Beautiful Loser

You are royalty, too!

You are royalty, too!

It’s an honor just to be nominated by (and alongside) LB royalty… thanks king 

More nominations submitted. Sorry, tag don't work today
 
Best username: Shape of My Body, That Venice Bitch, Americen Whore, Dripping Peaches, Jimmyjimmycocoapuff
Best profile pic: Embach, Three White Butterflies, shadesofblue, Candy Necklace, Venice Peach
Nicest member: GeminiLanaFan
Biggest stan: Elle
Be My Daddy: Evergreen, Three White Butterflies
Performance of the Year: Unchained Melody - Graceland
Photoshoot of the Year: Skims
Iconic Moment of the Year: Marrying alligator tour guide + Halloween costume bonanza.
Look of the Year: Met Gala goth tree
Big Eyes Award for Best Artist: Billie Eilish 

I finally submitted my votes
 
I would love to be nominated for Veteran Member, alongside @Beautiful Loser @Rorman Nockwell @DCooper @sparklrtrailrheaven and @HeadBitch
 
I endorse @Daytona Beach Sparkler for Best New Member
 
@TrashMagiq for Funniest Member
 
@Pico Ocean Boulevard @American Whore @Future Jazz @Embach and @littleredpartydress for Best Taste
 
Thread of the Year should go to the wedding or Coachella night 1
 
For Performance of the Year, I think Primavera Sound Barcelona and especially Porto were phenomenal shows. I still watch the Porto one. Also Reading and Leeds. Coachella Night 1 only for how much of a monumental moment it was for her; the intro, the looks, the stage all that but the delivery itself felt hollow to me, it lacked the confidence and energy she had on later shows.
 
Photoshoot of the Year goes to the "I Love Sluts" one. It was super stylish and cool.
 
Leak of the Year... obviously Zodiac.

the free ticket thing? that was fake afaik

Us LanaBoardians are should’ve received those emails  (if they’re real)

Us LanaBoardians are should’ve received those emails  (if they’re real)

I haven’t seen anything? 

I think Coachella was really fun to experience from afar (online lol), the stage was so beautiful and it was really fun to see her enter and exit the stage on electric mini cars… and the jazzy outro! I love it.  

I think Coachella was really fun to experience from afar (online lol), the stage was so beautiful and it was really fun to see her enter and exit the stage on electric mini cars… and the jazzy outro! I love it.  

It made me cry, and I was certainty not the only one sniffling after it finished.

Wow, thank u @Beautiful Loser  ♥️

Fenway Park 2024 for sure!! It was so dramatic and quintessentially Lana. The red dress. Trying to find a stable stream. (Shout out to Nepo Daddy, Rod, and that one girl’s bf for pulling through. Lool) The storm. The people running to the barricade after. The fans singing Happy Birthday. Plus, the Tough live debut. 

One of my biggest favorite moments of 2024 was her attending the Super Bowl in February!!! Photos of her were all over the social media back then, I miss that moment so much 

Kinda gagged that they did Fingertips! 

This was phenomenal!

It’s out!

 
Listen to the concert here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/radiokoren-hyllar-lana-del-rey
Watch the concert here: https://www.berwaldhallen.se/play/dark-paradise-ett-portratt-av-lana-del-rey/
 
Setlist:
- Video Games
- Say Yes To Heaven
- Did you know that there´s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
— Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (Psalm 84)
— [Speech by conductor Hans Ek]
- Chemtrails over the Country Club
- West Coast
- A&W
- Love
- Burnt Norton (read by T.S. Eliot)
- Fingertips
— Charles Ives: Remembrance (A sound of a distant heart); Walt Whitman reads America 
— Charles Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
- Brooklyn Baby
- Get free
- Norman Fucking Rockwell (Slow down Version, Allen Ginsburg reads America)
- Dark Paradise
- Encore: Young and Beautiful


 
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!  

It’s out!

 
Listen to the concert here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/radiokoren-hyllar-lana-del-rey
Watch the concert here: https://www.berwaldhallen.se/play/dark-paradise-ett-portratt-av-lana-del-rey/
 
Setlist:
- Video Games
- Say Yes To Heaven
- Did you know that there´s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
— Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (Psalm 84)
— [Speech by conductor Hans Ek]
- Chemtrails over the Country Club
- West Coast
- A&W
- Love
- Burnt Norton (read by T.S. Eliot)
- Fingertips
— Charles Ives: Remembrance (A sound of a distant heart); Walt Whitman reads America 
— Charles Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
- Brooklyn Baby
- Get free
- Norman Fucking Rockwell (Slow down Version, Allen Ginsburg reads America)
- Dark Paradise
- Encore: Young and Beautiful


 
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!  

It’s out!

 
Listen to the concert here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/radiokoren-hyllar-lana-del-rey
Watch the concert here: https://www.berwaldhallen.se/play/dark-paradise-ett-portratt-av-lana-del-rey/
 
Setlist:
- Video Games
- Say Yes To Heaven
- Did you know that there´s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
— Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (Psalm 84)
— [Speech by conductor Hans Ek]
- Chemtrails over the Country Club
- West Coast
- A&W
- Love
- Burnt Norton (read by T.S. Eliot)
- Fingertips
— Charles Ives: Remembrance (A sound of a distant heart); Walt Whitman reads America 
— Charles Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
- Brooklyn Baby
- Get free
- Norman Fucking Rockwell (Slow down Version, Allen Ginsburg reads America)
- Dark Paradise
- Encore: Young and Beautiful


 
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!  

I think Coachella was really fun to experience from afar (online lol), the stage was so beautiful and it was really fun to see her enter and exit the stage on electric mini cars… and the jazzy outro! I love it.  

What were your favorite LDR moments of 2024?

 
Continuing this tradition since last year when I made a thread like this for 2023 as well!
 

It’s out!

 
Listen to the concert here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/radiokoren-hyllar-lana-del-rey
Watch the concert here: https://www.berwaldhallen.se/play/dark-paradise-ett-portratt-av-lana-del-rey/
 
Setlist:
- Video Games
- Say Yes To Heaven
- Did you know that there´s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
— Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (Psalm 84)
— [Speech by conductor Hans Ek]
- Chemtrails over the Country Club
- West Coast
- A&W
- Love
- Burnt Norton (read by T.S. Eliot)
- Fingertips
— Charles Ives: Remembrance (A sound of a distant heart); Walt Whitman reads America 
— Charles Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
- Brooklyn Baby
- Get free
- Norman Fucking Rockwell (Slow down Version, Allen Ginsburg reads America)
- Dark Paradise
- Encore: Young and Beautiful


 
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!  

A Super Deluxe Edition of an album is basically an album with fancy packaging which would include multiple discs of stuff. The original album plus demos, outtakes, extra tracks, live recordings, etc.
 
Would you want that? And if so, which album would you want it for the most? I would loveeee an SDE of Norman Fucking Rockwell.

I had to look up what "nectar of the gods" is and it seems to be the sweetest and most delicous drink or thing you can consume, and can literally mean food for (ancient Greek) gods. When looking at the previous line, "what cruel world is this?", she might be asking herself what kind of world this is to have something you can't stop yourself from having, which makes it cruel. Maybe we can think of it like candy - your tongue and brain loves it, but you know it's not good for you if you overconsume it. Perhaps this "nectar of the gods" is heroin, which she mentions in the next line.
Heroin is an opioid and makes you addicted. She knows it's not good for her, yet she can't stop herself from having it i.e. she's addicted. She may be taking heroin to relieve heartbreak and pain, since it can have similar effects to morphine, another opioid, or she may be taking it to create a rush while thinking of her lover.
The next line makes me think of Summertime Sadness ("cruisin' down the coast, goin' 'bout 99"), but I think she is describing the rush, the euphoric feeling from the drug ("racing at a million"). And she confirms that she can't stop using it - she's addicted.
Finally, she is saying that she wishes to talk with her lover but she is either making calls but it too scared to actually talk to him and hangs up, or she keeps calling him and he refuses to have a proper conversation and hangs up the phone.
 
 
She says that she loves him more than before ("like you never knew"), hinting that they're no longer a couple. Not being with him saddens her ("like the color blue") and maybe she's crossing lines just to show him how much she cares (like keep calling him on the phone and acting "fucking crazy" by doing that).
 
 
After a quick search, I found that Lana is referencing a song, Honey on the Vine, by Matt Monro. I listened to it, and it's a sweet, jazzy love song (from 1997?), and if we go back to the previous line, she might be asking what a world would be like if it had love like that. Maybe she's thinking back to her past, remembering when her world was sweet like that, and thinking that she no longer recognizes it today.
In the next lines, she's looking back to when she was still unknown and had grand dreams of her future. She dreamt of celebrities, namedropped singers, songwriters and artists in her own songs, imagining what it must be like to be one of them. Now, she knows what it means to be a celebrity and knows the backside of being one, and wonders why she even daydreamed of a life like this when she was young. Perhaps, her (ex-)lover is a musician too. ("I used to dream/sing about people like you")
 
 
She made it to California and Los Angeles ("home land of the gods" - or maybe the "gods" are movie stars, and movie stars are usually in LA), a place she'd been longing to experience and live at. Now that she is here, she kind of has fullfilled her goals, she has everything she dreamt of (well, except for love I suppose) so the question is... what left is there for her to have? What will her new goals in life be? She's feeling lost in the place she feels most at home and must find herself. Perhaps she's feeling lost if her (ex-)lover dumped her, and she's asking herself what she did wrong and is trying to find an answer.