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They actually have spider epidemics over there, no made up terrifying animal beats that as far as I'm concerned.

Blue Jeans. It's sexy yet simple, and I really love the video's whole aesthetic which was imo perfectly represented in the single cover.
National Anthem would be my (close) 2nd choice.

Nicole Kidman is a myth 0/10

Sea scorpion
Hooved spider
Nicole Kidman
 
Your turn

Blue Jeans. It's sexy yet simple, and I really love the video's whole aesthetic which was imo perfectly represented in the single cover.
National Anthem would be my (close) 2nd choice.

Apparently it really was Blue Jeans.
 
 
This is obviously going into personal opinion territory, but I always thought that was the case with most artists (musicians or not) tbh; you know, the age old cliché of the artist who doesn't let others see their work until it's 100% finished and they're completely satisfied with it?

I just think that the "farewell" is goodbye to Born to Die and Paradise. Tropico (forgive me if I'm wrong) is three of her music videos into a short film and she's already released music videos for Paradise. BTD/Paradise was sure a significant time for Lana, her big break, and what projected her into the spotlight and I'm sure she's doing something to commemorate the end of that era. Remember how she said she was going to quit music back in September of last year after Paradise came out?

guys seiously?? That was a teaser LOL. For the farewell of ending the project, this particular project. She is not going anywhere   Oh !!! Actually she is going to Brazil.

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant did not date the Moldy Peaches, omg. I used to listen to them. What
 
But hey it looks like they're still on good terms if she continues to mention him, at least! And Sirens may not be very "surf" but she's called it her first record twice and I just don't see how she could mean anything else. Plus, maybe he produced other LG era songs? The No Kung Fu AKA demos, maybe...Many are without producers, like CWYCMA and the full-band Phenomena songs (hey, if she would work with him now, maybe she'd also work with him when she was obviously with Arthur Lynn).

:defeated: :defeated:

I totally overlooked the "eight years ago" part at first ( at a possible reference to Sirens or her other early recordings) but I'd been meaning to contact Steven Mertens for months since @@Trash Magic and I put some things together about him (which perhaps belong in Lanalysis). When I saw she mentioned him by name in this article, I got on that immediately and sent him an e-mail. I'll report back any response, but please don't bother him in case it interferes with my attempts to correspond with him.
 
In addition to sharing the bill with her at a Cross-Pollination show, and playing in her backing band as TPD noted (he's the guy that looks sort of like McNulty from The Wire in the Canal Room videos), Mertens has actually been referred to in at least two other interviews with Lana. Remember that Megan and Menace in the Mornings interview?
(You can listen here at around 5:20.) Regina Spektor (who TPD notes Mertens also played for) is married to Jack Dishel who was in a band called The Moldy Peaches. Guess who else was in The Moldy Peaches? Steven Mertens. I wasn't completely convinced at first that that's who she was talking about (I thought it was more likely another Moldy Peaches member, Adam Green, since his initials are AG, likely a red herring) until @@Trash Magic pointed out something I'd missed-- in that Mizrahi interview she said:
A little digging shows that Steven Saint = Steven Mertens (see here and here).
 

Whitman has a poem called To the Garden of The World - it's one of the poems selected for the chapter Children of ADAM  ( which Body electric also makes part) in Leaves of Grass.
 
"TO the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for          reasons, most wondrous,  Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same."

"I can't wait to see you at our premiers for Tropico at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and in NYC." https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/368824186535292928
 
 
lol a city near you

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/368821230251413504

From her Instagram

Guilty.
 
Usually when it's ~~too much to deal with for some reason. I swear it's not on purpose, I'm sorry.

I disagree tbh. I think all her Lizzy Grant era lacked was an audience. She has it now. I'd personally love for her to go back to that sound.

If that's not bitterness, well...
Opinions, though.

I disagree tbh. I think all her Lizzy Grant era lacked was an audience. She has it now. I'd personally love for her to go back to that sound.

Guilty.
 
Usually when it's ~~too much to deal with for some reason. I swear it's not on purpose, I'm sorry.

I disagree tbh. I think all her Lizzy Grant era lacked was an audience. She has it now. I'd personally love for her to go back to that sound.

Guilty.
 
Usually when it's ~~too much to deal with for some reason. I swear it's not on purpose, I'm sorry.

Guilty.
 
Usually when it's ~~too much to deal with for some reason. I swear it's not on purpose, I'm sorry.

I disagree tbh. I think all her Lizzy Grant era lacked was an audience. She has it now. I'd personally love for her to go back to that sound.

I disagree tbh. I think all her Lizzy Grant era lacked was an audience. She has it now. I'd personally love for her to go back to that sound.