your china doll

I wonder if she's gonna use this to post OG content and stuff, or if she's just re-posting stuff from her insta, or stuff like that yk?

fun fact: she's the first woman to win in this category https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Alternative_Video (actually Sinéad O’Connor won 1990 in the category Best Post-Modern Video, which was the predecessor)

OMG THEY WON CONGRATS TO LANA AND JON AND THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED

congrats to lana! 

she deserves this so much!! 
 
full list here https://pitchfork.com/news/mtv-vmas-2023-nominees-announced-see-the-full-list-here/
 
vote here:
https://www.mtv.com/vma/vote/best-alternative

You can enjoy BB as an album, but you have to accept that it's not an objectively good album

I honestly love this new format, I live for the theatrics, but I felt like the dancers were doing a little much during Video Games. It was kinda camp.
 

ok but this picture

hello I'm back and I think I'm alive!!! long ass post below, brace yourselves!
 
I just don't know if I have words to describe exactly the roller coaster of emotions that was to be there. it was definitely the most intense experience of my life and a night I'll never forget, I feel so blessed to have witnessed the absolute HERSTORY being made in front of my eyes. 11 long years waiting to finally get the chance to see her live and I feel like it was just worth the wait, nothing could've prepared us for what was about to come and I just feel extremely lucky for that to be my first lana show!
 
as soon as she hit the stage wearing the blonde marilyn/lizzy wig I thought I was gonna pass out. I never screamed so loud in my life. the lizzy stans were not paid dust, we were paid GOLD.
the backing vocalists, the stage design, the whole ass ballet crew, the outfit AND hair change, the choreographies, the interludes, the career visuals on the screen behind her, her vocals!!! truly unbelieavable. all the time I could hear people around me in shock she was serving that much production!!
 
I was nervous about not knowing the setlist beforehand but now I can say I'm glad I didn't, it really was the best thing ever to find it out right there at the time, SO MUCH FUN. she fucking slayed in every way possible. the setlist was random but so iconic I could not believe it. sure it was a bit of a bummer we still had several BTD tracks, no honeymoon and chemtrails tracks and the erasure of west coast and HBTB but honestly she performed fucking FLIPSIDE!!!! I lost my mind. singing "SO YOU THINK YOU'RE IN CHARGE??? DO YOU??? ACTING LIKE A BIG SHOT!!!!" was sOOOOO satisfying after so many years of her ignoring this song completely. I was SUPER excited for DMD and it was better than what I expected it to be, I need that version on streaming!!! the backing vocalists slayed so hard and they looked like angels, especially during bartender!!! just top notch chef's kiss so fucking good
 
but the biggest highlight of it all was lana's attitude. it just made me so happy, sosososo happy to see her the most confident and excited we have ever seen her on stage. I think the 4 years far from the stage was the best thing that could've happened, I don't remember seeing her so happy and eager to perform, she looked she could perform for 3 hours straight if she could. her happiness and love for our country is so genuine and I swear nothing else was more beautiful than seeing that. she looked very emotional a few times and everytime I saw her eyes glowing like she was about to cry I felt like crying too. that being said I cried my ass off during the grants (my mom too omg) and tunnel. it really was just like how imagined it to be, everyone emotional af screaming "LIKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIIIIIGHHHH THE WAY JOHN DENVER SINGS" and "DON'T FORGET MEEEEE", a whole ass del rey church mass, amazing.
 
also, seeing a bif of the diversity in this fandom filled my hear with joy. I went with my mom and we ended up meeting so many cool people, people from aaaalllll over the country, people who worked their asses off to travel from far away to see her! like, everyone I talked to did not live here in the city or anywhere close to here. also saw so many daughters with their mothers/fathers too just like me, older siblings with their younger siblings... it was so cute to see, honestly. also, so many goths and metalheads, lana really breaks the barrier, she IS the moment.
 
I can't wait to see what else she'll do during the rest of the tour!!!! I feel like she'll change a few tracks of the setlist, so I'm still hopeful to see tracks like honeymoon being played live, we definitely need it! anything is possible! the sky is the limit!!!

NOOOWW back to this bitch that that's this festival... MITA WHAT'S GOOD??? if it wasn't for everything I've mentioned above, I swear this festival would've delivered me the worst experience. from the get go, as soon as they started to sell tickets, you'll only see people either complaining or dragging them on social media and everyone is right. I hope this joke of a festival will never happen again and I really hope next time lana will come with a solo tour or at least with a festival that will actually respect her and her fans, because the amount of fuckery that was going on with this festival is truly unbelieavable. starting with the unnecessary gigantic VIP section (the existence of this VIP section actually), the big screens that had an awful delay and the audio that was actually so low for a big show like that. not to mention them basically disrespecting the only reason this festival sold out tickets by cutting her set off. overall a cash grab in everything. Music Is The Answer? no, MONEY Is The Answer and I want the owners of this festival to fucking CHOKE on my imaginary dick. lana definitely developed some type of back problems after carrying this whole festival on her back like the true QUEEN that she is.
 
but despite all of the issues, I would do it all over again and I recommend everyone going even if it's in the middle of the chaotic GA. I swear to you nothing gets bigger than the emotion of seeing lana live.
 
the end, thanks for reading!!!!
 

“Women who change their name and change their hair like me”
 
I think it refers to a rich guy 

This is the same black dahlia video she was teasing, since she is still wearing the same hair (with the black dahlia flower) and outfit in the video
 
I don't think it was ever meant to be a video about the black dahlia murder, she only ever meant that she was referencing her with the hair and outfit

guys, rewatch the visualizer and pay attention to what she's saying in the end of the video...

many thoughts...head full

new favorite music video  (also why is everyone fighting)

THIS THIS THIS 
it is exactly what I feel... like 'very Lana Del Rey' it gave me BTD, National Anthem, West Coast vibes, old Hollywood, old man, black&white, glamour, blood 
 
Just look at all these woman stories, Dahlia was killed, Marilyn committed suicide, and media STILL 'glamorise' their death...
 
And the last shoot of this mv is probably what would happen to Lana if she was dead - glamorising her death making film about her 'pretty' BTD days even tho media hated her back then.
 

I think the first look shown is the Black Dahlia, since she has a black dahlia in her hair, second is Marilyn, the long blonde hair and white dress is her Burning Desire look, then she pulls off her wig to reveal hair similar to her Ride hair (and walks off with an older man, could be a sugar daddy, other Ride reference) 
Lastly we see her with her National anthem/NFR hair and makeup
 
I think they could also be representing other women but I think a lot of these looks are self-referential 

i think we should also talk about how hot Jon Batiste is 

"sitting on the sofa feeling super suicidal" while she's portraying marilyn...

Not Taylor fans saying it reminds them Wildest Dreams, when that song borrowed the melody from Without You 

She's saying it out loud and STILL some of you guys are not getting it. Imagine if she's being more subtle with it, a lot of you are going to care more about how she looks rather than the actual story.   

To my understanding, the 'Candy Necklaces" are all women in Hollywood, or really just famous women, being objectified and glamourized and overall dehumanized. 
I (think) the first might be Jackie Kennedy? The second woman portrayed is obviously Marilyn Monroe. I (also think) the third is a Jessica Rabbit, or a real life Jessica Rabbit-esque woman. Then its the Black Dahlia, and finally, Lana herself. They are the candy necklaces. The constant behind the scenes shots are meant to humanize these women, showing that they're more than figures or representations in the media, they're real people. 
The blood, to me, signifies the often tragic ends to this style of life, being idolized, etc. It could also just be a reference to the tragic end to Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia), as her scene was shown right after the blood.

the behind the scenes IS the music video you ungrateful whores

soo btd coded

Another detail that I loved:
when at the end they show all of them wearing the necklaces except the last Lana (the one with the Priscilla hair), I think it could mean that she’s finally free? From the media?
 
so many interesting clues