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This might be a bit of an odd one but...
 
Art Deco - in her NME interview, Lana said it was about teenagers going out or something and then the lyrics make it sound like someone is reassuring themselves that their lifestyle's okay
Carmen - then they let that lifestyle go too far and, whilst everyone sees an amazing, happy person, the person is unhappy and 'dying (i'm dyyyyiiiing)'
Ride - and they're tired of feeling like they're fucking crazy so they just ride, let it go and find daddies. they feel free of this lifestyle they were actually always unhappy in

Florida Kilos
Gangsta Boy
TV in Black & White
 
I feel like these three songs are about someone who is a criminal.

Lana has her famous BTD trilogy, which is supposed to be Video Games, Blue Jeans, and Born to Die, all centering around the same guy (though there are many that would say multiple men are being sung about). 
  I was wondering if you guys had your own trilogies? One of the great things about Lana's music is that it is relatively consistent in its subjects and themes, leading to easy story creation through linking songs. For me, I only have one that I have really put together as a trilogy, considering them to all be related to each other, seen below. However, I think there are more if I thought about it more which is why I'm asking you guys.   For me: 1. Queen of Disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCeZsWHg7vo   2. Beautiful Player  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjwCODMMOsk   3. Making Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQbQN7OiqM   The story: (Part 1) A young Lana finds the man of her dreams while she is unsuccessful, and they share in their misfortunes together. They're King and Queens of the New York scene. (Part 2) Lana then finds out he's a player but she continues to love him anyway as she feels he completes her and accepts her in her faults, and she his, wholly and completely. This relationship continues but as his money improves from his drug dealing, he starts seeing other women even more and Lana realizes that he will never reciprocate her love. (Part 3) This leads to our New York City Queen deciding to start seeing other men on the side, as well. He finds out and tries to win her sole affection and attention back, and she does love him and attempts to continue seeing him. However, she ultimately decides that she's better off relying on the money she makes being with these other men and rejects her beautiful player. 

Sirens is such a masterpiece

I dislike acronyms for song titles about 60% of the time

The way she moves at the end reminds me of a robot or something, I can't even describe it. 

Making Out Ver 2 (auto tuned) is far superior to Ver 1

Oh also one of the most important things she has influenced me on was making me feel like I needed to be hotter to be what all the boys wanted. Idk she just looked perfect to me and I loved that she was aware of how hot she was in her music. I wanted to be able to be as comfortable with my looks as she was and lol well...

Oh also one of the most important things she has influenced me on was making me feel like I needed to be hotter to be what all the boys wanted. Idk she just looked perfect to me and I loved that she was aware of how hot she was in her music. I wanted to be able to be as comfortable with my looks as she was and lol well...

Came into my life at the right point in time, was able to express my feelings better than I could on some points

I probably was a little bit more of a hopeless romantic bc of her to be honest.

The Blackest Day is most likely about Barry IMO. 
His favorite color is black, etc. I honestly don't think she's so torn up about him in the long run, but when it was happening it might've been traumatic.

Some of Lana's best stuff is the "unreleased" (not on Sirens) acoustic stuff from the formative years. 
If she went back to those songs - In Wendy, Pin Up Galore, Wayamaya, 1949, etc. - I think musically, "sonically"   she could have a very solid next album. 
 
That being said, I am completely aware that these songs are very juvenile and contain an innocence that has now left her lyrics and melodies. As such it may be something that ends up sounding forced and uncharacteristic. But still, I want that sort of album.

The Blackest Day is most likely about Barry IMO. 
His favorite color is black, etc. I honestly don't think she's so torn up about him in the long run, but when it was happening it might've been traumatic.

Some of Lana's best stuff is the "unreleased" (not on Sirens) acoustic stuff from the formative years. 
If she went back to those songs - In Wendy, Pin Up Galore, Wayamaya, 1949, etc. - I think musically, "sonically"   she could have a very solid next album. 
 
That being said, I am completely aware that these songs are very juvenile and contain an innocence that has now left her lyrics and melodies. As such it may be something that ends up sounding forced and uncharacteristic. But still, I want that sort of album.

I agree with the general consensus that she needs to challenge herself. As much as I admire her work and connect to her viewpoint more than most artists right now, there's something missing in her work ethic as an artist. Doesn't she want to grow? Learn a new instrument, try playing with new forms/elements of expression? Explore a new way of writing or singing? Learning to produce? Where's her hunger? It's like she's paralyzed in a very specific, very evocative spot creatively. She can go 'deeper and deeper' but she can't move PAST it. It feels like compulsion. It can be beautiful and compelling and euphoric when she gets it right, but I'm starting to wonder, like others, where it can go from here. Surely, this is some sort of finale.
 
For someone who has traveled much of the globe, she acts like no place exists but LA. For someone who claims to be a writer first, I sense no drive to push herself further, to become more nuanced, imaginative, precise. For someone who seems, at heart, mainly preoccupied with existential ponderings, she refuses to offer us a true peak into her intellect. She'd rather link to a famous philosopher's video than share her own opinion. Similar thoughts on why she covers Nina Simone and quotes TS Eliot on record — to add a weight her own work cannot provide yet.  For awhile, that evasion felt like mystique, now it's beginning to reek a bit of fear. She's managed to create a pseudo-reality for herself where she gets to play the frigid icon who never explains, but she's painted herself into corner, one where she cannot let loose and experiment and fuck up and be FREE. She professes her love of being WILD and FREE,  but she seems quite conservative and inhibited at the end of the day. I mean, the fact that she hates Thai food (and also "spicy and exotic" food) actually says a lot about her tolerance for 'openness to new experiences'. I maintain the belief that she's actually closer to Little Edie of Grey Gardens than Marilyn Monroe — a grandiose recluse. And that is fascinating. But there's many ways to create haunting art that deviates from the themes she's already worn thin. I'd like to see her explore her devout solipsism a new way. Or even better, let go of it, connect with the real world and join humanity. At some point, the bubble needs to burst.
 
Maybe she SHOULD start by traveling somewhere new. If she were in Seoul or Tokyo or Cairo, would she just shut her eyes to the present moment? Has anything new inspired her since she first started making music? She prides herself on 'always being inspired by the same few things,' but either her relationship to those things needs to change, or the actual content does. As beautiful and intriguing as Honeymoon is, it is safer than Ultraviolence, where she tried on new sounds, moods, perspectives, eras of living. Honeymoon all feels like a daydream of youth and romance long dead and gone. I'm okay with that, if it really IS the "swan song" for the Haunted Hollywood LDR. It's hard to tell where Lana's head is at now. On one level, she seems to be getting more metaphysical, on another, she seems to want to stick to shallow tropes. It's almost like she's afraid to show how smart she actually is. There's some vanity vs. intelligence schism within her that I've never understood, but seems to hold her back. It's always sad when women dumb themselves down, and the reasons are always rooted in fear of rejection.
 
TL;DR:
I get that she's aiming to be an Auteur, therefore consistent in her themes, but I mean, even Woody Allen eventually ventured outside of the neurotic tics of the Upper West Side....