. If you look at all of the lavish Born to Die videos, they're basically born out of all of the archive video footage she put together for her early demos. She still operates like that today with the way she markets all of her albums. She couldn't have picked a better team to sign with imo.

[BrokenMachine]

I still remember hearing that demo and falling in love with her back when she only had Video Games, Blue Jeans and Born To Die. Also the National Anthem demo such a bop, and the demo of This Is What Makes Us Girls. Once the album got released it took me some time to get into the slow versions 

[BrokenMachine]

10 hours ago, Aethereal said:

She cannot sing BTD songs live the same they sound in studio. It's time to leave that in the past. Paros, Texas is a top teir song anyways.

But she could? In days when her stage fright was lower, she could replicate the studio versions

 

[Aethereal]

10 minutes ago, BrokenMachine said:

But she could? In days when her stage fright was lower, she could replicate the studio versions

 

I am aware of those but unfortunately she does sound like this, at least in the tour anymore, and even back then she struggled. 

[NOW]

1 hour ago, BrokenMachine said:

I still remember hearing that demo and falling in love with her back when she only had Video Games, Blue Jeans and Born To Die. Also the National Anthem demo such a bop, and the demo of This Is What Makes Us Girls. Once the album got released it took me some time to get into the slow versions 

National Anthem demo was such a hit, I remember being disappointed when I heard the album sampler and it got changed. But the demos getting another life of their own and going viral all these years later is nice to see.

[Aethereal]

She paid all the costs with VEVO views alone LOL.

[NOW]

52 minutes ago, Aethereal said:

She paid all the costs with VEVO views alone LOL.

The gag being that her most viewed video, Summertime Sadness, wasn't even given a budget to shoot

[Aethereal]

34 minutes ago, NOW said:

The gag being that her most viewed video, Summertime Sadness, wasn't even given a budget to shoot

I meant in 2012, for now it is not even arguable. 

I am sure she reached 100M in 2012 alone which would amount to around $300,000.

 

[NOW]

21 minutes ago, Aethereal said:

I meant in 2012, for now it is not even arguable. 

I am sure she reached 100M in 2012 alone which would amount to around $300,000.

 

Poor Tropico though

[Iaintsorry]

10 hours ago, getinthezone said:

183k doesnt sound much of a risk

Well to start off, that's just to produce the album.

 

when I say risk I mean the overall push interscope and the A&R guy gave her (promo, SNL, radio etc.) knowing her style of music was not what was popular at the time 

[Sawk]

Lanita 

[SLIME]

That Video Games pic is iconic but I never saw that crop showing the Smurf on her shirt lol.