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Was this already discussed???

also when she did that tiktok story moaning "it's lit!' she did it because it's literally in the song (at 21:11)
 

Good catch! A backbeat is a musical term (it refers to an emphasis on beats 2 and 4 in a song where each bar has 4 beats - so 1 2 3 4).
 
So I think she’s saying that when he calls Lana, he turns on music with a heavy “backbeat” rhythm to mask their conversation. This would directly tie in with the lines about him putting the shower on while he calls her and slipping out the backdoor to talk to her!

The alternate lyrics seem to link back to the poem she free-styled for Vogue in September 2020 about “being led on.” 

 
She met with Sean in July 2020 while in Oklahoma, and seemingly never interacted with him again after that. So something must have happened in summer 2020 where she thought things were potentially going to be rekindled but it ended up being that she was a “side-piece at 3[5]” (I think she said “33” just for rhyme’s sake). 

here you can clearly see that in 17:51 they censored one word out of "got a _ who turned on the backbeat" and that word is probably "cop" judging from her tiktok video
now we only need to understand what turned on the backbeat means 

the thing that confuses me is that Sean was married when they met (when Lana was 33), not engaged. He was however engaged to his current wife for some time before early 2022.. this could mean that Sean cheated on two women with Lana, one before and one after their official relationship 
and the line "did you really think i'd spare her tears just to save your happiness" could refer to hurting Seans current wife by speaking up about it maybe?

this is rly breaking my heart for her tho... Sean when i get your ass

I was thinking about Ramada and Rosemead and what if she put these names metaphorically? We all know how Lana cares about her privacy, we know how she hates being stalked by paparazzi... For me, she wouldn't put in the song real names, places to be tracked of (as we can see FBI agent's work above hehe ). So maybe these names represent something else. I thought that maybe Rosemead is how she represent herself to media and world - as calm, beautiful neibourhood where you wanna be around. But how she feels herself within is Ramada - a cheap, filthy thing where you can hookup. And in the end she knows it doesn't really matter - there are more important things in the world. 
 
Buuuut maybe I am misinterpreting that. 

because that's what she sang on that video followed by "puts the shower on while he calls me"
and listening to the song you can definitely hear "who turned on the backbeat", it's the word right before that seems to be censored weirdly (like on get free and florida kilos etc) so i imagine she says "got a (censored), who turned on the backbeat" 
 
now how the hell do i explain this to genius staff and get it corrected... 

idk what's wrong with people it's
JIMMY JIMMY COCO BUTT
and that's final

i thought i was the only one 

I don't know about the cocoa puff / ko ko bop but she's definitely saying "Jimmy Shimmy"  so nobody is truly right

I still dont understand the hysteria over Venice bitch

It's also really bad for your health 

the lyrics too
 
Maybe my contribution
Could be as small as hoping
That words could turn to birds
And birds would send my thoughts your way

I'd trade it all for a stairway to Heaven
I'd take my time before the climb up to the top of it 
I'd trade the fame and the fortune and the legend 

I'd give it all away if you'd give me just one day to ask him one question

Okay everyone, I think it’s time we cease this discussion and move on to other conversations. This is starting to become overly dramatic and branching out to other areas of the forums. It’s causing unnecessary drama, and it seems to have been going on for several hours. It’s time to take a break, stop engaging, and just agree to disagree in this situation, because this back-and-forth bickering shouldn’t continue any longer. Thank you x

this gotta be the most random fight i've ever read here

I was thinking about Ramada and Rosemead and what if she put these names metaphorically? We all know how Lana cares about her privacy, we know how she hates being stalked by paparazzi... For me, she wouldn't put in the song real names, places to be tracked of (as we can see FBI agent's work above hehe ). So maybe these names represent something else. I thought that maybe Rosemead is how she represent herself to media and world - as calm, beautiful neibourhood where you wanna be around. But how she feels herself within is Ramada - a cheap, filthy thing where you can hookup. And in the end she knows it doesn't really matter - there are more important things in the world. 
 
Buuuut maybe I am misinterpreting that. 

I was thinking about Ramada and Rosemead and what if she put these names metaphorically? We all know how Lana cares about her privacy, we know how she hates being stalked by paparazzi... For me, she wouldn't put in the song real names, places to be tracked of (as we can see FBI agent's work above hehe ). So maybe these names represent something else. I thought that maybe Rosemead is how she represent herself to media and world - as calm, beautiful neibourhood where you wanna be around. But how she feels herself within is Ramada - a cheap, filthy thing where you can hookup. And in the end she knows it doesn't really matter - there are more important things in the world. 
 
Buuuut maybe I am misinterpreting that. 

Billboard interview: "Fingertips and Kintsugi are wordy. Album out 24th."
 
Silence until the 24th
 
Album campaign ends
LDR10 title: March 25th 
 

It's the way they didn't even announce that the single was on its way, except for that one "👍" an hour before... talk about a big campaign. 

Okay... Really glad for A&W but it's been a week with zero promo, no Ocean Blvd post, no news, nada... 
Is something going to happen or are they letting the music speak for itself yet again for like the third time in a row?

"Most people" = the very loud and obnoxious minority of people who feel personally victimized by a musical instrument

Keyword: lyrically.

There's a lot to unpack with this song but imo it is up there with Hope, lyrically
I think the opening lines set the scene really nicely: "haven't done a cartwheel since I was nine" (that was the turning point in her life when she was forced to grow up/realised things and nothing was carefree anymore) and the line about Patty. And she goes on to lament that she can't be normal and have normal relationships.
It's only speculation but I wouldn't be surprised if "American whore" is something Patty called her given its context in this song. It seems almost sarcastic to me. And I think the "your mom called," etc is more so something one of her boyfriends said to her because she says it in a sing-song taunting voice and that also makes more sense in the context because it's a very introspective song
The part about being maimed/r*ped I immediately thought of Harvey (or another rich, powerful man) because
I mean look at my hair
Look at the length of it there, and the shape of my body
suggests this was a relationship where she was in the public eye at the time and that if she were to talk about it (or testify) people would refer back to photos (?) and say "well, look at how you were dressed" typical victim-blaming shit
And then I thought about how she would've been 33 in 2018 which was just after LFL and that was when she started writing all her poems and I remembered the line from one of the poems that was like "took a ride on a billionaire's jet" and I remember getting the impression from that poem that it had to do with a secret relationship with a billionaire. And maybe all this has nothing to do with what she's singing about but it's just stuff I have been thinking about