Make me your Dream Life

Let's count the three days til the pre and 2 tracks with our favorite math prof

Let's count the three days til the pre and 2 tracks with our favorite math prof

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

We need more gay shirtless fighting gifs round here. Bing em fast

In Lana's recent interview with Les Inrocks magazine, Lana mentioned that she'd be working on (the song) Lust for Life for a long time and that it had gone through phases even before she added Abel to the track 
 
"Of the blow, I have let myself go a little with the song Lust for Life… I have worked on it on multiple days a week for one and a half year. It has passed every stage, it has started with a futuristic and dark vein like Blade Runner. Also, I have decided to return to a radiant Shangri-La like style… After working for some months, Abel (The Weeknd) joined to add his part. This song became my baby, an unmanageable and maleficent baby which made me crazy. I quickly understood that this album would sound like a trip, a mix."
 
Due to the delay and the constant thematic changes we've seen between the trailer, music videos, album cover, and lyrical style, she has obviously made a lot of changes to the album as a whole. 
 
As far as the previous Blade Runner meaning to Lust for Life, as someone who loves + has studied science fiction, this is my analysis of what it might have resembled before she changed the theme around (although some elements, I suspect, still remain) 
 
From an older post in the iconic pre-release thread:
 
The line "They say only the good die young, that just ain't right" might refer to the fact that replicants had a limited lifespan, of only around four years" from wikipedia: " Late in the film, Dr. Eldon Tyrell states that the lifespan limitation cannot be circumvented, and any attempt to circumvent the limitation kills the replicant during the procedure."
 
But the lyrics defy this in a sense, in that Lana's "Lust for Life" will keep her alive. Although maybe the fact that in the video she kills herself (Abel is there with her) either implies that A. She might as well be happy in death with her beloved, and maybe there's a heaven after all or B. A common science fiction trope, somehow her and Abel were uploaded into some sort of computer simulation to live together forever (anyone seen Black Mirror?) 
 
A video parallel between the movie: it's in the eyes. The Lust for Life video begins with a zoom out from space, into the depths of Lana's eyes (and psyche), and then to her face mid surrealist performance in blue space 
 


 

 
The digital distortion of the video is also reminescent of the cyberpunk dystopian aesthetic not only imagined by authors like Philip K. Dick (who came up with the original story for Blade Runner in his book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" but also authors like William Gibson (Neuromancer) and Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon, which is getting a Netflix series soon)
 
 
quick thought: I always thought this motion looked particularly forced + robotic, but maybe it's not. I discussed this a bit with @roctab in the main thread, how the scifi theme parallels how she, in real life, wants to break away from her "programming" (ie the script that she was told to follow to garner fans and impress the general public) and escape to a place where the "world is hers"

 
Anyway, my conclusion is this
 
 
Robots

 
Other than that, what other inspirations and themes do you think Lana cycled through for this era. I know that The Love Witch HAS to be one of theme, especially with the trailer, but I'm not an expert on the occult so maybe there are better contributions there that are not my own.  
 

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

Yes it does

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

With Ross Butler (there's a video of Lana on his Instagram story if you rewatch the livestream)

bitch i  c a c k l e d  

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRWs1QB7SCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3seOeNTYHo

Who's gonna call mr clean to clean all of this?

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

Hagrid, Witchy Lana is back on the table. 
 
I honestly don't know. I like how she smizes in the photo bc of familiar territory tho

Who's gonna call mr clean to clean all of this?

thats a cute placement for change there 
 
im watchin u

im not taking any change slander

yall are out here arguing over snippets when i'm still not over the fact that best american bible has been left off of the album
 

What is happening here

Am I the only one who gets lowkey Maha Maha vibes from Groupie Love? 

As long as we get Summer Bummer next week, it's all peachy
 

I wonder what new merch she'll have.

Am I the only one who gets lowkey Maha Maha vibes from Groupie Love?