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  2. Posted

    Can you please please please post Children of The Bad Revolution chords ? <3

     

    ...also, im on the same mindset as Your Girl Lana, ive literally looked everywhere for chords for bad revolution and i even tried coming up with them myself but they sucked!!!! lol

     

    Help, please... Bookbinder?

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  3. Posted

    Okay, guys! The OP is all patched up, and even far improved.

    I'm having trouble opening up several of the spoilers in the OP. (But I sometimes have trouble elsewhere on the forum, so I'm not sure whether it's a glitch in the coding, or something on my end.)

     

    As for the public, I would love if you guys could help me analyze "Cola" ... Particularly the other woman elements...

    I like the theory floating around that Lana and Barrie are secretly married. (What can I say, I'm a sucker for romance.) That would make the most sense, assuming Cola is about one guy (unless he's secretly married to someone else?) Of course, she's said before that she references different relationships in the same song at times, so who knows.

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  7. Posted

    i love both of them but lana could never sing like adele, lana's voice cracks on a regular basis while performing live, adele can actually hold notes.

     

    That's true, the magic is really in the studio recordings. I still wonder if Lana would sound better live today if she dropped the "Lana" affectations, if that makes any sense.

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  8. Posted

    lana's voice is shit compared to adele's....just adding to the clusterfuck

    More like a mindfuck, actually :whoopi:

     

    I find Adele's voice pleasant, but tiresome. I appreciate her on an intellectual level, like Barbara or Celine, but nothing really draws me in like the magic of Lana/Lizzy's voice.

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    Monicker, I notice you rated your least-favorite on the album higher than I rated my second-favorite. :defeated:

     

    Cola [5] Lana Del Rey's mythos escalates in this track. Lana, with all her gravitas, declares the very specific taste of her pussy over the throbbing bass. The close harmonies of the bridge are topped off with Lana Del Rey scat singing like an electric guitar in the climax. What more do you want?

     

    Less gravitas, more gratuitous power chords, tbh.

     

    Body Electric [3] ...Lana Del Rey comes across as too composed here when I wanting a more unhinged delivery.

     

    But... that's the point of having studio vs. live versions, yes? IMO her only mistake here was singing it live first. (I give it a [3] too, but it's not because it isn't well-done or because it lacks energy. It's just not my kind of song.)

     

    Gods & Monsters [4] ...This song has the strongest images and the best story...

     

    Yayo [4] ...The homage to the past reflected by the cover of Blue Velvet is echoed eeriely in Yayo.

     

    You're so right. But I just find myself wanting to like these songs more than wanting to listen to them :/

     

     

     

    #feelinglikeaflopfan :(

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    How much time did Lana stay at Kent? And did she ever formerly studied metaphysics?

     

    I was thinking about start a thread about her studies :P

     

    Edit: Oh wait what happened with the title?

     

    It looks from her yearbook like she was at Kent boarding school for three years or so. Then she studied metaphysics at Fordham University.

     

    Anyone know if she graduated?

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  14. Posted

    In order of preference, with new ratings (having spent time with the songs for a week)...

     

    1. Bel Air 5/5

    2. American 3.5/5 (it's growing on me)

    3. Ride 3/5

    4. Body Electric 3/5

    5. Burning Desire 3/5

    6. Cola 3/5

    7. Yayo 2.5/5

    8. Blue Velvet 2/5

    9. Gods & Monsters 2/5 (I wanted to like it, but the melody doesn't do anything for me)

     

    Bel Air is the only song from TPE that's really special to me. As I said in the song meanings thread, I think this song is a love letter to her idols and her fans. On the surface, "Bel Air" seems to be about a stalker, waiting outside the gates of a celebrity home. So it's a lovely creepfest like "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, right? But wait! We know how Lana feels about her inspirations. The lyrics sound like she's almost trying to re-inspire an artist whose star has fallen. So it's more from the point of view of a fan... but I sort of think she must have in mind, too, the special relationship she has with her fans. I think the cycle of inspiration is another form of paradise for Lana.

     

    And to recap what I've said about Cola, I no longer think its subtext is drug use, but rather, she's using some drug language as a metaphor for the paradise of sex.

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  15. Posted

    I'm salivating over you guys' Marina and Sky stuff. But I think I'll hold off downloading their unreleased until I'm prepared to pay for their released stuff (or at least obtain it legitly) :)

     

    I have Charli XCX stuff (mostly what Madrigal has shared elsewhere :legend:), including both mixtapes.

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  17. Posted

    No okay you know what's awful? Not the bangs, that motherfucking jacket. It looks like something I would pull out at the op shop and think "why was this donated?" would not wear/10

     

    It's two things she loves... furry and Native Americany... but yeah. (She rocks it though. :defeated: )

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    It's a question. You disagree with my QUESTION?

     

    We busted on each other! :D I think the title was more like "Get things off your chest" but it devolved into what-if-we-were-complete-douches :teehee: I think I may have actually pissed somebody off, but I can't remember who, why or how :blush:

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  25. Posted

    But, yes, you're right, those parts of Cola sound like the chorus of Kill Kill. Just as the intro of American sounds like the intro of Summertime Sadness, and other similarities i've caught that i can't remember right now. Because i can't be fucked to recall them.

     

    If you have some spare time I'd love to read a list of comparisons. I have a couple in my head but I'd really enjoy some other perspectives.

     

    This is my major beef with TPD! Every song sounds like some other song!

     

     

     

    American is a grower, and when given the full attention it deserves, is quite lovely ...ONLY SO IS BEL AIR and it's like we don't need both! (Except that now, each has its fans, and we totally need both!)

     

    Body Electric stands out as more unique... until you listen to Cola! (Same melodic idea, different beat.) And Cola has the beat of the Dark Paradise demo. And, apparently, Kill Kill. (They should have just used I Don't Wanna Go instead of Cola.) But now we have to have both Cola and BE. And maybe both will go on to become great hits. But they almost shouldn't count as two songs.

     

    Gods and Monsters just has that generic TPD sound, only more plodding and less melodic than any other track. Reminds me of Heart-Shaped Box for some reason. They should have just used Heart-Shaped Box. And Last Girl on Earth. But now we have to have G&M.

     

    Blue Velvet's intro sounds like Burning Desire's. It has some really nice Auto-Tuned Loon, but... been there done that.

     

    Yayo. Kinda like a sad Bel Air.

     

    Ride just sounds like every veteran rocker anthem that tries too hard to keep the fire while appealing across-the-board. (Actually it succeeds at this more than some veteran rocker anthems. But still.) So maybe Ride is the stand-out from the rest of Paradise... but it sounds so TIRED that it doesn't really work as an album-opener for me. It's a better closer.

     

     

     

    But this is a Kill Kill appreciation thread, so... long live Kill Kill. (Which doesn't sound a thing like Spandau Ballet's "True." Nope.)

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