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WHAT THE FUCK THERE ARE LKE 50 PEOPLE I LOVE THERE. GODFRICKINGDAMNIT AMERICA! 

No, fuck no. They're so gross.

Oh my god, I hope it's not true.

When I bought BTD just a few days after it had been released, I already knew VG and BTD because of the radio, so OTTR was the first song that I didn't knew when I listened to the album and I immediately knew that it was a fantastic decision to buy BTD !
 
I was fascinated by the unique, poetic and beautiful lyrics and the way her voice changed again and again during the song. I really love that glamour gangster feeling the song has. Imo OTTR represents Lana's image at the beginning of her "real" career (end of 2011). She called herself a "Gangster Nancy Sinatra" and I totally feel this in lines like " Likes to watch me in the glass room bathroom, Chateau Marmont, slippin' on my red dress, puttin' on my makeup, glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac fumes" or "My old man is a thief and I'm gonna stay and pray with him 'til the end".
 
The interview @@SitarHero posted helps a lot with the Lanalysis. If we can trust her words ( ), OTTR describes the lifestyle she used to have when she was with that man, that means they lived in LA and moved to Vegas because he liked to gamble. Lana wasn't talented and that's why she just went swimming all the time. This would even match the lyrics "Swimming pool glimmering darling, white bikini off with my red nail polish, watch me in the swimming pool bright blue ripples you". Swimming pools seem to play a big role in OTTR and as she spent most of her time swimming in Vegas, we have an explanation for that.
 
So I think, the basic idea of the song is definitely true but I'm almost sure that Lana added many gangster details to the lyrics. 
Looking at Barrie I can't imagine that Lana once dated a guy with a "gold chain on" but who knows, maybe her taste for men changed  .
 
Right now I'm actually wondering about something that I never really realized. I know that alcohol is mentioned sometimes on BTD in songs like Carmen and This Is What Makes Us Girls and these deal with her teenage years. Lana says she stopped drinking when she was about 18. In OTTR it seems like her man is drinking ("black Cristal", "cognac") but maybe she does too ("Bacardi chasers") ?
Also she is talking about "Riker's Island", so like already mentioned in the Lanalysis thread she could be talking about K and her younger years (she mentions Coney Island which is also used in Carmen for example, a song that probably describes her lifestyle when she was about 17).
When I look at her writing style, I would say that it was written with the rest of the BTD album, which means that it isn't old. And of course she can still write a song about K today but....
We assume that she dated him before the Sirens album, so she couldn't be older than 17. First of all, her parents sent her to a boarding school because of her alcohol addiction and I don't think they would let her go to Vegas just for fun and her school also wasn't in LA, right ? Furthermore she said she wasn't good at gambling but if the song talks about K, she wouldn't even been allowed to enter a casiono. Oh and she says she has a "Las Vegas past" but according to the interview this can't be true at all.
 
I know my post is pretty confusing but I had to say it. 
OTTR is one of Lana's best songs but I wouldn't be surprised if it is totally made up and she also lied in the interview
   
@ I love the form you posted but I think people will discuss the song better without one. Don't judge me if I'm wrong 

Round 3 playlist. Voting ends March 18th.
 
 
It's back by popular demand!
 
Rules
 
Eligibility/Submissions
 
All Lanaboards members which have not been permanently banned are eligible, except for GSH for winning the last contest. To enter this competition, simply send an mp3 of you singing your song choice to TMCBryan. All songs are eligible, whether they be Lana, Gaga, Britney, System of a Down, or even an original song. It can be done acapella or with a backing track. When sending the mp3, please let me know the song title and artist. Note: The best place to upload your mp3 is either picosong.com, audiour.com or soundcloud.com and making it downloadable. Your submission will be kept anonymous (except for the final round submission), and please keep it so. If you do not wish to participate anymore after a round you may disclose your submission. No vocal modification whatsoever. This includes Auto-tune, "Chipmunking" your voice, and all similar modifications. Minor effects such as echos are permitted. Layering vocals and splicing/dicing vocals is permitted. Deadlines and Voting
 
The deadline for submission will be one week after the round's thread is posted, except for the first round, where the deadline for submitting for round 1 is January 20th at 11:59:59 PM EST. The day after the submission deadline a thread with the submissions and a poll will be posted. I ask all voters to take time to listen to each submission and vote for which they like the best. There will be 72 hours to vote each round....and now looking at the topic poll feature I realize there's no feature to automatically close voting, so it will take at least 72 hours...as soon as I can arrive. Winners/Final Five
 
The winner of each round will be the one who gets the most votes. (Obviously) Once you win a round, you are not eligible to enter again until the final round. For the final round, there will be a common theme, but I won't reveal it yet. (And it won't be the same as last time) The winner of the Final Five round will be the winner of it all! The prize will be once again be gloating rights.  
Let's open up for business, good luck all!
 
Previous Rounds:
 
Entries For Round One
Entry One
Entry Two
Entry Three
Entry Four (ConeyIslandQueen262 - Winner!)
Entry Five
Entry Six
Entry Seven
 
Round Two Entries Playlist (KC-04: BlueJeans = winner!)
 
 

Love at first listen! I missed out on this one when it leaked but finally came across it some days ago.
The guitar gives an overall folk sound, the lyrics sound a bit romantic, and her voice adds a mysterious vibe. This song would be perfect to play while sitting outside on a warm afternoon and watching the sunset.

Overall rating: 5
First impression: Fucking loved it played it over and over again. 
Impression now: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
iTunes plays: 51
Songs I play along with it: Diet Mountain Dew (Demo) (the "hit me my darling tonight, I don't know why but I like it" one) 
What I like about it: The lyrics, the beat, the screaming/shouting the background.
What I dislike about it: Nothing... oh apart from she never does it live!
Memories I associate with this song: Being hungover on the train home. 
Colors/images that come to mind: Like black, blue, Las Vagas lights.
Favorite lyrics: "I'm sorry that I'm misbehaving I'm your little harlot, starlet Queen of Coney Island Raising hell all over town" "Light of his life, fire of his loins
Keep me forever, tell me you own me"

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

I really love On Our Way, I think it's a great example of one of the main reasons why I love Lana. She's not really a genius poet, singer or guitar player (heh) but her lyrics are extremely personal. And not only because of how much she opens up in them but how much personality they show. I don't think a lot of songwriters could get away with writing about Chevrolets all the time or picking up cheap lip gloss form K-Mart but I like it with Lana because I know that's her whole style and every time she mentions little things like that I feel like I'm getting to know her more and more. This probably one of the reasons why I don't like people covering her songs, it just sounds weird hearing some random girl on the internet say things only Lana would say. I think there are a lot of musicians who are either great poets or who have mastered their instrument but I'll never be nearly as invested in them because they don't show any personality in their songs even if they objectively are talented.

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- What it felt like singing in the places she's been singing about all these years, like Charteau Marmont, Paris, L.A. Was it a dream come true or was it different in real life?
 
- In the same vein, how she felt about meeting Axl Rose and if Bel Air really is a tribute to him
 
- Her thoughts on the law of attraction, life after death and extraterrestrial life.
 
- Who in the music business she would like to collaborate with (And by some manipulative tactics get her to say Damon Albarn)
 
- Ask her about some of my favourite songs, like the writing process and if she even likes them now.
 
- ULTRAVIOLENCE

- What it felt like singing in the places she's been singing about all these years, like Charteau Marmont, Paris, L.A. Was it a dream come true or was it different in real life?
 
- In the same vein, how she felt about meeting Axl Rose and if Bel Air really is a tribute to him
 
- Her thoughts on the law of attraction, life after death and extraterrestrial life.
 
- Who in the music business she would like to collaborate with (And by some manipulative tactics get her to say Damon Albarn)
 
- Ask her about some of my favourite songs, like the writing process and if she even likes them now.
 
- ULTRAVIOLENCE

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

We spoke with Mandler—who directed Lana Del Rey’s 30-minute video “Tropico,” released earlier this month—about the state of the music video in 2013, what he thought of Miley Cyrus’ video output this year, and what he makes of Daniel Radcliffe.
 
Josh Duboff: This was a really big year for event music videos, what with “Tropico,” the Miley Cyrus videos released this summer, the Beyoncé visual album. Did it seem to you like music videos reached a new level of cultural prominence in 2013?

Anthony Mandler: Well, I actually don’t think they’ve gone anywhere, if you look at it. In the era of YouTube and the internet, we encompass the most watched programming there is. When you talk about 100 million views, you’re up there with major award shows, things like that . . . Rihanna and I have done 17 videos together, we have like a billion and a half views. So I think if you’re going to look at the pop culture needle, the ebb and flow, videos have always been at the center of that.
 
 
Right, and YouTube obviously changed everything in terms of the overall accessibility of music videos.

Well, it’s the ultimate brand builder, the music video. There were these two lines crossing. The label was making less and less money because no one is buying albums. And the artist was finding their success didn’t have to be tied to how many albums they sold. It could be tied to, “Hey, I sell no albums, but I tour, I have a lot of merch, I’m the face of Givenchy. . .” What I’m getting at, and this is true of all artists, from Rihanna and Jay Z on down, they’re willing to put more money [into their videos], leverage the relationship with the label, put their own money behind [them], to put more on the screen, to make a bigger statement. “Tropico” is made up of three songs that have been out for over a year, but it’s causing this massive splash because of what we did. [Lana] was willing to take that chance, when most labels would say “The album’s over. Why are you going to spend this much on something’s that’s dated, that’s old. What’s the new single? What’s the next album?” 
 
Who would Beyoncé be if we didn’t see her in those videos? Who would Gaga be if she wasn’t a visual artist? Rihanna has built her career on being a visual artist. Look what Beyoncé is saying: “I’m putting out a visual album.”
 
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/12/music-video-auteur-anthony-mandler-miley-cyrus?mbid=social_twitter

this part of Tropico will finish me.
 
When that kick drum comes in..... 

I don't get the G&M hate. Some say the lyrics are trite or cliche, but compared to BE and BD, this song is light years ahead. I rather like the groupie/life imitates art line, I think it's perhaps a clever nod to the people in the press that slam her.  The god's dead line also reminds me of the '66 cover of Time magazine, and the screaming woman brings some cheap old horror film vibe. In my opinion, it's far from one of the worse tracks of Paradise.

whats ur dick like homie what are you into!

- What it felt like singing in the places she's been singing about all these years, like Charteau Marmont, Paris, L.A. Was it a dream come true or was it different in real life?
 
- In the same vein, how she felt about meeting Axl Rose and if Bel Air really is a tribute to him
 
- Her thoughts on the law of attraction, life after death and extraterrestrial life.
 
- Who in the music business she would like to collaborate with (And by some manipulative tactics get her to say Damon Albarn)
 
- Ask her about some of my favourite songs, like the writing process and if she even likes them now.
 
- ULTRAVIOLENCE

New art 

This is happening. [CAUTION: LOTS OF IMAGES! LOTS OF CORNY TRANSLATIONS OF EMOTICONS INTO TEXT FORMAT!]

 

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