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Daniel Johnston as an artist and the documentary are real dope stuff. 
I'm so glad that now everything seems to clear up - maybe it's not as glamorous as picturing her doing meth lost somewhere in her car in nevada, but it's also so alive and interesting to know where it all comes from. Kinda creepy too, now I know more about her life than mine tbh

Ultraviolence:
 
I used to be a member of an underground sect which was reigned by a guru. He surrounded himself with young girls and he had this insane charisma I couldn’t resist as well. So I was in this, I’ll call it sect, because I was longing for love and security. But then I found out that this guru wasn’t a good but a bad person. He thought that he had to break people first before he could build them up again. At the end I left the sect.
 
No, “Ultraviolence” look back on my time in New York. I was for a while part of a sloping underground scene, which was dominated by a guru. He believed in the concept, finished close people first and then rebuild. I fell for him because that time I longed for security.
 
The lyrics also mention a “cult leader,” and Ms. Del Rey said the song looked back to a time soon after she moved to New York City, when she considered following a guru who “believed in breaking you down to build you back up again.” “It sounds kind of weird,” she added, “but that is what it’s about, and having romantic feelings entwined with the idea of being led and letting go and surrendering. That’s always a concept to me, like I’m wavering between independence and falling into lifestyles and being led.”
 
There are so many things, really. I guess one of them is a personal experience I had with a person who believed in breaking you down to build you back up again. And although that mindset didn’t really agree with me, there was something freeing in letting go, for me, [with] this particular sort of guru-esque character. It’s a little bit about being in love with the act of surrendering, about being confused whether that’s a good idea.
 
 I think searching for guidance is a constant theme in my life. I knew relatively early on who I was. But I did not know exactly what I wanted to do. And I was always looking for people who are like me. So, I went at the age of 18 to New York. I was looking for this cool artist group, but I didn't find it. But I found someone who was like me. It was very interesting for me, we had a special relationship. He had built up a group that followed him. In the end, it wasn't right for me. 
 
The lyrics to UV make sense in this context. We have a guru (the "cult leader") who believes in breaking you down to build you back up again. Lana was in love with the idea of surrendering, and so him breaking her down felt like an act of kindness, especially since she felt lost at this time: "He hit me and it felt like a kiss." After the break down comes the reconstruction: "Jim raised me up, he hurt me but it felt like true love." However, Lana ultimately knew this wasn't right for her. "Jim taught me that loving him was never enough." The song seems to be a reminiscence, since Lana says this song is about her time when she was 18 in New York and the bridge says "we could go back to New York." She adds that "loving you was really hard." She says he "used to" call her DN and poison ivy, so she's singing in the present. The "I was filled with poison but blessed with beauty and rage/Jim taught me that" line seems very cultlike. One of the things cult leaders do is make you believe that there's some incredible thing waiting to be unlocked but that normally you can't access it. Of course, the cult leader can access it and that's why you should follow him and trust him. Jim "taught her" that she was "filled with poison" and he called her "poison." Not very positive things to say.
 
The nature of this relationship is unclear. She says it was a "sect-like" thing and refers to him as "guru-esque," so she doesn't think it was a straight up cult. She calls their relationship a "special relationship," but that can mean anything. One of her comments was about "having romantic feelings entwined with the idea of being led and letting go and surrendering." I'm not sure if "romantic feelings" refers to the guru or to the idea of surrendering. This whole thing would have happened in 2003, before she would have recorded Sirens! It's before any boyfriends we know of, too.
 
With this in mind, I wonder if Cruel World is also about this guru. "Shared my body and my mind with you" would be very appropriate for a cult leader. Cruel World is very unspecific. All we know about this guy is he had a lot of women, a bible and a gun, and he used heroin.

YEEEEESSSS I know this video will be fantastic, I can feel it already
 
btw I LOVE when you can see the process, love those references
 
Can't wait!

"MUSIC TO WATCH BOYS TO" MUSIC VIDEO

- Directed by Kinga Burza - 

OUT NOW

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/5/flowers-and-ribbons-of-ice 
 
Beautiful, gravity-defying structures can form when water freezes under the right conditions
 

Lana coming for all my dollars this Autumn 

SLAY QUEEN

Lana and the phenomena

i love it, exactly how i wanted it to sound. the production is really nice.
 
those strings ........and that flute

Piiiiiiiink flamingos It might not appear to fools like you

Love the lyrics, some of the best from Honeymoon so far. Love how she says boiii like ASAP Rocky lmao 

Sounds a LOT like Sad Girl, indeed, I see I'm not the only only one thinking that. I think that in this case, my imagination played tricks with me cause it's really not what I was expecting. But although the melody is very reminiscent of Sad Girl, even to the production (the flute making solos recurrently after she sings each Line in the verses) it's ... Something else.

she cited him as an inspiration at one point i think !!?

Please tell me Lana is a John Waters fan:

 

I added you on Flickah, I like you. Ultraviolence is my fave.

I'm so excited to listen to this in my car. I feel like I'm really able to solidify my opinion on a song when I listen to it while I'm driving. Idk.

for the "ribbons" lyric she is definitely saying "blue ribbons on ice" (reference TIWMUG like a queen, lans) and not "we're ribbons on ice" which makes no effin sense and china.palace needs to gtfo once and for all

Maybe she regrets not making the song a single when it was time and now she created the updated version which will indeed get a video!
 
(Although can you imagine a Sad Girl video? Lana looking slutty and hot, waiting for her lover in a dark bedroom, smoking cigarettes and making out with a daddy later on, it would be so cool....)

Honestly the vibe of this album is coming together soooo nicely i love every track we have  gotten so far it will have me swaying for weeks  ,and the Pink flamingos part   

This song was well worth the wait. The chorus is really catchy to me and I really like the line I know what only the girls know, lies can buy eternity. It's really good.

lol sorry I meant this 

They should've played Prisoner 

OH SHIT I'M GOING TO FUCKING AMOEBA THEN NOT FUCKING URBAN OUTFITTERS FUCK THAT SHIT GOD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS BYE BITCHES I NO LONGER HAVE TO GO TO FUCKING URBAN OUTFITTERS PRAISE JESUS ((: 
 
oh just kidding I just saw that it says Sept 17th so I still have to go to UO BUT EARLY RELeaSE OH SHIT 

Amoeba is doing one as well now
 

i'm gonna be in SF on the 12th anyway yayyyyy 
 
is anyone else going to that large one in union square? i feel like i always run into someone i know that works there i'm gonna ask if i can buy an album from them???? doubtful but i will do it anyway