Summersault

I'm pretty sure she sings "My local rockstar, the Willie B crew". Willie B = slang for Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cheryl Cole however sings "really big crew".

 

 

I like this because it's not that glam, just really pretty

 

 

 

 

She looked so perfect in these pictures, like a living breathing doll likeomgIcan'teven...

My Best Days could use some more love. I just recently stumbled apon it even though it leaked a long time ago, so it has been a well kept secret.

 

Then again she has written a gazilion songs, no one can keep up and show love to them all. 

Except a few sketchy demos I really think all of her songs are brilliant, if nothing else then because of the lyrics. They always paint vivid pictures and stirs up all kinds of emotions and half-forgotten memories + every line is basically a oneliner that could be quoted into oblivion. Well, favourites:

 

 

BTD/Paradise

 

 

Video Games

Like most people I guess, this was my first Lana song . At work, driving round late at night, suddenly this song came on, and I parked the car just so I could listen. I didn't even know if I liked it, but I just knew that it was something very special. When I got home and found the video I freaked out, not because of her lips (well maybe a little) but because she was so young. It made no sense in my head, her voice sounded a million years old. Her whole glamour-persona actually put me off at first but I couldn't ignore that haunting song. Still think it's one of, if not the most beautiful song she has ever made.

 

Off To The Races

The song that finally converted me to a full on Lana-fan. So cool, innovative, badass, shiny, crazy. There was some unspecified feeling in the song I recognized but couldn't recall from where, until I realized she was working a Lolita vibe that I remembered from the '97 adaption.

 

Summertime Sadness

It was literally the soundtrack of my summer and holds some good memories.

 

This Is What Makes Us Girls

Again the music is just so fresh (to death and sick as ca-cancer.) Love the beat, love the instrumentation, love the melody. I can't think of one other artist to compare to this genrewise. And the lyrics are so prettyyy.    

Ride was originally my favourite of Paradise, American quickly grew on me and seeing Gods & Monsters as well as Body Electric live in concert was a gamechanger. Funny how some of the best live songs aren't necessarily the studio recordings you like the best.

 

Lizzy Grant aka LDR

 

Pawn Shop Blues

Love the melody and how young and clear her voice sounds. For some reason this song reminds me of growing up in a quiet small town. 

 

Kill Kill

So groovy, sexy and weird. Lana in a nutshell.

 

Yayo

This song didn't really click for me until I heard it on a rainy day and suddenly it all made sense. The new Paradise version can however go sit in a corner and think about all the things it did wrong. 

 

Unreleased/Misc

 

Young & Beautiful

People seem to be quite divided about this one, but I got chills first time I heard in the Gatsby trailer.

 

Ridin feat. A$AP Rocky

I'm so sad that Asap had a fallout with the producers, so we'll never get to hear the final version. 

 

I Don't Wanna Go

In my humble opinion one of the only songs that can compare to Video Games in terms of sheer beauty. 

 

Never Let Me Go

It already feels like a classic

 

My Best Days

I thought I had heard all her leaks but then discovered this precious gem. Could work well the two previous ones on an EP of some sort.

 

Honourable mention goes to:

Boarding School, Ghetto Baby, Hundred Dollar Bill, You Can Be The Boss, Ooh Baby, Trash and You & Me.  

 

Ok so this got really longwinded. Sorry...

This very pretty song still bugs me.

 

This is my best guess:

Methamphetamine, pink flamingo
Blue ‘50s queen, Blue Oyster Cloth * (I heard cloth, so I googled oyster cloth, which seem to be something relating to cars) 

Motels:

 

Trash Magic/Miss America: Boy you wanna come to my motel, hunny?

Gods & Monsters: Motel speed sprees and I'm singing

Motel 6

Mermaid Motel

1949: It's a flower motel nation

Push Me Down: Motel swimming pool, breaking in, we can do

Elvis: Late in motel lounges singin

Come When You Call Me America: Will you pick me up from my motel?

Kinda Outta Luck: Motel singer or the silver pole

 

She sure does seem to love her motels.

 

Diamonds:

 

I Don't Wanna Go: They be like diamonds and pearls

National Anthem: Um, do you think you'll buy me lots of diamonds?

Young & Beautiful: Diamonds, brilliant and Bel Air Now

Fake Diamond

Cole: Harvey's in the sky with diamonds and he's making me crazy

Last Girl On Earth: My cigarettes or diamonds rings

Body Electric: Diamonds are my bestest friends

Diet Mt Dew (demo): Gimme them, gimme them dope and diamonds

Kinda Outta Luck: Diamonds on my wrist, whiskey on my tongue 

Driving In Cars WIth Boys: Got my cash and my Louis Vuitton, diamonds and guns

 

(And yes I used the search function and yes I am indeed procrastinating.)