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The video sort of makes sense. Lana is hanging out by a transformer and playing with butterflies, a symbol of transformation. The rocky island may symbolize an individual ego, hard and stable but perhaps also lonely, and Lana is the ocean that keeps pestering him with her waves.

Lana has stepped into a big mess with the Israel concert. If she cancels now it will be a victory for Palestinians, which I don't think they deserve because they are not innocent. If she goes ahead it will be a victory for Israelis, who are not innocent either. Maybe the best thing would be to go ahead but to do the performance with a "thematic emphasis on peace", as she indicated. Yes, Israel has become entrenched in a decades long occupation of Palestinian territories that recalls South African apartheid. But remember how they got there. In late 19th century, Jews started to return to their ancient homeland in Palestine, in response to persistent persecution in Europe and in the context of other movements for national self-determination. Their migration culminated during Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. However, their ancient homeland had been settled by Palestinian Arabs since the Middle Ages, so there was now an increasing friction and hostility between the two ethnicities. In 1947 UN voted to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. Jews accepted it, Arab countries rejected it. Next year, Jews declared the State of Israel and the surrounding Arab countries attacked it, launching a war that Israel survived. Palestine became split, with the Palestinian territories occupied by Jordan and Egypt. In 1967 Arab states mobilized their armies again, triggering another war with Israel, which Israel won and also captured the Palestinian territories. Israel continued to occupy the Palestinian territories for security reasons as Arab states refused to make peace with it. However, Israel also started to create Jewish civilian settlements in the occupied territories, which is considered illegal by international community and complicates the creation of a viable Palestinian state. Negotiations to create a Palestinian state have repeatedly failed, the main stumbling blocks being Palestinian insistence on the return of masses of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war to what is now Israel and Israelis' unwillingness to give up certain settlements, particularly those in East Jerusalem. These failures and the accompanying violence have hardened positions on both sides, with Israel now headed by a government that is de facto against the creation of a Palestinian state, and part of Palestinian leadership is represented by the terrorist organization Hamas whose goal is the destruction of Israel. So this is the mess Lana has stepped into.

A male voice responds to her but I can't hear it clearly. I always thought she was talking to God, asking why she was chosen for carrying a burden or being in a situation.

In hindsight I have come to view her first three major albums loosely as a trilogy: Born to Die seemed to emphasize the beginning, the paradise, and the tragic fall that followed. Ultraviolence was deep in the fallen state, especially dark and manic-depressive. And in Honeymoon she seemed to find some peace again, with re-integration of complementary polarities. After this personal analytic-synthetic journey, she emerged reinvigorated from her inner world into the outer world with a more socially/politically conscious Lust for Life. I never know what she will do next, but it seems that her future moves will be influenced by what is going on in the world.

Now a bit of a plot twist: What if Lizzy Grant is a character created by Lana Del Rey, and when Lizzy Grant "created" Lana Del Rey she actually awakened to her original self? The original self that has incarnated as Lizzy Grant. And as many others.

I think in this video Ariana represents a deity who walks around in the enclosed material world and manifests in many faces. In one scene she has her faces arranged in front of her while her own face is undefined, "faceless". If you need more proof it's in that sheet of paper, underlined three times: God is a woman. She studies Kabbalah btw.

In his own words, "Avicii" means the lowest level of Buddhist hell. In the light of this, the song Wake Me Up has a more poignant meaning. Farewell, Tim.

Poor guy got a clockwork orange watch.

If I hear correctly, it is about getting free from "the Crowley way of being". I wonder, did she ever sing that part live? There are different lyrics on the internet.

If you're under him You ain't gettin' over him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lK0TA8COBw Brilliant performance.

IDGAF - interesting video. Seems to symbolize a split in society as well as in oneself.

I'm afraid there's another fact that counts against Lana: she blatantly references Crowley, who was a creep. The whole song is about a creep getting free.

Life is a movie and art is a script. Time and eternity stuff.

Barcelona & Madrid... Conciliadora del Rey

Hehe sure there is, but it seems Lana has had enough of his crazy lifestyle.