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    I hate people who wear band shirts for bands they know nothing about. Do you know how many people own Nirvana, Guns N Roses, Beatles and Rolling Stones shirts that can't name more than their most overplayed songs? It's even more annoying when it's a lesser known band and you try to strike up a conversation with someone and they're like "oh I don't know who they are, I just thought the shirt was cute" :facepalm:

    I'm actually embarrassed to wear my Nirvana shirt in public because of all these little twinks wearing it just to look edgy. :krylie:

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    To me the context that makes the most sense is that the song is about Barrie. Here's why I think that:

    'My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

    To the houses of the holy

    Smoking on them cigarettes'

    This first bit might be a bit of a reach but I live in Glasgow (where Barrie lives/is from). There's a small venue called Oran Mor where Lana/Kassidy used to frequent, which has really ornate architecture and is an old church - in 2011 when Videos Games started to blow up she played an intimate gig there and Kassidy played several gigs there including one where they covered Video Games if my memory serves me correctly. If the song is about Barrie that could be a reference to a place that was special to them, and also since it used to be a church ties in with the houses of the holy part. I think there's an early interview where she talks about spending a lot of time in Glasgow.

    'You were so obsessed with writing the next best American record

    You did it all for fame'

    I get that people think it can't be about Barrie because of the 'American' reference but I don't feel like that means that it needs to be from an American person, just the kind of global success that some iconic American albums have. Also the 'you did it all for the fame' lyrics could be to do with either their relationship, or him stepping out of her shadow or maybe even to do with him leaving his band and upping sticks to the states - he clearly did that to try and obtain some musical success for himself and left his long term band mates in his wake, and I wonder if it's a reference to that.

    'You did it all for fame

    Baby, how's life treating you now'

    From what I know from living here and hearing stuff through mutual associates life is not treating him so well. He's back in Glasgow now, last I heard living with his family (before he moved with her he lived with the kassidy boys). He plays occasional local gigs around Glasgow at student unions and bars. Nowhere near the life style he would of had with Lana and if he was using her for fame or to boost his own connections and career maybe she feels bitter about that? Remember she put kassidy as the support on her tour, it's a big change to go from playing arenas all over Europe to tiny venues around the town you grew up in.

    'How's that taste coming out'

    This is a big reason I feel it's hinting at Barrie, cos of the famous 'my pussy tastes like Pepsi cola' lyric which she has said Barrie came up with. The story was something along the lines of him thinking allAmerican girls were magical with vaginas that tasted of Pepsi cola, I think this is quite a bitter line and again could tie in with the 'American' theme.

    'He was seventies in spirit; nineties in his frame of mind'

    Going back to Ultraviolence I think two songs there that are about Barrie are Brooklyn Baby and Shades of Blue. Brooklyn Baby references the 70s and also some of the actual clothes/style Barrie goes for is quite 70s. In terms of the 90s frame of mind I think this is referencing Kurt Cobain, who they both seem quite obsessed with. Shades of Blue seems to hint that Barrie has some troubles with depression, something she alluded to at the time of the break up in that interview she did too. To me 90s frame of mind is referencing Barrie's likeness to Kurt's depression.

    Sorry if this would be better in the lanaysis thread I don't post really so not 100% on forum etiquette but just found the lyrics to the song interesting and there's chat in this thread about whether its about Barrie

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  19. Posted

    girl have u been here during the btd era?

    who even started the comparisons between mariah and lana when they don't even play in the same genre or league.

     

     

    hennyways I'm happy for the uk charts predictions i hope you gays better stream love on spotify 24/7 to give it some boost for the next week.

    Does it really matter if I was here during the BTD era?

     

    I didn't start the comparison and of course they're not in the same league, that's perfectly clear.

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  22. Posted

    My problem with Love / BAR is that it sounds too manufactured.

    I mean, I loved Ultraviolence & Honeymoon because they were independant from what people was waiting. It was popy but not easy, it was atypical.

    But those two new songs are like syntheses of BTD, PARADISE, UV + HONEYMOON, for some kind of a fan-service strategy. And I deeply don't like it.

    As @Constentine says, Emile's samples are too much. It was cool on BTD / P because it was new, but so much years later, it don't feels like before. It's just some kind of uninspired deja-vu gadget.

     

    And in this two new songs I can't aim to localize the sounds. All the previous records was really warm, like seaside, west coasts hot vibes, or some times classy east coast vibes too. But here, it's not warm, but it's not cold. It's just some radio thing. And I can't see anything retro. I mean, a lot of people are saying there's something retro in "Love", but sorry, listen to real retro music, and there's nothing retro in Love. It just sounds like radio versions of LDR songs. Lyrics are really great, and I'm sure the songs could be great as f, but the actual production is really weak, uninspired and unrisky.

     

    I understood why Born To Die was that pop, and heavily produced, but in 2017 I don't understand that whole stepback thing.

    BTD and Paradise was uniques at their respective times. We don't need a third segment today.

    Hope the whole album will not be like that.

    I agree with you about the whole retro thing. If some stans listened to Ben E King, The Ronettes or Frankie Valli then they wouldn't be saying that. Tbh I didn't like love, it was basic and did not sound retro at all. But B A R is actually pretty good and to my liking.

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  23. Posted

    I dont think anyone knows for sure who Bill is, but I'm just gonna copy + paste what I posted in the post-release LDR5 thread:

     

    "Yes Bill, I will" -> trash magic

    "Billy's pick-up truck" -> Driving in cars with boys

    Hundred dollar BILL! (im starting to speculate about Bill being him, not a $ note)

    And every mention of a pick-up truck possibly being this Bill guys truck. (Kinda Outta Luck, Raise Me Up, Motel 6) cause these songs were recorded all around the same time right? 2007-2010

    Hmmm if they were the years she was with Bill, B.A.R. is a pretty damn emotional song cause that's been 7 years.

    And maybe Ur Girl is about him too, "I've been gone for 3 years, is that enough for you boy?" And Ur Girl was probably written in 2013, so...... 3 years after 2010

     

     

    I think I'll stop trying to figure this out cause im not going off very much evidence anyway :')

     

     

     

     

     

     People are saying both, so I don't know what to believe rn. Lets just hope the beeps arent in the real one :')

    Also in Super Movie she sings "But I think, I think it'd be good for you, Billy/

    You never want to do nothing anymore than die"

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