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Queen Of The Gas Station vs Ray-Ray-Ray-Raise Me Up

Thanks to the thread I've rediscovered this song. Well, not exactly the song (I play it quite often on my mp3 player) but the video, actually I've never watched it before. Never tired of watching beautiful Lizzy The lyrics... Well, if Lorde knew this song, she might call it the most "anti-feministic" Lana song: OK, I'm stopping to hammer that point of view. But being serious now, to be honest I personally dislike these lyrics a bit. Don't know why but somehow they bother me more than "You Can Be The Boss" D: The rest of "On Our Way" lyrics is finest.

Dunno

I've been thinking about it and gotta admit you're right, guys - the girl from her song IS really dependend. Sometimes less, sometimes more but she is. In "Is It Wrong" or "Jelous Girl" she is even obsessive and I doubt it's sane... In "She's Not Me" what can bother someone is that, well, his ex-girlfriend is dead and even if she wasn't, she's his EX. It shouldn't be like this that once you've touched somebody, they can never build a new relationship again if something goes wrong and you don't suit each other. But again, what does it have to do with feminism? It's something about relationships, yeah, indeed a very problematic thing but I don't think anybody is biased because of their sex/gender and the same feelings could've happened to a boy as well. And if we should take seriously what Lana sings, there are more frightening things to bother - in "Kinda Outta Luck" she kills somebody for fun only. Or the whole motive of taking drugs, about which she sings in so many song, too many to mention. But what I'd appreciate about the character is that she realizes her lifestyle is not always fun and she sings also about the bad, not so pretty and romantic side ("Bad Disease", "Velvet Crowbar"). I don't think she's idolizing anything. In fact my feelings about Lana's works are similar to thoughts about Nabokov's "Lolita". The character can be horrible but because of psychological probability, it's like real life, I can also get inside their head and - shiiit - like them in spite of what they do. And the style of writing is so poetical which makes me read/listen to it again and again. (Of course I don't mean Lana is such a person like Humbert, as I said she's sensitive and tries to be good to other people when she can.)

Kate Bush - Breathing

MF - Nuit d'hiver

It was quite a short time ago that I realized there was a nice play on words in the song (that "Ray" refers to Lizzy's stage name) xD . Then I loved the song even more. Lana is a genius to have created something like this.

France Gall - Links vom Rhein und rechts vom Rhein

Hundred Dollar Bill (V1) vs Ghetto Baby @@mauve , well, seems like you did.

Good, Good Dancer Eyes

Likes Asian girls. Or at least that one.

Insanity

The "she affects teenage girls" part is a bullshit, sorry. Lana's creatures aren't meant to be "apropriate" - they are meant to be good and beautiful. The character from her songs is a human being, with human feelings and weaknesses. None of them makes her anti-feminist. Loving somebody else isn't anti-feminism.

I confess that at the moment when I was joining LanaBoards I didn't like "Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant" album, except "Gramma" (which has been my favorite Lana song since I heard it). I thought it "hipster" and just couldn't enjoy. I also used to dislike "Paradise", well, maybe not exactly dislike but I wouldn't play "Ride" or some other moaning.

Probably the first unreleased Lana song I've ever heard <3 . Back then I didn't know she had so many of them, lol. And hell yeah, "kinky mom pant ass" rocks . Nice one.

Great song. Her darling is dying and death is no more "fun". It's just hopeless when things are fucked up and you can't do anything about it.

Queen of Gas Station

Poetry

Catch & Release vs Young & Beautiful

Catch & release vs Aviation

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Never. I wish I had.