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"We wanted someone with the Blessed Mother on his hands."
 
 
It seems like there are a few possible interpretations:
People keep breaking into her house (simple) She found the keys to the gate that were dropped The monsters used the keys to open the gate she kept shut God knows.
 
Bish is over there reading Aleister Crowley and Hermes Trismegistus while y'all still think her favorite book is Lolita--
 
 
Every Lana interview is full of gems. For as obsessive as her fans are, they could do a better job of collating them all in one place:
 
 
 

Watching the old Born to Die interviews, Lana is extremely cagey about what is happening, as she is with everything on the record; she will either have some brusque explanation about "having fun before you die" or not say anything at all. Virtually everything she says in early 2012 publicly appears to be subterfuge; a blind of normality to hide that she's "fucking crazy." Even the title, Born to Die, was not meant as a nihilistic statement of "live fast, die young." As Lana later suggested, the title appears to have been chosen because of the realization that "we were born to die" in her childhood--
 
 
There is one frame that shows that Lana is actually showing something more:
 

 
 
Here is rather the "death" of Lizzy Grant as she crosses the threshold to the reveal of her heart; the Lovers an alchemical coniunctio (cigarettes always having the same alchemical fire symbolism for Lana).
 
Who, me?
Why?
 
She asks God why she was chosen bear a fragment of paradise not of this world.
 
Feet don't fail me now
Take me to the finish line
Oh, my heart, it breaks every step that I take
But I'm hoping at the gates, they'll tell me that you're mine
 
(Cf. Gargoyles standing at the front of your gate
Trying to tell me to wait, but I can’t wait to see you
So I run like I'm mad to Heaven’s door
I don’t wanna be bad, I won’t cheat you no more)
 
A double meaning; Lizzy walking the path of higher consciousness and an exhortation by the Lonely Queen to join her.
 

 
 

 
The image of the Lonely Queen seems to be a combination of two Tarot cards.
 
Come and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane, so
Choose your last words, this is the last time
'Cause you and I
We were born to die
 
Another exhortation by the Goddess to walk the path that leads from death to resurrection on the "wild side" across the abyss.
 
Lost, but now I am found
I can see, but once I was blind
I was so confused as a little child
Tried to take what I could get, scared that I couldn't find
All the answers, honey
 
Spoken by Lana recalling life as Lizzy, searching for answers—and finding them.
 
Lana seems to have had two actual goals for Born to Die, to tell her story and to turn people on, in the '60s sense. Her manifesto was fully encapsulated in "Bel Air," a directive to the listener--
 
Mon amour, sweet child of mine, you’re divine
Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s okay to shine?
 
Don’t be afraid of me
Don’t be ashamed
Walk in the way of my soft resurrection
 
Darling, I’m waiting to greet you
Come to me, baby
 
 
To that end, she lays within her traditional songs untraditional anamnesis triggers, usually sung in a higher register, meant to speak directly to the unconscious--
 
You just need to remember
I will love you till the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby, can you see through the tears?
 
On Ultraviolence, she still considers this to be a worthy project; an invocation of "the freedom land of the '70s." But "Shades of Cool" expresses her frustration that she "can't break through your world." The lyrics take a more personal turn. She tries again on Honeymoon to gather the Freaks, but there is a sort of resignation—"God knows I tried."
 

 
 
You say that you wanna go
To a land that's far away
How are we supposed to get there
With the way that we're living today?
You talk lots about God
Freedom comes from the call
 

my favorite Beach House song

True…he’s really boring and don’t know what people see in him.  He dresses so ghastly too..but he thinks he’s doing something really fashionable 

im so sorry if this hurts anyone but I hope Harry styles doesn’t win any awards, I’m just not a fan of his vanilla mediocre music. It’s been regurgitated a million times by other artists and he hasn’t added anything new or transformative to pop culture. 
 

did anyone love lana's performance? i love the part where she sang boom like that in a chicken suit and björk joined her on backing vocals

Even if you’re not necessarily a huge Beyoncé fan (I’m a causal fan), you cannot not acknowledge the execution and excellence of her albums. Especially her most recent 2. They’re just such solid, technically well thought out works. 

Beyoncé's gratitude always makes me emotional. Uncle Johnny would be so proud of all the queer people she's inspired. A literal Living Legend 
 

i’m really happy sam is making the kind of music they love, but pop like Unholy does just not suit their voice in my opinion, at all… too legato, too shouty, just not clean enough, idk it sounds off and like they’re covering someone else’s song 😭 while i’m not very fond of Kim, she does absolutely steal the show on Unholy and does a great job on it, and i’m happy for her being the first trans woman to win that award

no way unholy just won a grammy.. 
 
 

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I am definitely getting picked and am fully committed to my pledge to ban everyone

BREAKING: The US military has shot down a small plane that was in the process of skywriting ‘Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’ 
 
Joe Biden ordered the strike because he is a hater and is trying to gatekeep Kintsugi

There’s no way the spy balloon got brought into this thread I’m screaming 

I’m not really a fan of much that Drew and Lana have done together either, besides Arcadia, however my quarrels about their songs together are just as much with Lana’s contribution as Drew’s. i’m not a fan of the arrangements or compositions especially on Beautiful and Violets for Roses, and the way those songs were tracked, produced, and mixed is not for me, however I think those songs also have some core issues structurally and melodically (which is all Lana). i do really love Arcadia, i think Lana and Drew have the potential to make some beautiful things together as long as the songs that Lana brings him are actually good at their core, which imo hasn’t necessarily been much of the case. but hopefully that’s changed for Ocean Blvd! i have a good feeling it has

General thread for my custom art covers I've made in the past two years or so.
 
Some of these are concepts or things that came to me at random, so thats why some of them aren't as polished as others.
 

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It's getting annoying now. We're about to reach month 2 since Ocean Blvd. Ben and Ed need to realize that she isn't Beyoncé. 

i just know ur gonna have the time of ur life like...HAPPY ENDING!! 

i haven’t listened to any of the singles besides a couple listens to washed away and the temptation to listen is really strong but i’m holding out
just one more month

A&W the restaurant always opens at 10am local time in LA…it’s still coming just be patient Lana is very accurate and thoughtful w her references