Trash Magic

Some people are turned on by that sort of stuff though? Like if she's been in a relationship where it was consensual?
At the end of the day we don't know her personal life and as much as I agree that it is a risky lyric I don't believe in the censoring of art at all.
Maybe this is how she deals with stuff? If she has been in an abusive relationship (which is not a topic that's okay for us to discuss about her tbh) then romanticising it could be how she deals with her trauma? It's not unknown for abuse victims to use this as defensive mechanism against their trauma
 
Of course I'm just speculating, none of us can say for sure. (I'm probably reading WAY too far into that one lyric though...)

I think it will look like this
 

It's a silly mockery. Coming from two mature men it's even worse

We seriously need a @@Monicker analysis of the production.

You summoned me?   
 
I can't speak for anyone else, but yes, I am. I never cared much for the hip hop beats or overused samples on BTD, and at times even the felt the orchestral arrangements sounded overproduced. I really felt they over-egged the pudding as the Brits would say. Worst of all, I felt like the whole album was confined in a straightjacket, as if there was some BTD filter applied to each song, whether it fit the song or not. But I've often mentioned my affinity for the more jazzy, bluesy, or alterna-rock oriented songs in Lana's oeuvre—"Pin-up Galore", "The Man I Love", "Tired of Singing the Blues", the live rock versions of "Yayo" & "Brite Lites"— so it should surprise absolutely no one that I love this and the direction it augurs for her sound on Ultraviolence. The drums fills, that groovy syncopated guitar riff, those tempo changes—all great stuff.
 
Some more specific thoughts as I listen for the bajillionth time:
 
I love the creakiness/croakiness in her harmony on the first "then you're not playing" and later on the first "your love". As others have noted, it has a lot of resonances with other songs, um, lyrically and sonically. "You've got the music in you" is a lyric from the New Radicals song "You Get What You Give" (which Rick Nowels co-wrote). It also reminds me of the line "we have the music" in "Chelsea Hotel #2". The "don't you" even reminds me a little bit of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". The line "it all could happen" makes me think of the lyric "it's all happening" from "My Best Days". Those high harmonies in the pre-chorus sound a lot like "Burning Desire". Then there's the "And I Love Her" riff, slowing things way the fuck down, with a guitar chord reverberating in the background like something out of the intro to "She's Not Me". The high harmonies during this slow chorus are absolutely gorgeous. "Parliament's on fire": although almost certainly a reference to the cigarette brand, I don't think the double meaning evoking an image of revolution isn't deliberate, especially taken with the line "his hands are up". Taken with "on the balcony" it reminds me of the line from "Butterflies", "We're sippin' cocktails lookin' down upon the riot" (if that is indeed the lyric and not "Rhine"). "Ooh baby, ooh baby" borrows the rhythm and melody of those same words in Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen". The high "Oooo-oooh" after swaying is so haunting. It reminds me of similar harmonies in a couple songs by my other current fave Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, "Young Dumb & Drunk" & "Shadow Boy". "Golden god" is possibly a reference to Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's claim about himself (or the line from "Almost Famous" based on that). I love the whispered "ah, ah, ah, ah" over "ooh baby, ooh baby" the second time through the chorus. And that synth tone that comes in over "move baby, move baby" reminds me of the synth in Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" or some, uh, west coast G-funk era rap.
 
I did this exact same thing before I even read this. Great minds.

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

I'm really hoping Angels Forever makes the track list, it's my personal fave of Lana's

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

his parliament's on fire 
 
(WHAT A TEASE)

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

Who cares about West Coast. Now she's playing LMFAO <3

:monicker:
 
:oprah2:
 
#MONALYSIS

I'm hoping they meant to put "Ultraviolence - May 18th" but fucked up
 
Anyway not reading 70 pages tell me if you hate it so I can drag ya

No cause they only play stuff people want to hear

The May 18th release date for the single has disappeared off of Lanadelrey.com !

LMAO LORDE

I haven't actually genuinely been excited about Ultraviolence until now.

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

golden dozen, rock n' roll groupies
 

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

Their queens and cyclones