caribbean blue

Exactly, thanks for saying this!!

I genuinely don't understand why people are so desperate for a version without the BTS footage. You're getting looks on looks on looks but also Lana's actual personality.
 
There's no actual story to the footage they were filming, the BTS is the story so I'm not sure what you're hoping for?? 

the video feels bittersweet 
it made me sad for some reason thinking that she feels that way about her position in hollywood and her fame and how much the scrutiny by themedia has impacted her.
I feel like the harsh treatment she has been facing all these years has definitely changed her view on what her career should look like in the future and has shifted her artistic vision in a way. 
 
 

posting a “directors cut” would kill the entire purpose of the video

omg I just watched and bitch I am gaggedddd  that was so good I loved the faux BTS style music video and how its meant to portray the disconnect between the legendary old Hollywood actress' lives and how we remember them through their films like wowwwww  the shot of her getting out of the car with the leaves falling omfgggg  her in the mafia bar with blonde BTD hair BITCHHHHHHHHHHHH  the shot of her in the alley pulling a Roxxxy Andrews wig under a wig reveal  the shot paralleling the paparazzi at the car crash to her getting her plaque on the Hollywood walk of fame  that was crazyyyyyy 

the blue banisters music video is actually good 

but the bts is the meta part - it would have been a different video without 

I had thought of the title as a metaphor for drugs ("I like my candy", etc) but the video visual metaphor is better... "candy" as in "decorate my neck, diamontes, ices" making her into "arm candy" for the creepy old man producer/murderer... he reminds me of George Hodel, the Black Dahlia suspect I personally find most likely...plus her walking through the gallery of surrealist art is probably a reference to him, as he collected it and was friends with surrealist artists...a scary but compelling theory is that the way Elizaborth Short was murdered was meant to replicate certain surrealist images. Article here if interested: https://livpasquarelli.medium.com/the-bizarre-connection-between-surrealist-art-and-the-black-dahlia-murder-2d0d5258bd39  I'm a true crime ho, sorry not sorry  
 
ANYWAY, I think this is brilliant--at first I was frustrated not to see the "whole" video (like a polished narrative version), but then I realized that's the point; there is no narrative video. People were already criticizing Lana for "glamorizing" the Black Dahlia, so she completely subverted it by not filming a literal recreation of BD's tragic death, but instead showing the behind the scenes of glamorous women (including her own LDR persona) who are so much more than their image. 

I guess now I understand why she said in the visualizer "In case they said I never did anything, I did... I stood here and I sang it". She knew what reaction we'd have with the concept of the video, didn't she?

THIS IS ONE OF HER BEST MUSIC VIDEOS NO DOUBT
I can't believe this just happened 
The concept, the story , the big brain energy, the big hair ,  the visuals, the looks,  the everything ...it's perfect, it's art This feels like an instant classic already , she did that!! 
I really thought it's gonna be a very beautiful aesthetical 5 Minute video (like some ppl want it to be lol ) but it turned to be so much more..I am stunned & snatched like Lanas wig in the video 
 

OMG I OPEN LB TO THIS BRB

It was uploaded again because Youtube combines Vevo and the artist's channels into one. That is to say, one was published by Lana's team and the other by Vevo.

In my opinion candy necklaces represent innocence and also beauty. But it’s edible. It’s a metaphor for being obsessed with the magic of an industry that has a reputation of chewing up the bright ones and spitting them out. Like all of the femme fatales she references in the video, herself included! Atleast that’s how I’ve always thought of it. Of course there’s also the theory it’s just a song about addiction period. But it’s a pretty picture to imagine a person as a candy necklace and through trial and tribulations pieces are smashed, eaten, and just fall off with time. But it remains jewelry notwithstanding.

Just think about the song and the video as describing her turbulent relationship with being a Hollywood star. 

the candy necklaces represent the glamour of stardom but also is seen as a “golden handcuff” here.

I think people’s default for Lana sometimes is to assume in her songs that she’s always singing about men but that’s only partially. A lot of the time she’s singing about her struggles with fame and critics.

FUCKING AMAZING

Altough i love the video just the way it is (especially after hearing Lana explaining the scenes in the middle) - i dont think it's true. We would still have therapy scenes (mouthing the lyrics "feeling super suicidal"), that disturbing old man and Lana feeling uncomfortable and taking off the wig and the final death scene with walk of fame star saying LDR (suggesting that she herself doesn't want to end up like the women she portrays) - and of course the song itself. Seems like a pretty clear story with big impact to me and the moral would be pretty much the same. 
 
Love that she included that BTS scenes tho because it looks like a big F you to the media as she clearly proves her point with not releasing this as a conventional music video. 

This video made me so nostalgic... I don't know why I want to cry. Sad and beautiful at the same time - only Lana Del Rey can do something like that. I loved all the looks soo much, she truly is blessed with beauty (and rage) 
I'm excited to see more of videos from this era.... 

So I haven’t watched it yet.. just reading your comments.. but her whole thing of getting the star at the end just as Marilyn did for being abused by the industry 
 
but Lana referenced all this Hollywood glamour in the beginning because she wanted to be that too.. she did make that comment “I wish I was dead already” and I’m sure she alluded somewhere that she saw herself having the same fate. But now she’s happy and realises she doesn’t have to play the part anymore. She don’t need no Damn star, I love her! 

Help why am I living for the discourse and chaos around this song   Candy Necklace you will always be famous

the end with the iconic bee comb hairstyle 

I just gasped opening YouTube and seeing that the video is out and it's 11 minutes long. I was NOT expecting this.

I'm obsessed with it indeed 
Visionary artist of the decade for a reason 

masterpiece 

her mind is so big thats why she has the beehive

the way Lanaboards always finds something to complain about.