annedauphine

everyone in Lana's fanbase
 
 

Hi babiessss, I'm working on a new one!!! 

I actually kind of wrecked this already-- I tried to do some watercolor, and it was an actual disaster. 
Still gonna try to salvage it, tho!! I also wanna finish the inking, cos it's mostly still pencil rn.

Thanks for all the feedback, it's appreciated a lot. I've been experimenting with different retro styles for the covers I've been making and I've come up with these:
 

 

 
The BTD one was inspired by 40s/50s singer vinyl covers and the new Honeymoon cover was inspired by specifically Nina Simone's vinyl covers.

Her speaking voice is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard, even more than her singing voice tbh. I could listen to her speak softly about literally anything for endless hours. It's one of the earliest thing that fascinated me about her. Thanks to who recorded the interview, I'm adding it to my masterpost, and the BBC Radio 1 as well

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHGHGHG I JUST SAW THAT IT'S THE SAME DAY THAN THE COCOROSIE ONE I'M OVERDEAD MY TWO PENULTIMATE FAVS TOGETHER I WON'T SURVIVE THIS
 
 
 

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHGHGHG I JUST SAW THAT IT'S THE SAME DAY THAN THE COCOROSIE ONE I'M OVERDEAD MY TWO PENULTIMATE FAVS TOGETHER I WON'T SURVIVE THIS
 
 
 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHGHGHG I JUST SAW THAT IT'S THE SAME DAY THAN THE COCOROSIE ONE I'M OVERDEAD MY TWO PENULTIMATE FAVS TOGETHER I WON'T SURVIVE THIS
 
 
 

Saw this on tumblr, just sharing, I'm not a native speaker and I have no idea what she says ha
 
"I remember an all white day
With eight story waves
He said, “Your eyes are grey” (Beautiful)
We were living on Coeur d'Alene
On Carol lane, sun Manta Ray"

Also I forgot to say, everytime she says "beautiful" my life flashes before my eyes and I go from hell to heaven and back. This word is definitely forever engraved in my mind as being related to Lana

I'm compulsively listening to it on a loop since it got leaked and I couldn't for the life of me pinpoint which other Lana song it reminded me and I realized to my stupor that it's actually Next To Me, which explain why both songs are amongst my ultimate fav Lana songs, the melody is kind of reminiscent in the verses, but like an acid-washed, high, much more softer and pastel version of Next To Me mixed with a happier, narcoswing version of Kill Kill
 
In less arrogant words I love this song to death, it slays me, it simply slays me
 
Also for some reasons it makes me think of Rob's Hawaiian shirts haha I wonder if he likes it, as it also reminds me of the tropical vibes of Florida Kilos and it's his fav

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

Since Francesco is a certified pilot (of sorts), I have been wondering if he is the man shooting Lana from the chopper. https://instagram.com/p/xXYkDwiIDS/?taken-by=francescocarrozzini
(he posts plane porn quite a bit)
 
Another thought I've had since August 10th, is that I wonder if there is some correlation between Lana dropping "High by The Beach" on August 10th. which is the same date as her ex-boyfriend's birthday (Michael Mizrahi).
 
I can't help but feel that it's no coincidence, and also it would explain some of the going back to Lizzy lyrics and slightly modifying them to represent growth and empowerment since that time. 
 
OHHH and at 3:28 when Lana's running back with the guitar case, there is a flicker of a smile on her face. Her hair is covering most of her face in the moment but it's so endearingly evil. I see the menace in her for a second. Music is her weapon symbolism galore. 

Beyoncé is certainly no stranger to accusations of plagiarism in her videos. Considering the large number of videos comprising her eponymous visual album, it would not be surprising if some of them were less than original. Did she copy Lana Del Rey?
 
Compare the album cover design and font to a Paradise box set booklet:

With Tropico, the "Ride" video, the "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M, and the "Song of Myself" promo for L'Officiel set to the intro to "Cola", Lana released some sort of video for almost every song on Paradise. One could argue that even the idea of releasing videos for the entire album is derivative. Now let's look at those videos.
 
 
PRETTY HURTS
Much like the opening bars of "Ride", the opening bars begin with the image of Beyoncé singing into a slender microphone, wearing a mostly white dress against sparkly blue stage curtains:

 
The song's themes—eating disorders and the dark side of being a beauty queen—are straight out of "Boarding School", "Brite Lites", and "Pin-Up Galore". Indeed, here we see Mrs. Carter in Ms. Grant's short-cut meth-haired beauty queen style complete with sash accessory:

 
Beyoncé also replicates Lana's arched back & cupped hand underwater poses from the "Blue Jeans" video:

 
She not only borrows Tropico co-star Shaun Ross, but doubles down on the African albinism by casting Diandra Forrest. To top it off, Beyoncé even has the audacity to lift Lizzy's iconic trademark sequined bra:

 
 
GHOST
In "Ghost", Sasha Fierce is not herself, assuming the identity of Lana's Rosalita alter ego from her "Song of Myself" video for L'Officiel:

 
 
HAUNTED
The "Countdown" singer's video for "Haunted" begins with a hauntingly familiar countdown straight outta one of Lizzy's DIY "Gramma" videos:

 
Then in true diva style, Beyoncé makes her male servant light her cigarette for her like a little bitch like Barrie at a Lana show:

 
The whole video imitates the imitated Lynchian style of Lana's "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M complete with the requisite Doppelgangers:

 
Yet it borrows scenes from "National Anthem" & Tropico. Black guys gambling? Check.

 
Strippers giving lapdances to white businessmen? Check.

 
People in whiteface? Check.

 
Bubbles? Check.

 
Originality? ...Anyone? Bueller?
 
 
DRUNK IN LOVE
In addition to lyrics that sound like a first draft of "Brite Lites" ("Flashing lights, flashing lights, you got me faded, faded, faded"), this intoxicating concoction's potency is poured from "National Anthem", where Lana grinds on another snifter-wielding rapper, A$AP Rocky:

 
 
BLOW
The cotton candy confection of the music masks Lana-like lyrics ("Every time I close my eyes", "I'ma let you be the boss of me", "Give me that daddy long stroke" and an interlude in French) in a video easily summarized as "pin-up girls at the roller derby". We also see a close-up of a disco ball a la her DIY "Yayo" video:

 
And Beyoncé perched on the hood of a car in a fuck-me pose like Lana in the "Born to Die" video:

 
In this case, we're lucky that "Blow" doesn't Soileau. Bradley sucks.
 
 
NO ANGEL
In an inversion of Lana's "angels forever" refrain, the "Halo" songstress proclaims, "You're no angel either, baby." She asks, "Tell me do you want to ride?" Like Lana in "Ride", Beyoncé is Queen of the Gas Station, knocking off Lana's hot long curly hair and cut-off jeans look. Unlike Lana, at least she's responsible enough to only be figuratively smokin' at the pump.

 
We see chicks on the back of motorcycles:

 
Tacky word bling:

 
And pole dancers making it rain:

 
 
YONCÉ
In "Yoncé", she continues the ghetto theme, banging around with her gang of ghetto girls like Lana in Tropico:

 
Who does Beyoncé think she is to appropriate all these signifiers of ghetto culture from gangsta Nancy Sinatra? Rather uppity if you ask me.
 
 
CONTINUED...

PARTITION
In "Partition", the camera takes us inside a palatial estate that almost looks like it could have been the setting for the "Born to Die" video. See the exterior and interior below:

 
In the first of several scenes curiously similar to ones out of "National Anthem", we find Mrs. Carter seated at an immaculately set table, barely noticed by her rapper husband peering over his newspaper:

 
In her mind, she embarks on a sexual fantasy. Again she channels Rosalita:

 
Her rapper husband feels up her leg in a vehicle:

 
She puts on a show for him, donning a sequined flapper headdress like Lizzy wears in this photo:

 
Silhouette techniques like something out of "Summertime Sadness" are employed:

 
Beyoncé pole dances like Lana in Tropico over a sexy French spoken interlude like in "Carmen":

 
Like A$AP Rocky in "National Anthem", her rapper husband watches her performance voyeuristically, smoking a cigar:

 
 
JEALOUS
Beyoncé is a jealous, jealous, jealous gurrrrrl. This video begins in the same estate reminiscent of "Born to Die" as in "Partition". In one scene, the former Miss Knowles is draped over a pinball machine like Lana in "Ride":

 
In another we see a "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
 
ROCKET
Like "Blue Jeans", "Rocket" opens on a black & white close-up of a reflection of the artist's face in a ripple of water:

 
Later in each video we watch the artist submerge her face in water in slow motion:

 
 
MINE
Like Lana in the poster for Tropico, we find Beyoncé re-enacting Mary in the Pieta:

 
Also, is that another Shaun Ross cameo?
 
 
XO
In "XO", Beyoncé orchestrates perhaps the largest NYC land grab since Dutch settlers bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 24 bucks, stealing the famed amusement destination from the Queen of Coney Island herself:

 

 

 

 
 
***FLAWLESS & SUPERPOWER
Since I can't find any Lana plagiarism in either of these videos, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume they must be borrowed from the "Dark Paradise" and "Cola" videos that never materialized. @@Ultraviolence Watch these. One of them may be the closest thing you'll ever get to your precious "Cola" video.
 
 
HEAVEN
Here we have the biggest plot heist since Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds ripped off Gremlins. In "Heaven", Beyoncé portrays a woman mourning her deceased female bff in a series of flashbacks. Sound familiar? Of course it does. It's the plot of Lana's "Summertime Sadness" video. Not content to copycat one Lana video, "Heaven" filches from a few. A shot in a church mirrors the chapel in "Born to Die":

 
In a flashback, Beyoncé's girlfriend sprays alcohol at a campfire party echoing scenes in "Ride":

 
And we see her and her gal pal riding in a car like Lana & Jaime King:

 
She only barely tries to disguise her copying Lana's recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Tropico by saying it in Spanish. Oh, and speaking of Spanish, here's Rosalita yet again:

 
 
BLUE
Sure, there's another "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
The sequined bra is back:

 
And she evokes Lizzy's showgirl style:

 
But most saliently, this song is about Beyoncé's, uh, baby Blue love, the black baby daughter she had with a rapper. What a blatant "National Anthem" ripoff!

 
 
GROWN WOMAN
Last but not least, the video for "Grown Woman" consists of home footage of Beyoncé's childhood performances, a clear homage to Lana's DIY videos.
 
 
 

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

also how the FUCK can anybody call her fat? this is really the sexiest she has ever looked.
 
Did you check her silhouette when she's by the window with the helicopter? 
 

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

She didn't wait for me but I forgive ha, I'm ugly crying in French she looks so violently beautiful. This dress fits her really nicely I'm so in love with her omfg. The video feels 100000% her. I love the amateurish feeling, it looks like she's referencing a certain kind of movies or something. I fucking loved it especially after watching it a few times. I agree with everything's that been said about it being about the media and paparazzi. She's literally the queen of shade it's equally super hilarious and deep. My fav parts are when the helicopter is near the house, and obvs when her dress gets stuck I wasn't expecting it I screamed. Jesus CHRIST she looks way too beautiful for me I'm in actual pain. 
 
In any way, it feels like she's really unapologetically enjoying herself in this era, in a much more mature way, and I'm here for this. If this is the direction she's going I'm following her blindly. The colour scheme is gorgeous and everything hints at her being much more at, idk, not peace but in a better place than where she was with UV

i hope we get an album trailer like uv's (with a few snippets of songs, some unused footage yey)