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A lot of this was "just for fun" I admit. But in Tropico she uses these themes in an overt way -- i.e. Adam and Eve as Subject and Object are lost in the land of Gods and Monsters after falling away from Paradise; Eve dons her red party bikini and goes Go-Go Dancer as Adam eats the apple of sensory oblivion, before ultimately passing into a state of regeneration. And what she said of "Video Games" was that the verses were about one relationship, while the chorus was about another relationship altogether. A progression from particular to general. But still wild speculation in the dark. "If you don't get it, then forget it / 'Cause I don't have to fucking explain it" http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/09/flannery-oconnor-mystery-and-manners-art/ "Obviously the quest for peace, the quest for knowledge of something bigger is…that’s the end game. That’s what I’m really interested in." The texts are guideposts to archetypal realities written by other Seers but are not necessarily indicative of what she has read. Jane Leade and Ibn Arabi may not have read each other, either. ~hunnymoon~

I don't have a clue what you said, but look at Tropico, look at the lyrics of "Bel Air," and that has always been what she has really been about. The Metaphysical is unfashionable in a physical age. The Bride as spark of the World-Soul with her own dark son (see Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion). Guns and Roses. Los Angeles as the Underworld as Paradise through a glass darkly. While her lyrics and themes are repetitive, it is to a certain symbolic end.

I don't think she's in the business of describing any human lovers at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Christ

this thread um can you give like a link or something

This sounds like a stylistic influence (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zCYDuynE4

The production sounds great on headphones … probably the best she's done. It sounds warm, spacious, and natural, rather than ProTooled (BTD) and murky (UV)

DEbbie REYnolds

Every LDR album has been mastered with an excessive amount of bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LICMHRIYTjY

I only pray that HM stays in the analog direction she went with UV; the CD was a bit too murky and smashed but the vinyl was really gorgeous with a bit of added analog tube warmth

Can we stop for a second to appreciate the flawless Phil Spector pastiche of the title track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68unWtBAQao ^^ More so because it somehow manages to sound like the trippy stereo versions that never made it to CD because Phil is literally a homicidal maniac

best: black beauty worst: money power glory

The "heart girt with a serpent" has alchemical significance as well

"Futureretro" = I assume she will go back to her 60's Gainsbourgian Yé-Yé girl roots Let me just say that, production-wise, Paradise sounds REALLY good on headphones … the vinyl is even better She said in the NPR interview that it's about her relationship with God, which is more in keeping with the "cult leader" theme -- i.e. God is breaking her down, alchemically, to build her up again (although perhaps not the Christian God of Church & State)

Constantly. It's All For You

I was totally going to say that it looked like Bowie's Hunger City set, but I see everything through Bowie-colored lenses anyways ...

DEEP CUTS

Is there a Joseph Campbellian Monomyth for music? Are Lizzy's ch-ch-changes part of an archetypal pattern, her artistic life unfolding like so many pre-arranged Tarot cards? These are the useless questions I ask to fill my empty life and live vicariously through the more successful.

her world is not our world; she only intersects it diagonally from time to time like halley's comet philip k. dick's hyperuniverse theory in practice

basically the best troll of hipsters that could be made now she's seduced the artists of pitchfork's 1st and 200th best songs of the decade

just kidding, i would never listen to taytay on anything less than 180g vinyl

finally i can experience taylor swift in supreme audio fidelity

Great connections … I observed much the same in Tropico way back when http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3823-tropico-analysis/page-7&do=findComment&comment=152372 Lana is very self-aware of what she is doing, for sure

She sings "babyyyyy" in Weeds just like Lanz in MPG if we wanna go here Maybe Lana was right when she said her music just has its finger on the pulse of the Zeitgeist