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It's not fair, but even calling someone 'beautiful' is objectifying someone, so where do you draw the line? We all objectify and contradict each other at the end of the day. Not only that, but unfortunately she's a female and very good looking celebrity - this sort of thing was bound to happen, but I'm sure she wasn't kicking and screaming on the way.

Being innocent is all part of her stage persona though, the whole doe eyed look, 'bambi' eyes and what not. It's total 50s glamour.
 
Also, her lyrics are sardonic a lot of the time, but I'm not even a feminist so I guess I'm not bothered.

Well, kids have probably seen it 1000x on the street anyway by complete strangers. It's down to parents to set examples to their kids - not Lana Del Rey (or any other celebrity). If David Bowie can smoke on stage, Lana Del Rey can too.

I don't mind if Lana wants to get high, smoke, drink or w/e else. (Apparently she still does drugs, but I have no evidence, but idc either way.) The way I see it is, she's her own person and I know loads of people who do that sort of thing but I still love them. And anyway, she should live her life however she likes.
 
(No hate plz)

Video games was good at first but now it's shit because everyone knows about that song

I really do not like the version of Lolita on Born to Die.

I don't think I want LDR a.k.a LG to be re-released

I absolutely love Without You

I love the album version of Lucky Ones.

Paradise is a hell-colored flame sky
 
Like the quote from Lolita: "I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise — a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames — but still a paradise."
 
Reminds me of "flame-colored paradise" from Velvet Crowbar.

This song sounds so heavenly. I think it's a much better 'spiritual piece' than Bel Air anyway. The lyrics remind me of clouds and floating in the sky and being free. Ah.
 

Is the sun in your eyes, easy rider? 
Do the flame colored skies light your fire?
We are heavy metal lions, they will never understand
The kind of people you or I am, bow your heads and take your hands
 
They were angels forever, forever angels
They were angels forever, forever angels
 
  Does the ocean inspire, easy rider? Do the stars and the wind take you higher? You are California proud, you are angels of the night Rock 'n' roll guardians now, the last keepers of the light   They were angels forever, forever angels They were angels forever, forever angels
  Paradise is a hell-colored flame sky  Is it nice to feel free and wild? Paradise is the game of do or die I just ride, ride, ride   They were angels forever, forever angels
They were angels forever, forever angels
They were angels forever, forever angels
They were angels forever, forever angels
       

such a sad song. leak of the year

This is one of her best songs period.

"Heroin gold in my veins and you in my thoughts"
 
 
this is why we stan

This song probably has the best lyrics out of some other songs. We were truly blessed today. This will hold me over for a while.

“School kid dreams came true then passed in the night” This really hit me

This is the woman who writes about crustaceans and tesla cars people. Same girl. Wtf.

The lyrics in this give me hope that she can still write like this for NFR

I had to look up what "nectar of the gods" is and it seems to be the sweetest and most delicous drink or thing you can consume, and can literally mean food for (ancient Greek) gods. When looking at the previous line, "what cruel world is this?", she might be asking herself what kind of world this is to have something you can't stop yourself from having, which makes it cruel. Maybe we can think of it like candy - your tongue and brain loves it, but you know it's not good for you if you overconsume it. Perhaps this "nectar of the gods" is heroin, which she mentions in the next line.
Heroin is an opioid and makes you addicted. She knows it's not good for her, yet she can't stop herself from having it i.e. she's addicted. She may be taking heroin to relieve heartbreak and pain, since it can have similar effects to morphine, another opioid, or she may be taking it to create a rush while thinking of her lover.
The next line makes me think of Summertime Sadness ("cruisin' down the coast, goin' 'bout 99"), but I think she is describing the rush, the euphoric feeling from the drug ("racing at a million"). And she confirms that she can't stop using it - she's addicted.
Finally, she is saying that she wishes to talk with her lover but she is either making calls but it too scared to actually talk to him and hangs up, or she keeps calling him and he refuses to have a proper conversation and hangs up the phone.
 
 
She says that she loves him more than before ("like you never knew"), hinting that they're no longer a couple. Not being with him saddens her ("like the color blue") and maybe she's crossing lines just to show him how much she cares (like keep calling him on the phone and acting "fucking crazy" by doing that).
 
 
After a quick search, I found that Lana is referencing a song, Honey on the Vine, by Matt Monro. I listened to it, and it's a sweet, jazzy love song (from 1997?), and if we go back to the previous line, she might be asking what a world would be like if it had love like that. Maybe she's thinking back to her past, remembering when her world was sweet like that, and thinking that she no longer recognizes it today.
In the next lines, she's looking back to when she was still unknown and had grand dreams of her future. She dreamt of celebrities, namedropped singers, songwriters and artists in her own songs, imagining what it must be like to be one of them. Now, she knows what it means to be a celebrity and knows the backside of being one, and wonders why she even daydreamed of a life like this when she was young. Perhaps, her (ex-)lover is a musician too. ("I used to dream/sing about people like you")
 
 
She made it to California and Los Angeles ("home land of the gods" - or maybe the "gods" are movie stars, and movie stars are usually in LA), a place she'd been longing to experience and live at. Now that she is here, she kind of has fullfilled her goals, she has everything she dreamt of (well, except for love I suppose) so the question is... what left is there for her to have? What will her new goals in life be? She's feeling lost in the place she feels most at home and must find herself. Perhaps she's feeling lost if her (ex-)lover dumped her, and she's asking herself what she did wrong and is trying to find an answer.

literally a lyrical masterpiece

What cruel world is this, nectar of the gods
Heroin gold in my veins and you in my thoughts
 
THE LYRICISM

I was just typing this down but I was too slow it seems - THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL OMG these lyrics???