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I still feel really dumb for this one but listening to ultraviolence the first few times I thought she sang ‘he hurt me and it felt like July’
 
I figured out eventually it was ‘true love’ but I still hear it as July 

it's very commonly believed that she's saying "don't cry honey" but i honestly think she's saying "don't cry bunny" in gramma  it's "bunny" in the live performance, it's honestly hard to know for sure since we don't have any official lyrics for the aka album
 
 

Maybe I've heard the live version many times but if I listen to Get Free I kinda hear "for A- and for Wh-" 

for Bel Air in the official lyric book it’s printed as ‘can you break this heart of mine’

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

One of her best looks. Effortlessly classy.

As a french guy, I remember watching live all of these shows :
 
Le grand journal (with "Kamel le Magicien") :
 
 
La boîte à questions :
 
 
And Taratata (with the iconic "shut up", poor Nagui...) :
 
 

This is the most interesting entry on the most interesting thread on LB for me... Can't believe I haven't discovered it before...

1949

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

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Are you a newer fan, or have you known about her for years now?
 
Fan since August 2011, I cried a lot when Amy died and Lana arrived afterwards, I took refuge in her. An article from a music site had presented her as a "new artist who is making the buzz this week", I thought that she would be an artist not very interesting but that I will listen to see because I had no more homework to do and then...
Video games was like love at first sight, I can't explain. I remember sitting in front of my computer and not talking until the end. I knew from this video which relates to memories, this homemade, this voice, this melancholy that Lana was gold, she already had a great mastery. I classified it immediately among the great ones. I did not doubt for a moment, I knew she would follow me all my life.
 
Has your interested grown, or dwindled?
 
I'm not going to lie, I'm disappointed with her albums and her projects since Lust for life. But my interest in her does not diminish because she is fascinating. I like to know what she is doing, where she is going, the meaning of her songs, her lyrics, her life. Her life is connected to music and I really like that. If I remain faithful it's because I still hope that she will make an album with BTD, UV, a bit of HM and LFL.
On the other hand since NFR!, I haven't listened to her projects more than 5 times (except Wildflower Wildfire, Blue Banisters and Text Book which I like), the rest is anecdotal. But I wait. For example these latest shoots are the best in a long time, so it's not lost. Every news of her is cool.
 
Where are you now in your fan journey? 
 
I don't really know... I can't say I'm what you call a fan because I never bought anything from her and I never got the chance to see her in concert. The only thing I bought from her is the Born to die album (although I almost bought Paradise and UV on vinyl - damn nice boxes! - I wish I had because they didn't were no longer available a few weeks later). But I think the material is nothing. I have immense respect for her work and her journey, all the creativity she can give. So I'm a fan of the shade, it doesn't prevent having an unlimited admiration for what it can do.

One of her best looks. Effortlessly classy.

One of her best looks. Effortlessly classy.

One of her best looks. Effortlessly classy.

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

One of her best looks. Effortlessly classy.

I started to listen to her in autumn 2016 when I was 17, the first were the BTD classic like Video Games, Blue Jeans, Born To Die that slowly got me exploring her discography more. By the time she dropped LFL, I was a full time stan and she became and still is #1 artist ever in my life. She was there with me through some dark and difficult moments of growing up gay and at the beginning I saw her as this sad, depressed melancholic artist that I could listen to whenever I felt down, because her music (especially Ultraviolence) kinda "understood" me. But she has obviously grown as an artist and it's amazing how it feels like, as I was growing up, I changed along with her and developed a more optimistic view on life and all the bad things happening. BTD and Ultraviolence are still her classics and probably best albums, but I don't really resonate with them as much, nowadays I listen to Norman, Blue Banisters and Chemtrails the most and I love love love where she is right now as a person and an artist. It's definitely been a beautiful journey.
And yeah my stan twitter account up until somewhere after NFR dropped has mostly been decided to her and these were such iconic times, but having grown up from a silly teenager to a more serious person, I don't have twitter anymore, but I seriously love the kind of special connection you can have with other Lana stans. It's like we all know each other so well. She might not have the biggest and the loudest fandom, but we're all very passionate about her and she's an important part of our life and whenever I met someone who's crazy about Lana, they got a friend in me, at least that's how my experience has been so far.

Became a fan when Tropico was released (before that, I thought she might have been a singer that couldn’t perform live because of SNL 🤦). Prior to that, I really loved Blue Jeans, but was into a lot of new artists, so I never really took the time to listen to BTD on its entirety. The visuals of Tropico blew me away, I loved her universe and listened to everything she put out that day. 
With UV through NFR, each album was telling what I was living at the moment. I connected so much to all of them and loved them. LFL and NFR’s rollouts might not have been that healthy for me though: I was anxiously waiting and scrolling everywhere I could for some infos about those. It’s at the end of NFR that I « took a step back », in a way, and not wait for her albums for my own happiness. 
COCC and BB are very very good, but they do not resonate as much with me. There are incredible songs on each, some I love, some that are part of my story almost. BB is the one of the two that connects with me the most, especially this summer, but both these albums didn’t necessarily transcended me upon release. 

Every day I love her more. I'm absolutely in love with her whole discography but every month I get (more) obsessed with one of her albums and I discover new little details. 
She's such an amazing songwriter and nobody will ever come near her in that aspect.
I'm sure she will be forever remembered as a legend 
I'm getting kinda dramatic but I'm so grateful to get to experience her art 

one step before prozac 

1949

I like the original Buddy’s Rendezvous better. Even though I first listened to Lana’s version, I couldn’t get into the song until I listened to the original and now I can’t stop replaying it. Absolutely heartbreaking, it might easily be one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.