HEARTCORE

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)

Well the secret part was clear to me from the beginning, but just like wtf people who keep her alone? People who neglect her? Guys who are on the road instead of being with her? Why do they keep her alone if they already left her??

 

I don't get it, I just don't get it.. but thanks anyway

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

"There's something she doesn't know about

A secret he doesn't show about

A sensitive sign on his arm, oh, my

She got her skeletons as well

Some secrets he knows she'll never tell

People who keep her alone"

 

Can somebody please translate this from Lana-language to proper English?  

Any guesses what it could mean?

 

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

When others told her the album needed to be "bigger and better" what do you think they meant?

Bigger, as in more commercially successful?

I can't think of something else...

And then she said no, it needs to be more personal.

How can that even be, Dark Paradise, BJ, VG, SS seem pretty damn personal to me....

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.

Have you tried reading the lyrics sweetie??

 

And how can Y&B and Ride be underrated??? All of her "fans" love them...

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

It's available

 

 

 

Notable:

- Seemed hesitant about B-sides part 2 until she saw that there were sooo many questions about it and then she said "I'll get it out somehow"

- She did a song with DIIV that will apparently never be released hmm

- I asked about Pretty Dull bc this is my mission and she said that she does want to release it and it has some of her favorite lyrics that she's written

- If she were to sing an As If song live it would be 99 Tears that's kinda cute

 

OMG it was on this system where viewers voted up questions and like top of the queue was a question about old material like Cobra with the most votes and then right before she got to it IT DISAPPEARED

 

Seems like full speed ahead with B-sides part 2 hopefully

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.

Also, did anyone else get a sense that there's a disconnection between Lana and some of her past themes besides the drinkin' lyric?

 

Like when she mentions the queens of Saigons and the groupies, she's no longer identifying herself with that, she's an outsider to the West Coast subculture, and yeah, she's curious about it all still, but she's so sucked into this free-bird, Cuban sweet-boy. Sure, they could be out doing what everyone in the West Coast is, but they're having their fun elsewhere.

 

I don't know, if that's how she meant to deliver some of those elements, I'd say that's a pretty big deal in the case of evolving artistically.

 

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.

Does someone know what

"Paint the town in blue"

mean in Serial Killer?

I've been listening a lot to that song in the past days and It always makes me wonder when I hear it

 

Context: (as if we didn't all know the words lol )

My black fire's burning bright,

Maybe I'll go out tonight.

We can paint the town

In blue.

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"""""

This is kinda a big question but yeah. Exactly how does Lana's genres work? From what I've understood there are three of them: Hollywood Sadcore, Surf Noir and Hawaiian Metal Glam. How do I know which song, especially unreleased, goes into which genre? I was thinking of a way to organize the unreleased songsI have (I have most, just not the most recent ones) and I figured it might be a good way to do it, but I honestly have no idea where to start, haha.

 

Obviously I'm new here, haha

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

National Anthem vs She's Not Me

it's being rush-released tomorrow in the UK because of popular demand and fantastic reception!!!!!! this could also mean a European release as well

when I heard her say 'golden', I was so sure that she was gonna say 'grill' after that

I love her Surf Noir era and this sounds so gooooood. AKA 2.0 pls