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If this were 1967 maybe

Tropico was her take on ET; she is deconstructing Slayty one video at a time

It made sense ... you just needed a degree in Metaphysics to decode it The same is true for all of her other videos, tho

Hotness Katniss Everdeen of pop

Multichannel DVD audio release Quadraphonic vinyl & 8-track

Girl in white, crowned with stars -- Mary, the Queen of Heaven Girl in red -- Eve, "got my red dress on tonight, dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight" (the disco ball is a crescent moon!) The American flag -- RED and WHITE together, "blue's in the skies" crowning her with stars Gold -- "I know a way to make gold by mixing our souls to escape reality" "Paradise is a (pinball) game, you have to wonder--I just ride" Is this a real shot? Are these bands deliberately placed? FATAL CHARM = CARMEN who FOREPLAY(s) LANA DEL REY ??? ALAN SMITHEE FIASCO ("the way you talk it's like a movie and you're making me crazy, 'cause life imitates art") FINGER TIGHT . . . "have to touch myself to pretend you're there" (???)

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

Delete your Paradise file and replace it with this version There's no helping "Diet Mountain Dew" though

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.

Tropico + the "Carmen" video say yes Note the recurrent "red dress" motif of her Carmen quasi-alter-ego

There are always two Lanas, two voices, two roses ... red and white. How one is seen by others and how one truly is. "I was a singer - not a very popular one." Put your red dress on, put your lipstick on Sing your song, song, now, the camera's on And you're alive again

US Tour Setlist 1. Intro (Summertime Sadness acapella) 2. Summertime Sadness 3. Summertime Sadness (Extended EDM Mix) 4. Drum Solo 5. Summertime Sadness (Reprise)

The UFOs are a sardonic way of saying that her soul comes from a world that you cannot even imagine You would prob. need a goddamn degree in Metaphysics to understand all of the symbolism used, which extends beyond the film to inform her previous work The Upper Waters (white) are divided from the Lower Waters (red)--two girls, two roses And the spirit of Yod moved between them ??? James Joyce knew the riverran past Eve and Adam's; there is only ever one story

You kids should just rest easy knowing you stan for a genuine fucking genius

Surprisingly not much was made of the fact that Lana was literally the most popular female artist on Spotify in the US in 2013 Bigger Than Beyonce worldwide http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a555777/rihanna-named-most-streamed-female-of-all-time-on-spotify.html

Our Lady of Perpetual Cola remains inviolate and egg-shaped

David Bowie, "Changes" -- "Let's ch-ch-change our DNA" "Let's take Jesus off the dashboard" reminds me of "Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall" from Bowie's "Ricochet" but that is probably coincidental But the track before that on Let's Dance is "Without You"--"C-c-can you hear me" (Major Tom)? I can be your "China Girl," 'cause "Criminal(s Run the) World" She seems to be speaking as "soul" (anima) inhabiting the "body" of her lover (in that and a few other songs), so it makes perfect sense in a metaphysical sort of way Perhaps she was deliberately refuting Ryle by asserting that Soul will always be part of the equation

Why does Parkin always makes these vaguely FUD posts? Like, who is "saying it's psychiatric meds"?

Yeah she's always kind of looked like that idk It's that Madonna hair . . .

Not sure she wants to be a pop star at this point; she's probably going more for that elusive Critical Acceptance as a Respected Artist thing (good luck with that) by giving no fuck

Flawless performance, flawless HD audio

Children of the Bad Revolution Drop it like it's hot In the pale moonlight

Everyone wants to be Queen

She seems to think the profane and sinful GP isn't here for her flawlessly angelic choir girl live vocals and wants sophisticated gangsta chainsmoker vocals instead

I keep envisioning UV as sounding like Fleetwood Mac meets Chelsea Wolfe meets later-era Talk Talk