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Wouldn't be correct.

Good point. I did take into consideration, that 'bad to the bone' easily could've been a popular idiom before Thorogood's song. I googled it, but couldn't quite determine if that was the case or not, but I guess you're right. As for 'I'm on fire' I do think it's safe to say that Lana is heavily inspired by Springsteen and thus is referencing him (intentionally or not). She mentions him in both songs and interviews and listens to him every single day. The song "I'm on Fire" by Springsteen also mentions a "bad desire"... Which sounds like a familiarity in the Lana universe (...burning desire). If you google "I'm on fire" all you get are hits relating to the Springsteen song and if you google "I'm on fire expression" that's still the case. I'm not saying that it's not a popular expression (well, define popular) but I am sticking to my guns on this one x

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She had already written the track at that point.

She's quite skinny here... And wearing fake lashes. Still looks heaps different. Maybe she just got a nose job. Or maybe I need to realize the difference hair color makes.

Yeah, I dunno. Lipfillers are a definite, but I don't feel like a change of hair color and some collagen was all it took. The change seems far greater to me. "*I'll keep dancing nerding on my own*

Le Monet is not pronounced that way... For her to pronounce it the way she does in the song, it would have to be written as les Monets (plural) and that makes even less sense. She sings "lemonade."

I saw a documentary on Netflix last night (go me) called Crazy Love... In the first few minutes a woman is saying "I was terrified to death... And I was already dead." I'm sure Lana must've seen it, I immediately thought of her.

I'm sure she knows the original quote and its meaning but just wants to reference it. (It's another discussion, but John was very adamant that it was a coincidence, crediting Sean with the quote based on a drawing he made.) ___________ Gosh, there are so many

The Who: Talkin' 'bout my generation // Talking about my generation (Brooklyn Baby)

Something I feel is taboo on this forum is the subject of her (possible) plastic surgery. I'm really interested in picking her looks and image apart (to quote you @@toshi) - coming from a place of admiration and adoration, of course. I don't think it's extremely weird or wrong to be interested in what Lana has done to create herself/her image. She's one of the most beautiful human beings I ever saw and her looks do play an active part in the whole package that is her, so to speak... Her lyrics often describe her as pretty, beautiful etc - wouldn't fit at all if she wasn't. Many of her lyrics fit the idea of a beautiful woman. Imagine if Susan Boyle sang "I Fucked My Way up to the Top" ...or "Cola"?? Anyway, this is just to justify going superficial on her arse And of course, quite a few aren't interested in this aspect of her, but I, for one, am - and I can't even count the many times I have googled "lana del rey plastic surgery/extensions" etc. I just can't figure out what she did after getting the lip injections when she was still Lizzy. I really think she had more procedures done. She disappeared for (I'm not sure how long) - like a year? Came out on the other side and was LANA. But it wasn't just the lips that were different. She most likely had a nose job, but that was earlier? Hmmm.. Any other plastic surgery nerds out there?

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Lanakaiiiiiii when is your post coming?? So excited for it! @@Lanakai

Woodkid: Run Boy Run (Money, Power, Glory)

Oops no, you're right - conflicting information out there

“Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!” "The first quote has been slightly rearranged over the years. It comes from a 1949 movie called Knock on Any Door, starring Humphrey Bogart as a liberal-minded lawyer trying to save a young hoodlum accused of murder. The hoodlum, Pretty Boy Romano, was played by John Derek who was, indeed, one of the best- looking actors who ever stood before a camera. The exact phrase, as he said it in the movie, was: “I wanna live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.” http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=718241

Ha! You should!

Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.[1][2][3] An example of intertextuality is an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. This is just from wikipedia. Oh yeah, that's totally right - like in Angels Forever she sings "paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky" and Nabokov writes: "A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise."

Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun

Anthony Burgess: Ultraviolence (Ultraviolence) Belinda Carlisle: Heaven is a place on earth (Video Games) Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys (Driving in Cars with Boys) Bruce Springsteen: I'm on fire (Summertime Sadness, Body Electric) Bryan Adams: We were young and wild and free // You're young, you're wild, you're free (Cruel World) Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain biography): Heavier Than Heaven // Heavier than heavenly (On Our Way) Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun (Driving in Cars with Boys) Elvis: One for the money, two for the show (Million Dollar Man) Ernest Hemingway: The sun also rises (Money, Power, Glory) Funkadelic/Kanye West: Feet don't fail me now (Born to Die) Gilbert Ryle: The ghost in (the) // your machine (She's Not Me) Gods and Monsters (Jeff Buckley's first band): Gods and Monsters (Gods and Monsters) Green Day: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Beautiful Player) Guns N´Roses: Guns and roses (Guns and Roses) Guns N' Roses: Sweet child of mine (Bel Air) John Derek (Knock on Any Door) + True Romance: Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse // live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse (Driving in Cars with Boys) John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see // Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind (Born to Die) Lou Reed: Take a walk on the wild side (Born to Die) Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a girl's best friend // Diamonds are my bestest friends (The Body Electric) Nabokov: Light of my life, fire of my loins (Off to the Races) Nabokov: A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames // Paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky (Angels Forever, Forever Angels) Nabokov: Lolita (Lolita) New Radicals: You’ve got the music in you (Westcoast) Nietzsche: God's dead (Gods and Monsters) Nirvana: Come as you are (Oh Say Can You See) Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art (Gods and Monsters) Phil Collins: I can feel it coming in the air tonight (Guns and Roses) Samuel Johnson: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man // Man who makes a beast out of himself got nothing to lose (Tired of Singing the Blues) Tennessee Williams: Relying on the kindness of strangers (Carmen) The Beatles: (Lucy's) // Harvey's in the sky with diamonds (Cola) The Crystals: He hit me and it felt like a kiss (Ultraviolence) The Pogues: Queen of New York City (Old Money) T-Rex: Children of the bad revolution (Children of the Bad Revolution) The Who: Talking about my generation (Brooklyn Baby) To Have and Have Not: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow // You know how to whistle, don't 'cha? Just put your lips together and blow (Put Your Lips Together) Tom Petty: Honey put on that party dress (American) Whitman: I sing the body electric (I Sing the Body Electric) Whitney Houston: Run to you (Old Money) Whitney Houston: Queen of the night (Go Go Dancer) Woodkid: Run, boy run (Money, Power, Glory) ________________________________________________ Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (West Coast video) Erik Satie: Gymnopedie no 3 at the end of the Carmen video