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This is a very unfurtunate and evil act... my heart and prayers go out to the victims and their families... but instead of focusing on the effect, wish people would also see what the real cause of the problem is: Interventionism and invasions, and the fact that the countries being attacked are themselves attacking the places these fanatics come from.
 
I am sure that if western countries stopped their bombing campaigns in the Middle East, we wouldn't see these terrible incidents happening. You don't get peace with bombs and wars. The media only fuels people's anger by telling everyone how awful the attacks are, but they never touch on the root of the problem.
 
Innocent people are always the victims. I really can't understand how people support governments who are promoting wars and invasions.

Truly puts Lana's lyric "what about all these children? & what about all their parents?" into perspective. It seems as if that song kind of came at the right time. It's hard to think about the world beginning to seem like it truly is crumbling, but it's very apparent and impossible to ignore. Makes sense why it's heavily on Lana's mind, as well as the rest of the world. It's exhausting and so disheartening to always have to wake up to tragedy.

has anyone read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn? my friend recommended it to me and i haven't started it yet but from what i've heard it sounds really good. if anyone has read it, could you reccomend anything similar?
 
on my list after that is The Doors Of Perception + Heaven and Hell (Aldous Huxley), We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, And The Mysteries Of Our Existence (Stefan Klein), The Path: What Chinese Philsophers Can Teach Us About The Good Life (Michael Puett), and The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book Of The Dead (Timothy Leary)
 
don't laugh at me i like this stuff

Currently I'm reading some book about the role of vodka and women in lifes of Polish artists during interwar period I can't wait to read the chapter about Witkacy.

I own a copy of "My Best Friend Is You", I bought it in a misic shop without knowing who she is and well, that was the way I got to know her. Her music is ok to me, I even like it.

i heard a bit of the cry baby bridge and it was so awful. I felt so worried about her... i hope somehow she can fix the damage... She should get some help or something idk. Cause she used to sound very good live... ugh it makes me sad

I LOVE YOUR SIGNATURE

pezzo di me - levante

Can someone please PM me a masterpost of Nicole's work? I'm slowly getting into her work-- I found her in about 2013 through last.fm (I think I heard Dog Teeth and Observatory Mansions) but I HATED her work at the time-- it was too dark/creepy for me then, and I couldn't really stomach it. Now, however, I'm really enjoying what I've heard (a few tracks off NBL, really-- Poacher's Pride, You're So Cool, and In the Land are ones I'm very familiar with), and I want to get into her music!
 
Thanks, y'all
 
I'm also a huge fan of the Flowers in the Attic books, so I love the ties to that series and the VC Andrews-ish quality to her work <3

I agree. It's a brilliant album in its own right but half the tracks have random screaming men every 0.5 seconds and reuse the same crusty samples and sounds in the instrumentals. 
UV is truly her magnum opus and I will honestly be surprised if Lana ever creates anything as innovative and well-crafted as it.

I love this single. It's nowhere near my list of best Lana songs, but it gives me hope that LDR5 will be better than Honeymoon.
I'm so stocked for this era.

I get it as that getting the blues, to Lana, is like getting sad or depressed, as she has said before, "getting blue", so I think that what she means in that lyric is that it's ok for us to get sad sometimes for all the horrible things we see happening around the world, but that don't mean we should abuse that feeling and stay sad and negative all the time, it's a little advice from her for us to try and not be so depressed all the time.
 
Woke Queen!

Omg I really hate her 12 year old fans that believe every random snippet of instrumental is a leak. Like it could be just a squeaky toy played on loop and they'd either be like "OMG SOUNDS SO GOOD!! CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS ON HER NEXT ALBUM" or "NOW IT'S NEVER COMING BECAUSE MELANIE SAID SHE WON'T RELEASE LEAKED MUSIC, I HATE YOU. #CRYBABIESRESPECTTHEARTIST"

I'm reading the Diary Of Anne Frank and a collection of poetry from 8 poets (e.g. Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith...).

This is so fascinating. Sorry for digging this up but I actually wondered if something was said about it already as I remember recently reading an interview were the guy asked Lana if she was a synesthete because of all the colours in her songs and she was really interested. So I really wonder if she is herself. I personally am not but I definitely associate UV with black and grey and HM with red. I can't remember the bloody interview, but I'll definitely post the quote as soon as I find it.

Hmm..
 
Raise Me Up - teal
Mermaid Motel – amethyst, lavender, silver
Get Drunk - grey
Disco – grey, black, purple
Serial Killer – orange, yellow
Kill Kill – orange, hot pink
Velvet Crowbar – magenta, red
Last Girl on Earth – turquoise, blue, dark grey, violet
Trash Magic – silver, pink (sparkling)
Put Me in the Movie – parisian blue, silver, gold
Pin Up Galore – deep oceanic blue, black, violet
Playing Dangerous – toxic/acid green, bright coral red
Maha Maha – deep crimson, violet, hot pink, fuchsia, tangerine, golden, turquoise (LSD-ish, fluid mixture of colors)
 
Born to Die – red, black, golden
Blue Jeans - aqua blue, baby blue, white  (off course)
Million Dollar Man – black, golden
Carmen – blood red, powder pink, black
Summertime Sadness – crimson, burgundy, maroon, sunset orange-pink, ruby red, smoky and watery
Off to the Races – turquoise, lime yellow, very light yellow, cotton candy pink
Yayo – grey, black, silver, golden
Without You – cherry blossom pink
 
Cola – red-brown, purple-red
Bel Air – sky blue, pink sprayed with gold
Body Electric – deep violet, indigo, long cold flames
Gods and Monsters – indigo, blue, violet, similar as Body Electric
Ride – teal, dark blue, orange, moss green, sand beige, red
 
West Coast – coral red, orange, yellow, gold
Shades of Cool – all shades of blue
Sad Girl – very light grey
Pretty When You Cry - grey
Black Beauty – black, indigo, midnight blue
Florida Kilos – turquoise, yellow, pink, white
Flipside – brownish grey
 
 

nobody said any of that though?

It's not like you think of a color, it's just automatically there. Like 3 is always green. And for some people with synesthesia, they have automatic smells or tastes correlating to other sensory perceptions, like if some thinks the name Kevin tastes like bacon, Kevin will always taste like bacon.

It's very common, but it's more of an automatic thing rather than a controlled mental image.

I do this as well. Or, I'll automatically picture landscapes/city scenes that match the music. It makes the listening experience very beautiful.

Someone said this before, but album artwork often correlates the colors of the songs on the album. For example, many of the songs on BTD are shades of red, blue, or green, (also white, though thats usually mixed in with the songs, making them lighter or darker in certain tones) which are the primary colors on the album artwork. Paradise does indeed have warmer colored songs, and UV to me is primarily in black and white, or at least very muted, not-very-saturated colors (UV the song is a light yellow, with blotches of pink, Flipside and OM are completely grayscale)

Synesthesia also has some strange other effects too like assigning genders to things like numbers etc
Anyhow I'll listen to UV and say what colour pops into my head as if it really means anything anyway   I'm imagining colour schemes for videos mostly when I think of this. Or flashes of colour that comes with the lyrics or music.
Lana says UV is a very 'blue album' but Im not really feeling it, I don't know
 
CW - Light brown
UV - Orange, black
SOC - Light blue, pink
BBY - Teal
WC - Orange, gold/yellow
SG - Red, grey
PWYC - Purple
MPG - Dark green
FMWUTTT - Grey, black
OM - White, lilac
TOW - Pink, blue
BB - Dark blue, orange, black
GR - Grey, black, yellow
FL - Blue, white, green
ITH - Lilac, dark purple
F - Grey

Great topic! I'm connecting almost everything with colours. I think I'm not a projector but maybe an associator. Only when I close my eyes I sometimes "see" coloured spots and shapes but Idk if that counts (I know you can't actually see things with closed eyes but I don't know how to describe it...).
It sounds really stupid but sometimes I see something and for me its colour just doesn't match the object what can even make me feel somehow uncomfortable.    It mostly happens with letters and words. They just have this one specific colour for me, e.g. a simple sans-serif A has to be red.
Like others pointed out above those colours are more than just colours. They usually comprise emotions, pictures, imaginations ect.
Of course music creates colours in my head as well but sometimes the colours change during a song. Though there always remains one dominating or main colour. Many of Lana's songs are some shade of blue for me, especially those on BTD. Paradise has more warm colours. For most of them I feel the same as ULTRAVIOLENCE wrote in the opener post. UV is somehow the darkest album for me when it comes to the colours that appear in my mind.
 
Anyway I'm a bit surprised how many members here associate colours with things, music, whatever as my family and friends never seem to understand me when I tell them about the colours I perceive when hearing or seeing something. Now I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like that.

I get this way!
 
I feel like some of it comes from the single/album art and videos though, since I associate those with the songs. I also think this is partly by design from Lana because I remember reading before that she really likes to create a visual picture with her songs. And if she mentions a color just once in the song I automatically associate it or if she talks about an item I think about whatever color that would be too. Its one of the great things about Lana songs really because I get such good visuals in my head. I literally have my own music video in my head for all of her songs because they are so descriptive.
 
Some of the ones I get colors from that don't have covers or a lot of sensory words:
 
FMUTT - pale lavender
Flipside - orange, but only a tiny bit, and blue, but not in a tacky way. I don't know.
Florida Kilos - green and blue
Gramma - dark green
Radio - medium blue
American - very pale blue
Bel Air - white/pale blue
Raise Me Up - dark green, black, dark blue
Hollywood - colors of the sunset, so golds, yellows (but then again she does say sunrise)
* Ultraviolence - same pale lavender as FMUTT, which is odd because the songs are kind of linked. I know I said I wouldn't do ones with videos (don't count Bel-Air) but I got this color from the song way before the video and still do even after one has been released.

Cool topic. I do associate many of Lana's songs with colors. It's the atmospheric mood they create that strikes a color connection with me. Not so much the lyrics, more so the sonic aspect of them - maybe the chords/key, certain instruments, an emotion within the song.
 
I don't believe I have synesthesia, though. It's just the visual representation the goes along with the music itself. Sort of a continuation. It's mostly intuitive, though. It's strongly influenced by how the song makes me feel, personally. I doubt this makes any sense, but whatever.
 
(I put my iTunes on shuffle and picked a color for each song)
Burning Desire - Dark Blue
Pretty When You Cry - White
Summertime Sadness - Violet
Without You - Peach
Cola - Yellow or Red
Yayo - Brown
Money Power Glory - Orange and Blue
Diet Mtn. Dew - Mint Green and Silver
Sad Girl - Black and Dark Red
Shades of Cool - Turquoise and Dark Gray
Cruel World - Orange and Gold
American - Pale Blue
Brooklyn Baby - Pink