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https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/93042729055035392
This is it I think. Someone just translated it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCGptVzqVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCGptVzqVU

Can't find my other thread with all my other posters [maybe a mod can merge them?] but here is a new song poster i made...
 
My deviantart page and other Lana works... http://phatboyart.deviantart.com/gallery/36837171
 

I don't buy for a single second that American is about Barrie. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Dude's white af, his skin certainly isn't 'golden brown'. He also doesn't seem like the type of guy who'd listen to Crystal Method or drives fast around LA flirting with random girls, he actually seems like the exact opposite of that. 
 
 
And am I the only one who thinks Bel Air is simply about / inspired by Axl Rose? It's full of GnR references (run to heavens gates, sweet child of mine, idol of roses iconic soul) & this line - You've got a flair for the violentest kind of love anywhere out there - also fits. Besides, well, it wouldn't be the first time she wrote about him, would it?

I mostly agree with Lorde about how mainstream music glamourize a lifestyle of opulence that is not even close of what people can afford it – and it is very sick to think that people can’t really relate to it but somehow are obsessed with this lifestyle. But I think that Lana has a very different take on this subject.
 
Lana sings as someone who lived a life of opulence but she doesn’t associate this with happiness - she is all about the dark side of the “American dream”. She sings “Everything I want I have: money, notoriety and Rivieras” in a song called Without You and she claims that all this “it means nothing if I can’t have you”.  Children of the Bad revolution, Carmen and National Anthem are songs that portray the tragic consequences of a life involved with opulence. Differently of a rapper who manage to sing about how life is fucking amazing now he has a new car, in her songs Lana plays the *miss America* girl who had everything  and done it all, she drove the rights cars, wore the right clothes  but she not is satisfied and found love in a doomed relationship. So I would not really include Lana as an artist who glamourize money.
 
Like Lorde, mostly people are really confused by Lana because she doesn’t have really a statement about this:  for some, lyrics like “money is the reason we exist” makes her a shallow girl and for others she is actually criticizing our society. It seems that nowadays either we are pro or against something, either you are the girl who sings about Hamptons or the girl who makes fun of it, there is no midterm anymore. But Lana is just someone really aware of all aspects of her own life, she doesn’t really have a massage, she is not really trying to change the game, she is just telling her story through music. That’s it. 

Being a feminst to me is believing women should have the freedom to do/say what they want, equal opportunities, etc without being bound to judgement or expectation because of their sex..
 
Like does anyone pick up on the lyrics male musicians sing about? Most of the time they are a lot more superficial than Lana. Lana sings about feelings and relationships and a lot of people relate to her...idek.
 
 

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The fact that some people are agreeing with that quote about Lana singing about the Hamptons and Buggati Veyron annoys me because it really misses the whole point of "National Anthem". She isn't singing about how much she loves the Hamptons and driving expensive cars. She's clearly playing a character of a girl who's using a rich guy to get her fame and money. And those mentions are just additions to the history.
I mean, "Money is the reason we exist/Everybody knows it /It's a fact/Kiss kiss". Those lyrics are obviously tongue-in-cheek.

I think about lana re: feminism a lot tbh and I had a revelation recently. While lana definitely portrays a relationship in which she is submissive, or at least a woman who prefers to be dominated, I feel like there's a real sex positive message in her songs that's kind of lacking in pop music as a whole.
 
Obviously sex is not an untouched topic in music, by male or female artists. Something I have noticed from female singers in particular is that sex is almost always sung about with love. The two seem to appear mutually exclusive, you know? Like, you cannot possibly have sex without being in love with the person you had sex with. It's also often referred to as "love making" which has always struck me as the kind of euphemism you would use in front of your parents. It makes sex seem so dirty and inappropriate. This is where I think lana differs slightly. She fucks for love but she also fucks for pleasure. She fucks because she wants it and she fucks for this grand opulent persona she's built around herself. She does not let this make her a whore or reduce her femininity in any way and tbh I think that's pretty cool~

I agree with a big part of what you said, but I don't think she was trying to be controversial tbh. If anything, she was trying to be politically correct by saying something *a lot * of people strongly believe in these days. I think it's kinda sad that a portion (because not all of it is like this, not by any means) of the feminist movement is less about true empowerment & telling women it's ok to make their own choices, and more about dictating how a feminist & empowered woman should behave and be like, and trying to impose those views on all other women regardless of how they actually feel about them.
 
This pretty much sums up my opinion on what I just said:
 

 
It sure as hell wasn't right when men did it, and it's still not right when women do it either.
 
 
About what Lorde said: imo (and like I said before in that status) that's an invalid criticism when it comes to music or any other type of art. I don't think artists should 'moderate' themselves or 'rethink' what they want to sing or write about because of a potential copy-cat effect on their audience. She didn't lie though, the drug-loving, adulterous & men-dependent lifestyle Lana sings about & seems to be fascinated with isn't exactly the healthiest in the world; however, and even though she eventually became a role model (even if she never wanted it, she didn't have a choice), Lana is first and foremost a musician & imo her primary concern while writing music can't be 'oh dear, how negatively will this influence my fans?'.

We have sex every friday night
Screaming and moaning to the pale lampshade light
Your bed breaks, pussy too tight
Mary's screeching in horror for my broken mind
(Said you're going to hell girl)
 
My pussy still smells like you
All our sextapes say that you're still hung

I think I read somewhere that he'd used a live performance because it was the closest he could get to an a capella version (and you definitely shouldn't ).

I love that the remixer used her vocals from the Jools Holland performance (and not sure if I should feel weird for recognizing it right after the vocals started)

I think the fact that the Daily Mail makes a big deal out of this shows to me why she's living in America. No tabloid trash to deal with in LA.

Can this be an emoticon please?
 

This shot in the National Anthem video

This shot in the National Anthem video

This shot in the National Anthem video