War In My Mind

I wrote an analysis on Violets for Roses on the lyric thread, so if you like that kinda ish please tip your waitress

Yes and yes

This is slowly becoming a favorite track of mine so I wanted to a close reading of the lyrics. Hopefully, you enjoy and remember this is my interpretation of the song. The first line of the song echoes her song “Change” where she begins the song with “There’s something in the wind, I can feel it blowin’ in”, whereas in “Change” the song is eerie and is anticipating change, be it good or bad, in “Violets for Roses” the song immediately indicates that the/a change has already occurred, and we see it in the next two lines. Masks off and running happy, references the freedom (from COVID also making this song hyper-contemporary), but perhaps this is not necessarily true in the real world, since COVID is still running wild, it again echoes the album’s tone of the freedom and joy found in family. The second “stanza” or pre-chorus makes explicit another change that has occurred—a breakup. However, unlike most break-up songs, this is neither an angry declaration nor a sad one, rather a happy one. The freedom that comes with breaking-up with someone because you can reallocate the love back to yourself. Perhaps from a relationship so toxic that you forget who you are and what you like, highlighted by the first line, “ever since I fell out of love with you, I fell back in love with me.” In the chorus, there is the infamous line, “you made me trade my violets for roses,” a line perhaps not popular with the community but one that is nonetheless metaphorically symbolic. “Roses” have been known in poetry to represent love since medieval prose poetry. Similarly, violets are no stranger to Lana Del Rey’s own poetry (see: Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass). While in the titular poem, Violet is a child of seven-years old, it could be argued that Violet is a personification of her own desires. The poem’s first stanza is a contemplation of everything she wants to do which is clashed with the presence of Violet in the second stanza: and saw Violet bent backwards over the grass 7 years old with dandelions grasped tightly in her hands arched like a bridge in a fallen handstand grinning wildly like a madman with the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring waiting for the fireworks to begin Her seeing Violet, carelessly enjoying her life, leads the poetess to let her own worries go: and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything forever. Other than the clear intertextuality with her own oeuvre, Violets are also known to be compared to roses in the well-known poem: Roses are red, violets are blue Sugar is sweet, and so are you. This poem, like Del Rey’s song, puts “violets” and “roses” in immediate contrast. The switching of placement in the chanteuse’s song, structurally emphasizes her identification with “violets” or her own desires, her own identity, with “roses” which represent love. Thus, “you made me trade my violets for roses,” is a confession, “you made me trade myself, my values, my joy for love.” A sentiment that harkens back to Del Rey’s third full-length album Honeymoon and the song “Terrance Loves You” where she confesses this pattern, “I lost myself, when I lost you”. The rest of the chorus’ lyrics echo these sentiments. About a lover who made her sacrifice each aspect of her individuality (be it cars, toenail polish) in negotiation for love. The chorus ends with a declaration that any love that forces a woman to do this, is a doomed one. The stanza that serves as the songs bridge repeats some of the lyrics from the first stanza of the song, but with this time a declaration of hope that this change is permanent. At first, the change being understood as this love for herself and the joy she finds in the everyday. While once again echoing perhaps the civil unrest that she first mentions in “Text Book” the opening track of Blue Banisters. Thus, with these final lines of this verse, the change she is mentioning is both the love she has for herself, but the change in society, macro and micro changes. The final pre-chorus sees the singer re-embracing things that she used to love before she fell in love, “I fell back in love with the streets” and “I breakdance to the beat” and “God, does it sound sweet, like it’s playing just for me”. All sentiments reinforced by the final chorus and the outro which reaffirm the toxicity that love can have and that it is important to stay yourself and not to sacrifice what you love about yourself in order to be loved, in doing so you’ll find that that person forcing those sacrifices does not love you but loves controlling you. In the final lines of the outro, Lana is watching the girls again but seeing in them her own mask is now off, that toxic love, and it makes [her] so happy.

My Fedex shipping ID for the Vinyl has updated to a tomorrow delivery. We did it joe. Cant wait to see the Blue cover with yellow vinyl in person.

Not the Arcadia slander. It's okay I'll save you baby girl 1. Text Book 16 2. Blue Banisters 15 3. Arcadia 14 (+1) 5. Black Bathing Suit 21 6. If You Lie Down With Me 20 7. Beautiful 13 8. Violets for Roses 18 9. Dealer 16 10. Thunder 17 11. Wildflower Wildfire 17 12. Nectar of the Gods 16 13. Living Legend 16 14. Cherry Blossom 11 (-1) 15. Sweet Carolina 14

the aesthetic is her backyard

I think it will be the American classics/standards record

So I'm stanning Ajayy's review of Blue Banisters The textbook love! Taste!

Well I think it was filmed yesterday, at least based on the posts from the set that Lana posted on the Honeymoon account

But we knew it wouldnt be a live performance. She just IG lived from a hotel in California and isnt the Colbert show filmed in NYC. ED: if it were california it would be called the afternoon show innit

If it is, it's a different recording, because she does change how she sings several verses

NOT STEVEN HAVING A VINYL. WE'RE STARVING AND YOU JUST MISPRONOUNCE HER NAME AND HAVE AC OPY

Someone corrected him during break. props to the gay intern

periodt. THis is why the auto industry fails every like 5 years

NOT THAT PRONUNCIATION

one part of me is like work. its feminism to wear a suit but the fashion part of me is like that suit does not look good

Okay I'm kinda falling in love with the standard cover. I kinda want to buy it. But three vinyls of the same album, my bank is crying

It's just his cold open right now right? Like his "jokes" and "news"?

I've been scrobbling my spotify and I've had the album on repeat and full play throughs since midnight last night and I have nearly 24 full play throughs!! How many streams is significant, should I continue the playing while I sleep

She was singing this song: And she said "I guess I'll start with the fact that whenever I feel stressed I listen to Harry. He feels like such a best friend. The old Harry, Nilsson. That will be an important thing to know later... about me. Later on in the year." She didnt say much that she didnt repeat in English. She said she spent 8 years learning Spanish in school and one summer she was in boarding school and that she couldnt go home so they sent her to Spain and there she felt she got fluent and was living with a family. She then also said that she kept up with Spanish because for a time she had a boyfriend from Argentina.

No it is an older singer, I'm watching my recording to see if I can find where she says his name. I assume it was for the American classics and standards album

She said I love a certain singer (i forgot his name, H something), and that we should remember him for closer to the end of the year.

Yeah we just are assuming the reason. But the reason why I think it's about sales is because of her fans, who buy every single iteration of her album but maybe who don't stream it as much (because maybe they've spent the week already listening to a leak) or because maybe they want to listen to a higherquality file ripped from their physical album. Maybe it is a label reason but it's interesting the interpretations that stem

Did she say her label? She said that "SHE (Taylor Swift) can". I assumed it was for first-week sales reasons but she didnt say that her label wouldnt let her, at least I dont remember her saying that.