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Day 34's song is probably one of the most hated fully produced songs in Lana's entire discography. It's a sad truth, as this song is completely adorable in how it captures the Lolita-esque spirit Lana strives to create in many of her unreleased and released songs. Production information is limited, as we only have confirmation that an alternate version of this song was produced by Paul Ressel. We can be certain, however, that this song was recorded in 2011. There are three versions of the song, but today we'll be covering the shortest and most pop-driven one, which leaked almost exactly two years ago (August 21st, 2012). While the alternate versions are slower and less refined, this final version truly conveys the simple brilliance of Lana's pop songwriting ability. It's a very simple concept that plays on the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The pronunciation on the chorus vocals is to die for ("'Cause you RAWK RAWK RAWK RAWK RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWK") and the whole thing's an exercise in seeing how many throwaway lyrics Lana can write. Still, I adore this song and all its idiosyncrasies, even though most people hate it. Their loss!

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Day 34 brings us to a song called Making Out. This song often goes unnoticed in Lana's discography, potentially due to the fact that there are two versions (one autotuned to death and one untouched). The ubiquity of the autotuned version has resulted in a rather negative association with this song for many people. For that reason, we're focusing on the unedited version today, so as to change the opinions of anyone who's been tainted by the second version. This song is from 2010, registered under producer Matthew William Benbrook's name. The two seem to have only worked together once (or twice, assuming the autotune was done during a second vocal take on a different day), though they may have had done other songs together that were simply never registered. Lyrically, this song is somewhat non-standard, with the title being taken from a part of the chorus that isn't very prominent. It's currently not known who this song is about, though many people believe it to be about Jimmy Gnecco or Mike Mizrahi.

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Day 35 has rolled around and now we're talking about an incredible track that's pretty much the only confirmed outtake from Born To Die: You Can Be The Boss! It has the incredible distinction of being one of only five unreleased songs to ever be performed live (the others being Boarding School, Hundred Dollar Bill, Pin-Up Galore and Trash Magic). This song was recorded in 2011 during the late Born To Die sessions with Joe Henson and Alexis Smith as producers. This production duo also worked on Kinda Outta Luck and potentially many other songs, as Lana seems to have considered their work together to be high enough caliber to almost make it onto her album. This song is classic Lana, with references to "daddy", booze and Americana staples like the Fourth of July and Corvettes. This could've easily made it onto Born To Die and probably should've, honestly.

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Day 35 has rolled around and now we're talking about an incredible track that's pretty much the only confirmed outtake from Born To Die: You Can Be The Boss! It has the incredible distinction of being one of only five unreleased songs to ever be performed live (the others being Boarding School, Hundred Dollar Bill, Pin-Up Galore and Trash Magic). This song was recorded in 2011 during the late Born To Die sessions with Joe Henson and Alexis Smith as producers. This production duo also worked on Kinda Outta Luck and potentially many other songs, as Lana seems to have considered their work together to be high enough caliber to almost make it onto her album. This song is classic Lana, with references to "daddy", booze and Americana staples like the Fourth of July and Corvettes. This could've easily made it onto Born To Die and probably should've, honestly.

 

She performs her unreleased songs live? dead2

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Yes, but not recently. You Can Be The Boss was last performed in 2011 and all the others were performed in 2007-2010. We just know that there were live performances of those songs because there's video evidence. moo1

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Yes, but not recently. You Can Be The Boss was last performed in 2011 and all the others were performed in 2007-2010. We just know that there were live performances of those songs because there's video evidence. moo1

I honestly hate how you know so much rip2 It's so intimidating rip2

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Day 37 brings us to the first utterly incomplete Lana track covered so far in this Spotlight: the demo of Behind Closed Doors. This demo made me go absolutely batshit insane when it first leaked, because by some cosmic coincidence, the demo of Lady Gaga's Aura leaked less than 24 hours later. I was basking in the warm glow of new music for a solid few weeks, after the absolute insanity of this serendipitous double leak. This demo features a different vocal take, instrumental and lyrics from the final version, which was already covered on Day 7. This demo's first difference can be heard within the first few seconds on the song: a different backing vocal take presumably done by co-producer Miranda Cooper, along with a slightly thinner production with less bass to round out the sound. This demo is notable for having all of its choruses in the correct place, but only one recorded verse (the first one). There are long blank portions where only instrumental and backing vocals can be heard, followed by the recorded choruses. This song is a fabulous view into the process by which Lana records and writes her music, as it's one of the few songs we have that actually uses an alternate vocal take from its final version. Definitely worth a listen if you're curious about Lana's creative process.

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Day 37 brings us to the first utterly incomplete Lana track covered so far in this Spotlight: the demo of Behind Closed Doors. This demo made me go absolutely batshit insane when it first leaked, because by some cosmic coincidence, the demo of Lady Gaga's Aura leaked less than 24 hours later. I was basking in the warm glow of new music for a solid few weeks, after the absolute insanity of this serendipitous double leak. This demo features a different vocal take, instrumental and lyrics from the final version, which was already covered on Day 7. This demo's first difference can be heard within the first few seconds on the song: a different backing vocal take presumably done by co-producer Miranda Cooper, along with a slightly thinner production with less bass to round out the sound. This demo is notable for having all of its choruses in the correct place, but only one recorded verse (the first one). There are long blank portions where only instrumental and backing vocals can be heard, followed by the recorded choruses. This song is a fabulous view into the process by which Lana records and writes her music, as it's one of the few songs we have that actually uses an alternate vocal take from its final version. Definitely worth a listen if you're curious about Lana's creative process.

 

Behind Closed Door is one of my favorites cry4.gif' alt='cry3'>

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Day 38 has a cute little song attached to it, with a somewhat darker story hiding beneath the surface. Take Me To Paris, on the first listen, is a lot like any other 2010 track. It has that signature production by Guy Chambers and Liam Howe, who also worked on one of the demos of Lolita and the unreleased song Butterflies (which is distinct from Butterflies Part 2). However, due to some snooping by Lana's rabid fans, we can be almost completely certain who this song was written about: Lana's high school English teacher, one Mr. Gene Campbell! It's clear that he and Lana were close as she often talked about him in interviews as having played her some Biggie Smalls and Nirvana records in his car after school. That was later connected to the unreleased song Prom Song (Gone Wrong), which is the first song we covered in this spotlight, as she uses the lyric "You played me Biggie Smalls and then my first Nirvana song" in it. That song has a romantic undertone in a high school setting, which led to a hunt for more songs of a similar style. This song had leaked months before and many people just assumed it was a cute little pop track about wanting to go to Paris. However, she's actually imploring Mr. Campbell to elope with her to France. Crazy, right?

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