Blue Ink

I really think Lana is Jimmy. Antonoff calls her that. It also connects to the second line of American Whore (I haven't seen my mother in a long long time). Someone probably said this to Lana, either as a joke or seriously, and she's quoting them.
Or maybe she's also talking to herself. She talked to her mother on the phone and knew in her mother's eyes she was "fucking up big time". Maybe Lana even agrees.
Anyway, that's how I understand the whole second part.
 
Other than that, this song is so deep and dark. The first half especially. It's not a "slutty revenge bop" but I already know some fans are gonna claim that. To me "It's not about having someone to love me anymore" is not about silencing the haters, it's about loneliness or giving up. Together with "When's it gonna be my turn / Don't forget me" that's such a sad thought. 

Wearing her new merch!



 

ocean blvd & american whore despite sonically n stylistically being way out of one another's league, lyrically & thematically crossover very well imo & im glad she chose them as the first two singles
 
i feel like "open me up, tell me you like it/me, fuck me to death" obviously ties into a&w perfectly- using sex as a means of validation, a way to fill certain voids/diminish insecurities
an obvious difference however is the "love me until i love myself" to "it isn't about having someone to love me anymore, this is the experience of being an american whore"
almost as if her state of mind on that matter completely shifted in the period between creating the two songs 
 
"I mean, look at my hair- look at the length of it there & the shape of my body
If I told you that I was raped, do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it, didn't ask for it?"
feels like a sister lyric to "I can't help but feel somewhat like my body marred my soul, handmade beauty sealed up by two man-made walls"
 
both touch on the same very real notion that society struggles to look past the surface level when it comes to a woman, women are reduced & diminished down to their anatomy/age/clothing & their basic humanity gets destroyed this process.
 
other than that, she touches on her conflicts with both the press/public & her own mother, which likely are where a lot of the deeper wounds she sings of stem from, leading to her searching for a sort of "closure" to them through her loves / lovemaking (expressed in both tracks again) 
 
 
tldr- random thoughts,  i appreciate how both the singles sort of bounce off each other, looking fwd to the great feast of the 24th!!!!!

I really think Lana is Jimmy. Antonoff calls her that. It also connects to the second line of American Whore (I haven't seen my mother in a long long time). Someone probably said this to Lana, either as a joke or seriously, and she's quoting them.
Or maybe she's also talking to herself. She talked to her mother on the phone and knew in her mother's eyes she was "fucking up big time". Maybe Lana even agrees.
Anyway, that's how I understand the whole second part.
 
Other than that, this song is so deep and dark. The first half especially. It's not a "slutty revenge bop" but I already know some fans are gonna claim that. To me "It's not about having someone to love me anymore" is not about silencing the haters, it's about loneliness or giving up. Together with "When's it gonna be my turn / Don't forget me" that's such a sad thought. 

Women using the word "raped" in songs is so powerful to me. I feel like it's something that a lot of listeners, particularly male listeners, may find jarring. But personally, I find it refreshing to hear an artist like Lana do it if that is the case. I think the mentioned subtleness of it is quite interesting, so it really could be maimed as well and I think the meaning of the lyrics would hold the same weight. Especially in the verse the word is used in. It reminds me a lot of Hole's "Asking For It" 

"Forensic Files wasn't on" ––––– but was it? 
 

I can't tell if it's something Lana has said to someone else, but it sounds like she's quoting someone else talking to her. So imagine a guy she's dating telling her "Your mom called (on the phone), I told her, you're fucking up big time!" meaning she's messing her life up big time

im an American Whore supremacist btw

you shut your tiny little Bitch lips.

She looks like Priscilla Presley here I swear

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

Okay I need all outtakes

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time

Ben and his love for emojis
The only word he ever writes is soon

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

Okay I need all outtakes

...I don't really like the cover outfit  or the pose
This outfit should've been on the cover omg 

 

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time

This is really a song you have to process after hearing it the first time