DeadAgainst

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

Lana: "And den dat Malaysian plane took off wooooosshshhhh"
Brad: "But den it went a different way woooossshhhhhh"
 

Multichannel DVD audio release
 
Quadraphonic vinyl & 8-track

Multichannel DVD audio release
 
Quadraphonic vinyl & 8-track

Multichannel DVD audio release
 
Quadraphonic vinyl & 8-track

Multichannel DVD audio release
 
Quadraphonic vinyl & 8-track

This is the most Lana song ever; Gainsbourg + depressed 60's singing starlets . . .
 

 
But with English lyrics that do the original justice
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIUZ_xVtyVk

It may be a long shot, but...
 
"The West Coast is in the house sayin
Why you talkin loud?!?
What you talkin bout?!?

[ice Cube]
Fuck all the critics in the N-Y-C"
 
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/westsideconnection/allthecriticsinnewyork.html

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not to be too shady, but 
 

 

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

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