caribbean blue

I’m someone who cares about cohesiveness, and I could honestly talk about this forever. I do actually think Ocean Blvd is cohesive. It’s not the kind of album where you immediately understand the ‘vibes’ and feel, but as you listen to it you realize that it as a whole really I cohesive. 
 
Yes, many songs are different from each other, which I think is actually good. An album should have diversity, it should be a ride. It shouldn’t sound like one long song. The beginning is a beautiful heart warming song, The Grants, which really sets the setting and some themes of the album — heaven/morals/religion, and family. Though I have to complain about the gospel singing in the beginning… It doesn’t fit the album imo, it would have been more impactful with the intro only. The grants is a good opener since it’s emotional and personal, but not directly sad. Then as it goes on to the title track, it goes a shade darker. Lana’s fears and inner demons, she wants people to like her for her. She’s afraid of being forgotten. But everyone sees her for everything but her, she is the very tunnel under ocean Blvd, which everyone has just forgotten. I’m sweet she’s a little fed up, ‘If you want some basic bitch’, if you can’t see her for who she is, her kindness and intellect (she’s sweet ya know) then that’s your problem not her. Indifference turns into anger in A&W, she brings up the societal witch hunt against women. She embodies the role, which  she has spent the last songs on the album describing, in the Jimmy part of A&W. She is the American whore. The whole Judah Smith interlude is amazing. To be frank I have not quite completely gone into the depth of his message, but he is discussing what Lana did in the earlier songs. How men are blinded by desire and superficial beauty, and forgets what’s underneath the surface of a woman. Beauty in thoughts, feelings, and intellect. Acceptance turns into sadness in Candy necklace. It’s so dark, and overall the album is dark and eerie, yet sweet. Candy Nevklace is probably my personal favorite, but it’s hard to choose. The Jon Batiste Interluse embodies the eerie feel of the album, it’s a good interlude! Kintsugi and fingertips both discuss family, loss, sadness. The sad themes continue. She shares what she never has before. Deep personal thoughts and experiences. The things people don’t know about her. People always make assumptions about her, yet there are so many things they ont know. She wants them to know. She begs them to see her. Paris Texas is such a gorgeous song. She has one last anecdote to share. She describes loneliness and a feeling of being lost. Family is a sense of belonging, yet she has a hard time feeling one.
 
She has said what was needed to be said now, and at this point of the album her heart feels a little less heavy in her heart. Grandfather is so beautiful. She doesn’t really care that superficial beauty is all people care about, it doesn’t invalidate her inner beauty. Themes of family are obviously presented. Let the light in speaks for itself. She describes in kintsugi how you have to let your heart crack and break in order to let the light in, to find happiness. She has let it crack, and light is pouring in. It is very lighthearted, and not very serious, which I think many of the last songs of the album are, she has already said what she needed to say.
Margaret is a lighthearted and simple song. Not my favorite, but it’s fun. Fishtail is unique in the sense that it’s unlike her other songs. And though it feels darker than the other last songs of the album, it’s a ‘you liked me better when I was sad, but I’m happy now.’ Peppers is a lighthearted bop. I love peppers. Taco truck x vb is also a bop. Both peppers and taco truck x vb are more ‘silly.’ Taco truck x vb explains that she understands that the media hates her, but it simply doesn’t matter to her anymore.
 
The album goes from heavy and dark to light and fun. I personally think the next album might embody the lighter and more carefree themes of the second half of the album.

I think that might be it, also because the video finally goes to color when she's shown not wearing a necklace anymore 

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 

ikr its giving ldr cinematic universe

this is what I'm going to watch when the doctor says I have 10 minutes and 57 seconds left to live  

This is just like her Burning Desire look but with blonde hair  I love all the self references in this music video 

 

BEEEEEEEECH AMAZING
I loved it so much, she really did THAT
ngl I was not expecting the behind-the-scenes plot but I enjoyed it. she looked stunning
planning on making a not-behind-the-scenes version tho  

fucking masterpiece

"Cause the whole thing about the video is like why it was all supposed to be behind the scenes was because all these woman who like changed their names, changed their hair like me and stuff, its like they all fell into these different like snake holes so the whole point is like how do you learn from that and not fall into your own thing" she says that at 4:06
 
Interesting concept 

you're just not getting it babe. It's a dis of the whole idea of nonsense pop video culture.
 
music videos are dying out, people don't care, and the idea of Hollywood glamor and red carpet culture is tired af.
 
because everyone knows right now that behind it is hard work, and pain, and sweat, and blood and couch casting, and tons of money and advertising and unequal pay, etc
 
she explicitly voices this in the video by saying "i can't be a robot."
 
she's over the industry. Like really over it. Tired of playing the game. She dissed it with Arcadia but this is taking it to the next level.
 
So that's why she said "where do we go from here?" It's a full 180 from her BTD videos.
 
honestly, i think it's the best and most important video of the year.
 
 
 

Priscilla hair is back 

she really outdid herself another time. wow i love her 

this 100% deserved a premiere at a movie theatre in new york

she gagged me fr

This scene alone deserves an Oscar

We need to start a petition for Lana to be give a star!!!   

she's back at it again with her visual genius mind

I LOOOOOOOOVE THIS LOOK SO MUHC

one of her best videos idc. also i cant believe the big hair made an appearance  after all these years it still looks AMAZING on her
 

I see the concept, we have a star named Lana shooting scenes for the moving pictures. The addition of BTS is adding another layer to the music video. It's like mixing the reality and the fiction. For example, when she takes off the wig in the alley, it feels like she does in the real life after the scene is shot but at the same time it can also be a scene from the thing they are shooting. When she gives off middle finger and says "seriously", kinda gives the feeling of "is she acting?". We see a death scene, making us question whether it's real or not. At the end, we see she's happy and alive and it's all a music video. It's eerie. I don't mind BTS aspect of it but I wish there wasn't so much talking.
 
I also love where candy necklaces and expensive diamond necklaces are falling down to blood. It was so good visually and it made me understand the meaning of the song more.

I love this so much. The concept is amazing and she looks sooo good. It also matches the eerie tones of the song very well cause you don't really know what's coming next

The inclusion of the BTS footage *is* the whole point. This adds so many interesting layers to an already deeply strange, complex and elusive song. 
 
What an astonishing achievement. 

THE FINAL SCEEEEEEEEEEENE i will cry this is her best music video EVER

That was really cool and artistic, and kinda disturbing and weird – I like it a lot! The music was dope too, the piano sounded totally haunting.

Maybe the fact that she includes all those bts cuts alongside with official video is to prove a point that all these hollywood women she portrays in this MV (Marilyn, the black dahlia girl etc.) have all faced tragic ending by the exploitation of the media. And while her fake "character" in this video has the same ending (m*rdered & the paparazzi all swarm around her dead corspe) - she herself, in fact - the real Lana Del Rey in real life "behind all the scenes", behind this "character" is still alive & breathing, as we see in the ending of the video - it's just all "made up"
 
It's giving National Anthem right here