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The world I wanna live in

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

The world I wanna live in

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

The world I wanna live in

The world I wanna live in

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

The world I wanna live in

The quality of this album is insane to me (and to many others apparently ), it sits right in my top 3 Lana albums with the 2nd spot <3 the vibe is absolutely unmatched, there's nothing like this kind of aesthetic and sound. I don't think there's anything I would change about it (although Mermaid Motel demo has an extra special place in my heart), its distinctive production and all the little quirks are what make it so fascinating. It always transports me to a whole different reality, sometimes dreamy and mysterious, other times it's sultry and cryptic. I can't really put my finger on how exactly it makes me feel - that's how elusive it is 
Our beautiful, kitschy AKA world filled with streamers, neon lights and trashy motels

Happy birthday AKA, you may never have become the whole world's girl, but you're certainly ours  
 
One day, maybe I can articulate everything this album means to me, but wow... hearing AKA for the first time felt like coming home, and it's been that and so much more to me over the years. A comfort (a book of hymns?), an escape (my personal motel party!!), and the closest I'll probably ever hear to my own heart and mind being poured out into an album. For someone who grew up in that "dark trailer park life," and dreamt then and now of a bigger, more beautiful existence waiting somewhere out there, AKA says it all. 
 
Wild child, starry-eyed junkie, Coney Island Madonna, sick chanteuse and philosopher femme fatale... Lizzy Grant, ur everything

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

Happy Birthday AKA! It's still crazy to me how she managed to capture such an exact, distinct world on this album - I think Queen of the Gas Station and Mermaid Motel encapsulate it best for me. They feel like a mix of watching a movie and taking a peek at a life path I could have taken, but didn't.
My favourite has to be one of: Gramma, Oh Say Can You See, Kill Kill or Pawn Shop Blues, but I love the whole album - it intrigues me every time I listen to it. If Lana ever decides to revisit it, whether it's a re-issue or she just talks about the process of the album, I will be first in line to listen. Endlessly fascinating.

I can talk what i want, how i wanna, i can talk what i want, how i wannaaaa  14 years 

14 years of this masterpiece 
I wish she'd show more love to this album
"Oh say can you see" and "gramma" changed my brain chemistry 

American Whore this Friday the 13th really would change the course of the whole year 

limited edition "Lizzy Grant" edition packaged with bonus disc of the AKA album remastered

Wow I never knew that she went to Spain, this is so interesting!

Wow I never knew that she went to Spain, this is so interesting!

Yes! x

In writing, "laid up in hospitals" makes more sense to my mind, but I only hear her sing "later then" - which I don't fully understand, unless it's like
"So I ended up awkward but sweet,
Later - then [later on/after that] hospitals [I was hospitalised/in and out of hospitals for treatments?]
And still on my feet [I'm still standing after everything]"
 
I mean I get the story and the meaning of the verse (and it hits fucking hard) but I'm a stickler for lyrics and I wanna know 

In writing, "laid up in hospitals" makes more sense to my mind, but I only hear her sing "later then" - which I don't fully understand, unless it's like
"So I ended up awkward but sweet,
Later - then [later on/after that] hospitals [I was hospitalised/in and out of hospitals for treatments?]
And still on my feet [I'm still standing after everything]"
 
I mean I get the story and the meaning of the verse (and it hits fucking hard) but I'm a stickler for lyrics and I wanna know 

here's the deal  here's the deaaaaaaal 

Dark Blue by No Doubt, and not just because it's called Dark Blue dddd. Her voice would really suit this!
 

 
 

thinking about this post and the immense influence it's had on me as a person