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this song is reminds me of Boarding School in the way that it glamorises drug abuse. in both songs, Lana sings in a cheery, girlish voice that makes you forget the true nature of what she's singing about. it's only when you REALLY listen to the lyrics that you realise how wrong the song is. the song works so well as the end of the deluxe imo cause most of the songs before it are all about how Lana is rejected and emotionally drained by her boyfriend's drug addiction, but with this song, it's kind of like she's succumbed to the addiction - she's no better than her pill-popping boyfriend now. Lana's so clever.

Is it me or does the ending (where she's like 'ohhhhhhh you're crazy for me) sound like the aftermath of a sexual climax? The verses, chorus and loud instruments represent the passion of sex, whilst the sudden 'drop' at the end is sort of after the climax.

I had a really fucked up dream a few days ago that Pat & Rob had been brutally murdered by someone and Lana was recovering from the attack in hospital. Then she died and loads of newspapers were talking about jt. It was really fucked up and sad. I'm glad it was just a dream.

That was such an interesting read! I really like the way you analyse her lyrics, you're very perceptive. I'd LOVE it if you did BtD & Paradise too!

@@FormerLanaFan grow the fuck up. not everyone shares the same views as you and you have to deal with that. you can't just stick your head in the sand and completely ignore Lana simply because her sexual views do not match yours (which, I must admit, are stringently misogynistic). don't you dare criticise other people's views and deem them inferior. if a person doesn't see sex as being as sacred as religion tells us, so fucking what? how on earth does that make them morally inferior? why must someone's sexual liberation be negative? and, really, other people's sexual preferences shouldn't affect your life. if the way that other people live makes you so upset that you refuse to associate with them, then i have to say that you must live a very sad life.

this song is so great and carefree

because she's had sex with multiple guys??? because she doesn't necessarily see sex as being such a serious thing??? this is the 21st century, why should her sexual experiences affect your opinion of her as a person? if she wanted to 'fuck her way to the top', that shouldn't mean she's a lesser person. sex means different things to different people. don't judge her because her views don't match yours.

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?????? because it's so lyrically beautiful. I mean, Dear Elliot is just so heartbreaking: "Are we just dust on the floor again? I thought we were on the mend"

I think it's about how you see Lana's upper half in all the covers; from her head to roughly her torso.

this bit makes me laugh so much bc i can imagine the interviewer asking her really seriously why she covered TOW and then lana just breaks out with 'da othaaa womannnnn has timeeee to manicurree ha naillsssss' lol

I know that Marina said she doesn't want a Vevo because then she'll lose creative control over her videos. It might be the same reason with Charli.

So in the recent Complex magazine interview, which you can read here, the interviewer asked 'What defines being in a good place?', to which Lana responded: "Feeling really happy and just circumstantially like nothing’s going wrong, which becomes more difficult but that’s only my experience. I think a lot of people think the whole thing is really great. Making Brooklyn my home base for the last two and a half weeks has really helped me out, like I’ve actually started thinking conceptually that I have this addition, an addition to this record that could come really easily. That hasn't happened in a long time. Not since I wrote that Paradise addition to Born to Die, which I really loved." Could this mean a re-release of Ultraviolence with extra tracks, a la 'Born to Die: The Paradise Edition'? Thanks to DelReyLane on twitter for pointing this out!

I don't think he ever bashed Lana. Fake Boobs is about himself, not Lana. Daddy Paid My Way Up To The Top is a reference to false claims that Rob Grant paid Lana's way to stardom. It's just harmless fun, TOSTB is not trying to make Lana look like shit. If anything, I'm pretty sure Lana would laugh along too.

Being a fan doesn't mean you have to love everything an artist does. I love Lana and her music so much, but I find that there are so many things that I critique about her (eg. the slut shaming in Fucked My Way). Same with Marina - Girls was a problematic song and I recognise that. It doesn't make you any less of a fan if you critique someone - it means that you realise that they are human and are susceptible to making mistakes. Besides, it's not as if TOSTB is really criticising Lana; he's just poking harmless fun at her. If he was saying 'Lana is shit she's a fake bitch I hate her she can't sing', then that would be unfair. There's a fine line between talking shit and harmless teasing/critiquing and in this case, I don't think that that boundary has been crossed.

i think this is the most misinformed and incorrect post i have ever read on this website

"Could not handle @@lanadelrey's beauty tonight. She is 1 of the true beauty queens. Listen to her music. Love u, gf." "@@marinasdiamonds How's My Girl?" "@@marinasdiamonds thinking of you today. Happy New Years" #larinaisREAL

the title 'Everything is Bullshit' kinda makes me think that it's a diss track about EiE???? like that was the song that put her on the map and it sorta sounds like it's dissing that. sky seems like the kind of person who would outright say 'it's not real', which makes me think that jt'ys a real title, if not a recorded song.

Huge fan of both (prefer Marina but whatever). They shouldn't collab however, their vocals and lyrics are far too different from one another. Marina often sings about being strong in love whereas Lana sings as a weaker person. Just wouldn't work out. It was in a radio interview, she talked about the songs she likes to listen to daily and mentioned Teen Idle as being one of them. They've also tweeted each other occasionally.

I'D LIKE TO APOLOGISE TO THE WHOLE OF LANABOARDS FOR MY BLASPHEMOUS POST, I RECENTLY FELL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND NOW I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND AND LOVE THE ALBUM so yeah. but uv is still superior imo.

I think Money Power Glory and a shortened version of Brooklyn Baby would work as singles. The Other Woman would be a good promo single imo.

Why should it be about sales or commercial success? I don't beliwve Lana ever intended to get higher sales than BtD with UV. She created Ultraviolence with the idea of creating good music, not gaining worldwide success; she already has that. An album's worthiness should not be measured by its place on the charts.

I know that the official name for AKA is Lana Del Ray, but do we know what pseudonym she released it under? Like, was the album by Lizzy Grant or Lana Del Ray?

'For K Part 2' is a real title, which implies that a Part 1 must exist also. However, we don't actually know which track Part 1 actually is, although it's speculated to be the track sometimes called 'Pretty Baby' on Sirens, due to the repetition of the phrase 'pretty baby' in both songs. Before the leak of Quiet Now and From The End, the song 'Drive By' was referred to as 'For K Part 1', but we now know this to be false.

The "demo" version of Trash Magic has the verses of The Man I Love, followed by the chorus from Trash Magic. Like I said before, they're both so different from each other that it makes me hesitant to believe it's a legit demo - I think that the the idea that Lana put them together for another reason/it's fanmade is far more plausible.