Three White Butterflies

Not that "Candy Necklace" was my favorite song off the album to begin with, but those cutaways and BTS bits were getting jarring and disruptive.

Still, wasn't until her comment about snakeholing into yourself in the limelight that I understood the intention of it and decided to watch it through a different lens rather than as someone just looking for a music video.

This was ALSO a glimpse of what Dan Auerbach mentioned working with Lana during the UV era, how (in the most positive way,) she was difficult to work with, because she knows exactly what she wants and doesn't want anyone fucking with her vision.

None of that was acting, you can hear the shaking frustration in her voice as she's saying she can't act like a robot during the Monroe bit. That wasn't a playful "go away" when she caught the cameraman recording her.
 
It can really be hard working on your art under a label as a big time star. You have a lot of hands in the pot, and it gets to the point that people are telling you what to do with your life labors and their fruits.
 
Sometimes it's those same people that contribute to the snakeholing instead of completely supporting you and working with you. It's the Hollywood curse. You don't really make it in stardom without a group of people imposing their idea of who you should be as a star upon you. Or what you do with what you create.

Not many artists are willing to show that the process really does carry a lot of grief and peeves, especially when you're signed on a big label. Sometimes it puts you on the verge of tears or even incandescently pisses you off.
 
This video also got released during a time where other artists have been forthcoming with their feelings about labels/big name streaming services, the commercialization and commodification of their work, how little agency they have, and how little many actually get back (especially smaller artists.)

We're going to see a revolution in pop culture soon in our time.

So, yeah, honestly... Great video. Just for the honesty and candor. Wouldn't binge it, but I'm glad it exists for the commentary alone.

This is like the music video equivalent of the spoken part in Peppers. Love it.

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

People really hate having to think or process anything and honestly they’re really missing out 

she looks like a vampire goddess here I'm SHAKING
I love this picture so much they look so fucking good they look like they're ready to take over and rule the whole world
 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art 

literally left a meeting to watch this.....it's very interesting haven't seen anything like it before I love her xoxoxo

this is art 

Candy Necklace video is National Anthem video Pt 2 to me  I will not be elaborating

this was so beautiful and big brained imo.

This video was showstopping. One of her best. If it didn’t have the BTS footage it would’ve just been glamour shots with no clear story. Very gorgeous glamour shots, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

basically, the old man represents the music industry. Always driving her around, watching her in the back seat in the mirror, paying for everything.
 
john baptiste represents music. They perform together, they laugh at the people beneath them, they have fun behind the "man's"
back. 
 
then she dies (presumably killed or, rather, killed off by the old man/the industry) and baptiste is sad. his partner is dead. 
 
but she gets a hollywood star in the afterlife. And the industry will keep making money off her image.
 
it's basically an afront to the american star-making machine and selling yourself and your art for money. Lana is saying she's not interested in that, anymore. 
 
 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art 

this is art