sirensXsilence

Boy oh boy do I have a response to this topic   Since this will probably be quite long I'll try to format it appropriately and not just have it as a huge wall of text!
 
Oh Say Can You See
I know the AKA album gets a lot of love in general, but I've seen a lot of people dismiss this track as useless and filler - I won't have it! Good lord, this song is divine. It's folk meets early Lana meets a Halloween edition of the Animal Crossing soundtrack. I know that's a weird and strangely specific mixture of references, but that's the only way I can describe it. It's so peaceful but so deeply melancholic and longing; The nighttime is almost ours. I can't even articulate what this song makes me feel. It's too magical to listen to on a regular basis, but it holds such a special place in my heart and I wish more people connected with this song the way I do. It's a beautiful, sad, quiet night translated into a 4-minute track.
 
Come When You Call Me America
Kind of like Oh Say Can You See, this song has a unique feel to it. It's one of Lana's weirder tracks - it's light and airy but jazzy and trip-hop-esque. It reminds me of a grown-up version of something from the Nights: Journey of Dreams soundtrack (yes, as you can tell, I'm big on video game soundtracks hahaha). It sounds the way silk feels. Maybe this song doesn't exactly count as underrated because it does have somewhat of a niche appeal, but I'm bringing it up because it's very beautiful, a little surreal and definitely one of my favourites that I never ever see mentioned!
 
Hope Is A Dangerous Thing
I'm forever seeing this at the bottom of people's NFR rankings and I guess I understand why - it's sparse, a pure piano ballad, pretty long and definitely quite a downer. Still, I feel that a lot of fans under-appreciate the lyrical power of this song; it's some of Lana's best writing to date. Lana has a lot of great lyrics but Hope is her at her most complex and most raw; there's something really special about a song that's so verbose yet still so raw and open and vulnerable. I probably sound super pretentious so pls feel free to call me a dickhead if it's appropriate   but lines like "Spilling my guts with the Bowery bums is the only love I've ever known" and "Shaking my ass is the only thing that's got this black narcissist off my back" really capture the loneliness and confusion of alcohol addiction for me (I've been an alcoholic for 4 years); "Hello, it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad / Calling from beyond the grave I just want to say hi, Dad" gets a lot of clownery online, but for me it's a heartbreaking lyric that shows the duality of fame and misery, as well as how hard it is to keep in touch with family and friends when going through a depression because it's easy to feel like a dead man walking; "A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off" is a lyric so beautiful and touching yet so perfectly obscure that I don't even want to go into the million different meanings I've assigned to it! There's a lot of ways to convey meaning in a song - sometimes just a dope ass instrumental can do the talking - but this song is an example of how beautiful, well thought out, poetic lyrics can really speak to an audience. And also, did she lie? Hope really is a dangerous thing!
 
Sad Girl
There are soooo many things that make this song great. Among them is Lana's "sad but won't not fuck you the fuck up" attitude, but my favourite thing is that the instruments in this song are used remarkably well. While I love NFR (honestly I really really really do), this song demonstrates exactly why it hasn't knocked Ultraviolence off the top spot for me; there's some sonic depth and a constant sense of progression going on that's lacking in quite a lot of NFR cuts. It's jazzy, bluesy and it has so much to look forward to - I'm always excited to hear that Spanish-influenced guitar kick in during the second verse, then of course there's the glorious bridge. I know Lana fans love a sing-song moment, so why do I not hear more fans talking about how much they enjoy belting out "Watch what you say to meeeeee, careful who you're talking tooo!"? It's lost on me. This song deserves way more love than it gets and I know for sure it would sound incredible live, so I'm v v v v sad she hasn't performed it before. 
 
Gramma
Another AKA song that doesn't get a lot of love - this one is always getting knocked out first or second in AKA Survivor games. Still, it's one of my favourites and I think it's really underrated because of the unique vibe it possesses: it's cheeky, bratty, fun, a little girly and definitely twisted. I know Lana's described this song as having an innocent meaning in prior interviews, but honestly? I'm not buying it! This song is undoubtedly naughty in a way that's SO wrong only Lizzy-era Lana could get away with it. Lana is (or rather was) so good at the whole ~feigning innocence roleplay~ thing. Maybe I love this song so much because I was a messed up kid - without being too TMI, this song reminds me of being a young teen and the early sexual experiences I had and how I knew it was bad but it also so wrong it's right, when I would sneak out of my own Grandma's house to do bad and stupid things, and all the feelings of excitement and wonder I had along with the feelings of fear, confusion, guilt, abuse and sadness. This song couples a playful cheery beat with ever-so-slightly sexually suggestive lyrics ("All I wanna do is play") and then some moments of darkness ("I don't wanna think I'm bad, Gramma") to create this strange, sinister atmosphere that's so representative of being essentially still a little girl taking on the big, exciting, scary, wonderful, terrible adult world - especially where men are involved. It also touches on that feeling of attention addiction: "I'm in love with everyone and I don't wanna think I'm wrong just for feelin' pretty" and "I wanna be the whole world's girl Gramma". There's a fine line between suggestive and outright controversial, and Lana, I believe, is just about on the 'suggestive' side - if anything my reading of this song could well be controversial! Still, there's some unbelievable skill in managing to write about such a topic in a way that's a little dark but still tongue-in-cheek without it coming across as mocking or exploitative. I really love this song and I honestly feel it stands out in her discography.
 
In Wendy, More Mountains, There Is Nothing To Be Sorry About
As a fanbase we tend to neglect a lot of Lana's more singer-songwriter-y type stuff, but these songs right here...... goddamn. She has a TONNE of folksy gems, but these are some of my favourites and I never EVER hear them mentioned. More Mountains is bleak and existential; In Wendy is sweet and a little blue; There Is Nothing To Be Sorry About is legitimately devastating and I genuinely can't listen to it without crying. "Remember me the way I was six months ago"... nahhhh man I just    A lot of Lana fans actually haven't heard these songs; this is your sign to GO AND LISTEN TO THEM! I think the only reason these songs are so underrated is because so many people completely forget about them, but wow, they take my breath away.
 
Ok sorry for the huge post LOL I have a lot of feelings ok

What a difference. She looked perfect in 2011-2014. I don't know why she touched her face so much. Also her weight has fluctuated up and down which can change her face too. 

Smearing marks to suit perspective? Lol, okay big brain. If you don't see it then you don't but even if it wasn't there lots of people noticed the difference even just by looking at the Gucci Guilty photo.  
Me too, it's crazy how many people don't really notice it. Here's one found on reddit.
 

Here's one from her btd era around the time she started getting fillers to LFL era
I might get dragged for posting these lol but if you're interested for more just google lana del rey 2013 vs 2016

oh my    do you have any more pics that demonstrate this at all?? i never even noticed a bump on her nose bridge before. or do you have any idea what to type into google to see some related images?? a lot of people are shocked by her pre-fame to BTD-era surgical transition but tbh with you, i'm more fascinated by the kind of thing you posted above, like her BTD era face compared to her LFL-onwards face.

Something about his head-to-body ratio is bothering me. Or maybe it's the proportions of the head itself. Too long for how little chin he has.
 
Liz looks hella cute tho.

Stop dissing rick nowels, lana has made quite some magic with him.

Something about his head-to-body ratio is bothering me. Or maybe it's the proportions of the head itself. Too long for how little chin he has.
 
Liz looks hella cute tho.

To the person who deleted the thread: restricting information is never okay!!!!!

bob leone got exposed for grooming underaged girls trying to get into the music field via instagram and in general just being a fucking cyclepath.
 
my original comment was about how a certain someone got rid of the entire thread discussing this shortly after it got posted on lb. i haven't got the details anymore because of that issue unfortunately

Something about his head-to-body ratio is bothering me. Or maybe it's the proportions of the head itself. Too long for how little chin he has.
 
Liz looks hella cute tho.

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Higher quality original cover ;
 

Her lack of self-awareness in regard to that performance is kind of telling imo.

Her lack of self-awareness in regard to that performance is kind of telling imo.

it;'s even worse when u remember the fact her manager at the time of her making songs such as lolita and put me in a movie was a pedophile but that's not something that's allowed to be discussed on the site

if she has dated really dated guys who pray on underaged girls, all those songs about men liking little girls suddenly kill me... imo opinion its one thing to glamorize your own fucked up situation but its another thing to be okay in general with guys who have sex with (rape) underaged girls. this is rlly disturbing and sad for me

alcohol use disorder and substance use disorder are psychiatric diagnoses, so yes.

Her lack of self-awareness in regard to that performance is kind of telling imo.

Yes. 

nah we are gonna discuss this here and now in detail. We can kiki about her voting registration and all of her past home addresses but not this? (first time I've heard of this claim). that'd be hypocritical 

elton is repugnant for trying to connect her snl performance to the #metoo movement. 
 
this is who you all stan. and after reading the interview she's really showing some true colors. she needs to do a beyonce and stop giving interviews. they are doing her no favors. 

I'm not gonna really speculate about her mom because what the hell do I know, but just my two cents on the matter as a person who had a rather odd raising:
 
There's always two sides to the same story. Lana may perceive a certain situation as negative while her parents may seem nothing wrong with it. And vice-versa. One side may not have fully disclosed feelings about the other. Her mom might just be camera shy or simply rather be away from the spotlight and Internet.  Rob still posts a bunch of pictures of Patty so I guess they're still together? Or at least in good terms. I'm pretty sure there's a couple of tweets that might be more descritive. Just because there's a lot of pictures around of Lana and her parents together, it does not mean they get along that well. It might be more like a chore for one side. Most of bad situations don't even need or allow to fully cut ties with the other. Same thing regarding Rob supporting Lana. He seems interested in his daughters' careers, but it doesn't mean it was always that way or that it is 100% genuine.  She may not want to share certain informations because she might feel that her closed ones will suffer. It doesn't mean they did her any harm - it could be the other way around, even if in more an indirect way. I know everything seems fishy and that we're interested in hearing more, but we're talking about Lana. I'm not saying that she's a liar and that she didn't suffer, but we have no idea what she's talking about in that interview. I'm not sure if it's fair to blame a woman we barely know when Lana herself might be the guilty one.

are you okay now that you got that out of your system? 

me and my momma we don’t get along

he's garbage. i'm mad for her that she has to share the cover with him. i'm infuriated that he's in her photos - he's trash. trash trash trash.