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@@SitarHero maybe you've seen this already but not updated the OP but i'm posting it here just in case

i was in the winter of my life 

for k, taylor swift's next single
 

omg i think it'd be so interesting to mix lorde's minimalistic sound and lyrics that feel very controlled together with taylor who's songs are so emotionally driven and it could be a place for lorde to sing with more of a traditional pop-voice (like how she did in use somebody or mama do). i mean it could turn out awful since their voices are so different but the songs they could create could be very unique and compelling (or an absolute trainwreck which i also wanna see) so yeah 

Before Sirens leaked I thought For K Part 2 was about David Kahne, as someone stated previously.
 
In that facebook-interview (the one where she says "I just thought it was so sad that like, I don’t know, God had found someone so perfect for me and that we really couldn’t be together") she talks about the person she had a relationship with that influenced BTD and she says "we were birds of a feather"
 
In a Lizzy Grant interview she says
"My producer, David Kahne, and me got along very well because he knew that I lived in my songs, and so he just tried to make them better. He asked me in a letter what I wanted the record to sound like, and I said, “I want it to sound famous, like a sad party.” He thought that was a wonderful idea, and we began working the next day. I like to think we’re birds of a feather."
 
It's probably nothing, she's just using the phrase to describe different people, but I did used to think that FKP2 was about their (professional) relationship, "Use that voice, sing that song , And tell me to come on, to come on, come on" but this doesn't really fit with For K (or anything else for that matter), still, it might interest some.
 
 
 
I used to think K was Elvis. She's said that she was obsessed with him as a teenager, K is for King, Elvis was The King.
Elvis' body guards were called the Memphis Mafia - gangsters (not literally), and in Gangsta Boy she sings "high school, loved you from the beginning". She's also said that when she saw Elvis for the first time she was blown away by his beauty. In Lucky Ones she sings "everybody told me love was blind, then I saw your face and you blew my mind".
In
interview (or it might be in part 2) the interviewer asks her if Million Dollar Man is about Elvis, and she says "maybe" and smiles. "One for the money, two for the show" is also a lyric in Blue Suede Shoes. When I googled it I found that the expression "one for the money..." is one used in horse racing, as in Off to the Races.And obviously Elvis fits the description in American "tall, tan/skin so golden brown" although it doesn't really makes sense that American would be about him since she namedrops him. Also, Elvis is from Mississippi (Raise Me Up). I thought that maybe, since a lot of people think she writes each song about more than one person, that she uses Elvis as a base-character and then writes autobiographically around that base... if that makes sense.
 
 
I'm sure Y&B is about Jimmy Gnecco (also Radio and Bel Air)
 
 
 
 
I just read this on wikipedia: "In Nabokov's 'Lolita', the name is used in reference to Mr Clare Quilty, the man who takes Lolita from Humbert. Carmen and Clare being both male and female names, Lolita uses them to deceive Humbert into thinking he is a woman and no threat."
I knew there was a song in Lolita called Carmen
 
 
and so I assumed that's where she got the name from. I'm not sure if it's relevant or not (God, imagine if every song she's ever written is just fan fiction about Lolita) but thought I'd share.
 
 
 
And this has been bothering me for a while, in the album booklet it says "Thank you to my devoted managers Ben Mawson and Ed Millett. And to A.G."
Who is A.G.?

i just realised what "dreams of clean teeth" means: (unless it's some hip young folks lingo)
 

 
and like a week ago i finally realised that "i won't be smiling but the notes from my admires fill the dashboard just the same" is a reference to her tumblr and not that she keeps fan mail in her car 

I made a playlist called "TROPICO". It's basically an extended version of the Paradise EP, but it follows the theme of Tropico (Loss and regain of innocence) and it flows very, very well. You should give it a try!
 

 

 
1. Ride
2. American
3. JFK
4. Cola
5. Body Electric
8. Hollywood
7. Burning Desire
8. Yayo
9. You & Me
10. Gods & Monsters
11. Starry Eyed
12. Blue Velvet
13. Young & Beautiful
14. Bel Air
 
Bonus Track:
15. TV in Black & White
 
Eventhough TVIB&W and You & Me are not Paradise outtakes they go along along with the other album tracks fairly well, especially the latter one. I added TVIB&W as a "bonus track" cause some of you might disagree with my inclusion of it. Bel Air is the perfect album ender, but I think TV adds a little more meaning to it as well. It's kind of like a Thank You to "THAT GUY" saying: "I know you've been a bad guy, I love you you anyway, thanks for making me who I am today." , you know? You might have to cut the first ten seconds of silence at the beginning of Starry Eyed and the last 6 seconds of silence at the end of Burning Desire to make it flow better.

i hope there's a song with these lyrics, i think about them a lot    https://twitter.com/lanadelrey/status/33956541799337984

i hope there's a song with these lyrics, i think about them a lot    https://twitter.com/lanadelrey/status/33956541799337984

I'm so not here for BeYAWNcé getting so much attention for putting her delayed and boring-ass album out like a week ago. There are so many artists that deserve way more attention than her TBQFH.

I'm 99.9% sure it's Century Gothic 

It must be pretty scary going out alone at night and having strange men waiting to take pics of you 

Because I love casual Lana (when she's not wearing that aztec jacket)
 
 
 
 

remember when Ride came out and on pretty much every lyric site it said "I look up to hear myself saying, baby, too much strive, I just ride"  
 
 
in diet mountain dew I was convinced she was singing "baby stopping at ~some posh french name~ (something like shumura l'evin), baring his work in new york, heaven" and I had this image of her and her painter-boyfriend driving to an art exhibition were he was showing his paintings
 
which fit with what I misheard in Blue Jeans which was "love you more, than those pictures before" because she was like "I don't love you because you're an artist, I love you because you're you~". For such a long time I thought all her songs was about a boyfriend who was a failed painter ("well shit at least you tried") who turned to selling drugs 

"shot at siren studios" 
 
did they even know each other when video games came out    and also this bullshit:  
yeah, like adele, taylor swift, katy perry, lady gaga, pink, nicki minaj, avril lavigne, ellie goulding, lorde and emeli sandé 

"shot at siren studios" 
 
did they even know each other when video games came out    and also this bullshit:  
yeah, like adele, taylor swift, katy perry, lady gaga, pink, nicki minaj, avril lavigne, ellie goulding, lorde and emeli sandé 

Does anyone know (@@evilentity maybe?) how correct these are and more specifically rules concerning copyright? For example Justin Parker and Lana has authorship of Ride but the booklet specifies that Dan Heath arranged the strings, doesn't that mean that he should have copyright or does that count as a part of the production? Is the production not copyrighted? Lana is credited for both music and lyrics in every file and as far as I know she's only composed Yayo, does melody count as music or are her lawyers simply being sloppy and crediting every songwriter for both music and lyrics when that isn't the case?
 
So many questions 

yeah, but every song on btd and paradise except for yayo (and a large part of lana's unreleased material) has had co-writers so her argument that lana is somehow more genuine than other female pop stars is ridiculous

I guess I have to agree, but the issue is whether or not the copyright takes some kind of higher validity than the album notes. I would stick to Bel Air as an example case. The reason I think you're right is, I tried it for John, Elton and found some hits where music and words were credited separately (the way you would expect). However most of the cases were like this:
Type of Work: Music Registration Number / Date: RE0000822044 / 2000-01-10   Renewal registration for: EFO000156240 / 1972-06-01 Title: Honky cat. Notes: Words & music. Copyright Claimant: Elton John, Bernie Taupin (A)     Names: John, Elton   Taupin, Bernie  
So if not a lawyer reason, maybe a sloppy who gives a what reason (on the part of the authors). 

I'd vote a lawyer 
 
Seems like restrictive legalese thing as in you can't be an author of part of a song, but just an author of a song (which must be both melody and lyrics). So on the copyright web page it credits Dan Heath on music and lyrics for Bel Air. I'm sure he's a sensitive guy, but I don't take him to be a lyrics person. However, my Paradise EP liner notes say "Lyrics and melody by Lana Del Rey".  "melody" I'm taking to be vocal melody.

No, you can most definitely be credited as the author of the lyrics and the author of the melody separately.
 
I'm guessing he's not included in the official copyright info (for arrangements in Ride) because arrangements are basically a reworking of a previously existent melody (in this case, written by someone else) so it's probably not considered original material.

Does anyone know (@@evilentity maybe?) how correct these are and more specifically rules concerning copyright? For example Justin Parker and Lana has authorship of Ride but the booklet specifies that Dan Heath arranged the strings, doesn't that mean that he should have copyright or does that count as a part of the production? Is the production not copyrighted? Lana is credited for both music and lyrics in every file and as far as I know she's only composed Yayo, does melody count as music or are her lawyers simply being sloppy and crediting every songwriter for both music and lyrics when that isn't the case?
 
So many questions 

Go here. Put "Grant, Elizabeth" in the search box, select search by name. This is an example of a page, I highlighted the area of authorship: