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  5. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Actor said:

    Why she just didnt record this album and gave to her family? Why she gave this to all of us, it's like christmas album (except few veeeery good songs) 

    Because her entire personal life is essentially on display, why wouldn’t she write about her family. that u think her discography should be soulless and impersonal says a lot about the material U would prefer from her and the role artists play in our lives. Plus, she essentially gave it to her family by releasing it public anyway ! Take it or leave it

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    The NME review has me contemplating (god) this album in the sense that

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    Lana has integrated "past, present and future" into this album, giving us a lasting glimpse of her mindset today (the present case, her current reminiscing / burdens of the past, and current anxieties of the future) - when we frame that with the tunnel in mind, it's a metaphor of her entire lifespan or image as Lana Del Rey. As Lana reminds us of this tunnel which was built in the past, carried and transported many a people - cast to disarray today, forgotten and neglected - it makes us think of its future. Will we remember?

     

    Lana was the Venice Bitch. She was the child castaway from her mother, sent to an institution for her drinking. She dealt with the trauma of death and suicidal ideation. Among more. These important references to the past help frame a more cohesive picture of what made Lana Del Rey.

     

    Lana is today a sister, an aunt, a daughter, etc. She speaks of her family in present tense, discusses her current state of mind and shares the updated Lana Del Rey, who we should see her as NOW, ever shapeshifting. Lana tomorrow - she wonders whether we will remember then, whether her family will be by her side, whether it will all last the test of time.

     

    She finishes the album with Venice Bitch as a callback to who she was and still is - we went full circle through the album (\past, present, future\) and she finishes it with what Norman Fucking Rockwell essentially started with (\back to past\).

     

    I personally see Norman - Chemtrails - Ocean as a trilogy of albums. Some could even look at Norman as the past (past love, reminiscing, youthful hope), Chemtrails as the present (for its time, the press of Chemtrails was soaked in current events [covid mask, question for the culture, etc] and built during the confusion of the pandemic (a very present threat at the time, which affected her lyricism), and Ocean as the future (obviously because the entire main theme of the tunnel is about longevity & being remembered into the future).

     

    Thoughts? lol

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    I always thought Lana’s references to Caroline (like in Sweet Carolina) were a reference to the daughter she never had.. so I thought 

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    “Caroline, will you be with me?” was about her baby but now I’ve realized that’s Chuck’s real name.. wtf she’s calling out to BOTH Chuck and Charlie in Fingertips?!?! This means so much more to me how CUTE how kind how precious 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

     

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  19. Posted

    Just now, Ultraviolencequeen said:

    So now how does the interludes with candy necklace sound? Do you guys love the interludes yet:oic2:

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    Well Lana sings about being a whore in A&W, then Judah preaches about lust and worldly devices.. Lana then sings about being obsessed with drugs with Jon joining her toward the end and then the erratic piano from Candy necklaces leads into a chaotic drug fuelled bender with Jon Batiste, so yeah it fits perfectly

     

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  24. Posted

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    in the ending, she keeps repeating candy necklaces a quite a melancholy tripped out way.. she's reminiscing on how horrible these drugs are for her and the extent that it takes over your life (just like the endorphins and intoxication of love)... especially when in love with someone who influences you to do it and takes as much as they do.. this song definitely shares a space with cinnamon girl and heroin.. I'm currently watching the ex love of my life fall into a cycle of party drugs that we've both gone down before so yeah hitting home lana

     

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