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I've been thinking a lot about Lana and Feminism recently...and I've come to the conclusion that imo, Lana is not anti-feminist. In songs like Video Games, I don't think she is saying 'you are a man and therefore I do everything for you'. I think it's more 'I am in love with you and I do everything for you'; if Lana was lesbian, for example, I believe she'd still be giving off the same message. I think it's less about gender in Lana's songs, and more about being in love. She doesn't say 'I am a woman, I must be submissive', it's more 'I'm in love with you therefore I am submissive'. As well as that, is feminism not about equality between men and women? Feminism isn't about being an emotionless robot that's equal. If Lana feels this way, then surely it's detrimental to the feminist cause for feminists to state that she's being anti-feminist?

I know pretty much everyone hates Daddy Issues, but I adore the music of it. Lana's singing and the lyrics are utter shite in it, but the music itself is soooooo good. I would die for an instrumental.

if she doesn't have a title track or at least say the phrase ultraviolence in a song, I'm gonna scream

i usually just hit shuffle, so there isn't really a flow to this. these songs aren't necessarily related to summer, but they're songs that remind me of summer, usually because i first listened to them in july/august:

I listen to the whole of AKA on a road trip, along with: -Hollywood -Angels Forever, Forever Angels -Ride -Chelsea Hotel No. 2 -Born to Die -Blue Jeans -Video Games (Demo) -Without You -Million Dollar Man -Lucky Ones -Body Electric -Cola -Gods & Monsters -Burning Desire -Driving In Cars With Boys (Demo 1) -Butterflies (Part 1) -I Don't Wanna Go -You & Me -Your Band Is All The Rage -Young and Beautiful (Dan Heath Orchestral Version)

To me, I think it means they haven't left her as such, but as in they ignore or neglect her.

He has some sort of secret that the girl (Lana?????) doesn't know about. She also has dark secrets (skeleton = skeletons in the closet = an idiom that just means you have dark secrets), but he knows that she will never tell those secrets to people who abandon her and leave her alone. So basically they both have secrets, but she is more choosy over who she'll tell.

I like how defiant this song is compared to tracks from BtD. Whereas in songs like Without You, it was sort of pleae-don't-leave-me-i-will-die-without-you, this song is kind of you-love-me-but-i-don't-love-you-as-much

If you compare them to her earlier stuff like Drive By, for example, they're not *that* personal. I'm not saying that she's going to go back to the raw emotion of Sirens, but I can see what she means by making the next album more personal.

For the longest time, I thought it was 'need somebody, need somebody, need somebody, need somebody, need somebody c-c-come on' in Motel 6, so I always skipped over the song.

I have read the lyrics of Carmen! I just don't think they're amazing, for some reason. Maybe it's just that I can't relate to them. Ride is underrated! All I ever see is people complaining about how bad they think it is!

I don't hate Carmen, but I don't understand why people think it shows her to be a fantastic lyricist. Disco is too slow for me too. I love the May Jailer era, but Disco is just so slowwww and devoid. In The Sun was over hyped. You're Gonna Love Me is....odd, to say the least. Crooked Cop, Ride, Young and Beautiful, Heavy Hitter and Come When You Call Me (A.M.E.R.I.C.A.) are SO underrated.

I hope it's not like "it's a cruel world because you left me waaaaaaah" bc that got really repetitive on BtD and I hope she has evolved from that

I'm not very good at """flows""" or whatever, but I created a Lana playlist that reminds me of summer and relaxing. It's similar to a playlist I saw on here before, but I've adapted and changed it to make it more suited to me. It's untitled, as of yet. 1. Hundred Dollar Bill (Demo) 2. Chelsea Hotel No. 2 3. Stoplight De-lite 4. Black Beauty 5. Starry Eyed 6. Angels Forever, Forever Angels 7. Burning Desire 8. Young and Beautiful (Hotel Sayre Version) 9. Dayglo Reflection (Solo Version) 10. Television Heaven 11. Backfire 12. My Best Days 13. On Our Way 14. Never Let Me Go 15. Last Girl On Earth 16. Hit and Run (Demo) 17. Goodbye Kiss 18. West Coast :creep: 19. I Don't Wanna Go 20. TV In Black & White 21. You and Me

I always thought she would say Haters Anonymous, but I guess the production on it is too hard to sing live. Nnnnnhghhhh I hope she releases Part 2 soon. With Pretty Dull, Not Alright, at the minimum, on it.

Yes, this is exactly what I think! In NA, she was signing about being the Queen of Saigon, but now she is watching other girls be QoS. It's like she's taken a step back from the Born to Die era and is sort of singing about the era from an outsider's perspective.

When it first aired on Radio 1, Fearne asked for people's thoughts on it and some people said 'I don't like Lana del Rey but that song was really good'. It could do well on the radio, it's so different to anything playing ATM, which would make it easier to remember.

Hmmm.....seems a bit of a clichéd title to me. But then again, I was worried about WC from the title and that turned out to be absolutely fantastic, so this will hopefully have the same effect!

including kill kill, I would put it as: West Coast > Kill Kill (very very close second) > Ride > Born to Die

West Coast first! Mostly because of its uniqueness. Ride second, then Born to Die.

Hmm...well the common idiom is to 'paint the town red', which alludes to riotous behaviour, as red is danger. I'm guessing by using blue instead, she is suggesting sadness or melancholic feelings.

My personal belief is that she sings like a storyteller. In Boarding School, for example, she sings about being pro-anorexia alongside other serious things but I don't believe she honestly believes these things. She is a storyteller; she undergoes different people and different lives and tells stories. Half the stuff she sings about are unlikely to have even happened to her, but she is such a fantastic storyteller that she can sing in such excessive detail and make us believe it's truthful. Remember: Lana did say this album would be "unlistenable". She wasn't going to be simply singing about missing a lover, she was bound to stray into dangerous territory. Some of that may anger some of you, some of you may find it completely fine. Regardless of that, this is the reaction Lana wanted; she chose to sing about such dark topics to make the album more personal.

well she did say the album would be """""unlistenable"""""

Well, I made a playlist of all the stuff I consider her 'Surf Noir' era, with help from SitaHero's playlists:

I just listened to west coast then kill kill too good for words