The Sun Also Rises

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but I read "America" by Allen Ginsberg for the first time today and it became clear to me that LA Who Am I to Love You is a reference to it: 

You can read America here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f 
WARNING, the poem has some ethnic slurs mentioned, proceed with caution 
 
Or here: 
 
We know Allen Ginsberg is one of Lana's favorite poets, but the connections are undeniable here even without any references she had previously made to his work. Knowing this just enriches this poem even more for me now! 

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but I read "America" by Allen Ginsberg for the first time today and it became clear to me that LA Who Am I to Love You is a reference to it: 

You can read America here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f 
WARNING, the poem has some ethnic slurs mentioned, proceed with caution 
 
Or here: 
 
We know Allen Ginsberg is one of Lana's favorite poets, but the connections are undeniable here even without any references she had previously made to his work. Knowing this just enriches this poem even more for me now! 

tbh this poem on vinyl>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.this poem on cd/readen. Idk, it gives a vibe of vinyl

Note: edited for clarity.

I haven’t heard anyone talk about this line:
“Back home to the Tudor house that borned a thousand murder plots”
 
maybe it’s obvious to the point that there wasn’t really a need to really analyze it but-
The way ‘plots’ is used in this line reads to me as plots of land. ‘Murder plots’ and the picture is pretty clear.
It’s possible that the house in question may just be built on top of land that has some negative historical significance unrelated to Lana.
But the way Lana mentioned looking more into her family tree, the concept of karmic lineage and her commitment to projects acting as sort of reparations to Native American communities makes me wonder if there’s an underlying motivation based on more personal factors.
I mean, we know Lana comes from a pretty WASP-y background so it’s not hard to imagine she might’ve discovered possible ancestry that may have been involved in something like slavery or some other unjust events that took place in the US’ distant past.
So the idea of her having negative karmic lineage as mentioned in Black Bathing Suit for example and in this context would make a lot of sense.

Anyways, it’s a semi controversial take and want to reiterate its purely speculative and not based on any public information we know of, at least at the moment.

I have to admit I rarely listen to any other album atp  Thats how much Opus Blvd gives

now its been years since I left New York
and i got a kid and two cats in the yard
the California sun and the movie stars
and I watch the skies getting light as I write
as I think about those years 
and I whisper in your ear-
i’m always going to be right here
no one is going anywhere
 
what a woman and a songwriter
 

The guitar build up in the bridge literally fixed my credit score, paid my rent for the next 3 months, AND filed my taxes months in advance.

Cracked the code of this song after @@Nick Del Rey reminded me of a puzzle piece I was missing. So, Lana stated in her livestream she wrote this song after "getting back to New York from Boston" after being "fucked up in Boston"
Nick reminded me there was a rumour of Lana going to Boston to watch her boyfriend who was coaching, which lined up during the same time period as I noticed she was in Rhode Island on October 3rd & New York October 5th with Jack, same day she shares first snippet of HTD along with video captioned "pre-recording dance"
The rumour seemed to originate from a girl who worked at a store Lana was shopping at while in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island - Oct 3 (traveling there)
Boston - Oct 4 (meltdown happened w this guy)
New York - Oct 5 (wrote HTD)
  The man in question seems to be this boxer named Joe Schilling, who a bunch of fans attacked on instagram by commenting rats under his instagram posts on October 21st after he dragged her music, and Lana had to tell her fans to back off. That makes perfect sense given the lyrics: "Joe met me down at the training yard, with cuts on his face 'cause he fought too hard" (which would make sense bc he's a boxer)   October 5th: "At the Red Sox vs Yankee play off game at Fenway Park tonight. We’ll be wishing a mother fcker would." (Fenway Park is in Boston, and Lana was there to watch him train the day before... y'know, down at the training yard)     whew that man really hurt her x

Jeff Buckley. Obviously, he only had one album because he died but he deserves to be mentioned. I often wonder if he were still here, what his other albums would look like and where he would be in life today. 

I always wondered why there's 2 mixes officially released of West Coast: one from the music video (that one's on the album) and then one from the audio on YT which has softer drums and differently mixed vocals? Has this ever been adressed?
 

yeah boz told about it while he was here: “The simple answer to this is that Rob Orton, UV's mixing engineer, was still mixing the tracks at the time of WC release and they just attached earlier mix to it. Pretty sure it was even released on streaming later as Rob Orton mix or something”

wait that actually sounds really fun lemme start collecting my thoughts and writing it down so im ready in time  
me expanding on what someone said in this thread months ago calling the A&W - Jon Batiste Interlude run the most Lynchian thing she's ever done and connecting it to the entirety of Twin Peaks + Mulholland Drive + Inland Empire in my track by track breakdown 

We all should post track by track posts on Ocean Blvd one year anniversary tbh. Streaming the album and reading long ass paragraphs about every track. Then we watch the Candy Necklace music video, some live performances,   interviews, her Grammy speech she gave after she won and eat an A&W restaurant  meal while doing that and don't forget the root beer or the milkshake from A&W You could try and recreate those meals and the milk shake if you don't have an A&W nearby and /or don't live in the US

I wrote this huge ass track by track thought on the album but this shit is so long I only got to Fingertips before giving up  and this was back in June so now my ranking and thoughts have shifted and im jus like bruh 

Let The Light In and Margaret the smash hits you are
Kinda wish they would send Let The Light In to radio stations ( if that didn't happen yet lol), I think it truly deserves

And I love how the Grandfather Let The Light In Margaret run feels like a warm hug and is very uplifting Fishtail, Peppers and Taco Truck x VB obviously slay too and are giving us LIFE
I just realize once again how good every part of that album is, she really did THAT 
Also the way Kintsugi is not only right in the middle of the album but it's the heart of the album too
That post was kinda filled with random thoughts but I love Ocean Blvd so much, it's my fave along with Honeymoon and ugh I could go and on and on

Just thought about how in an alternate universe Lana would decide to scrap Ocean Blvd after the laptop was stolen and songs like A&W would just randomly leak with no official release

MANIFESTING

LTLI +700k, Margaret +565k and the album did 2.54m on spotify yesterday
 
SMASH album
 
margaret and let the smash in coming for 1m daily updates

I never meant to be bad or unwell, I was just living on the edge
Right between heaven and hell, and I'm tired of it
 
This is my idea of fun
 
It's the middle of winter but in my mind it's summer
 
Life doesn’t always work out like you planned it
They say, "Make lemonade out of lemons,"
But I try and I just can’t understand it
All this trying for no good reason
Man makes plans and God laughs
Why do I even bother to ask?
 
High up in the Hollywood hills, taking violet pills
Writin' all of my songs about my cheap thrills
You're a hard man to love, and I'm
A hard woman to keep track of
 
You got your youth and you got your dreams
 
Roses out in your country house
We played guitar in your barn
And everyday felt like Sunday, and I
I wish we had stayed home
 
What cruel world is this? Nectar of the Gods
Heroin gold in my veins, you in my thoughts
I'm on the freeway racin' at a million
And I just can't stop
I call you up twice, hang up the phone
Call again, I wanna talk
 

There are violets in ur eyes
There are guns that blaze around u
There are roses in between my thighs
& fire that surrounds u
It's no wonder every man in town
Had neither fought nor found u
Everything u do is elusive to
Even ur honeydew
 
Our... Honeymoon 

You think I'll ever transform into the man
God meant to make when he began?
 
from the bridge in drive is an all timer lana lyric to me and i can’t believe she’s never reused this. so so stunning

I sing the national anthem while I'm standing
Over your body, hold you like a python
And you can't keep your hands off me, or your pants on
See what you've done to me King of Chevron
 
&
 
You're so fresh to death and sick as cancer
 
^When I was younger I was shook when I first heard these lyrics lol. They're intelligent and evoke such vivid imagery

I don't really wanna die
I just want the pain to be over
 
&
 
I know that I dreamed about it all my life
Then the dream got closer

candy necklaces mv nominated for the art directors guild  why the topic was taken down?