longtimeman

Not everyone needs to measure sobriety in the same way. It's possible it means 20 years sober, with occasional 'breaks'/relapses not being counted. She says 11 years in Melancholia, which was recorded I guess 11 years ago, but as I always say, she's terrible with specifics and dates, even important ones. Also, sobriety doesn't have to mean complete abstinence. I know people who are lucky enough to be able to move from problem drinkers to occasional drinkers without problems, but the important thing is they're not drinking in a self destructive way anymore.

This is a great explanation. I also think there's a double meaning - the 'songs that she sings' also refer to her own songs, and she's thinking of the end of her own life ("... your days flash in front of you"), and she sees herself forgotten (see 'DYKTTATUOB'), and her own songs as obscure as the folk songs. (The 'just another folk song' also shows this double meaning - both the old songs her families are standing together singing, and also 'Kintsugi' itself).

It makes me wistful to think that if he really was the svengali behind the scenes of making Lana into a big star, like all the haters imagined, her image would have been based around lobsters and Hawaiian shirts instead of old starlets and red dresses.

Does anyone remember the fan made record 'Young and Beautiful' on Youtube? I feel like that was my first real exposure to unreleased (even though it mixed in a few released, non album songs), and I'd love to see a tracklist again. Anyway, I think the first unreleased song I came across was Driving in Cars With Boys, which I remain obsessed with, and, if it counts, Kinda Out of Luck.

This is one of the lines that people online seemed to argue over (what exactly the line said), and that she took the time to VERY clearly enunciate when singing it live, so I think she really wanted it to be understood.

100% not a Lana show. Maybe they're spinning her record between sets?

It's always great when a fella tells a woman how she should be a better feminist. (I haven't watched it, and probably won't, but seeing as he clearly didn't listen to the album the first time around, then fuck him).

Every line of this song is God-level poetry, and is both hilarious and terrifying. The greatest diss track of all time, and it's entirely self-directed! I've had lines from this very song come to mind a thousand times.

What is the source for this? (Also, everyone needs to look her up, so I'm noting the correct spelling of Simone Weil's name)

Good to see this thread is popping. I strongly recommend the album 'Songs of Love and Hate' for fans of Ocean Blvd - it uses similar song structures and themes, and is simply a masterpiece.

Exactly the same as The Guardian with NFR.

This is one of the most poetically dense and multifaceted lyrics I've ever come across. I'm still trying to come to grips with it.

I'm seeing Honeymoon is back?!

Her singing Dolly's version of 'I Will Always Love You' would be a dream come true.

Looking forward to Lana recreating this scene on her next tour

Visuals and sound were absolutely stunning. I managed to have to miss it live due to work, but thank you to NBC and Elle for posting them so quickly. I'm also really glad that Byron got to star, by Lana's side, where he's been ride-or-die for over a decade.

Fantastic! Blake has always seemed like a super cool guy.

100% agree. I have some really unusual and/or idiosyncratic readings of a number of songs, and it's fun to play with words, but the theories that fans hold onto, and fight other fans over disagreeing is the problem. In general, Lana seems to prefer double meanings that work properly in English, and the fact she doesn't usually publish lyrics shows she's happy to let us play with those double meanings/misreadings. She's said over and over that she's very careful about the words she uses, so you should at least respect the surface level of the lyrics, before throwing them out for a 'hidden' meaning.

I can''t find the post now, but when she posted about it, she wrote 'Don't take the necklace, and if you do take it, give it back'.

This guy has done a couple of Lana videos, but this is the most in-depth ones, and one that sums up so much of how I feel about Lana's career. He's more positive than most of us were about the interview, but not unconditionally so.

It's so disheartening, because the 'other' lyrics are always so awful. "Until I saw you why am I staying?"

An interesting video about how this will be Lana's Grammy Awards, whether she wins or not.

Her having to sing the song to herself to remind herself of her astrological signs is peak Lana.

There's nothing worse than an interviewer who thinks we want to read their lifestory and philosophy of the world in every article they write. They need to make something of their life before any of us are going to care. The pictures and video, on the other hand, are lovely.