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First of all, I'm from Vietnam. But I was born and raised in the north, not the south. However the southern cultures and histories are always captivating subjects for me to look into. About Saigon, that is one of the former names of Ho Chi Minh city. It is the largest city in Vietnam, along with the capital city Hanoi of the north in the category of most dynamic cities here in South East Asia. The name of the city is actually Sài Gòn. Black and white, in Han-Viet dictionary, Sài means 'wood,tree,jungle,..' while Gòn means ''silk-cotton". Mostly based on the fact that in the past, this beautiful land has a lot of kapok trees, forest after forest. But there's actually lots of theories about the real meaning of that name. I can't say it for sure cause I don't know exactly the purpose of people who named the land at that moment. But the name is a beautiful word play in Vietnamese, it's neat and poetic, lots of poets and writers use that word in their works here in our concepts of literature. We started using that name since forever, we used that name when the land was invaded before 1955, it became the capital of French colony of Cochinchina. It later became an independant public from '55 to '75, still under the name Saigon, however it back then was an anti-communist state and declared lots of battles with the North. In those 20 years, the government was under influences of some Western countries and America. The president was actually a puppet, so that independance just became nonsense again. France and the US used it against its own brother, the north. Kind of like North and South Korea. But we were lucky enough not to end up like Korea right now. After 1975, the war ended with the Communist victory. In 1976, it merged with the other pronvices of the old government and was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh city after Uncle Ho, our revolutionary leader at that time. To sum up, you can see that the land was full of wars until 1975. Battles after battles, millions of people die from so many sides. Not only Saigon but all the other lands of Vietnam had that same story. So that explained the National Anthem's lyrics - 'the land of sweetness and danger'. Also in NA, she sang about the Bell Tower Hotel, it's an vintage hotel, a historical proof witness throughout all the dark times of the city. But it's still standing after so many years, that's why she sang "Keep me safe in his Bell Tower Hotel" About the term "Queen of Saigon", she used that line in 3 songs - National Anthem, Live Or Die, West Coast. In my opinion, Saigon is a big deal until today, lots of countries in this world want it because of its geographical position which would be an edge to people who have it if any war occurs. The Russian, the Chinese, the American, they all desire that land somehow. Queen of Saigon is the queen of something important, something exquisite, something that is worth dreaming about. But Saigon is also a name of the past, we don't usually use that name anymore here in Vietnam because of the history was too violent and heart-rending, which makes that queen no longer exist. She is now the queen of the past, of something that used to matter. The queen was replaced, it's gone but not forgotten, but still an icon that will be discussed about. Also, there's a play called Miss Saigon. It's pretty famous. It is about the love of an Asian girl with an American guy. The love scenes were set on the background of guns and wars at that time, that love is dangerous and forbidden based on those circumstances. How strange that in National Anthem video, Lana asked A$AP Rocky to play JFK and to have an interracial relationship with her.

I agree with those who said that the lyrics are weak. There's something in her words is still beautiful, but not enough to make it up for the entire song. To be honest, her writing in this era is just not that strong anymore. Hope that the other songs in the album will change my mind. But maybe that's what she's going for. It is unlistenable, not sonically but lyrically Btw, the spoken part is very good though

They're playing West Coast right now ^_^ (not Zane Lowe though, it's Greg James)

We all know that Zane Lowe is gonna teasing everyone, just like the last time with West Coast. So, we'll probably listen to it in the middle of the show, or maybe at the end. We have to learn how to enjoy that. We wil hear quite a lot the line "a little later, we will play Ultraviolence for the first time"

We both know that Zane Lowe is gonna teasing everyone, just like the last time with West Coast. So, we'll probably listen to it in the middle of the show, or maybe at the end. We have to learn how to enjoy that. We wil hear quite a lot of "a little later, we will play Ultraviolence for the first time"

Yes. Thank you, finally, someone. I need it to go to sleep tonight. After that, can you upload it and post a link on here?

BBC Radio 1 is in UK, so I think we should use England's timezone, which is UTC+00:00, so it's now arround 4:30 pm, and 3 more hours to go

@ It's now 3.15 pm GMT, so more than 4 hours until the premiere The real question is, DID ANYONE PLAN TO RECORD THE SONG FROM RADIO YET?

Another radio premiere, getting ready to be thrown in the face by a thousand versions of this song, just like West Coast used to do

I'm so proud that our little girl is back on national television and more than ready to face the American critcics again Prove the pundits wrong,Lana Show them who your daddy is

And still, Angels Forever is not on the list .... AGAIN but yay for "Flipside" and "Is This Happiness", they'd better top AFFA to deserve that place

So in Ultraviolence, Lana reused the line " Hit me and it felt like a kiss " What if she reuses her Scarface lyrics as well " Sold my soul to make it nice / Life is death when blow is life " , it would fit the title perfectly

Lol

Why nobody talks about this