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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.

I think the teaser suggests that in a sense the guy is her, or a part of her, and she experiences a life of fame through him. I don't know yet if I will write more about it. I see the error message in my thread too. I get the same error when I try to open certain pages in the "Instagram Updates" thread. Hope somebody will fix it.

It looks as if Lana transforms into that guy while driving the car.

That weapon ensures that those people keep living in horrible conditions while Kim and his gang keep partying without being bothered by the whole world.

Lana's new love interest, complete with sexy eyes.

The video will feature a self-driving car roaming the streets of Los Angeles. At the end a robot will get out, holding a USB stick with Lana's mind downloaded in it. The concluding monologue will address the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

What kind of dick was that? Just as she was talking about transcendence. She needs to get asked these philosophical questions more often.

Eye of God Trinity

Yess, "the wickedest man in the world", obsessed with sex and control, addicted to heroin and cocaine.

I think when Lana sings about drugs (whether it is heroin, cocaine or meth) she doesn't necessarily mean literal drugs but rather intense stimulations, passions and addictions. On the esoteric view these would be the stimulations, passions and addictions that the soul derives from its incarnation in the material world. Basically, sensory or carnal pleasures. During incarnation, as in the activity of the soul in general, there is a temporary and cyclical separation between the ego, which is basically the focus of the soul's consciousness, and the soul as a whole: the ego is sent forth while the soul recedes into the background of the mind. After the ego has analyzed the situation/problem/environment, gained knowledge or created something, it is integrated back into the consciousness of the soul as a whole: the soul and the ego reunite. And again and again - thus the soul evolves. The problem arises when the ego becomes overly fixated, in its narrow focus, on the world or on the material body and forgets about the soul; the consciousness of the soul thus becomes trapped in a part of reality and this is the spiritual fall. The word "heroin" also suggests "hero", which fits with the sense of individuality that the soul experiences in its ego and with the dangers that it must overcome in its exploration of the world. In the chorus to Heroin the ego travels to the material world (foreign land); this is the initial separation between the soul and the ego during incarnation. The soul hopes for an eventual reunion but the ego falls on the trip; the "heroin" takes its life away. After the death of the ego (spiritual or physical) the soul withdraws into the spiritual world (to the moon). Topanga is used as a symbol of decadent lifestyle, which eventually results in insanity and violence, as shown in the reference to Charles Manson, who lived in Topanga with his followers. His followers committed some grisly murders back in 1969, which involved writing words in their victims' blood on the walls. This was around the end of 1950s-1960s "paradise" era. The hotness of Topanga refers to the insane and violent atmosphere. At the end of the song the soul becomes sick of the crazy lifestyle and desires change.

In recent days I've been having 13 Beaches, White Mustang and Heroin on a loop and I forgot about the gem called Get Free. Indeed, the verses read like from a mystical book about spiritual awakening. She feels that she and the world are undergoing a big change that may unleash the creative potential of mankind and restore the lost paradise in a modern form. Her songs about her romantic relationships, struggles and transformations have always had a wide social aspect but now she's making this social aspect more explicit in songs like Love, Coachella, God Bless America or When the World Was at War. Maybe I missed it? I also didn't know about the French interview you just quoted.