La Dolce Vita

I do too. Something else I really love about it is its placement on the record. It comes right after the brooding outro of Heroin: Heroin - "I hope that I come back one day To tell you that I really changed, baby Makes me feel like I can change all of my evil ways and shit" Change - "Change is a powerful thing, people are powerful beings Change is a powerful thing, I feel it coming in me"

I absolutely love her drunken swearing on Cherry- wouldn't change it for anything. I just feel it imbibes the cherries & wine lyric perfectly. It's chaotic, sexy and raw- a fucked up love concoction.

I hear "Oh my God, dizzy from loving you" rather than "Did it from loving you" - anyone else? The latter doesn't make sense to me.

Gorgeous. It's cool how part of the message of Change correlates with Heroin. Especially since both are next to one another on the tracklist: Heroin - "I hope that I come back one day To tell you that I really changed, baby Makes me feel like I can change all of my evil ways and shit" Change - "Change is a powerful thing, people are powerful beings Change is a powerful thing, I feel it coming in me" I think the imagery in Pink Floyd's video for Goodbye Blue Sky fits Change perfectly too:

Such a fucking tearjerker. I love how evocative it is- it reads like a sepia tinted film. Look after the person you love. I visualized Tittenhurst Park when she mentioned a country house & the chorus brought this photo session of John & Yoko to mind: This is the second time Lana has mentioned Lay Lady Lay- the first being Religion. It's so interesting how many references may be/are in this song: "Tiny Dancer" - Elton John "Lay Lady Lay" - Bob Dylan "Ask Me Why" - The Beatles Even the title could be a love letter to "Tomorrow Never Comes" by Elvis, "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, or "Tomorrow May Never Come" by Yoko.

Made me cry. It's so atmospheric and achingly beautiful. The strings & melancholic verses serving as the calm before the storm before that killer chorus...wow. Amazing poetry.

It doesn't really resonate with me but I love the beautiful countermelody. I also love the continuity these verses have: Groupie Love - "My babe made me sing to a fire escape City girl but she grew up in the tri-state" God Bless America - "I hear the sweetest melodies On the fire escapes of the city"

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The guitar at the beginning of When The World Was At War reminds me of Pennyroyal Tea by Nirvana @ Unplugged. God I fucking love how it blooms into that climactic production w/ Lana's falsetto over the top of it.

I love the lavish strings that sweep alongside the soaring harmonies during the chorus.

The opening monologue is: "...That's what it is Something separates me from other people And what will I do? There's something blocking my escape..." It's derived from an old horror flick called Carnival of Souls (1962). David Lynch has cited it as one of his biggest inspirations. I just finished watching it- dope movie laden with a purgatorial theme. 1:14:10 - The main character in the film is continuously haunted by a legion of ghouls- they won't leave her the fuck alone. It explores the metaphysical terrain of a nightmare and its main trope is paranoia which reminded me of what Lana said regarding the video for High By The Beach. The movie also ends on a beach which dovetails with Lana's narrative for 13 Beaches. I can't wait to hear this song in full! Love u Lana.

The gas station featured in the album booklet is Jack Colker's Union 76 if anyone was wondering- it is known for its space age design which fits with the retrofuturism theme Lana has been expressing interest in. I also love that it's situated on a place called Crescent Drive. It ties everything together.

Love that red is a motif on this album. Cherries, wine, sangrias, roses, blood. Reminded me of how she told Courtney that she'll need to relinquish the red.

Fuck yeahhh. So damn good. I think it's "Cut a rug" by the way. That phrase was used a lot when referring to the jitterbug- a dance that was especially popular throughout WWII.

It wasn't Lana's fault. You know how annoyed she gets when the audio feedback is fucked up at her own shows, let alone festivals- the gig at Chula Vista rings a bell. Radiohead walked off during their set at Coachella twice due to technical difficulties. These things happen sometimes unfortunately.

That reminded me of the movie from the '50s starring James Mason and Ava Gardner. The Flying Dutchman is depicted as a man in the film, not a ship. Once every seven years, he is allowed ashore for six months at a time to search for a woman who will love him enough to die for him.

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It's Neil Young.

Lana looks lovely. Her outfit reminds me of Jackie Kennedy's pink Chanel suit.

Sisters Of The Moon.

Quoting Invictus added a profoundly beautiful layer to the song. It shows where she's at now in comparison to where her mind was in Prisoner- from indulging in an appetite for destruction and having bouts of cabin fever while living in Hollywood to breaking down the cycle little by little. Some lines made me think of Tony/Elvira ("the world is mine") & Gatsby/Daisy ("green lights forever").The breezy vamping piano playing in the background during the chorus sounds amazing- a little reminiscent of the keys used at the beginning of The Sun Died by Ray Charles.

I think she's standing in front of the same pickup that we see in Love. Both Chevys- different years. The truck featured on Born to Die was released in '56. The one in Love has a different grill + twin headlights. Maybe '58-'59.

She's so gorgeous, like a pretty little flowerchild. Love it, what a doll.

I like American Money & 10,000 Pools. They're dopeeeee. She's listening to him here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BJLhpebD4uj/

I wonder if that symbol is actually Mercury rather than the moon- Mercury Records perhaps?