radiodasirius

beauty queen 

apparently she followed someone at NASA the other day and blake posted about performing at an award ceremony. then this just showed up on tumblr
 

 
so random. the fuck is she doing there? negotiating a trip back to her home planet? spiting her rival? fucking an astronaut on the side? pls post more pics and videos when / if they become available!

You guys are crazy! I laughed the whole thing about this guy...
Here my impressions: If there's anything i have learned in this past 2 years is: trust no Lana!  
 
Lana is a writter, but i don't think it's fair to judge her lyrical talent just because this hot-gay-guy says he had wrote some of her lyrics. She has tons of lyrics, and as a musician/writter i think it's ok to have help, in call to make it more perfect. Like a diamond, the beauty is there but needs some help to be improved, to perfectly shine. 
Lana is a diamond.
 
By the way, he is such an attention whore, but that doesn't mean he can't work with her.
 
Here standing for Braking my Heart, any way!
 

I think Shaun Ross ruined it for me. He can't act and he just disturbed me the entire time. I didn't understand a thing going on... I get that it's the Tale of Redemption, but I need to see how that applies to Lana. Otherwise it just seems like a badly acted, weird short movie. Is this about her time in Alabama? Idk I need to speculate. I think I should've watched in chunks.
 
The whole time I thought the two strippers with Jack's party.. I thought one of them was Lana even Perez Hilton commented on "Lana's" rack in the scene.. but I guess it's not her?

I thought the aliens represented that they needed a different force to take them to "Bel Air," that they couldn't rely on the God(s) they had offended/betrayed/idk. Finding a new sort of spirituality, I guess.
 
The whole part between G&M and Bel Air where they're throwing their stuff away and exchanging their black clothes (sin!!!) for white ones (purity!!!) shows abandonment of old ideals. The water scenes = baptism (into a new religion? hence the aliens?).
 
It was very choppy on my laptop so I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. I found myself getting frustrated by some of the poetry and pretty scenes because at times it felt like nothing was really going on and she wanted to fill the space with pretty words and pictures. Overall, it was okay. The aspect ratio...
 
Elvis's reactions were gold, though. I know it's not supposed to be a comedy but someone give that Elvis impersonator a high five.

Just noticed the Nike product placement. Lol. 

New outtakes:
 
 

Like some others, I have some problems with slowness and dependence on pretty looks in parts (e.g., the Bel Air sequence), and it is as much a poetry video as a music video, which is to say she may be more interested in the poems and visuals than the music. Still I've watched 3 times and not really bored by it. The strongest, I think, is the Body Electric intro and sequence, which to me is just brilliant (and not just because of the snake scene). In a universe where John Wayne is God, Lana being Eve is perfectly sensible. I predict criticism will be coming for putting Jesus in the context of pop culture icons, but that's just Lana (and the BE song tbh). 
 
The monologue after the Body Electric sequence is derived from Walt Witman's Body Electric, not surprisingly. Although I couldn't find it in the credits. Maybe an oversight on her part, or maybe we're all assumed at this point to know that Whitman's gonna happen there.  
 

 
I'm particularly struck by these lines (in fact at the end scroll all the way down):
 
The thin red jellies within you, or within me—the bones, and the marrow in the bones,
The exquisite realization of health;
O I say, these are not the parts and poems of the Body only, but of the Soul,
O I say now these are the Soul!
 
This is profoundly unChristian, of course, yet she is Christian (of course). As the monolog happens after corruption (via the apple), it's uncertain (for me) whether @@Ultraviolence attribution to Whitman--
"Man will then be reborn through this glorification of his body, for the human body is as sacred as the spirit."-- actually applies to the video meaning. But my point is not to say that he's wrong but just that the interpretation is uncertain for me. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. On the idea that the body monologue is an effect of biting the apple, LDR and SR could be dead at the end (aka beautiful spirits) and going to heaven, so Bel Air would actually be a song about dieing (and a fundamentally Christian song). Wouldn't be the first time characters died in an LDR video.

I thought it was a wallet, as in getting rid of her old identification and starting over.

I LOVED ALL OF IT WAS A MASTERPIECE TOODALOO BEL AIR WAS My FAV VISUALLY BUT GODS AND MONSTERS HAD ME ROLLING IN HEAT BC LANA AND STRIPPING AND AM I LESBIAN NOW IDK HAVE TO TALK TO MYSELF IN THE MIRROR TONIGHT BC I GOT TURNED ON SO MANY TIMES BY HER ANYWAYS NOT THE POINT BEL AIR WAS BEAUTIFUL I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT LIKE TRANSPARENT AND THE ENDING WAS WEIRD WAS IT A HALLUCINATION DID THEY DIE LIKE WHAT AND BODY ELECTRIC LIKE GIVE ME THAT BODY ELECTRIC HONAY SHE BRANG OUT THOSE MOVES AND I CAUGHT THE NATIONAL ANTHEM ESQUE PART WHEN SHE WAS DANCING WITH SHAUN IN THE LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN AND I SAW HER DRINKING COLA AND SOME PARTS REMINDED ME OF LIZZY TOODALOO I CAN LIVE HAPPILY I AM NOT OVERREACTING AT ALL I ILOVED IT 

Hahaha I think those are the parts I found the most hilarious, right there with the slow-mo dancing. I love the idea behind the video though (thanks people in this topic for making it even clearer!) I'm sure it must've been beautiful in Lana's mind. The video doesn't really do it justice to me but I guess that's hard. One scene I enjoyed (well, split bits of the scene that were sadly too few) was the one in the trailer (?) drinking cola and living the simple life, it was sweet but again I couldn't focus because it was really all over the place. You'd think in 27 mins they'd have had time
 
o this isn't the favourite scene thread carry on 

I get the whole plot of TROPICO but... WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALIENS DOING THERE?! Look extremely fake.

The way I saw it was that the garden of eden represented her early childhood, everything was beautiful, she was surrounded by the icons that would go on to shape her life, then by a decision she consciously made, she left all that behind with the man she loved, she cast herself into chaos and did what she had to in order to survive. the ending scene is when she finally arrived at the point where she wanted to be. She cast off the black lingerie and reached paradise, but not the same paradise as her childhood, this one is different, she knows more, she's not as innocent, she's learned from her mistakes and she's found her place in life.

A few disjointed thoughts about the film, which on a whole, I enjoyed.
 
1. I enjoyed the way they danced during Body Electric. Watching them dance wasn't like watching people dance in the club or ballroom, but almost its own hybrid. It looked natural like they didn't care who watched, just what their bodies felt like doing. The way they moved showed how curious they were about the world and their bodies.
 
2. It seemed like John was the central figure on Eden. Was he supposed to be the "God" (and Jesus his son??? idk lol).
 
3. Adam and Eve seemed centered on one big sin for their story lines. Eve- lust and Adam- wrath. This seemed to make sense to me, because Marilyn was promoting sexuality and John violence (or rather more defense I suppose) and Adam and Eve sinned by blowing those two traits out f proportion.
 
4. The ending is the only part that confuses me. When they began floating were those things in the sky supposed to be UFOs? if so kinda wtf or were they thunder clouds?
 
5. Elvis' reactions to everything. it killed the mood for me.

I think Shaun Ross ruined it for me. He can't act and he just disturbed me the entire time. I didn't understand a thing going on... I get that it's the Tale of Redemption, but I need to see how that applies to Lana. Otherwise it just seems like a badly acted, weird short movie. Is this about her time in Alabama? Idk I need to speculate. I think I should've watched in chunks.
 
The whole time I thought the two strippers with Jack's party.. I thought one of them was Lana even Perez Hilton commented on "Lana's" rack in the scene.. but I guess it's not her?

I think Shaun Ross ruined it for me. He can't act and he just disturbed me the entire time. I didn't understand a thing going on... I get that it's the Tale of Redemption, but I need to see how that applies to Lana. Otherwise it just seems like a badly acted, weird short movie. Is this about her time in Alabama? Idk I need to speculate. I think I should've watched in chunks.
 
The whole time I thought the two strippers with Jack's party.. I thought one of them was Lana even Perez Hilton commented on "Lana's" rack in the scene.. but I guess it's not her?

OMG guys, thanks for having a great conversation with me! This was really interesting to see other peoples opinions and thoughts about it cause I've been thinking about it for a while. I'm actually being currently raised in the Protestant faith. However, while my mom thinks looking attractive is important, she definitely downplays anything too flashy and definitely demeans things as shallow or a lot of things that could be considered beautiful as unimportant because they are only skin deep. It's weird, we dress up for church and I feel weirdo walking into church every Sunday dressed up so much, but then sitting in the pews dressed in your finery you feel important and you feel like you are in a beautiful situation.

Can't at the whiny comments. I think it's great. 

I see it like this:
 
The Garden of Eden = Paradise = L.A. (the way she expected it to be)
 
Lana said that The Garden of Eden turned into the Garden of Evil, which is the Land of Gods and Monsters, which is L.A.
Remember the line in "Radio" where she sings: "Now I'm in LA and it's Paradise"
I think the Garden of Eden represents the way Lana imagined it Hollywood/LA to be with Marilyn, Elvis, etc. all being part of it.
She looses her innocent and childish view of it as soon as she's confronted with the truth, she basically took a bite of the truth. Her eyes were opened.

i could honestly write so much about tropico but i have so many feelings about it that i cant even put it into words. but lana has never looked so hot damn   i loved it. truly a work of art

There was no Marylin, Elvis, John in the Bible either, was there? Not everything has to be just like in the bible. 

Not a fan of it.. I'm happy she got to complete her vision but I think- maybe with another director ?- it could have been done better, and not so damn LITERALLY.  There was so much more artistry in Born To Die, for example and the Blue Jeans vid- for me. 
 
It was odd how after her fall from grace led her to hanging out with Latinos.. I could see that causing some outrage.  
 
Also, she recited some of those last stanzas in ISTBE- holiness of the human vessel and what not- the body is the soul.. I wonder if she really believes that? I get the hedonistic pov but I do wonder what she's trying to say.   
 
I really don't know what to think still.. lol.. I was pulling for Shaun Ross but I don't think he fit the video whatsoever. (That choreography was cringe worthy) Even Charlie would have been a better choice, and we all know Lana is fine w/ kissing siblings.

I had to stop watching it. These people are acting ridiculous. I'll never understand why people won't realize if you behave and act like a human being you will get your stuff signed and more will be accomplished. They are acting like one direction or bieber fans. so embarrassing.

THAT'S SO CUTE.