CarcrashBandicoot

I don't think this thread should turn into a #LEGALIZEIT campaign..

Weed is just as much of a drug as alcohol tbh There's over 100,000 deaths a year from Alcohol abuse, name one death from weed. Also weed is a natural plant where as Alcohol is a poison that shuts down different parts of the body creating the numb feeling of drunk.
And not everyone smokes it. I for one vaporize it so my lungs are not harmed. Alcohol harms your liver EVERY time.

I stone women to the tune of "Maha Maha"

i literally saw this post at 4:20
 
for me tho usually Live or Die, Kill Kill or QOTD. but if i'm feel ~*~sadcore~*~ then Black Beauty

Pawn Shop Blues always gets me 
Has anyone considered Ride being a sad song? I found myself crying to it
You're gonna love me too 

OTTR demo and "Roses" are the most depressing because we still don't have them...

Your Band Is All The Rage, definitely for me, i also think T.V. In Black And White is pretty sad. There's Nothing To Be Sorry About made me cry too lol it was just "I'll do anything, for you, for him, or whoever else needs my help out there, i swear, i swear." It just sounded so pleading and desperate 

Hawaiian Tropic; the lines 'Every man gets his wish, every man gets his wish/You told me this, now you're gone' and 'I remember/Party dresses' are so tragic, I can imagine this song serving the closing song to an album that starts with EMGHW
 
Never Let Me Go; I can't speak for everyone, but I personally think it's such a sad song because Lana sounds like she's really pleading for her bf not to leave her. I used to hear it as being happy, but after re-thinking it I believe it sounds like she's just saying 'please, please, don't leave me alone'.
 
Starry Eyed; 'They say make lemonade outta lemons/But I tried and I just can't understand it' and 'the sun's setting on our love, bye baby'. It's lyrically one of Lana's best songs to me, and I'm just blown away about how beautifully sad it is.
 
Your Band Is All The Rage; Just the whole message behind the song is sad.
 
The bridge of I Don't Wanna Go; Acknowledging how toxic the relationship is.
 
Try Tonight; the line 'but he will' is really matter-of-fact and tragic.
 
Bad Disease; mostly the ending, when she's begging for help but doesn't get it.
 
Peace; it's bittersweet
 
How Do You Know Me So Well; 'He said 'baby go to Hell'/And that was the demise of their love'
 
Next To Me; similar to Peace
 
Drive By; 'Is that what you wished/To leave me behind?' hits me, she's just so scared that K (?) hated her
 
Pretty Baby/For K (Part 1); Possibly the saddest one ever. Full of rejection and pleading, I can't get over how amazingly sad the lyrics are in this. The song by itself triumphs the majority of the BtD album IMO
 
Junky Pride; It's kind of like the more defiant version of Pretty Baby, but it's still so sad - she wants so much more but can't get it. 'I kiss you, I hug you/But I could not feel less connected from you'. Beautiful.

I have an entire album. It's called Never Let Me Go with NLMG, JFK, Starry Eyed, AFFA, On Our Way, Black Beauty, and I Don't Wanna Go (Tonight) and those songs are usually what I go to when I get really depressed and they kill me each time. From BTD, I'd say Carmen or Video Games... <3 
I also find Television Heaven kind of sad, her saying "I hope you remember me like this" is just rdctfvygbhun yeah... lol

Oh, and Damn You (American Dream) and Tired of Singing The Blues vygbhunj
 
And I think maybe There's Nothing To Be Sorry About? Idk. 
 
Every Man Gets His Wish... <3

been drinking regular mtn dew for years and same with pepsi

Black Beauty (imo) for sure. I can't listen without crying. Maybe that's just because it hits home for me 

I just hear moaning lol

If you listen on a very loud volume you can barely hear music underneath the clicking noises. I can't decide if I hear weird tribal music or strange trance music or I'm crazy. I'd go with choice C.

omg you guys shes already making videos... may 1st might be for real

omg you guys shes already making videos... may 1st might be for real

Single on Tuesday. Bookmark me.
 
Sounds really new, could be the lead single from UV.

No, I don't think the added chorus part should be there, but the part before the chorus music sounded good.

Woah. The way you explained it and shit with actual quotes, you looked into this, huh? I mean, damn.
 
I find Lana as someone who has these parts of her life that she keeps secret but she may have written about in her songs and named them other things (Lizzie Grant, Lana Del Rey, May Jailer, possibly Carmen (What would be Carmen's last name...? o.o ), and Sparkle Jump Rope Queen) and that way, she could live this other life as a star named Lana Del Rey, someone she conjured up from inside and brought to life. Jimmy is who I think gave her the name, though I'm not completely certain.
 
 
If I remember right, she sings about Jimmy having the Chevy. So maybe it's other people giving her these ideas for her names.
 
Then again, the theory that Carmen is the typical pop star comes in mind.
 
 
Oh, and what's up with the red dress? Does she like it for some particular reason or something...?

The red dress = the red rose that reappears in all of her videos; the only explanation I can offer is purely metaphysical
 
Caught between Eve and Mary--the eternal war in her mind
 
She calls herself "Lana" all the time, so that might not be a solid lead
 
Vivien Leigh is both Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois (?)
 
"Dum Dum" was recorded back in 2010; but maybe she had it planned all along; her mimetic interpretation of the doomed female pop starlet
 
"I'm dying, I'm dying
She says you don't want to get this way
Famous and dumb at an early age
Lying, I’m lying"
 

 
  If the Tropico pole-dancer is Carmen as she hints, then "Gods and Monsters" ties into it as well--    
So, again . . . the portrait is of the tragic pop singer as the archetypal angel lost in the lower world, headed towards an early death, as you say   It could be her own past self (lost, but then found), someone she could've been, or it could be anyone who puts a false image to conceal reality

As much as I'm warming up to @@DeadAgainst analysis, I still think Carmen is principally about LDR's alcoholism. There is also a strong alcoholism theme in the *video* for Ride as there are just too many cut shots to booze for that not to be an important idea in the personal meaning for that video (also notice LDR's character is abstinent, it's the men who partake the booze). The extension of Carmen to pop figures in general might be reasonable given LDR's (and Barrie's) fascination for tragic loss of amazing talent due to substance abuse and/or depression. 
 
Also on  "Carmen represents the phenomenon of the pop music singer as objectified image" @@DeadAgainst 
 
I've always thought the song Dum Dum was the precise expression of how LDR views her own image in pop music, but it is not the average image of a female superstar. She seems a little freaked out at her effect on her audience (e.g. me AKA Dum Dum). I also like the bit of S & M there:
 
I’m a bad jazz singer
Givin’ You the finger
No matter what you linger
Cause you like me even when I’m mean
I’m the queen
 
In short, her images of herself as "objectified image" seem much more personally tailored to herself, to be specifically about other artists, although So Legit and Hit and Run do seem to be about objectified images in general, imo. 

Yes. Having thought about this long and hard (like my dilz) . . . Carmen represents the phenomenon of the pop music singer as objectified image. Observe "Noir"--
 
 
This song is not about Lana--it's about Lady Gaga (Stefani with the Mafia daddy). Then in "Carmen" acapella:
 
 
This is the cartoon pop singer of the Katy/Gaga type; all superficial AudioTune bubblegum artifice ("Walk, walk fashion baby"). Then in "Criminals Run the World," suddenly the Gagaesque pop figure metamorphoses into Lana herself, or a certain aspect of her persona:
 
 
Pay attention to that last line--Lana as the imaginal bubblegum pop star is presenting herself as an anima projection of an ideal feminine image--
 
 
The Land of Gods and Monsters is the world of artifice that we inhabit (the lower created world) that is more externalized image than reality. Now ... look in Tropico, and there we have "Carmen" as Eve, the pole dancer in red as objectified image--she is Adam's anima projection. At the end, they will return to each other. The "china doll" is "nothing" without him. Mandler says (and this is about as much of an explanation of "Carmen" as we're probably going to get):
 
 
Lana, of course, does not wish to be an empty image without substance ("you don't wanna be like me"), someone outwardly glamorous but dying inside (as her fellow pop stars are perceived to be), but true to herself and her own being. Thus is she torn between the girl in white, as who she is as an artist in her inner nature, and the girl in red, as the image she must present to the world. The ongoing process is in making the inner like the outer ("opulence is the end").
 
The irony is that Lana, too, was accused of being a fake and manufactured image--but in such ways we are often forced to confront our own shadows.

I don't know, a lot of people see her as thrashy The non-fans, I mean.
I'm not trying to say that this is supposed to be laugh-out loud funny... but I find it amusing. Doesn't mean that everybody should share my point of view. Maybe light-hearted is a better word?

I always kinda related the Carmen character to Lana, but not in a literal way... just that she's a made-up, condensed version of teen!Lana.

I was just listening to Carmen and then I listened to Ride and after paying attention to the Intro/Outro to Ride, she mentions that she believes in the kindness of strangers. I don't know, it's just an idea, but does anyone think that either of these songs could be possibly related or maybe she's "Carmen." Not sure, just a small idea/theory. Any thoughts would be good.
 
(I'm being serious, so please, no bs comments about how ridiculous this sounds.)

lol it's funny seeing people thrist for things we have now (and turned out to be not so great)
 
im just thirsting for Ultraviolence that's all