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A&W

I think she's just having fun tbh, all her comments on TikTok tonight have been fun and silly, and you can clearly hear the difference when she switches between Shimmy and Jimmy in the song

General consensus seems to be that it's one of her all time best

I'm sure they're sad twerking too on the other side of that wall

LMAO so true I should save that for working from home

I should be fired for how much I've listened to A&W this week instead of working

Psycho Lifeguard would be such a good Lana song I just know it Maybe it's Taco Truck

Don't worry none of us do

This thread got so dramatic for no reason lol

fuckin' jimmy...

Imagine she says Did you know on every song

It's hard to say for sure since the song is so complex and I think there are many avenues to explore, but my current take on it is that the first part of the song is actually after she's escaped a fate like Laura Palmer's. She may still be teetering on the edge, but Lana has reached a point of clarity where she understands who she is and while there may be negative aspects to the way she's living she's also reclaimed her life as her own to a certain degree and doesn't perceive herself as a victim, while also addressing the harm caused by the public's perception of her and society's inclination to tear down women and discard them as "whores" without considering the history that shaped them. I think she's very much talking about herself, while also managing to tie her personal story into a statement about the broader experience many people face, as she often does in her writing. I am always in awe of how deeply personal and widely relatable her writing can simultaneously be. Your interpretation of the ending of FWWM is fascinating, I have never thought about it that way. I always took it as the ultimate moment of peace, where even though Laura couldn't escape her fate in life, the angel has arrived now to take her soul to heaven, and her laughter is that feeling of pure relief and joy that her suffering is now over. Yours is much bleaker but very interesting! Lana and Lynch are both amazing in how their work allows for so many unique interpretations.

Deserved

So true I really feel like this is going to be the album that finally silences most of the haters in general, too many people are going to love it so there will be no audience for the Lana bashers

Exactly LOL I almost wish he wouldn't share these because now people will take some lazy intern's first pass as fact

They should really be more careful about which intern transcribes, those "official" lyrics are obviously full of mistakes lol

I have faith in them Like you said earlier, Margaret is too long to be bad, and also Sweet I think will be a necessary breather between two heavier songs

Same to you!!

Thank you! I love your insight too

I really am getting Laura Palmer vibes from this song. Laura was always writing in her secret diary about her darkest and innermost thoughts, which is exactly the feeling this song and I think the album in general will be giving, matched beautifully with the album art of Lana looking like a girl from the past full of secrets of her own that will start to spill out as her restlessness gets the best of her. The second part is so fascinating because it's like we rewind back to a place where the version of Lana that's singing doesn't see the darkness that we can see, it is all fun and games for her. She does wanna get high with Jimmy over and over, she does think it's funny when his mom calls, she does just wanna vibe without a thought beyond the repetition of an endless good time. But through the questions asked in the first half of the song and the menacing production that follows, we're able to see an outcome that she doesn't see yet. Even Laura Palmer had fun walking with fire until it was too late

lmao my friend just wrote me and said that the lyrics on Spotify are confusing LOL

In before it's a devastating reflection on her last happy moment with Patty as a child getting tacos on Venice beach before their relationship changed forever

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A&W should not have a music video imo. The song is too dark and raw with more than enough to unpack as is. Unless it was a masterpiece directed by David Lynch of course, but a White Dress treatment would just be wrong for this song

I saw people on Twitter saying how similar A&W and Vigilante Shit are