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About Belinda's 'Heaven Is a Place on Earth', Rick Nowels is one of its writers

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.)
 
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Gosh, there are so many 

And Le Monet is not ? At least lemonade is liquid.

Also, aren't Taylor and Jaime King besties now since January?? And Lana pretty much dropped out of Jaime's life. That, to me is incredibly weird.

I definitely hear 'Dragon' not 'Drag'

she's my sonic and visual soulmate, so i make these. hi everyone

http://www.youtube.com/user/D1ETPUSSY

in terms of sheer symmetry and raw sexual magnetism i would say henry cavill 
 

 

 
brb

Her male equivalent
 

Tomorrow my dear! Sorry it's been a hectic week 

Reminds me of a more amped up version of the "Lana and Dan" picture.

Lou Reed: "Come take a walk on the wild side" (Born To Die)
 
Bryan Adams: Cruel World: "You're young, you're wild, you're free" // Heaven: "We were young and wild and free".
 
Funkadelic: "Feet don't fail me now" (Born To Die/One Nation Under A Groove)
 
Phil Collins: "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" (Guns and Roses)

Tom Petty - Oh my, my oh hell yes, honey put on that party dress ("Mary Jane's Last Dance")
 
"Honey, put on that party dress" - "American"
 
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds are a girl's best friends (Diamonds are my bestest friends - "The Body Electric")
 
Guns N' Roses - Sweet child of mine ("Bel Air")

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
 

Ha! You should! 

Gilbert Ryle: The ghost in the machine (She's Not Me)
 
Chet Baker "Let's Get Lost"  Documentary - West Coast Video
 
 

also "Lucys in the sky with ice tonight" from Television Heaven
 
its funny cause she fucks up the reference both times

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)
 
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Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (West Coast video)
 
Erik Satie: Gymnopedie no 3 at the end of the Carmen video

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
 

Ah, this fancy schmancy term is such a throwback to my college days as an English major...
 
Quick, let me go rename this thread "Is Beyoncé just a big exercise in Lana Del Rey intertextuality?"

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."

You can attribute "flame-colored paradise" from Velvet Crowbar and the various references to "flame-colored skies" in AFFA to Nabokov as well.
 
Aren't these just literary references, though? I was under the impression intertextuality was something else...

John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see. (Amazing Grace)
 
Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind

I love this thread

This is fun! Let's see... 
 
The Beatles: Harvey's (Lucy) in the sky with diamonds
 
Nietzsche: God's dead
 
Elvis: One for the money, two for the show
 
Sure there are more, but that's what i got off top of my head