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^ That's because it's from the fanmade, extended 3:07 version, right? Could you send me yours? I just have this extended one and I'd like the original too. <3

y'all hating on Come When You Call Me God tho smh

Sirens: All You Need, Junky Pride AKA: Oh Say Can You See, Mermaid Motel BTD: Million Dollar Man, Lucky Ones, Carmen, Dark Paradise Paradise: Yayo, Blue Velvet, American Unreleased: Live Or Die, Dum Dum, Gangsta Boy, JFK, Dynamite, Damn You, Hollywood's Dead Demos & Alternates: Carmen (Demo), Diet Mountain Dew (Demo 3), Lolita (Demo 3), Without You (Demo 1), Put Me In A Movie (Demo 2), Yayo (Demo 1), Hit It & Run, Dum Dum (Demos 1 and 2), Trash Sugar Magic So that's like, a good fifth of her discography. But yeah, "least favorite" is pretty relative. It's more like these are the songs I need to warm up to whenever I listen to them -- which is rather seldom, so I guess ...

^ Carmen in general counts, I should think. Considering this scene from the 1997 movie, which is in the book as well. I mean, the title of that song is "Little Carmen," as in Lana's acapella demo. Go figure.

Ruched tops and Cadillacs Blue Lake Carter dunks Hop-scotch, shit talk ?

^ So I just did this: Songs w/ palpable Lolita references: Lolita (duh) Off To The Races ("light of my life, fire of my loins") Put Me In A Movie // Little Girls (mirroring Dolores' relationship with Quilty) 1949 (more roadtrip imagery than in all of Lana's songs combined; Humbert's roadtrip after he abducts Dolores definitely comes to mind) Carmen (Dolores' favorite record, "LIttle Carmen," shares its name with Lana's acapella demo for this song) Velvet Crowbar ("flame-colored paradise for you, darling" vs "i still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise") Angels Forever, Forever Angels (more references to flame-colored skies in paradise, as with the above example) Heartshaped Chevrolet ("love my lips and my golden tan; you love my heartshaped sunglasses" -- Humbert likes to go on about Dolores' looks in similar turns of phrase, and the heartshaped sunnies are an iconic Lolita thing) Every Man Gets His Wish ("he loves my heartshaped sunglasses," again) I'd add more, but a lot of the time -- even with 1949, I'd argue -- the lines are sorta blurred. On Our Way certainly counts for roadtrip imagery, and Motel 6 (as well as Queen Of The Gas Station, though to a lesser extent) but it's much less prominent to me. Lolita has a lot of Americana going for it, and so does like 90% of Lana's material, so it's difficult to say what's intended and what's not. Help me out if you'd like.

Source for this amazing quote? I'm doing a project on Lana (or ~the relevance of authenticity within the music industry~ but basically Lana) for school and this would be cute to include.

They're disgusting, I'm delicious They disgust me, I'm delicious Let's discuss this, I'm delicious Fffffffff~

Ah, they call me sunshine

Anyone else feel like it would be a good idea to compile all of her references to Nabokov's Lolita somewhere? I seem to find more than just the obvious -- like Put Me In A Movie has that whole Quilty thing going on... This might be reaching (because a lot of it is thematic, after all) but I still think it'd be a cute project.

I started hearing and you'll buy me pop because I'm sweeter than heaven just now...?

How have you arranged the other leaks, then? <3 I'd rather keep the acapella demos where they are -- idk about you, but yeah.

What about Boarding School > Hawaiian Tropic > Motel 6 or Trash Magic > Hawaiian Tropic > The Man I Love? And whereabouts did you put the other four tracks? Dx

I'm pretty sure it's: Baby, you know mama never had much money But I plan on using this face to pay, honey Also: I remember vintage green wallpaper Your criminal arms, I couldn't feel safer

How many versions are there of Spender? I have three of them in my folder and all three have slightly differing instrumentation...

Got that same address if you want to write -- One Greenwich Avenue, wishing and thinking of you.

^ Well shit, but that still leaves Cola. @@NamiraWilhelm: 'Cause I have nothing else to do This summer but commit it to you~

It has to be something about meth, considering: Daytona Meth (the aforementioned unleaked track, going from appearance more than anything though) Methamphetamines (fits in with the whole Elvis thing too) Boarding School (if you wanna get that sugar cane, or that crystal methamphetamine -- but that's just the live version, so) Stoplight De-Lite (fly body, dope in the face -- see below for doubts I have on this) American (get your crystal method on, the aforementioned Paradise track) Although in Cola, the lyrics go "dope, shoot it up, straight to the heart please" -- not to mention how she sings about cocaine/yayo on Paradise as well. I just figured it can't be that, because there's definitely more than 5 tracks on which she references cocaine/yay/yayo... but "dope" is inspecific too and might not even be referring to a drug, let alone some drug in particular, so I'm at a loss.

Me too, but that doesn't stop me from trying to find the password. #thirstybitch

^ Noir is 2MB and if Midnight Dancer Girlfriend is a rough Go Go Dancer demo like expected, then... o_o

I thought this was rather telling, as far as interviews go. It's like she's rolling with the image that the GP has attributed to her, but renouncing it all the same... in a calculated sort of sense, that does nothing but reinforce the idea that she's a fake through and through. I don't doubt a word that comes out of her mouth though, honestly -- but I don't doubt how deliberate she seems to be, either. Lana can say what she wants, but she's a character -- if to a point where her character is so intrinsic that it has taken over what used to be plain old Elizabeth. She's aware of it at least, and using it to her advantage best she can. Gotta love her ass for that! Am I even making sense?

Which of these is the correct title? I've seen both floating around tumblr (plus Google and YouTube suggest the latter, despite the former being ~*official*~) and I'm just like... wasn't "Hey Lolita Hey" enough to begin with? I suspect this has to do with the demos though, so if anyone can enlighten me -- please do! EDIT: The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced a general thread with alternate titles for Lana's songs would probably make the world a better place to live.

^ Place it back-to-back with My Best Days, maybe?

I must've had this in my subconscious or something, because this just happened: THE REVENGE OF LANA DEL REY 1. Hundred Dollar Bill 2. You Can Be The Boss 3. Live Or Die 4. Marilyn Monroe 5. Never Let Me Go 6. Take Me To Paris 7. Children Of The Bad Revolution 8. Kinda Outta Luck 9. She's Not Me 10. American Dream 11. Velvet Crowbar 12. Dum Dum 13. Driving In Cars With Boys 14. On Our Way 15. Hollywood's Dead 16. Last Girl On Earth Went and sniffed out all of the BTD outtakes and put them together to form some kinda narrative.