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That's one of Eddie's daughters and one of Chris Cornell's daughters. Man would I love it if Lana did a duet with Eddie Vedder or covered a Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, or Eddie Vedder or Chris Cornell solo song. @@Monicker bait. At least she's not dead already. #YeahISaidIt

#NotAllCops Perhaps I've been too glib about this. Let me clarify. At least speaking for myself personally, I don't hate all cops, I don't have a problem with her dating a cop per se. I'd be fine with her dating a reformist cop, perhaps even a cop with no expressed political points of view and a squeaky clean record. But this guy is a reality TV cop (the nature of reality TV is incompatible with conducting effective, ethical police work) who goes on Fox News to complain that the press informing the public about police brutality and shootings makes officers less quick to use deadly force. Whatever side of this you're on, you have to admit it's incoherent with most of her recently expressed political sentiments and hypocritical. This guy has also engaged in profiling. In short, he's Part Of The Problem™. And that's not even getting into questions raised by his being named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a couple federal cases as to whether he's clean.

Having grown up in a very religious Christian environment and having spent time in quite a few different churches across the theological spectrum, I'm very very curious how people at Churchome feel about her new album given all the language, "taking the Lord's name in vain", and talk about non-marital fucking. Or her zeal in covering "Break Up With Your Boyfriend" for that matter.

Yep. Double-checked on the Oklahoma State Election Board site. Officially registered as a Republican. The interesting information voter registration sites continue to yield and/or confirm......... Taking a page out of my book. LOL. Well done.

#ThatAwkwardMomentWhen #Fuckstick hears that line about "stealing police cars with the senior guys" the first time.

Is he though? I mean, a lot of her lyrics glamorize criminal activity.

A lot of literal bootlickers on here I see

I'm always skeptical of people who want to be on reality television. Anyway, some "fun" facts about this guy: 1. His nickname Sticks is a bastardization of "Fuckstick". 2. He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal corruption probe of Tulsa police. 3. This incident with a black man from his very first episode drew criticism for harassment and profiling. Tulsa PD later cited negative media coverage as their reason for pulling out of the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWj-rDgqTBA And that's just from a couple minutes Googling. Lana, if you've got first responder fantasies, perhaps fuck a firefighter. #Fuckstick

Putting the narc in narco-swing

inb4 this is just a sting operation to arrest her for reckless driving

Pulling a Kylie and giving a cop the Pepsi. I know this being woke thing is new to you, Lana, but I don't think that's quite what N.W.A. had in mind when they said "Fuck Tha Police".

"Playing Dangerous" plays in the background

Anybody who keeps a good dated collection of early photos of her know when this tattoo first started showing up? She's got it in the pic of her and Chuck from the night of her 2008.09.20 Mercury Lounge show. Not sure if any of the pics are the right angle, but I don't see it in the pics from her Nublu show on 2007.09.25. However, that's nearly a year apart and we don't have any pics or vids from any shows in between. Nailing down about when she got it could help us assess which theories are most likely. For instance, the fact that she had it already for the Mercury show I think makes it unlikely that it was for Mizrahi. Mertens would remain a possibility however... cc @@Trash Magic @HeadBitch

Cause I had you in – in my head. Are you real? Are you real? Yeah? Is there any chance that I’m just gonna wake up on the floor and the song won’t exist? I’ll be very sad. If I wake up, and you don’t exist, and the song doesn’t exist. Yeah. I hope you’re real.

Tell ya what, order me a set of glasses and the fake eyelashes and I'll do it.

I have no idea if this is right, but this is a really intriguing theory. I'd never considered this before.

Are you for real?

@ us next time Lana Well, now we have a soundbite of Lana talking about Hooters. An appropriately self-aware statement about (her) politics. #NoContext Checks out. Sublime bassist Eric Wilson is credited on the track. That's really cool. Had she mentioned that before? This is straight male erasure tbh

Whoops! When I came back to this thread after researching I realized you'd only asked about BTD specifically. Anyway, the better question is when hasn't Lana talked about her music being autobiographical. Here is a non-exhaustive list of instances in interviews where Lana, or an interviewer paraphrasing her, has specifically used the word "autobiographical" to describe her music: Her early songs "autobiographical and very dark" source AKA "my first songs were pretty autobiographical... I talked about a lot of stuff in my first record" source "my first LP with David Kahne... was unconventional, autobiographical and cinematic" source "my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful" source BTD "dark, autobiographical, glamorous and something like exuberant and cinematographic" source "my new songs are still autobiographical and cinematic" source "consistently autobiographical" source "As for subject matter, she's sticking to the autobiographical: 'Love is the easiest thing to write about, because I know it well....And loss is just as easy, because I know it well too.'" source "Ride" "That's autobiographical! ...It's about my own life" source "her “Ride” video, which she tells me is autobiographical" source "Ultraviolence" (song) "autobiographical elements" source "She’s vague on whether this theme might be autobiographical. 'I guess I would say, like, I’m definitely drawn to people with a strong physicality,' she says with a shrug, 'with more of a dominant personality.'" source UV Interviewer calls it "a collection of autobiographical songs" in between direct quotes. source All her albums Pitchfork: "Which of your albums is the most autobiographical? LDR: "All of them." source "I feel that the three records [bTD, Paradise, and UV] were so heavy and autobiographical. It's been so cathartic." source Her music generally "But I don't long for a mythic past. I have my own mythic past. I don't talk about it, no one would believe me anyway. But I can say: All of my songs are autobiographical, I don't have to dramatize anything." source "No, it's completely autobiographical. Yeah, 100%." source "when it comes to my own music it’s 100% autobiographical" source Implied her music was autobiographical like Biggie Smalls source "the lyrics are autobiographical, and it’s mostly about death and love" source "I'd say 90% [autobiographical]. Usually what happens is all of the verses are always autobiographical up until the chorus...by the time I get to the chorus I might start singing about the way I wished that they had been." source "Everything I was writing was so autobiographical" source Interview with James Franco where she insists she is generally "writing about things autobiographically", but says of "Florida Kilos": "That song in particular is not autobiographical." Says she "didn't monitor [herself]" on UV and that is was "candid". Suggests "Honeymoon" might not be as autobiographical as other albums. Describes her songwriting as "you get to tell your story", "documenting your life", and states "you don't know any story better than your own". source Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself; I am large - I contain multitudes. "I find myself sometimes going back and forth between writing autobiographically and living vicariously through my own lyrics. It’s a form of escapism for me in some ways, now that I don’t go out much. So, definitely, if you’re lucky enough to do what you love, it can be your whole life. I’m very lucky." source

Slate's Culture Gabfest podcast had a nice lengthy discussion of the album here from about 21:04 - 40:04: https://slate.com/podcasts/culture-gabfest/2019/09/american-factory-lana-del-rey-writers-residency

You mentioned this song in a different context, but I'm surprised there hasn't been much discussion in this thread about how the first verse seems to me a clear callback to FMWUTTT and her resentment that other pop girls haven't been subjected to as much scrutiny as she has (she's not wrong). Is this only on vinyl? (Still waiting for my CD to come.)

A nice (if characteristically pretentious) meditation on Daniel Johnston and Lana from The Quietus: https://thequietus.com/articles/27106-lana-del-rey-daniel-johnston-music-fans

Cardboard cutout Lana deserves to go.