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"im not a provocateur" says the woman who names her song 'fucked my way to the top' 
 

Wow, this is really one of the most revealing interviews EVER. And one of th best overall. FINALLY
  Talking with John Ehmann at interscope since Diet MTN Dew was uploaded More stills from Born To Die video need to leak ASAP… Period of writer’s block while touring after Born To Die  Her mom taught at the school she attended Mr. Campbell name drop "Nina Bella" tattoo is actually "Nina Billie" after Nina Simone and Billie holiday Rented trailer halfway through college for $400 a month "don't have a reference for where I was coming from even before that. I was always singing and always changing - the timing of it hit when I was in a particular phase. It could have hit three years before that, and then they would have been going back to the era when I wasn't platinum, and I was in my natural hair colour.”
Lizzy Grant and Sirens tease  "there are pop stars who are regarded as really authentic and innovative who spend hours putting their outfits together".
Even some “shade”  [smoking] "It's part of my process, unfortunately," she apologises. She took up smoking at around the same time she gave up drinking, when she was 18. "I used to drink a lot and now I don't drink at all," she says. Was there a catalyst for that decision? "My whole life was the catalyst. It was a mess." She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully
I wouldn't trust Lana when it comes to describing ages 

["Prom Song (Gone Wrong)" starts playing softly in a distance]
 
If you're lonely, baby, hold me
You're my only one
Watching television, kiss until we see the sun
 
You played me Biggie Smalls and then my first Nirvana song
So even though when no one's friends we're really serious
I knew you loved me by the way you looked in second period
 

 
 
So "The Other Woman" might be a thing after all, huh? 
 
Interesting. Sounds so legit

Hello everybody, I found an interesting and recent  interview with Lana. If this was posted on LB before I ask the mods to delete this topic. I really enjoyed this interview. Discuss
 
 
Few pop singers divide audiences like Lana Del Rey. Just what is it about the sweet-voiced, doe-eyed chanteuse that attracts such extreme opinions?
 
When I meet Lana Del Rey at a cavernous rehearsal studio in Hollywood, the 27-year-old singer is dressed all in denim, wearing torn blue jeans and a western-style denim shirt with canvas sneakers. Del Rey has just finished a day of rehearsal for her upcoming tour, which begins in Las Vegas and takes her across the US and Europe. Her hair is dyed a dark reddish-brown, pulled back from her face, and she pulls absent-mindedly at long strands of it as she speaks. Her face is free of make-up, and her pale skin has an enviably healthy glow, even under the dreary light of the rehearsal space.
 
 
The overall dressed-down effect is offset by a huge set of false eyelashes, left on from a photo shoot with a French magazine the previous day. This contrast seems somehow of a piece with the disjunctions that define her style, a mix of innocence and artfulness, childish naivete and knowing glamour which she's described as "gangster Nancy Sinatra" or "Lolita got lost in the 'hood".
I've showed up ready to believe the rumours (which she denies) about the plastic surgery that produced her remarkable pout, but she looks convincingly natural. She has a model's face, more subdued in life than on film, where the camera throws her clearly defined features into sharp, exaggerated relief. The standout feature is not her much-discussed lips but her big, kohl-lined eyes, with their unusual dark-forest-green colour.
 
 
Del Rey speaks in a low-pitched voice with an upstate New York inflection, and talks in hesitant, wandering trains of thought. She didn't do press for two and a half years, she says, exhausted by what she saw as persistent misrepresentations of herself and her story. "Read everything and assume the opposite, then you'll really know who I am." She gives a thin smile. "It really doesn't matter what I say." Tattooed on the side of one hand is the word "Paradise" - a recurring idea in her work - on the other, "Trust no one".
Lana Del Rey's sharp rise to fame began in mid-2011, when her melancholic love song Video Games attracted millions of views on YouTube in a matter of weeks after she posted it. The self-produced video mashed together nostalgic archival film with other found footage and webcam film of Del Rey, with her big eyes and sad, beautiful, blank face evoking an updated Valley of the Dolls.
She was born Elizabeth Grant, and had performed for years as Lizzy Grant, playing small venues and open-mike nights in New York; she recorded an album with producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, the Strokes, New Order), released in 2009, which didn't sell. Titled Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant, it shows her beginning to experiment with the artistic persona that she brought to fruition a couple of years later, with the release of three tracks on YouTube that consolidated her moody, retro pop sound and distinctive visual style: Diet Mountain Dew, Blue Jeans and Video Games. "I didn't have any offers," Del Rey tells me, "and then I got all the offers on one day - on the day Video Games was played on the radio."
 
 
She'd already been in conversation with John Ehmann at record label Interscope, who had championed her since seeing the video for Diet Mountain Dew on YouTube well before the huge success of Video Games, and she signed a joint recording deal with Interscope, Polydor and Stranger. Her subsequent album, Born to Die, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts in February 2012.
It is common for performers to change names and play with personas - one has only to think of Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman), David Bowie's many incarnations, or more recently, Lady Gaga. But something about Lana Del Rey's self-presentation, straddling pop accessibility and indie artistic aspirations, struck a nerve, and she was quickly accused of being a fake, a manufactured pop product, with no authentic agency of her own. Somehow it was impossible to believe that this young, preternaturally beautiful woman could actually be "in the driver's seat", as Ehmann describes her role. "The vision is all hers."
 
 
Ehmann plays me some of the tracks from Del Rey's new album Ultraviolence, out later this year, at his Santa Monica office, where a large picture of Del Rey seated on a throne, flanked by tigers, hangs over his door (it's a still from the video for Born to Die.) He scoffs at the widely held belief that Del Rey's contract was arranged and bankrolled by her father, Robert Grant. "The first time I met or spoke to her father was roughly six months after I signed her, at one of her first shows," he tells me.
 
 
The criticism reached new levels of intensity after Del Rey's appearance on Saturday Night Live in January 2012, with clips of her clumsy performance circulating widely online. No other performer inspires a comparable level of animosity. Feminist website Jezebel asks, "Why do you hate Lana Del Rey? I do not know why I hate Lana Del Rey." In a carnival of schadenfreude, the website Buzzfeed compiled "Twenty-six Meanest Quotes from Reviews of Lana Del Rey". Sites on Tumblr such as I Hate Lana Del Rey subscribe openly to the idea that the singer's success is due to canny promotion of her sex appeal: "Cash comes quick when looks can kill," explains the heading of another Del Rey "troll" blog.
 
 
"None of it ever seemed to make any sense," Del Rey says, reflecting on the intensity of her reception, halting between words. "I'm not a provocateur. I love to write. The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have. I love rhyming and writing. For years my focus was on building a beautiful visual world and beautiful sonic world and yeah, having such a strong reaction was ... surprising? I don't know."
 
 
She went through a painful period of writer's block while touring after the release of Born to Die, "trying to write things that I thought would be more accessible," and for a while she doubted whether she would release another record. "It's this feeling that comes over you, like falling in love," she says of the inspiration to write. "You have to get that sensation."
That feeling returned when she met Dan Auerbach, of rock group the Black Keys, who wound up producing her new album. Del Rey had been feeling for a while that there was something missing from her sound, "a fuzzy guitar tone that I couldn't bring on my own". Upon meeting Dan, she thought, "Maybe this is my guy!"
 
 
The album has taken a while to put together - two and a half years - due to Del Rey's hands-on approach. "I'm involved in the process, from the mixing to the mastering. Every single part of it has to be right."
Del Rey was born in New York in 1986, and grew up in Lake Placid, a small town on the northern edge of upstate New York. "It's the coldest spot in the nation," she says. "It's very insular, very quiet. There were no main stores, we didn't have TV." Her parents, Robert and Pat Grant, had abandoned lucrative careers in advertising in New York City; Robert became a real estate agent and later an internet entrepreneur, while Pat became a schoolteacher. Del Rey was the eldest of three siblings, and her younger brother and sister, Charlie and Caroline, now share a house with her in LA. Caroline, an accomplished photographer, is responsible for many of Del Rey's most well-known images and cover art.
 
 
Lake Placid was a tough place to be a teenager with artistic ambitions, Del Rey remembers. "I really wanted to be a singer. It was hard because ..." She trails off and starts again. "I don't like to say anything bad about it because it's my home, but I love cities. Living in the Bronx was heaven. I lived in New Jersey, I lived in Brooklyn, and that was when I really came home."
By the time she was 15, she says, she'd started acting up. "I was misdirecting my energy. I started going out all the time and skipping school a little bit and yeah, I got in trouble." Conflict with teachers at school, where her mother also taught, led to her parents sending her to Kent, a private boarding school in Connecticut; her uncle had recently taken up a position there as admissions officer, and he helped to arrange financial aid.
 
 
"I was lonely," she says, but "I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn't have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people." Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. "He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car," she remembers, "and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything."
 
 
Since then she's become a collector of early editions of classic books, including a signed first edition of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Names of her sources of inspiration are tattooed on her body, all in elegant copperplate: "Whitman" and "Nabokov", tributes to the writers Gene introduced her to, on her right forearm; "Chateau Marmont", the famous Hollywood hotel, on the other. "Nina" and "Billie" are on her left upper chest, for Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, her favourite singers. "I just like the idea of keeping them close. I like the idea of them coming on tour with me." She laughs. "It makes me happy."
After high school, Del Rey attended Fordham, a university in the Bronx where she finished a BA with a major in philosophy, but felt out of sync with campus life. "I had my own world going on," she says, "and it was really different from people who just go out every night."
With the $10,000 she received for her first record deal, halfway through college, she rented a trailer in the New Jersey town of North Bergen for $400 a month and dedicated herself to songwriting and video-making. Her parents, she says, had "traditional expectations" for her career that were "geared towards keeping me safe" after her troubled teens, so "most of my musical world was kept under wraps ... I don't want to say it was a frivolous prospect, but we have nurses in the family, and teachers, and that was more of a reliable profession."
 
 
The shift in style between the blonde Lizzy Grant days and the auburn Lana Del Rey is disconcerting to some people, who suspect it was engineered by others. But people who only compare Lizzy Grant with Lana Del Rey, she says, "don't have a reference for where I was coming from even before that. I was always singing and always changing - the timing of it hit when I was in a particular phase. It could have hit three years before that, and then they would have been going back to the era when I wasn't platinum, and I was in my natural hair colour." In that case, she guesses, the critics would have said, "Now she's trying to be Marilyn; she's performing in cherry earrings and high heels."
Del Rey's retro-glam style may appear consciously crafted, but "I don't really feel that way," she says. "I wear jeans every day, so I won't wear them on stage." She rejects the idea that her style is dictated by anyone. "I'm a very independent agent. I run my own show, it's my world. There's never that many talks about, you know, 'When you go on tour, what are you going to look like?' because they know it's going to be as it is - I'll put a dress on, I'll do my hair. My public perception is different from my personal life, which is a very easy, natural way of going about things." Meanwhile, she says, "there are pop stars who are regarded as really authentic and innovative who spend hours putting their outfits together".
 
 
Authenticity, the issue that obsesses her critics, "isn't an interesting concept for me," Del Rey explains. "It's interesting that they're not asking that question of people who don't even write their own stuff." The truth is, she says, "I've always been really at home with myself and maybe that turns people off. Maybe that's a problem for people. It's funny - I ended up following my gut instinct and that's led me to where I am."
At her San Francisco show a week later, palm trees, giant floral arrangements and gothic candelabras adorn the stage. Del Rey strolls on in a short, white baby-doll dress, wearing flat slip-ons. She kicks them off at one point and performs the rest of the show barefoot. She runs her hands constantly through her hair, which she wears in natural-looking waves. There are no costume changes, and the presentation feels less slick and choreographed than most performances on Australian Idol. The 7000-seat auditorium is filled with young men and women, many of the girls wearing flowing dresses and flower garlands in tribute to one of Del Rey's defining looks. They know all the lyrics, singing along in an eerie backing chorus to every track when they aren't screaming in excitement. "This is f...ing awesome!" Del Rey calls out. "I really feel a connection!"
 
 
Towards the end of our conversation in LA, we head outside to the car park for a cigarette break. "It's part of my process, unfortunately," she apologises. She took up smoking at around the same time she gave up drinking, when she was 18. "I used to drink a lot and now I don't drink at all," she says. Was there a catalyst for that decision? "My whole life was the catalyst. It was a mess." She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully.
While she was getting sober, she says, "I spent a lot of time figuring out my life's path, which was being of service to people around me. It's still a part of my life." She lives on the edge of LA's Koreatown, she tells me, where a lot of homeless people need help getting their lives back together. "My time [off] is spent doing outreach-type things. I don't often go into it because it's yet another facet that's so kind of jarring," she says, referring to preconceptions of her as a person whose head is filled only with "vintage dresses". "I've learnt to keep things I actually do sort of to myself."
 
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/lolita-in-the-hood-20140505-37r6n.html

another song that implies that Jimmy and Lana had a thing was Jimmy's song "Fall Into My Hands"   One of the lyrics being, "If you think you were born to die, And it makes you not want to try, Fall into my hands again,Fall into my hands, again."
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrOUDS0_rQ
 
I'm sorry if this was already known..if that's the case I'm sorry

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/felicia-c-sullivan/interview-singersongwrite_b_159346.html
 
Where is the strangest place you've ever performed? Ever written a song?
LG: Strangest performance: Alone in a basement for a handsome record executive.
Strangest ever written: Back at his office while I was making out with him.
 
This an old interview she must have been 22 at the time. Anybody know who she is refer to? I didn't expect that answer lol

Where do I even begin? Sit back and enjoy kids:
 
TITLES
Blue Jeans Blue Velvet Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven) Pawn Shop Blues Baby Blue Love Tired of Singing the Blues LYRICS
"1949": You like my blue nail polish [...] New blue bathing suit [...] Blue LA Carte Docks "Birds of a Feather": Met you in front of a diner and you had blue hair "Black Beauty": Nothing, my sparrow blue [...] Sun and ocean blue [...] Seem so dark blue "Blizzard": Can't you see that I'm just feelin' blue? "Daddy Issues": They call you Baby Blue [...] Baby Blue. Because it’s your favorite color. Baby Blue [...] Remember how, Baby Blue "Driving In Cars With Boys": Miss America with the blue mascara on "Elvis": Sweeping scents and blue hydrangea "Hollywood's Dead": And you were 50s cool in blue suede shoes "Hundred Dollar Bill": Jimmy pulls up in his blue Chevy Nova "I Don't Wanna Go": In his soft leather, in his blue jeans "Living WIthout You": Wade into the waves until the water's blue "Making Out": And start listening to the way I sing the blues [...] Saw you skipping rope on TV looking blue, ooh, ah "Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight": Servin' coke and fries at the movie blue drive-in "Methamphetamines": Blue ‘50s queen, Blue Oyster Cult/Cove [...] The record spins blue '50s song "National Anthem": Red, white, blue is in the sky "On Our Way": Hot white, and blue "Off to the Races": Watch me in the swimming pool, bright blue ripples "Pin-Up Galore": American flags, blue blue streamers [...] Here's to the girl with the blue mascara "Queen of Disaster": Send my soul on fire and make me wild like the deep blue sea "Scarface": Light it up red, white and blue "Serial Killer": We can paint the town in blue "Shades of Cool": My baby lives in shades of blue. Blue eyes and jazz and attitude [...] I'm one of many, one is blue "This Is What Makes Us Girls": (Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice) "Trash Magic": Blue bedspread and silver tinsel, my heart’s delight "TV in Black & White": Wade into the water ‘til the waves turned blue "Video Games": Kissing in the blue dark "West Coast": That's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment, boy blue, yeah, you "Yayo": I like the ivy and the ink blue "You and Me": Blue water from the sea, hands all over me Might've missed out on one or another

They call you baby blue cause its your favorite colooour boy!

I agree with blue being associated with sadness BUT "you turn my mood from black to blue" -> black is prob deep depression and blue is actually happy but with a sad undertone.. I'm thinking of this interview:
 
 

@@lanasgirl Oh if you already did it, I guess my translation is not needed anymore. But I already did a part of it and I don't want it to be completely in vain so I'll share it here.
 
 
 

Platinum and vale acrylics
Skim the paper for the critics
Babys breathin' Elvis lyrics
on the cover bar

Late, an' Motel lounge is singin'
Spotlight on the band is swingin'
Chateau Marmont memories fading
hope is very far
 
He said he come to welcome warn me
Gesture diamond to adorn me
Come to be and see the one and only
For my final year
well thank you
 
 
I am sleeping with your best friend. How do you like me now?
 
Maybe we could go to Coney Island
Maybe I could sing you to sleep
God bless the universe, god bless the ocean
 
I'm in love with a dying man. / All our love is flying in the sand.
 
Cliches find a home inside of him
When he enters all of the lights go dim
He's so sure he's got a tragic lifestyle
And I'm so sure I can make that man smile
 
Cheap trailer trash and,
Everyone knows it,
But she got a great ass,
And she knows how to show it
 
There's some reason why
I can't sit still
Every waking moment
I feel so unfulfilled
I try to lie down
But I don't know how
Baby when I'm sleeping
It feels less like I am dreaming
Oh my god
I got a bad disease
  Come on you know you like little girls.  
 

"HEAVEN IS MY BABY SUICIDES HER FATHER"
 
"It's the voodoo, Mississippi south
69 million stars
Birds are flying out of my mouth
Spirits creeping in my yard"
 
"Scowling like the sunshine over Sarasota
Happy like a twister over Oklahoma"
 
"Got my bad baby by my heavenly side" (and the rest of summertime sadness)
 
"Red, white, blues in the sky, summer's in the air and baby heaven's in your eyes."
 
"Keep out the stars, turn out the lights, this little world is yours tonight"
 
"In the light, you're sickeningly beautiful"
 
"I am my only God"
 
"You're screwed up and brilliant, look like a million dollar man, so why is my heart broke?"
 
Um and all of off to the races and trash and carmen and tired of singing the blues and pawn shop blues and pretty much all her other songs too ok bye

Stefani you suck
 
THE MOST ICONIC LINE EVER

it has to be the best one.

Lana Del Rey completely submerges herself in the ocean while wearing a white t-shirt during her video shoot on Thursday (April 3) in Los Angeles.
The 27-year-old entertainer’s bra completely showed through her shirt as she filmed with some males on the beach.
 
That same day, Lana reportedly revealed the name of her latest single on her Twitter account.
“West Coast” Lana posted, along with a picture. 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

She quotes  Nabokov in Angels Forever "Paradise is a hell-colored flame sky"
 
" a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames" - V. Nabokov

Gods & Monsters: "God is dead/God's dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche ("Gott ist tot")
 
G&M: "Life imitates art" - Oscar Wilde ("Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life")

Lol, I thought this was serious at first. I still don't get the appeal of Beyonce, she's pretty and that's about all I can think of. 

PARTITION
In "Partition", the camera takes us inside a palatial estate that almost looks like it could have been the setting for the "Born to Die" video. See the exterior and interior below:

 
In the first of several scenes curiously similar to ones out of "National Anthem", we find Mrs. Carter seated at an immaculately set table, barely noticed by her rapper husband peering over his newspaper:

 
In her mind, she embarks on a sexual fantasy. Again she channels Rosalita:

 
Her rapper husband feels up her leg in a vehicle:

 
She puts on a show for him, donning a sequined flapper headdress like Lizzy wears in this photo:

 
Silhouette techniques like something out of "Summertime Sadness" are employed:

 
Beyoncé pole dances like Lana in Tropico over a sexy French spoken interlude like in "Carmen":

 
Like A$AP Rocky in "National Anthem", her rapper husband watches her performance voyeuristically, smoking a cigar:

 
 
JEALOUS
Beyoncé is a jealous, jealous, jealous gurrrrrl. This video begins in the same estate reminiscent of "Born to Die" as in "Partition". In one scene, the former Miss Knowles is draped over a pinball machine like Lana in "Ride":

 
In another we see a "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
 
ROCKET
Like "Blue Jeans", "Rocket" opens on a black & white close-up of a reflection of the artist's face in a ripple of water:

 
Later in each video we watch the artist submerge her face in water in slow motion:

 
 
MINE
Like Lana in the poster for Tropico, we find Beyoncé re-enacting Mary in the Pieta:

 
Also, is that another Shaun Ross cameo?
 
 
XO
In "XO", Beyoncé orchestrates perhaps the largest NYC land grab since Dutch settlers bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 24 bucks, stealing the famed amusement destination from the Queen of Coney Island herself:

 

 

 

 
 
***FLAWLESS & SUPERPOWER
Since I can't find any Lana plagiarism in either of these videos, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume they must be borrowed from the "Dark Paradise" and "Cola" videos that never materialized. @@Ultraviolence Watch these. One of them may be the closest thing you'll ever get to your precious "Cola" video.
 
 
HEAVEN
Here we have the biggest plot heist since Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds ripped off Gremlins. In "Heaven", Beyoncé portrays a woman mourning her deceased female bff in a series of flashbacks. Sound familiar? Of course it does. It's the plot of Lana's "Summertime Sadness" video. Not content to copycat one Lana video, "Heaven" filches from a few. A shot in a church mirrors the chapel in "Born to Die":

 
In a flashback, Beyoncé's girlfriend sprays alcohol at a campfire party echoing scenes in "Ride":

 
And we see her and her gal pal riding in a car like Lana & Jaime King:

 
She only barely tries to disguise her copying Lana's recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Tropico by saying it in Spanish. Oh, and speaking of Spanish, here's Rosalita yet again:

 
 
BLUE
Sure, there's another "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
The sequined bra is back:

 
And she evokes Lizzy's showgirl style:

 
But most saliently, this song is about Beyoncé's, uh, baby Blue love, the black baby daughter she had with a rapper. What a blatant "National Anthem" ripoff!

 
 
GROWN WOMAN
Last but not least, the video for "Grown Woman" consists of home footage of Beyoncé's childhood performances, a clear homage to Lana's DIY videos.
 
 
 

Beyoncé is certainly no stranger to accusations of plagiarism in her videos. Considering the large number of videos comprising her eponymous visual album, it would not be surprising if some of them were less than original. Did she copy Lana Del Rey?
 
Compare the album cover design and font to a Paradise box set booklet:

With Tropico, the "Ride" video, the "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M, and the "Song of Myself" promo for L'Officiel set to the intro to "Cola", Lana released some sort of video for almost every song on Paradise. One could argue that even the idea of releasing videos for the entire album is derivative. Now let's look at those videos.
 
 
PRETTY HURTS
Much like the opening bars of "Ride", the opening bars begin with the image of Beyoncé singing into a slender microphone, wearing a mostly white dress against sparkly blue stage curtains:

 
The song's themes—eating disorders and the dark side of being a beauty queen—are straight out of "Boarding School", "Brite Lites", and "Pin-Up Galore". Indeed, here we see Mrs. Carter in Ms. Grant's short-cut meth-haired beauty queen style complete with sash accessory:

 
Beyoncé also replicates Lana's arched back & cupped hand underwater poses from the "Blue Jeans" video:

 
She not only borrows Tropico co-star Shaun Ross, but doubles down on the African albinism by casting Diandra Forrest. To top it off, Beyoncé even has the audacity to lift Lizzy's iconic trademark sequined bra:

 
 
GHOST
In "Ghost", Sasha Fierce is not herself, assuming the identity of Lana's Rosalita alter ego from her "Song of Myself" video for L'Officiel:

 
 
HAUNTED
The "Countdown" singer's video for "Haunted" begins with a hauntingly familiar countdown straight outta one of Lizzy's DIY "Gramma" videos:

 
Then in true diva style, Beyoncé makes her male servant light her cigarette for her like a little bitch like Barrie at a Lana show:

 
The whole video imitates the imitated Lynchian style of Lana's "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M complete with the requisite Doppelgangers:

 
Yet it borrows scenes from "National Anthem" & Tropico. Black guys gambling? Check.

 
Strippers giving lapdances to white businessmen? Check.

 
People in whiteface? Check.

 
Bubbles? Check.

 
Originality? ...Anyone? Bueller?
 
 
DRUNK IN LOVE
In addition to lyrics that sound like a first draft of "Brite Lites" ("Flashing lights, flashing lights, you got me faded, faded, faded"), this intoxicating concoction's potency is poured from "National Anthem", where Lana grinds on another snifter-wielding rapper, A$AP Rocky:

 
 
BLOW
The cotton candy confection of the music masks Lana-like lyrics ("Every time I close my eyes", "I'ma let you be the boss of me", "Give me that daddy long stroke" and an interlude in French) in a video easily summarized as "pin-up girls at the roller derby". We also see a close-up of a disco ball a la her DIY "Yayo" video:

 
And Beyoncé perched on the hood of a car in a fuck-me pose like Lana in the "Born to Die" video:

 
In this case, we're lucky that "Blow" doesn't Soileau. Bradley sucks.
 
 
NO ANGEL
In an inversion of Lana's "angels forever" refrain, the "Halo" songstress proclaims, "You're no angel either, baby." She asks, "Tell me do you want to ride?" Like Lana in "Ride", Beyoncé is Queen of the Gas Station, knocking off Lana's hot long curly hair and cut-off jeans look. Unlike Lana, at least she's responsible enough to only be figuratively smokin' at the pump.

 
We see chicks on the back of motorcycles:

 
Tacky word bling:

 
And pole dancers making it rain:

 
 
YONCÉ
In "Yoncé", she continues the ghetto theme, banging around with her gang of ghetto girls like Lana in Tropico:

 
Who does Beyoncé think she is to appropriate all these signifiers of ghetto culture from gangsta Nancy Sinatra? Rather uppity if you ask me.
 
 
CONTINUED...

I have mixed feelings about Tropico.   I waited it for so long and was so excited about it but when I saw it I was a little disappointed. I still liked, it was really good. It wasn't just as good as I hoped it to be. Some points it was a little bit boring imo and I didn't like Shaun Ross at all   

I can't wait to see the full scene where Lana eats the apple and of course the part where she's a go go dancer.

I guess I'll start things off... Here's my Tropico costume:
 
 

cant u see? she truly cares about her fans 

I found a bunch of old Lake Placid News (LPN), Adirondack Daily Express (ADE), Plattsburgh Press-Rebulican (PPR) articles archived as black and white PDF scans that mention Lizzy, some with photos of her:
 
 
 
Here's a rundown of the rest of the references:
 
Involvement in Sports
Skiing. "Lately, the students of St. Agnes School have accomplished a lot out of school. Many SAS students particpated recently in some exciting ski races: NYSEF World Cup race for JV (ages 7-10). Placings are as follows... Elizabeth Grant 20th". January 25, 1995 LPN Sports page box score showing her run time and placing ("8. Elizabeth Grant   44.33") in the Ed Damp Junior V World Cup. March 12, 1996 PPR
"The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF) held its annual family race and picnic for participants in the.series last Saturday, at which time the final standings were released... Elizabeth Grant (259)... Completed the top 10." March 23, 1996 ADE
Skating. "The following scholarships have been awarded by the Skating Club of Lake Placid to the skaters named below... $50 scholarships for ice or lessons... Elizabeth Grant." March 27, 1997 ADE Softball. She played center fielder for her middle school team. "Elizabeth grant [sic] OF-C". April 10, 1998 LPN Involvement in Other Extra-curricular Activities
Choir. "The Lake Placid High School (LPHS) concert started off with the chorus singing 'Psallite'. They song many traditional Christmas Carols [sic]. The chorus personnel are... Elizabeth Grant". March 7, 2000 LPN "After the Women's Ensemble it was the high school chorus' time to shine... Medley from 'Les Miserables' had many soloists, such as... Elizabeth Grant". June 23, 2000 LPN
What song do you think she sang?
Performed in a variety show (as well as Chuck and Charlie). June 23, 2000 LPN Secretary of the high school Key Club. "On Tuesday May 9, the Key Club members welcomed new leadership... Congratulations also go to the new secretary. Elizabeth Grant". June 23, 2000 LPN Staff of the Blue Times Bomber, the school newspaper which appears to have been an insert in the Lake Placid News. January 28, 2000  March 17, 2000 LPN  June 23, 2000 LPN Confirmation. "On Sunday afternoon. May 21, at 4:30 p.m.. Bishop Gerald Barbarito, bishop of Ogdensburg, came to Lake Placid and confirmed more than 50 people from area Roman Catholic churches, including St Agnes... It was a beautiful and solemn ceremony, with the church's altars and pillars decked in red, the bishop in his red chasuble (robe), wearing his miter on his head and holding his staff in hand. On the altar, dozens of red roses arranged in large vases added to the festive atmosphere. The 17 Lake Placid young people, all dressed in white robes, who received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of confirmation included... Elizabeth Grant". May 26, 2000 LPN Honor Roll
 
There are also many articles that list her on the honor roll:
Grade 7, High Honors. January 9, 1998 LPN  February 13, 1998 LPN  March 27, 1998 LPN  March 27, 1998 ADE  March 30, 1998 PPR  May 29, 1998 ADE  June 9, 1998 ADE  June 19, 1998 LPN  July 31, 1998 PPR Grade 8, Honors. March 5, 1999 LPN  March 8, 1999 ADE  March 12, 1999 LPN  May 7, 1999 LPN Grade 8, High Honors. June 18, 1999 LPN  July 20, 1999  July 23, 1999 LPN Grade 9, Honors. December 24, 1999 LPN  December 31, 1999 LPN  January 28, 2000 LPN This establishes pretty well that she started 9th grade in the fall of 1999. Unless you skip a grade, kids are 14 or 15 when they begin 9th grade (or at least turn 14 shortly after it begins). If Lizzy was really born in 1986 as she claims, she would have just turned 13 the summer before.   
 
Family Members
 
There's also a lot of articles mentioning other members of her family. I didn't spend a ton of time looking at those, but they appear to be mostly about her parents' efforts to organize opposition to a development project (Lake Placid does really remind me of Twin Peaks sometimes) for classic NIMBY reasons, her dad's real estate listings, and Chuck and Charlie's sports exploits (including a huge fish she caught).
 
However, this article describes in greater detail her dad's furniture company mentioned in that Domain Name Journal profile on him and this article gives more background on her family's ownership of "God Bless America" singer Kate Smith's home-- which Lizzy mentioned in this article and was the inspiration for the original title of AKA-- and their attempts to sell it at a large profit rather than an affordable price for the Kate Smith/God Bless America Foundation who wanted to turn it into a museum.
 
Note: Please let me know if any of my links appear wrong. That's a lot of links to copy and paste!

I kinda have the feeling that Lana wants to be a Lolita. I don't think she necessarily was one. In her old homemade music videos she's still acting quite childish and cute because that's what she wants to be seen like.
 
She has this vision of a relationship in which she is the young, innocent little girlsand the man is an old, mean, strong bad guy. She wants to be a helpless little girl being saved by a strong, experienced man.
 
That's just my impression. But I think she's grown out of that since Barrie isn't that much older than her and she seems stronger and more confident now.