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My favorite part: 
 
"Yeah, my boyfriend's pretty cool
But he's not as cool as me"
 
because if Barrie is singing this, it's a role reversal from the stereotypical LDR submissive lyrics, where she's in thrall to whomever she's singing about. BTW, I don't think she does that submissive thing all the time, but as her critics seem to assume this, I wonder what they're going to make of that one line (and Barrie's singing it). IMO, it's not about submission, but reverence, and it goes both ways.
 
I posted accidentally in the "unofficial video thread", but my main point there was that I'm fascinated that the song seems shorter than Video Games, yet it's actually longer. Do others get the sense that it's a fast listen (not tempo, but time duration)? Finally, I hope it's Barrie on the guitar too, and Auerbach did NOT produce this one (I heard he did 9 out of 11 in some interview). Does anybody know?

Lol @ my boyfriend's in a band because barrie isn't in a band anymore
unless she's talking about jimmy 
 

I really dig this song. The lyrics are the best so far I think!! I loved it on the first listen, just like West Coast. 

Fucked My Way Up To The Top:
Old Money:
 

everything is so slow :/ i don't understand why she is going in this direction when her best songs are upbeat. could have thrown a couple in there to break up the monotony at least. maybe some will have tempo changes. 
 
but i'm not giving up hope yet bcos i really wasn't into the brooklyn baby snippet and the full song is just 

Just a few things:

The Old Money snippet is really givin' it to me

The beat on Florida Kilos is amazing...
 
Fucked My Way Up To The Top is probably going to be one of my favorites

Respecting Lana does not mean one is obsessed or some blind fangirl/boy who does not have their own opinion.
Plus, Lana the artist and Lana the ordinary girl are intertwined. When she interacts with fans so gently and sweetly she is not being a fictional character.
She is very bright, creative and kind.
 
Remember, sometimes hate is a projection, baby.

This might be OTT but is new to me.
http://www.mtv.com/news/1835453/anthony-burgess-foundation-lana-del-rey/

Yeah I guess.
 

OMFG she is into James Franco!
 
Her bad date story makes me think she would use something like that as inspiration for songs

considering she's credited as ldr on every track except old money where she's lizzy grant, i wouldn't rule that out tbh.
 
ALSO anyone notice the absence of Edward Gallegos's name on the writing credits

I once knew a guy who believed in some third eye bullshit & he saw himself as almighty and some other crap, but in reality he was basically an internet troll with no life and some fucked up personality and disgusting habits (once you got to know him). he was also very manipulative.this was a couple of years ago and if you ask me about him now, I could very much say, jokingly, that he was like a sectarian, and being around him was like being in a sect, if I wanna make a long story short. but that doesn't mean I was in a fucking legitimate sect. do you see what I mean?

Like everyone in the industry.

she just said in a recent interview that they twist what she says to make it into a title like "lana was in a sect" like you said. she probably hung around some people that turned out to have a sect-like behavior, but some of you on here are taking this shit too seriously, like she was in the iluminati or some shit 

Respecting Lana does not mean one is obsessed or some blind fangirl/boy who does not have their own opinion.
Plus, Lana the artist and Lana the ordinary girl are intertwined. When she interacts with fans so gently and sweetly she is not being a fictional character.
She is very bright, creative and kind.
 
Remember, sometimes hate is a projection, baby.

Could she suffer from dissociative identity disorder? It would explain some stuff. It wouldn't affect my appreciation of her Art though.

I think this is her very essence: equal parts art and science. I think LDR as a persona/identity is meant to be someone who lives poetically, driven only by emotion and whims, makes her 'life an art', etc.
 
But the reality is she would not be where she is if she were just a wide-eyed innocent, dreaming about life from her window sill all day, or being led around by boys. Lizzy Grant is the shadow master and commander of the LDR concept; she dreams big but she is also a doer, the ruler of her own destiny. (Her critics who think she has no agency need to wake up —  who in pop music right now has more control of their own vision than her ?)   She is very calculating, knowing, and aware of how to give form to her dreams. It surely all starts with intuition and artistic intention and emotion, but then Science Lizzy kicks in — the one who researches, studies, analyzes, experiments w/ a hypothesis, puts in art in action. A good creative director is always equally artistic and scientific, and Lizzy herself has hinted at this in interviews. 
 
I also think someone like this is naturally driven to explore esoteric and marginalized philosophy/psychology/cultural topics; I'm sure she's even aware of Crowley, Theosophy, and the like. Not sure if I buy she was in 'a cult', but the chronology specifics don't matter so much, the essence of how it shaped her does. What's exciting is that she can bring these super niche topics into the warmth of the spotlight, even if she has to paint broad strokes to do so. I honestly can't think of someone else so widely known and loved that is able to pull this off in the 21st century. Maybe Grimes, but with her, it's literally the Wiki-meets-Tumblr remix version of everything. Young artists everywhere should be inspired that women like Lizzy are finding ways to make the outre and strange palatable.

It's the voodoo Mississippi south.

I'd like to see the original Grazia source rather than this translation of a secondhand source, but assuming this describes it accurately... when exactly did she have time for a cult in between living with her boyfriend in Alabama and having a 7-year relationship with a label head?

Okay guys, think hard now! There was some sort of blog entry (myspace?) in which she was talking about some sort of science it was like an appeal to the reader about some hidden truth or whatever and then she posted a link to a weird page, I can't really remember and I also can't seem to find it any more! Maybe that was the sect? Somebody out there knowing what the hell I'm talking about?

Since we know so little about Lana's past it's hard to decipher whether or not this is an white lie/exaggerated truth or the truth.I mean we all know Lana is a little bit quirky but THAT quirky...I doubt it.
 
As someone stated here before she probably made it up for a laugh because everyone is going to wonder what the "  And your might cult leader" lyric is about.
 
This is also one of my fav things about her tbh.I love her oddness.

If she stops singing life will have no meaning to me coz I breathe her Music.. I worship at the temple of Lana Del Rey. I guess I need help.

There's no 911 in the UK lmao Lana sis

How many times has she said she was going to quit music, to not do so? It's like a broken record at this point and if you believe it, you're being foolish. She was gonna quit after BTD, she was gonna quit after Black Beauty leaked, on and on and on and on.
 
She'd be a fool to do it, and she's not going to do it. Especially when she's viewed in a more positive light now. If there was a time where she was really going to quit, it would have been after the SNL appearance.