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Drugs/Being High References

 

Boarding School :                 "let's do drugs" ; "I do them drugs" ; "if you wanna get high with me" ; "doing crack"

Daytona Meth

Hawaiian Tropic:                   "on that crystal meth"

Paradise                               "dope"

Scarface:                              "Do I look high to you?"

St. Tropez                             "Drunk and high" 

You & Me:                             "No longer high" ; "make me higher"

Yayo

 

Methamphetamines

American:                               "dope"

Beautiful Player :                    "Valium"

Born to Die :                           "let's go get high"

Carmen:                                  "getting high for free"

Disco                                      "heroin"

Driving in Cars with Boys        "crazy like a drug"

Get Drunk                              "using again" ; "Robitussin"

Gods & Monsters                    "Dope"

Heavy Hitter:                           "overdose" 

Making Out:                            "taking drugs"

Never Let Me Go                    "you can push your drugs"

National Anthem                     "overdosing"; "on our drugs"

Off To The Races                   "cocaine heart" 

Puppy Love                             "overdose"

Junkie Pride

Spotlight De-lite                        "dope"

Try Tonight                              "to not get high"

Us Against the World                "get high for"

Velvet Crowbar                         "crack"

Jump                                         "mixture of cocaine and heroin" ; "junkie"

Breaking My Heart                     "yayo"

@@Myriam dont forget the X that they took with Champagne in St. Tropez 

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Drugs/Being High References

 

Boarding School :                 "let's do drugs" ; "I do them drugs" ; "if you wanna get high with me" ; "doing crack"

Daytona Meth

Hawaiian Tropic:                   "on that crystal meth"

Paradise                               "dope"

Scarface:                              "Do I look high to you?"

St. Tropez                             "Drunk and high" 

You & Me:                             "No longer high" ; "make me higher"

Yayo

 

Methamphetamines

American:                               "dope"

Beautiful Player :                    "Valium"

Born to Die :                           "let's go get high"

Carmen:                                  "getting high for free"

Disco                                      "heroin"

Driving in Cars with Boys        "crazy like a drug"

Get Drunk                              "using again" ; "Robitussin"

Gods & Monsters                    "Dope"

Heavy Hitter:                           "overdose" 

Making Out:                            "taking drugs"

Never Let Me Go                    "you can push your drugs"

National Anthem                     "overdosing"; "on our drugs"

Off To The Races                   "cocaine heart" 

Puppy Love                             "overdose"

Junkie Pride

Spotlight De-lite                        "dope"

Try Tonight                              "to not get high"

Us Against the World                "get high for"

Velvet Crowbar                         "crack"

Jump                                         "mixture of cocaine and heroin" ; "junkie"

Breaking My Heart                     "yayo"

 

Styrofoam in Velvet Crowbar too... I found out it's a drug onto the urban dictionary lol

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Alchemy (Heavy Hitter)

 

oh yeah and New Jersey Dance Queen (HDB) & Calendar pin-up queen (Marilyn Monroe) if that counts, beauty queen in Aberdeen (Brite Lites)

 

She's a Sparkle Jump Rope Queen too. :holla:

Kissing in the dark comes back quite often : Lolita, Paris (make out in a dark restaurant ), Jimmy Gnecco


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Soft Drinks

Cola: "My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola"

Serial Killer: "You can see me drinking cherry Coke"

Diet Mountain Dew: "Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City"

[i know there's more, but I can't think of them right now]

 

 

buy me coca-cola in the middle of the night

 

queen:

of new york

of saigon

of alchemy
of the gas station
of coney island/coney island queen
of the night
beauty queen
degenerate beauty queen
sparkle jump rope queen
new jersey dance queen
queen diana
queen of disaster
blue 50's queen

User-FastFission-brain.gif       let's change our DNA

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Nirvana

 

Hollywood's Dead: "Cobain stop lying there"

Teenage Wasteland: "...my first Nirvana song"

Television Heaven: "Swingin' in New York to Nirvana songs"

 

+ Oh Say Can You See "The voice of Nirvana says 'Come as You Are'"

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^ So I just did this:

 

Songs w/ palpable Lolita references:

 

Lolita (duh)

Off To The Races ("light of my life, fire of my loins")

Put Me In A Movie // Little Girls (mirroring Dolores' relationship with Quilty)

1949 (more roadtrip imagery than in all of Lana's songs combined; Humbert's roadtrip after he abducts Dolores definitely comes to mind)

Carmen (Dolores' favorite record, "LIttle Carmen," shares its name with Lana's acapella demo for this song)

Velvet Crowbar ("flame-colored paradise for you, darling" vs "i still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise")

Angels Forever, Forever Angels (more references to flame-colored skies in paradise, as with the above example)

Heartshaped Chevrolet ("love my lips and my golden tan; you love my heartshaped sunglasses" -- Humbert likes to go on about Dolores' looks in similar turns of phrase, and the heartshaped sunnies are an iconic Lolita thing)

Every Man Gets His Wish ("he loves my heartshaped sunglasses," again)

 

I'd add more, but a lot of the time -- even with 1949, I'd argue -- the lines are sorta blurred. :ohno:

On Our Way certainly counts for roadtrip imagery, and Motel 6 (as well as Queen Of The Gas Station, though to a lesser extent) but it's much less prominent to me. :crossed:

 

Lolita has a lot of Americana going for it, and so does like 90% of Lana's material, so it's difficult to say what's intended and what's not. :P

 

Help me out if you'd like. :toofunny:

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^ So I just did this:

 

Songs w/ palpable Lolita references:

 

Lolita (duh)

Off To The Races ("light of my life, fire of my loins")

Put Me In A Movie // Little Girls (mirroring Dolores' relationship with Quilty)

1949 (more roadtrip imagery than in all of Lana's songs combined; Humbert's roadtrip after he abducts Dolores definitely comes to mind)

 

I'd add more, but a lot of the time -- even with 1949, I'd argue -- the lines are sorta blurred. :ohno:

On Our Way certainly counts for roadtrip imagery, and Motel 6 (as well as Queen Of The Gas Station, though to a lesser extent) but it's much less prominent to me. :crossed:

 

Lolita has a lot of Americana going for it, and so does like 90% of Lana's material, so it's difficult to say what's intended and what's not. :P

 

Help me out if you'd like. :toofunny:

Maybe Carmen too? It's got similarities to Humbert's Wanted poem and that sort of explains the french part

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Celestial references
 
Heaven:
 
On Our Way: "You're heavier than heavenly" 
Living Without You/TV in Black & White: "Heaven hasn't forgotten about you"
Television Heaven
Starry Eyed: "You've got heaven in your eyes"
Heartshaped Chevrolet: "Pull it over at the 7/11 and you buy me pie because I’m sweeter than Heaven"
Tired of Singing the Blues:  "Looking down from Heaven, laughing, trying to see how much I can take"
Catch & Release: "Cause we were a match in Heaven high"
Young & Beautiful: "Dear Lord, when I get to Heaven"
Back to Tha Basics: "If you wanted heaven, baby" & "With you, I’m in heaven, baby"
Making Out: "It's like heaven, heaven"
You & Me: "Give heaven a try"
Bel Air: "So I run like I'm mad to Heaven’s door."
Gods & Monsters: "This is heaven, what I truly want"
Last Girl on Earth: "No such thing as heaven"
Ghetto Baby: "We're a match made in Heaven"
Motel 6: "Drive down the drag in your pontiac heaven"
Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)
Dum Dum: "Once you've had a taste of heaven my way"
Body Electric: "Heaven is my baby, Suicide's her father"
Axl Rose Husband: "White Pontiac heaven"
Diet Mountain Dew: "There in his white Pontiac Heaven"
Backfire: "For a little piece of heaven"
Serial Killer: "You send me right to heaven, sweet serial killer"
Yayo: "Hello Heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights"
Video Games: "Heaven is a place on earth with you"
Get Drunk: "Will I ever get to heaven?"
This Is What Makes Us Girls: "We all look for heaven and we put love first"
Put the Radio On: "We’re a little match made in Heaven if I say so, yayo"
Off to the Races: "Says it feels like heaven to him"
National Anthem: "Summer's in the air and, baby, heaven's in your eyes"
Match Made in Heaven
Dayglo Reflection: "If Heaven thinks that everything is everything"

Baby Blue Love: "Looking like heaven"
 
A.k.a every Lana song ever. The word heaven doesn't even make sense to me anymore :oprah2:
 
Paradise
 
Angels Forever, Forever Angels: "Paradise is a hell-colored flame sky" & "Paradise is the game of do or die"
Television Heaven: "My battle lines look like paradise, next to you"

Daytona Meth: "We're forever young in Paradise, as long as you got the Chevrolet I will ride"

Every Man Gets His Wish: Same as Daytone Meth

Paradise: "We’re going down, down, take you down to paradise"

Velvet Crowbar: "Flame-colored paradise for you, darling"

Radio: "Now I'm in L.A. and it's paradise"

Dark Paradise: "Everytime I close my eyes it's like a dark paradise"

 

Angels

 

Angels Forever, Forever Angels: "They were angels forever, forever angels" & "You are California proud, you are angels of the night"

JFK: "Throat like an angel with a voice that was made of gold"

Gods & Monsters: "In the land of gods and monsters, I was an angel"

Young & Beautiful: "Channeling angels in the new age now"

 

 

 

 

 


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I wish someone collect all the collabs and refresh/update my post  :flutter: 

i have no time i'm lazy  :facepalm:

Word formatting is being a bitch, as is the spoiler button (#awkwardmomentwhenyoufigureitoutbutitstoomuchdataforthepost)

the word doc is here

 

RIGHT I'm going to split it into 5 posts after the jump because it just wont all fit

 

EDIT: on page 6, there are 6 posts which are a complete combination of every post before this one, and include my investigation too


High up in the Hollywood hills, Taking violet pills

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