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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/18-things-you-learn-after-two-long-days-with-lana-del-rey-20140724#ixzz38OV2KTi7
 
 
 

Just a random thought and I don't know if this has already been pointed out but could it be that this really important relationship (“I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it’s all good. It’s all good!") is the one she had with this record executive? I mean if it's true that this relationship lasted for 7 years she would have been with him almost her entire life as a (young) adult.
"I had a long-term relationship for seven years with someone who was the head of a label and I felt like I was that change of routine. I was always waiting to become the person who his kids came home to, and it never happened. Obviously I had to seek other relationships, and I felt like that became a pattern. I was younger—24, 25 at the time. I had known what I wanted to do for a long time." (Complex mag)
 
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this properly but does this mean that she "seeked other relationships" aka broke up with him at the age of 24, 25? If so she must have been like 17 or 18 when she started dating the record executive. Or am I getting it wrong?
Another thing, he seemingly has children so maybe he was married before or even whilst the relationship between him and Lizzy/Lana lasted. ("I know your wife that she wouldn't mind"?)
 
I'm pretty sure that Axl Rose Husband is about this guy: "Record executive I need you to live, I someone come replace you"
Additionally: "Kids on vacation, Florida Keys are calling, Come back to me" - maybe his kids played a role why the relationship ended, idk. And when the kids are on vacation Lizzy might think that she and the record executive can go back to their perfect relationship. Another interesting thing "Florida Keys" --> in Florida Kilos she's mentioning those keys as well. Possible link?
 
So if Axl Rose Husband actually is about this guy the "blue hydrangea" thing would be a reference to him as well. --> Old Money
Maybe a bit far-fetched but Axl Rose Husband --> her song Guns and Roses.
 
Those are just a few possible references to him that came into my mind while writing this, I'm sure there are many, many more.
Of course all this is highly speculative but I was bored so ...
 
A bit out of context but we have so many pics of Lana in her Lizzy days but it seems like we don't have a single one of her with that record executive, do we? Not a single (leaked) photo of a seven years relationship?

Just had a proper look at http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4152-quotes-in-lana-songs/ !! @@PinUpCartoonBaby thank you for showing me that thread
 
@@Alicia says: "Heavier than Heavenly" in On our way, Heavier than Heaven was a Kurt Cobain biography
 
@@fruitpunchlips says: In Twin Peaks Dale Cooper says "Windom Earle's mind is like a diamond. It's cold, and hard, and brilliant." She also quotes Officer Brown in Backfire “Kids, come out. Ain’t no way to live, let me show you how.” 
 
@@PinUpCartoonBaby says: "You're my Axl Rose husband, Blue hydrangea, White Pontiac heaven." There's a poem by the great Rainer Maria Rilke ...  "Blue Hydrangea"
+ So Legit: "They said you could make it anywhere if you can make it here --> New York, New York by Sinatra: "And if i can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere"
+ Put Your Lips Together: "You know how to whistle, don't'cha? Just put your lips together and blow"
--> To Have And Have Not: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow"
 
@@DeadAgainst said: Children of the Bad Revolution: T-Rex: Children of the Bad Revolution
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell: Drop It Like It's Hot
Batman (1989): Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? 
 
@@GodBlessMe said: Summertime sadness: "Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight" "Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen.
 
@@silver starlet said: "He's my drugstore cowboy, Italian alloy"  from the movie title Drugstore Cowboy
 
@@TrailerParkDarling said: "four alarm fire"~ dangerous girl + "not since bonnie and clyde have two kids been so good at being bad bad bad"~ live or die - the True Romance trailer

Btw Gods and Monsters was Jeff Buckley's first band in New York.

I was the good catholic girl my nana raised me to be for ages, while my friends were partying and screwing around. They lead happy, balanced lives. Look at me, I'm fucked up and sad and lonely for keeping celibate for so long. Now that I feel free and ok to do what I want with my body, it is too late. I can't find a girl who will be in a relationship with someone so problematic. The majority of the religious beliefs out there mess more with your head than being raised in a brothel, I say. There is no sin in enjoying sex.
[i am not a virgin but feel I wasted my teen years trying to be "good"].

It's really interesting for me to read this. Not being from America, what you portray here really stands out as something very... foreign to me. In my country you're ultimately regarded as strange (and perverted! ha) if you don't have sex before marriage. Sex is seen as a very natural part of our lives, our physicality (which it is) that shouldn't be denied. So when Lana says she's slept with a lot of guys in the industry, I don't even raise an eyebrow. She probably says it tongue in cheek, even so - in some parts of the world she's not on the front lines of something big in terms of sexuality - just your regular gal. But I understand that it's different in the States and because of that I really agree with you - her voice is needed!
 
Just a footnote: to me Miley Cyrus stands for the total opposite of female sexual empowerment; what she does seems to be driven by her awareness of "a spectator", whereas Lana is doing what she wants for herself. It seems

It's really interesting for me to read this. Not being from America, what you portray here really stands out as something very... foreign to me. In my country you're ultimately regarded as strange (and perverted! ha) if you don't have sex before marriage. Sex is seen as a very natural part of our lives, our physicality (which it is) that shouldn't be denied. So when Lana says she's slept with a lot of guys in the industry, I don't even raise an eyebrow. She probably says it tongue in cheek, even so - in some parts of the world she's not on the front lines of something big in terms of sexuality - just your regular gal. But I understand that it's different in the States and because of that I really agree with you - her voice is needed!
 
Just a footnote: to me Miley Cyrus stands for the total opposite of female sexual empowerment; what she does seems to be driven by her awareness of "a spectator", whereas Lana is doing what she wants for herself. It seems

It's really interesting for me to read this. Not being from America, what you portray here really stands out as something very... foreign to me. In my country you're ultimately regarded as strange (and perverted! ha) if you don't have sex before marriage. Sex is seen as a very natural part of our lives, our physicality (which it is) that shouldn't be denied. So when Lana says she's slept with a lot of guys in the industry, I don't even raise an eyebrow. She probably says it tongue in cheek, even so - in some parts of the world she's not on the front lines of something big in terms of sexuality - just your regular gal. But I understand that it's different in the States and because of that I really agree with you - her voice is needed!
 
Just a footnote: to me Miley Cyrus stands for the total opposite of female sexual empowerment; what she does seems to be driven by her awareness of "a spectator", whereas Lana is doing what she wants for herself. It seems

I like the happy sounding stuff because she's usually singing about depressing or fucked up shit, taking it to a whole other level that no one else can touch. 
 
"And if you call me on the telephone I might overdose, cause I'm strong but I'm lonely, like Marilyn Monroe" (singing about Marilyn Monroe's suicide)
"Is it wrong that I think it's kinda fun when I hit you in the back of the head with a gun..." (This whole song tbh... only Lana could rhyme gun with fun and pull it off)
"Stumble into trouble, siren with a sad song; Go out every night whenever I feel sad, ooh this drive-by love, got me crazy like a drug" (using drunken irresponsible one night stands to make herself feel better)

It's really interesting for me to read this. Not being from America, what you portray here really stands out as something very... foreign to me. In my country you're ultimately regarded as strange (and perverted! ha) if you don't have sex before marriage. Sex is seen as a very natural part of our lives, our physicality (which it is) that shouldn't be denied. So when Lana says she's slept with a lot of guys in the industry, I don't even raise an eyebrow. She probably says it tongue in cheek, even so - in some parts of the world she's not on the front lines of something big in terms of sexuality - just your regular gal. But I understand that it's different in the States and because of that I really agree with you - her voice is needed!
 
Just a footnote: to me Miley Cyrus stands for the total opposite of female sexual empowerment; what she does seems to be driven by her awareness of "a spectator", whereas Lana is doing what she wants for herself. It seems

Isis' nickname is the Dragon Lady... 
 
"I became like (JIm's) bull-dog. Every group has one, and I very quickly earned the name Dragon Lady. I loved the name, I always resonated to it and I loved it and I still love it. I still love being the dragon lady."
 
"I'm a dragon, you're a whore..."
 

 
Lana is a big fan of dualities and I have a feeling (if this entire theory were true) that half the (Source inspired) lyrics are from Lana's perspective as if she were in the roles of both Robin AND Isis, as the wife and the other woman.

What does this picture remind you of?
 

 
 
 

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

Just had a proper look at http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4152-quotes-in-lana-songs/ !! @@PinUpCartoonBaby thank you for showing me that thread
 
@@Alicia says: "Heavier than Heavenly" in On our way, Heavier than Heaven was a Kurt Cobain biography
 
@@fruitpunchlips says: In Twin Peaks Dale Cooper says "Windom Earle's mind is like a diamond. It's cold, and hard, and brilliant." She also quotes Officer Brown in Backfire “Kids, come out. Ain’t no way to live, let me show you how.” 
 
@@PinUpCartoonBaby says: "You're my Axl Rose husband, Blue hydrangea, White Pontiac heaven." There's a poem by the great Rainer Maria Rilke ...  "Blue Hydrangea"
+ So Legit: "They said you could make it anywhere if you can make it here --> New York, New York by Sinatra: "And if i can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere"
+ Put Your Lips Together: "You know how to whistle, don't'cha? Just put your lips together and blow"
--> To Have And Have Not: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow"
 
@@DeadAgainst said: Children of the Bad Revolution: T-Rex: Children of the Bad Revolution
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell: Drop It Like It's Hot
Batman (1989): Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? 
 
@@GodBlessMe said: Summertime sadness: "Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight" "Dancing in the Dark" by Bruce Springsteen.
 
@@silver starlet said: "He's my drugstore cowboy, Italian alloy"  from the movie title Drugstore Cowboy
 
@@TrailerParkDarling said: "four alarm fire"~ dangerous girl + "not since bonnie and clyde have two kids been so good at being bad bad bad"~ live or die - the True Romance trailer

Btw Gods and Monsters was Jeff Buckley's first band in New York.

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

Dude you need to relax a bit.  I mean it's really none of our business. You shouldn't project your morality onto her.

I had no idea Barrie had been signed to BMG!!? Did you guys? Apparently he's just finished recording his album.

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

Do you think a “guilty pleasure” is a real thing?
Yes, but I don’t have many of them musically. I have tons of them in life.
  Do tell.
Well, smoking is one of them. Sugar, coffee. I must have 13 cups a day. It’s a shame about the health consequences because a lot of great things happen over coffee and a cigarette. A lot of great songs were written.
 
When she says her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola... I have a hard time believing her

"My life, it comprises, of losses and wins and fails and falls." - Money, Power, Glory
 
could be influenced by "I am a series of small victories and large defeats," from Bukowski's The People Look Like Flowers At Last.
 
I immediately thought of the poem when I heard her sing the line.

I've written a few novels.  Everyone says they are unmarketable   But I wrote them for me so...
 
Still, it's pretty much my only dream in life to get published.

more is better
more Lana
more money for her
more music for us
win-win

So in the recent Complex magazine interview, which you can read here, the interviewer asked 'What defines being in a good place?', to which Lana responded:
 
"Feeling really happy and just circumstantially like nothing’s going wrong, which becomes more difficult but that’s only my experience. I think a lot of people think the whole thing is really great. Making Brooklyn my home base for the last two and a half weeks has really helped me out, like I’ve actually started thinking conceptually that I have this addition, an addition to this record that could come really easily. That hasn't happened in a long time. Not since I wrote that Paradise addition to Born to Die, which I really loved."
 
Could this mean a re-release of Ultraviolence with extra tracks, a la 'Born to Die: The Paradise Edition'?
 
Thanks to DelReyLane on twitter for pointing this out!