notthatdreamy

oh  i'm sorry but i have had enough of the pink monster thing

Who wore it better?
 

"Walk in the way of my soft resurrection
Idol of roses, iconic soul
I know your name
Lead me to war with your brilliant direction"
vs.
"Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me"

Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

A-M-E-R-I-C-A, all i wanna do is play
See the city every day, pretty party nation

Tell me that you think I'm good
Happy that I make you glad
'Cause I don't wanna think I'm bad, Gramma
I don't wanna think I'm bad
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Don't you know, you don't need a thing?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

T-R-O-U-B-L-E, trouble's what feels good to me
Crazy ass since I was three, now I'm out to getcha

But I been better lately, Mom
And I'm in love with everyone
And I don't wanna think I'm wrong
Just for feeling pretty
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
(x2)

I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
I wanna be the whole world's girl
I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
Tell me do you think that's wrong?

"Don't cry, bunny, crazy girl
Don't you know you are the world?
Every time you feel unsure
Try, remember what you are."
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Honey, don't you know, you have everything?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
 
(Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me)
(x2)

That one girl who does not play about suburban houses

Her post abt the sound check- I genuinely love her singing for free alone. It was the highlight of my 2019 Chicago show (along with cinnamon girl) but i really love her singing that song! 

Maybe an unpopular opinion but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when celebrities post shit like that and then the next slide is a promotion for their new album/movie/fucking perfume.
 
Like, I'm glad people are spreading awareness and all, but it really reads as "ONLY WE CAN STOP THIS GENOCIDE, THE TIME IS NOW! Also, buy my new perfumes available soon in my shop, thanks!"

First parfume post had the word chug and now the second parfume post has fire
 
DRAGONS BLOOD COMING
OR the first post was teasing dragons blood and the second post was teasing inconsistent flame and there are 4 parfumes meaning a 4 track outtake EP to promote the 4 parfumes 
 
with this 100% true info these are the tracks so far
 
1. Barely Juice
2. Dragons Blood
3. Inconsistent Flame
4. ???
 

It's kind of a lyric which a teenager would write on the internet 
"Skinny-dip" in general is a really cringy slang for me, it's something that should've stayed in the 2010s and people should've come up with a better word 

For me it’s the “skinny-dip” lyric, I cringe at it so badly idk why, but yeah that one is pretty bad too.
 
Imo this song had so much potential, it just sounds not well-thought out.

Just thought of another opinion lol 
fishtail embodies so many eras. AKA, btd, chemtrails, honeymoon, lfl… it gives everything. It’s so charming with the muffled vocals, the heavy production on the chorus, the callback to Jump. I think that song deserved much more love. It’s like the child of all her records. I don’t understand why it isn’t more loved 

Lana fans hating Nikki Lane is funny not gonna lie  what's especially funny is when the haters get scared when they see Lana with her and are afraid that she's going to do country music, like...you don't know Lana at all? 

This is so true. As an album by a pop artist, the world still hasn't caught up with how monumental Ultraviolence was/is.

Don't get me wrong, I love all the channels making "Ultraviolence" versions of other Lana songs, and many of them I listen to regularly, but it's like we all forgot Ultraviolence has some songs that aren't rock-based at all and also has other sounds that branch out a lot more. There is so much focus on making a song sound like rock and calling it an Ultraviolence Version, but no one is noticing the soft jazz, the vintage sounds, the piano and the strings as the part that is distinctly Lana. In fact, the album sounding too "classic rock" is exactly what Dan Auerbach said was wrong with the original record before he produced it.
I absolutely get that rock is probably easier for amateur musicians to do on their computers, but yeah, I still kinda see it as making Ultraviolence more shallow than it is. It's such a complex album, I'm always searching for more and never being satisfied!

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this is going to sound kind of weird, but last year for one of my classes I had to make a fake product, so I did selling tickets for a Lana Del Rey show- Here's what my setlist was(keep in mind it also has unreleased since I was jst making it for school, not one that could actually happen)
If you can't read it:
LA who am I to love you?
The Grants
A star for nick
Candy Necklace
Nectar of the gods
Let the light in
Chemtrails
Paris,Texas
Fishtail x Tulsa Jesus Freak
Old Money
Grandfather
Hope is a dangerous thing
Arcadia
My Momma
AW x Jimmy Gnecco
Swan Song
Gods & Monsters
Cherry
Freak
Art Deco
When the world was at war
Ocean Blvd
Salvatore 
Taco Truck
Ride
Serial Killer
Million $ man(White Dress)
Off to the races
Carmen
Lolita
West Coast
Gramma
Peppers
Video Games
Breaking Up Slowly W/ Special Guest Nicki Lane
Brooklyn Baby
Fingertips
Smarty
Put the radio on
Thunder
For K pt 1
For K pt 2
UV
Put Me in a movie
The greatest

My dream set list (I know it’s long and will never happen but a girl can dream)
The grants A&W full version Candy necklaces  MAC Cinnamon girl the greatest COTCC tulsa Jesus freak Blue Banisters Arcadia White dress Living Legend Dealer UV  cult leader West coast Shades of cool Florida kilos Pretty when you cry blackest day honeymoon into Terrance loves you architecture  pink champagne serial killer interlude the trio Freak Peppers Cherry Off to the races Dragonslayer White mustang Lake placid Ride (monologue & song) Get free Blue Jeans Old money Yayo Paris tx Let the light in Taco truck X VB  DYKTTATUOB

i really love your setlist! i've been thinking about how i'd improve or change the setlist myself, this is what i came up with while trying to be realistic:
 
A&W Peppers (the instantly upbeat vibe of the song would fit so naturally after A&W's ending! and the dancers could kill it here!) Diet Mountain Dew [w/ jazzy piano outro leading into...] Candy Necklace Young & Beautiful [interlude / quick change behind the curtain or whatever] Fishtail [shortened] (bc come on, she's literally getting her hair done at this part of the show!! lol) Tulsa Jesus Freak [shortened] Born To Die Cherry Blue Jeans [maybe w/ a sort of extended band jam outro to give her time to go down to the barricade?] The Grants Ride [w/ monologue intro of course!] Grandfather Please Stand On The Shoulders of My Father (i think this song would sound so ethereal live, especially w/ the backup singers doing the "three white butterflies" line!) Norman Fucking Rockwell Chemtrails Over The Country Club [w/ outro drums leading into the intro drums of...] West Coast Let The Light In Brooklyn Baby Taco Truck x VB Summertime Sadness The Greatest Cherry Blossom [or any other recent piano ballad really! something from BB would be preferable, she could switch it up throughout the tour] Video Games Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard it seems like a p long setlist, but some of the songs would be shortened so i dont think it would be totally impossible for her to pull it off! but of course this is just a dreamland of a setlist while trying to maintain some realism LOL

Give me a full eras tour setlist for leg 3 NEOW

 

Act I – Chemtrails Over The Country Club
01. Tulsa Jesus Freak
02. Chemtrails Over The Country Club
03. White Dress
04. Let Me Love You Like A Woman

Act II – Honeymoon
05. Terrence Loves You
06. Freak 
07. Art Deco
08. The Blackest Day

Act III – Lust For Life
09. When The World Was At War We Kept Dancing
10. White Mustang
11. Cherry
12. Lust For Life
13. Get Free

Act IV – Born To Die
14. Born To Die
15. Diet Mountain Dew
16. Million Dollar Man
17. Dark Paradise
18. Summertime Sadness
19. Video Games

Act V – Paradise
20. Ride
21. Yayo

Act VI – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
22. Cinnamon Girl
23. Fuck it I love you
24. Norman fucking Rockwell
25. California
26. The greatest

Act VII – Blue Banisters
27. If You Lie Down With Me
28. Living Legend
29. Cherry Blossom
30. Violets For Roses
31. Dealer
32. Thunder

Act VIII – Ultraviolence
33. Cruel World
34. West Coast
35. Brooklyn Baby
36. Pretty When You Cry
37. Black Beauty

Act IX – Acoustic Set
38. Guitar Surprise Song
39. Piano Surprise Song

Act X – Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
40. A&W
41. Fishtail
42. Candy Necklace
43. Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
44. Let The Light In
45. Taco Truck / Venice Bitch

Writing bitchy comments on a blog isn’t problematic- do you not see what some of us type 

Nobody gives a crap about whatever the fuck she said 50 years ago besides you twinks. Make yourselves useful and leak all her shit.

Honestly my hopes for the next Marina album center around some shit she's said in the past. She's talked about greek mythology before IIRC and wanting to do an album around that, and I personally think that would be the move to make. I'm going to pick my words carefully and deliberately here - L&F was a low point in her discography, and I do think that Ancient Beans WAS a step up sonically and a return to the ~energy of "old Marina", despite lyrically being VERY pegged to the zeitgeist of it's creation.

I feel like the way to do a "clean slate" here is to just go feral with a whole ass concept album and step into a different person(s)/persona(s).
 
I'd LOVE to see her go back to that greek mythology idea and give us a concept album, and even find a way to work in some of that New Woke Feminism she always getting criticized about. Write a tortured ballad from the perspective of Persephone. Sing about being tricked by a man to eat the pomegranate seeds, sing about how it doesn't get easier spending all the time away from the sun, small slices of your time stolen from a man who felt you were his to take and his to trick. Metaphor up the lack of choice for a woman in it, and how so many things are seen as 'duty' because a man deemed it so.
 
Flip shit around too, go wild. Rewrite the whole concept of 'Pandora's Box' into something more lighthearted and fun. Give us an uptempo bop about a girl who was bored with the world and there she found a box filled with chaos and wonder and she set it all free, the good and the bad, just for the contrast it all brings. Was it a little bit stupid to unleash evil on the world? Sure, but now it makes all of the good that much better because we all know what "worse" looks like, and it's the space in-between that we should have a little fun with now.

I feel like Eros, Aphrodite, and Psyche would be a 'perfect' story to Marina-fy, since it deals with jealous women and game playing and the absurdity of it all, and how even if you manage to adhere to impossible beauty standards (Aphrodite's three impossible tasks), it's *still* not enough. There's a whole lot of "jealous woman" stereotype shit in there, that would be absolutely low hanging fruit to hit with the Marina Bat of "women should build each other up, ugh".

I feel like, in the spirit of something like "How to be a Heartbreaker", do a fun take on 'Helen of Troy' and the whole Trojan War (to go hand in hand with my idea of "rewriting" Pandora's Box to be a bit more fun); Helen was bored af of her man, she wanted a little excitement, she decided to mess around with a man on the side, and now we're at "Oops I sparked a war, lets make it his fault, tee hee hee, look at that, the gods are all protecting me, dames can get away with it all" or some shit.

Have I said this before? I feel like I have.

Idk. But it would be nice to see.

I think it is important for everyone on this forum to take a step back and realize how lucky we all are to be in the middle of this silly discourse about Lana Del Rey rather than starving in Gaza with no internet, electricity, food, or water. I also recommend that people watch the firsthand accounts of civilians who are begging us to listen.

To be fair I can see how celebrities feel pressured to give their basically useless 2 cents on every current issue because society for some reason has come to the agreement that they should "use their platform" or whatever. I remember back during BLM in 2020, if a celebrity didn't go out of their way to post against racism and police brutality, twitter users assumed that meant they SUPPORTED it (lol, wtf?) Then twitter users started complaining that they were just "all talk" and celebrities started being pressured to show receipts of donations. I remember when Lana specifically didn't post anything about it, people used it to leverage the idea of her being racist. 

Now I think it's about time we step back and look at how absurd this SJW shit is and agree that it's ok for celebrities to just... be quiet like in the good 'ol days, or else they'll keep coming out making ignorant statements
 
(i'm not really gonna touch on the issue at hand with Israel cause i'm saying all this generally)