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Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Yikes at people wanting her to go more pop.

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Ride - 55
Cola - 25 

she felt extra that whole night. my guess is she just threw it in there but who knows

Wait.
I know she started writing Dark Paradise before Rob's death but I think she actually may have adjusted the lyrics to be about it. The song started out a lot different thematically.
 
First Demo, produced by Bjorn Yttling at Cutting Room Studios in September 2011
"I got the ice, you got the fire I got the stuff to take you higher
That's how you played it
I got the brains, you got the money This is a race, let's go fast, honey
That's how you played it
 
C'mon, pretty baby, I'll be takin' you down
They say you got crazy like all over town"
 
Version performed in September 2011 at the Glasslands
"That's why I stay here
Everybody told me I was falling in love
I said, you would fall too if you knew what I was dreaming of
Everybody told me I was stupid because you were bad, you were wrong and I knew it"
 
She doesn't explicitly mention anything about the person no longer being alive other than the chorus ("I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side") but it probably didn't have any real life connections when she wrote it. These are the verses of the second demo and the album version which features entirely new lyrics.
 
"All my friends tell me I should move on
I'm lyin' in the ocean singin' your song
That's how you sang it
 
Loving you forever can't be wrong
Even though you're not here, won't move on
That's how you played it
 
And there's no remedy for memory
Your face is like a melody, it won't leave my head
Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine
But I wish I was dead (dead like you)"
 
BTD was released in January the following year and I believe Rob passed in December so if my guesses are correct, the second demo was probably written and produced in December as well. I'm assuming it was produced by Rick because he has writing credits for the song and the first demo was confirmed to be produced by Bjorn. Rick also said that they wrote Dark Paradise in between takes but I'm thinking they only wrote the new verses together and just reused the chorus from the earlier demos. This could be entirely wrong but that's just my two cents.

I figured the Mountain Dew was about that guy (can't remember his name) with longer hair on his myspace? Iirc he had a direct image of Diet Mountain Dew & even a picture of fetuses and how he wanted to name them Lana and Ray, which was also the man that potentially inspired Wayamaya?
 
Also Afraid is a song (to me) about escaping physical abuse, could she have 'extremified' the type of abuse and written along the same scenario you think? Like she had to leave because of his relapse and she was possibly afraid of his potential abuse or how much he'd wither? 
 
Lucky Ones too? holy shit
 
 
 
This isn't related to the quotes but I'm both amazed, terrified, and heartbroken reading all of this. Not because it's such a death ridden life but because it's so interesting reading all of this down to the specific wire. Even in it's early days literally nothing is ever NOT found on the internet, think about celebrities living similar lives to Lana's ten years ago but right now, everything they'll ever fucking do will be even more findable than these- and all these examples are from an internet era in which everything was harder to use. 
 
It's also insane just seeing how much we know about one persons life- we have threads about her as Lizzy even fucking babysitting in photos, a thread about finding her boyfriend that supposedly murdered people and was sent for a death pentalty (the fact people have even found his NAME is scary.)- stuff so secret and private and yet here we are, hundreds of fans she doesn't know finding out everything about her- even information she herself probably had forgotten. It's also such a goddamn telling tale and fantasy, her life before fame is literally a plotline that would've been written as a book years ago and would've become a tragic literary american classic, I hope when she's older she can remember all of these things and produce a fully transparent auto biography, because her life is SUCH a work of art.
 
Every little reference just makes her entire discography that much richer and more telling, the simplest titles inspired some of her best work, i love her so, so much- she's the only person that deserves the entire world in my opinion 

For Rob and for Mikey
And all my birds of paradise 

tbh lana's life between 18-27 is more interesting that mine between 0-death

So, last night she performed Get Free again with very nice band participation. Loved the rendition. But I noticed something interesting - when she sang "for Amy and for Whitney" she crossed her fingers, which usually means someone is telling a lie. I know it had been speculated that those two names were just place fillers for the actual names she cut out, but this gesture sort of confirms that.
(1:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBaMbOoHRQI

born to die
video games
body electric
ride
yayo
pawn shop blues
Change/Black Beauty/Young and beautiful Medley
brooklyn baby
pretty when you cry
west coast
shades of cool
music to watch boys to
salvatore
the blackest day
cherry
white mustang
God bless america / WTWWAWWKD
Heroin
Get free (Full with band)
 
MY DREAM SETLIST

I stand two beauty queens
 

She talked about the guy she wrote Yayo for at a show. he seemingly died of drug abuse a few years ago.

Lana said that she wrote Yayo about her friend Rob in one of her concert. Rob had died of drug overdose so people are speculating that Heroin is about him.
 
Personally, I didn't know anything about him before, but now I think that many of her songs from Born To Die might be about him.

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Welcome to LANALYSIS, where we get real unhealthy in our obsessions and absolutely revel in it.

This is a project I've been maintaining for a while now--Lana + Analysis...get it? The basic purpose is to relate every one of her songs (that's right, every last one of them) to her known and assumed relationships. Not a stone is left unturned. Privacy is violated. The fans rejoice. Mind you, it’s all pure speculation, but ~this is what makes us stans~

It’s pretty long but an interesting read, if I do say so myself. I hope you enjoy it in all it’s updated glory, and I will continue to update as new information is revealed and new songs come out. I will also be adding pictures, sources, etc. Stay tuned!

Let’s get started!



EARLY RELATIONSHIPS (1985 - ~2005)



LOCAL ROCKSTARS (~2005 - 2009)



YOU MADE ME NICE FOR A WHILE (2009 - 2011)



POST-BREAKTHROUGH (2011+)



IN THE LAND OF DISCREPANCIES



ADVANCED LANALYSIS



IN SUMMARY..

Lingering questions…
- Who the fuck is K?
- Who the fuck is Ray?
- Who the fuck is Bill? Is Bill really K? Does Bill matter at all?
- What significance do cars play? She mentions eight in total (white Corvette, white Pontiac, blue Chevy Nova/Chevrolet, Cadillac convertible, Mercedes, pickup truck, Lamborghini, Bugatti Veyron)
- When was she/who was she with in New York City and New Jersey? Ditto LA? Most mysterious and pressing, her time in the South?
- Did she have a fling with Bradley Soileau?
- Did Chris C. matter enough to her for her to write songs about him?

Assumptions Made:
- Lana was a gogo dancer.
- K is a drug dealer/murderer, dead or on death row.
- Jimmy is her ex-fiancé, addicted to cocaine despite a Wikipedia page stressing how healthy he is, associated with Chevrolets.
- Much of Sirens is about completely different relationships.
- She fucked Bradley.
- Mike controlled her career but their relationship wasn’t associated with anything fucked up like drugs or stripping.


Thanks for reading! I crave both your feedback and theories! This remains a forum collaboration and I don't claim to have the final say on Lanalytical manners.

For the sake of believability, I'm always hunting receipts, and currently:
- The interview where she refers to "Yayo" as the prequel to "Video Games"
- The interview where she describes "Video Games" as dealing with mutual sobriety in a relationship--her and her partner both staying clean.
- The interview where she talks about meeting her boyfriend in rehab and being dazzled by his small-scale celebrity.

Lust for life is her only album containing fillers

Art Deco is one of Lana's worst songs ever.

It also sounds like she intends to keep writing less autobiographical music, which I was hoping would just be a phase. Not that she wouldn't run out of stories at some point (or become less interesting when she has babies and settles and shit)... Still the personal songs are what distinguished her. GBA and WTWWATWJKDMBJBJGFHFGH878$ just didn't do it for me as much as White Mustang/get free/heroin etc. 

Kind of tragic because her lack of filter and how unashamed/honest she was with her lyrics is what made me love her music.

If Yosemite it's not on that EP she can keep it.