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FMWUTTT, new "Hit and Run"?

On the balcony, overlooking the world = Lana in white (higher Mary-Sophia) with her "Daddy" character as God (YHWH, "Our Father, whose Art's in heaven"), riding her throne-chariot through the heavens ... Lana in red (lower Eve-Sophia) as the "Girl on Fire," the Phoenix in flames. ("Phoenix" = "palm tree.") The final scene shows Christ crucified with Lana as Sophia overshadowing him in her soft resurrection. She is seen in the flames in red before turning to black leather--the Nigredo when she puts on her black wedding dress.

Waiting for the followup article where Lana meets the staff of Pitchfork in a bathhouse

Wouldn't have done much for her hipster cred, but maybe she shouldn't have snubbed Katy Perry way back when ... as they say, ha power

Maleficent promo, Lana is always a Sleeping Black Beauty on the Spinning Wheel

No . . . Video version has a DR value of 7 iTunes version has a DR value of 6 Ergo, the video version is the real first version, while the iTunes track has been "mastered for iTunes," i.e. EQ'd (not in a bad way) and run through a compressor but lbr they both kind of sound like mud compared to this new snippet

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WC promo @ the WC

She gives them butterflies, bats her cartoon eyes http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=574924

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Instead of just listening to the same track a thousand times you can listen to three or four different mixes several hundred times, Iscope breaks the monotony of your Lanabored existence

The new version is clearly mixed and EQ'd for FM radio, it's really that jagged, tinny sound filling out the chorus that ruins it for me, the video mix seems definitive (even if I felt it sounded too "dark" at first); it's DEEP.

"It's a cruel world ..." New indie rock queen

It seems like there are EQ differences with every version Vevo video is dark, very recessed highs but has the most dynamic range New soundcloud ver is bright and crisp, but at the expense of some dynamics First iTunes ver is somewhere in the middle The only reason I could think of for the applause link to be different is soundcloud's compression because otherwise it sounds like the first iTunes ver And idk I'm liking the video version more rn -_-

After the hype-backlash mess of BtD she probably wants her work to speak for itself

Did they try to fix the EQ on the new ver? I noticed the SoundCloud edit is slightly brighter ... Is this the new iTunes mix? http://soundcloud.com/igapromotion/lana-del-rey-west-coast

I can't get used to the way WC is mastered; the EQ feels really murky in an unnecessary way. If I boost the treble on the video mix a bit, it sounds more natural to me ...

"Mary" on the balcony Ravens = Nigredo Good overview: http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/alchemyintro.htm "I'm leaving you for the moment" = "My soul and my spirit depart" Many scales, yes . . . alchemy repeats the creation of the universe; the Fall and Redemption Dark Paradise --The Tower of Alchemy Fire as violent love, Sulphur and Mars energy of transformation performing the Operation of the Sun Guy Fawkes the revolutionary attempts to blow up Parliament; i.e. destroy the old order of Ego and its ossified belief structures (represented by Jackoff Jack in the Tower in Tropico) The video for "Born to Die" with Bradley again depicts the first stage of the Alchemical work as "Death": Lana in two forms as the Higher and Lower Shekinah (Sophia). Bradley as the alchemical King from whom Soul departs in a fiery crash as he steers his Merkabah-Chariot. Brad takes the cig and gives it to Lana ("His Parliament's on fire ..."); i.e. he communicates his alchemical fire to her. "I got the ice, you got the fire. I got the stuff, to take you higher.... This is a race, let's go fast honey.... C'mon pretty baby, I'll be takin' you down."

I think "West Coast" has a lot to do with this poem Barrie posted on FB: https://www.facebook.com/nightmareboybjo/posts/413946528751206 "She's a drunk bitch he's a drunk cunt she's so lonely now he's gone he's day dreaming of his new gun she's a feeling his only one burn me a liar want to die in a fire holy and wired addicted to liars Pontius pilate serve me a sin be my next of kin broken by her violent hymn she thinks he's jesus crying within serve him a sire he wants to die in a fire holy and wired addicted to liars burn me a liar i want to die in a fire buried in fire addicted to liars my girl she burns her lover and she says something as he's on fire and my girl she burns her lover and says something like love" "Chelsea Hotel #2" appears on this Leonard Cohen album, whose cover features "an image from the alchemical text Rosarium philosophorum" "You're the King My fear baby I'm the Queen of Alchemy I know a way to make gold by mixing our souls to escape reality" Lana, as she told us in "Heavy Hitter," is the Queen of Alchemy, and her work must be interpreted in this context. She is burning her lover (and/or the listener) in the alchemical fire, purging away his impurities and symbolically "killing" the lower self so that it may be reborn as a Phoenix. The first stage of Alchemy is the Nigredo, in which the sun of day-consciousness figuratively is immersed in the darkness of the lower world, interpreted in both its macrocosmic and microcosmic aspects as the soul descending into body and the consciousness descending into the unconscious waters of the psyche, respectively. This is the sun setting in the "West" to make the night-journey through the Underworld. "Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin' If you're not drinking, then you're not playing But you got the music, you got the music in you, don't you? "Down on the West Coast, I get this feeling, like It all could happen, that's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment, boy blue, yeah, you..." "Down on the West Coast, they got their icons The silver starlets, their queens of Saigons ...they love their movies Their Golden Gods and rock 'n' roll groupies And you got the music, you got the music in you, don't you?" Los Angeles is the Gateway to the Underworld, as she said in Tropico. The Land of Gods and Monsters is an inverted reflection of the higher spiritual reality of the world of forms, where all of the "Golden Gods" and "Silver Starlets" dwell in their own false Paradise. Here one is subjected to spiritual intoxication and occlusion that dulls the senses. Lana, as the Alchemical Queen, has descended into this world as a Ray of light broken off from the Divine, here to alchemically transform the lower world into a true image of the eternal Paradise; she as Soul is the "music" in her lover as Ego that will transform him from the dead to the living. "You're falling hard, I push away I'm feeling hot to the touch You say you miss me and I wanna say, "I miss you so much" But something keeps me really quiet" This ties into the symbolism of "Black Beauty," in which Lana as Soul paints herself black in the Nigredo stage of the work, when the alchemical fire turns all to ashes; she no longer speaks to her lover and he is left seemingly alone in his Dark Night of the Soul. "I can see my baby swinging, his Parliament's on fire and his hands are up On the balcony and I'm singing, ooh baby, ooh baby, I'm in love I can see my sweet boy swinging, he's crazy and Cubano como yo, my love On the balcony and I'm swaying, move baby, move baby, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love" Lana repeats the familiar trope of separating herself into two characters in the verse-chorus structure; here she stands as the Higher Sophia, in distinction from the Lower (the White and Red girls as Soul and Body, Mary and Eve), who declares her love as her "baby" burns himself in the alchemical fire. In Barrie's "Mary," we see Mary on a balcony as the Mother Goddess, overlooking the mortal child who wishes to approach her divinity. "Would you kill for me? Would you die for me? 
Put your hands where I can see them,
 Put them in the air." And if it seems strange that she would personify herself as a goddess . . . "I want to be the whole world's girl, gramma Tell me do you think that's wrong? "Don't cry, honey, crazy girl Don't you know you are the world? Every time you feel unsure Try to remember what you are"

Parkin has never done anything here but concern-troll fyi, just look at his post history Invent yr own conspiracy theories

Lorde's whole career is trolling Lana by doing everything she wished she could do

She got a billboard and a Billboard nom

They just want her to show up for the broadcast

"I'm the sweetest girl in town so why are you so mean?" -- Julius Caesar

Kurt is conspicuously absent from Tropico . . . does Bradley's grunge look hint that Jesus and Kurt are the same person for her Kill Kill, "in love with a dying man," "For K," "Jesus was a dying man / If he can't do it, no one can"