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  1. brandon liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Is this merna hiding behind a kali fan account
  2. pawnshop liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  3. Hundred Dollar Bill liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  4. Veinsineon liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  5. bluefiona liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  6. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by yayoop in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    It’s always the prettiest ones who reject the beauty standards  jk but she seems to be living a happier life and it is showing, she is glowing
  7. cherryblossoms liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  8. Veinsineon liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Its funny cause she’s more recently been more vocal about rejecting conventional beauty standards and its not like she’s trying to fit into that mould but she’s literally just becoming prettier
  9. snake liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Its funny cause she’s more recently been more vocal about rejecting conventional beauty standards and its not like she’s trying to fit into that mould but she’s literally just becoming prettier
  10. vrtvie liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Its funny cause she’s more recently been more vocal about rejecting conventional beauty standards and its not like she’s trying to fit into that mould but she’s literally just becoming prettier
  11. renaissance liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    I swear to God she gets like physically prettier every new era, she looks the best she ever has in the promo photos for the new single 
  12. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by HoneyViolence in Twitter Updates   
    Y’all are even WORSE than her haters ??
  13. kallumlavigne liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Marina’s everything post electra heart just comes off very “pick me” girl but for the self righteous crowd of millenials that think SNL is funny 
  14. HEARTCORE liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in MARINA (and The Diamonds)   
    Marina’s everything post electra heart just comes off very “pick me” girl but for the self righteous crowd of millenials that think SNL is funny 
  15. DaytonaQueen liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in Rolling Stone Magazine Ranks NFR as #321 in it's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" List   
    Dumbass list how could they not include born to die on it.
  16. IanadeIrey liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in Unpopular Lana Opinions   
    Lana said what she said during QTFC exactly as she should. She couldn’t have communicated herself better. 
  17. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by litewave in The Paradise and the esoteric origin of mankind   
    A male voice responds to her but I can't hear it clearly.
     
    I always thought she was talking to God, asking why she was chosen for carrying a burden or being in a situation.
  18. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by DeadAgainst in The Paradise and the esoteric origin of mankind   
    Only going to note the Black Beauty / White Mustang parallels of horse (heroin?)-based symbology
     
     
    I think you'll find there's a bit more to him than that 
  19. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by DeadAgainst in The Paradise and the esoteric origin of mankind   
    I think "West Coast" has a lot to do with this poem Barrie posted on FB: https://www.facebook.com/nightmareboybjo/posts/413946528751206

    "She's a drunk bitch
    he's a drunk cunt
    she's so lonely now he's gone
    he's day dreaming of his new gun
    she's a feeling his only one

    burn me a liar
    want to die in a fire
    holy and wired
    addicted to liars

    Pontius pilate serve me a sin
    be my next of kin
    broken by her violent hymn
    she thinks he's jesus crying within

    serve him a sire
    he wants to die in a fire
    holy and wired
    addicted to liars
    burn me a liar
    i want to die in a fire
    buried in fire
    addicted to liars

    my girl she burns her lover and
    she says something as he's on fire and
    my girl she burns her lover and
    says something like love"



    "Chelsea Hotel #2" appears on this Leonard Cohen album, whose cover features "an image from the alchemical text Rosarium philosophorum"

    "You're the King
    My fear baby
    I'm the Queen of Alchemy
    I know a way to make gold by mixing our souls to escape reality"

    Lana, as she told us in "Heavy Hitter," is the Queen of Alchemy, and her work must be interpreted in this context. She is burning her lover (and/or the listener) in the alchemical fire, purging away his impurities and symbolically "killing" the lower self so that it may be reborn as a Phoenix.

    The first stage of Alchemy is the Nigredo, in which the sun of day-consciousness figuratively is immersed in the darkness of the lower world, interpreted in both its macrocosmic and microcosmic aspects as the soul descending into body and the consciousness descending into the unconscious waters of the psyche, respectively. This is the sun setting in the "West" to make the night-journey through the Underworld.

    "Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin'
    If you're not drinking, then you're not playing
    But you got the music, you got the music in you, don't you?

    "Down on the West Coast, I get this feeling, like
    It all could happen, that's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment, boy blue, yeah, you..."

    "Down on the West Coast, they got their icons
    The silver starlets, their queens of Saigons
    ...they love their movies
    Their Golden Gods and rock 'n' roll groupies
    And you got the music, you got the music in you, don't you?"

    Los Angeles is the Gateway to the Underworld, as she said in Tropico. The Land of Gods and Monsters is an inverted reflection of the higher spiritual reality of the world of forms, where all of the "Golden Gods" and "Silver Starlets" dwell in their own false Paradise. Here one is subjected to spiritual intoxication and occlusion that dulls the senses. Lana, as the Alchemical Queen, has descended into this world as a Ray of light broken off from the Divine, here to alchemically transform the lower world into a true image of the eternal Paradise; she as Soul is the "music" in her lover as Ego that will transform him from the dead to the living.

    "You're falling hard, I push away
    I'm feeling hot to the touch
    You say you miss me and I wanna say, "I miss you so much"
    But something keeps me really quiet"

    This ties into the symbolism of "Black Beauty," in which Lana as Soul paints herself black in the Nigredo stage of the work, when the alchemical fire turns all to ashes; she no longer speaks to her lover and he is left seemingly alone in his Dark Night of the Soul.



    "I can see my baby swinging, his Parliament's on fire and his hands are up
    On the balcony and I'm singing, ooh baby, ooh baby, I'm in love
    I can see my sweet boy swinging, he's crazy and Cubano como yo, my love
    On the balcony and I'm swaying, move baby, move baby, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love"

    Lana repeats the familiar trope of separating herself into two characters in the verse-chorus structure; here she stands as the Higher Sophia, in distinction from the Lower (the White and Red girls as Soul and Body, Mary and Eve), who declares her love as her "baby" burns himself in the alchemical fire. In Barrie's "Mary," we see Mary on a balcony as the Mother Goddess, overlooking the mortal child who wishes to approach her divinity.

    "Would you kill for me? Would you die for me?
    
Put your hands where I can see them,

    Put them in the air."
     
    And if it seems strange that she would personify herself as a goddess . . .
     
    "I want to be the whole world's girl, gramma
    Tell me do you think that's wrong?

    "Don't cry, honey, crazy girl
    Don't you know you are the world?
    Every time you feel unsure
    Try to remember what you are"
  20. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by DeadAgainst in The Paradise and the esoteric origin of mankind   
    This is brilliant. I understand you completely and interpret BTD in much the same way. With the release of Tropico, I think much of what you say here, as outlandish as it appears, has been proven correct.
  21. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by litewave in The Paradise and the esoteric origin of mankind   
    Body Electric
     

    “Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother, Jesus is my bestest friend”

    An interplay of the separating masculine archetype and the unifying feminine archetype draws out the potential of their common source into creative manifestation. Their background source could be considered a feminine extreme in that it contains everything in a state of undifferentiated unity. In this unity, the masculine and feminine orientations are inherent as naturally as plus and minus are inherent in a zero. The masculine differentiates reality while the feminine integrates it, the result being individual entities arising and interacting in mutual relations. In my understanding these are the fundamental principles of creation and consciousness. In Christianity Jesus is the ultimate example of this manifestation, being regarded as an incarnation of God in human body.


    “Whitman is my daddy, Monaco’s my mother, diamonds are my bestest friend”

    In this verse I identified archetypal ideas similar to those mentioned before. Whitman is one of Lana’s favorite poets while Monaco represents her idea of beauty. By words we define things and make them explicit/clear. Beauty, on the other hand, is implicitely/vaguely felt. Words analyze beauty while beauty integrates them in a harmonious whole, both actions enhancing the creation and its meaning. Diamonds symbolize a creation that is simultaneously clearly defined and beautiful. Such a creation is also durable because it prevents disintegration into parts by the analytical process and dissolution into vagueness by the integrating process.


    “Heaven is my baby, suicide’s her father, opulence is the end”

    Here I represented heaven and suicide with upward and downward tendencies, respectively. Fall leads to death, as the masculine/analytical process separates a part from its source, while ascension leads back to heaven, as the feminine/integrating process reunites the part with a larger reality. The two processes alternate in a cycle, resulting in the creation of multitudes of forms, our planet with its biosphere and human society being the richest place we know of. The Christian God descends to earth to die on the cross on Good Friday, only to be resurrected on Easter Sunday and ascend back to heaven. This story reminds us, who got stuck down here, that there is more to life when we open up and expand our perspectives.
  22. past the bushes liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in Unpopular Lana Opinions   
    Lana said what she said during QTFC exactly as she should. She couldn’t have communicated herself better. 
  23. fishtails liked a post in a topic by LanaTheRay in "American Standards & Classics" Cover Album - Pre-Pre-Release Thread   
    Feel like I could see Lana covering these songs on the album
     
    Every breath you take—The police
    Jealous Guy—John Lennon
    Hotel California—The Eagles
    Heart Shaped Box—Maybe a collab with Courtney (if she’s come around about the vagina thing)
    Born to Run—Bruce Springsteen
     
     
  24. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by West Coast in Twitter Updates   
    I think she's had enough with "fans" pushing narratives on her. Good for her honestly. 
  25. LanaTheRay liked a post in a topic by pin up galore in Twitter Updates   
    reasons like this are why i stan this woman 
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