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Y'all scare me-- I don't think I've ever been in a car going faster than 70 (and that felt like breakneck speed) 

Last night, Lana saw the musical 'Finding Neverland' at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. She took pictures with the cast after the show.

She looks so happy! I'm glad she had a fun night.

"Thank you Lana Del Rey for joining us at Finding Neverland at the Pantages! You are so sweet and dealt with all of us lining up to take pictures like it was nothing! Thank you"

 
 
 
"This is a progression of [Victoria] saying, 'you're married, Thomas' which made Lana laugh hysterically."

 
http://instagram.com/p/BRjaCLxAoAy/
http://instagram.com/p/BRjd4WwArA0/

Ok so I'm pulling an all nighter for reasons so I'm taking advantage of it to class Lana songs and I classed 180 on 194 but I'm having trouble with the remaining ones. I checked on LanaPedia already and I'm sorry it has probably been asked a billion times and I have a lot of questions but:
• how do you class the studio recording of Lana saying fuck that shit?
• how do you class the three very short instrumental stems leaked on eclipse's soundcloud last year?
• how do you class fine china and yes to heaven? I'm hesitating between UV demos and a separate album for 2013, I class by year
• josh neww is definitely fake right?
• fine china rough old keys and yes to heaven rough old keys are absolutely unaltered with?
• both the demo and final or v1 and v2 of dicwb are from 2010?
• do we have an official tiwmug studio instrumental? are there official instrumentals for demos as well?
• I have a 3:48 cwycma with a heavy beat, it's definitely a remix?
• is the ottr "mix 5" snippet real?
• there are only two black beauty, one demo and one album? what's the highest quality we have for them?
• two versions of cotbr leaked, one remain unleaked but we have snippets? how long are they?
• damn you v2 is real, unleaked but we have snippets?
• bbm baby v2 is not fully leaked?
• be my daddy leaked edited?
• the emghw v2 we have is definitely edited?
 
I think that's all thank you so much

this sounds like a meeting between 2007 lizzy grant and the soundtrack for an 80s public access tv show and i really truly stan it  
 
where is the album

Here's the video on Honeymoon.. she's so beautiful & so adorable. Her eyelashes look amazing!
http://instagram.com/p/BRU02dqg0Oq/

I don't think the person she's speaking to is necessarily famous. They just did it all for fame and seemed to have actually failed, hence "how does that taste coming out?" I also kinda like the idea that its a self-critique of her hunger for fame, like Noir's "I'm glamorous, famous, notorious, dangerous, but I'm crazy." If you believe that, perhaps she's singing more generally about how her desire to write the next best American record and be famous has kind of ruined all her relationships, from the early days down to Barrie and perhaps Francesco (who knows how she looks at that).

She only mentions Bill once in a bridge which is kind of hazy and fast, her driving a car, sorting out memories ; therefore if she name drops Bill in that context, it doesn't mean that the song is about him, I think that it's just some kind of flash from the past, possibly because of the similarities between her lover and Bill or the emotion the image adds to the song.

I'd read that. A 5,000 word @longtimeman post is bound to be more worthwhile than 500 typical 10-word posts made around here.  

Yes, this was another thought I had that I should have included in my essay-length post. It's another reason why I don't think people should get too hung up on national origin in excluding Barrie from consideration here. I think the phrase "Best American Record" is meant more to evoke the same sort of grandiose artistic ambition associated with the concept of the "Great American Novel" than nationality.

I started to write an essay on this, but remembered that nobody needs to read that, so here's the short version.
 
Lana has a lot of songs about different types of self delusion (or, if we're being kinder, extreme overconfidence). Whether it's Carmen thinking she's made it ("Lying to herself 'cause the liquor's top shelf"); the narrator of National Anthem suddenly discovering her mojo ("I said to get real, don't you know who you're dealing with"); or the unfortunate object of Is This Happiness ("You think you're Hunter S Thompson, I think you're fucking crazy as they day's long"), the only way to succeed in the world of fame is to start by believing you've already succeeded. But, in LA, if you take this delusion too far, you end up like the central character in Mulholland Drive, living in a fantasy world. Whoever she's singing to in BAR has fallen victim to this.
 
The title of the song echoes the idea of the Great American Novel, which a long time ago was something that authors would try to write, but now is generally used ironically as a put down about somebody who is writing a book that will never see the light of day, but who, in their own mind, is going to write "the greatest American book on American culture which could ever be written". The "You did it all for fame" is the icing on the put down cake - not only are you wasting your life, "you're not even doing it in the name of art, but just to get from all of those girls in the audience, what you could be getting from me at home". In that way, it's an extension of her put down for the guys in Video Games/Blue Jeans - she's asking them "why are you getting lost in fantasy when I'm right here?" 

Not sure whether we should be doing this here or in Lanalysis instead, but whatever...

Sorry guys, I'm with @@longtimeman on this. I think this is primarily a song about Barrie (and kind of a harsh one, maybe even unfair). Let's break it down:

"My baby used to dance underneath my architecture"
Barrie was not only living in the shadow of her metaphoric architecture, her career and fame as @Lona Delery noted, but he was living with her under her roof, probably on her dime, in her fancy houses. Literally under her architecture. (@bummersummer made a similar point above.) And he's the only significant musician other she had during her post-fame period where she was rich enough to live in fancy houses.

"Houses of the Holy"
See @@longtimeman's post about that.

"He was cool as heck"
Potentially a callback to "Yeah, my boyfriend's pretty cool/But he's not as cool as me" in "Brooklyn Baby", a Barrie song, and perhaps "Shades of Cool". The repetition of the line almost seems to emphasize this.

"But you were so obsessed with writing the next best American record
But there was nothing left by the time we got to bed"
This is consistent with the picture she painted of Barrie in interviews and "Is This Happiness" (@SissyReed alluded to this) as someone focused on their art, more than she, perhaps to the detriment of everything else. (Ha, I'm amused just thinking about how blasphemous the idea of neglecting Lana in the boudoir probably seems to most of her fanbase.)

"How does that taste cumming out"
As @Sjp1988 suggested, perhaps a sly reference to Barrie being the origin of her saying "My pussy tastes like Pepsi-cola"?

"You did it all for fame
Baby, how's life treating you now
It's over"
Alleging that he did it all for fame seems harsh, perhaps a little unfair (and projecting to some degree), but Barrie did quit Kassidy to move to LA and pursue a solo career and live with his famous significant other. No part of that worked out.

"He was '70s in spirit, '90s in his frame of mind"
Definitely describes Barrie well, as he's heavily influenced by classic rock and Nirvana.

"Baby, how you feeling now
That I told you
We're through"
Lana was the one that broke things off. (Although it's questionable if she actually did tell him or just ghosted.)

"All the roads lead to you
Like the 405 I drive through
Everynight and everyday"
Not dispositive, but suggestive of her time living in California post-fame which points towards Barrie. Also, if taken semi-literally Barrie continued to live in LA for a time after they broke up.

"I see you for who you really are
Why the thousands of girls
Love the way Bill plays guitar"
Barrie is an accomplished guitarist. And "thousands of girls" instead of millions is fitting for Barrie/Kassidy.
 
OK, now to deal with some of the Barrie counter-arguments:
 
As @Vonn pointed out, she never says the person actually achieved fame.
 
I really don't think I could buy a producer theory for this song unless the line was "You were so obsessed with making the next best American record", but the line is "writing".

I think Mertens is too much of an artistic polymath to fit this. I don't see him having a single-minded focus on music, let alone "writing the next best American record".
 
Absent a specific candidate-- like Jimmy Gnecco, Lady Gaga, Chuck-- I'm inclined to believe that names she likes to reuse like Ray, Bill, Salvatore are just that: names she likes to reuse. Just because she likes the names. (I'm not even sure all her Jim mentions refer to Jimmy Gnecco, though perhaps Jim Morrison.) That said, like K, they could be invented pet names that do refer to a specific person. (I think there's a good possibility Ray at least began as a name for Arthur Lynn.)

I do think there is a case here for this being about Arthur. I'm sure he's into Led Zeppelin. The "American" part fits better. Based on his website and old Instagram posts I'm sure he's a studio rat. But this really seems like it's about a more recent relationship, post-fame, and overall screams Barrie to me.
 
And wouldn't it be a little too on the nose to put Barrie's name in the song? (Or Arthur's?) I'm not sure Lana would be as quick to namedrop in song these days as she was when she tossed off "Jimmy Gnecco" and "So Legit". This might be a deliberate way to obscure.
 
I don't think some of the lyrics really fit the theory that it's about herself. But I am sympathetic to this theory in the sense that there's some amount of projection going on here.
 
Mmm... I think people are making too much of this. Barrie moved to the US and (I think?) recorded his album in the US, has a lot of American musical influences, and stayed in LA for awhile after they broke up trying to get his solo career going. Plus consider Lana's comments at the Brits suggesting she really didn't think of herself as an "international" artist because she lived in the UK while recording BTD there. Never underestimate Lana logic.
 
Really? I'm not necessarily convinced all those songs are exclusively about one guy or about a specific guy, let alone the same guy. You know, back in 2011, 2012 when she was saying stuff to that effect in interviews she wasn't consistent. One interview she'd say they were mostly about one guy, the next she'd say two guys. Taken with other interview comments she's made about songs written about past lovers becoming about the person you're with now, I think Lanalysis is inherently a fool's game (that I nonetheless enjoy playing).
 
           

This is the only theory I will accept.

I listened to it once this morning and now it's the evening and I'm listening to it religiously in full for the second time ever and it crushes me down how beautiful it is, I'm extremely happy it's 6mins long because apart from the chorus that's still a bit of the low point of the song, it's I N S A N E L Y beautiful. The part where she says "I told you" at the end oh my god I broke down irl. So fckn beautiful. I absolutely love the first line. At first I didn't but now I prefer to Love and by far. The Cat Power vibes I'm getting from it omg I don't know if I'm blinded by my stanning of Chan and ignorant but holy shit it sounds like a psalm for me, this prechorus is some of the best things Lana has done, UV worthy, yeah I said it!
 
EDIT: OMG I WAS PLAYING IT AND MY SISTER CAME FROM BEHIND AND STARTED SINGING SALVATORE AFTER THE AHAHAHA AROUND 4:40... This song is a perfect mix of AKA, May, HM and UV with BTD beats

I saw an interesting theory about the lyrics in a Facebook group, and it's also what I think. It's different from what I read here, so I'm going to share it with you.
 
So firstly, I think that the lyrics are having several dimensions, like it happens often with Lana.
 
In the chours, she's talking to herself and "You were so obsessed with writing the next best American record" refers to Ultraviolence (because she really liked the sound of it and was really proud of it before it dropped out). It can also refer to the upcoming album.
The next line is "You did it all for fame" - I see it being ironical, maybe refering to a lot of critics she received for songs like Money Power Glory and Fucked My Way Up To The Top?
 
Next, she's not talking to herself but possibly her lover: "It’s you, all the roads lead to you, everything I want and do, all the things that I say", it has some Video Games vibes.
 
"We lost track of space, we lost track of time" - she lost herself in those dreams. All along, she's doing some kind of introspection with her past and now she's breaking the glass, that's why we hear it broken in the last verse. She doesn't like fame, but she carry on for her fans.

Ride

 
Lust For Life [trailer]

 
National Anthem

 
Body Electric

 
 
Born to Die

 
Blue Jeans

 
Music to Watch Boys to

 
Love

Lana received a hydrafacial today from Elliceskincare in Los Angeles. Also, her acrylic nails have returned! (Unless it's an old picture, it looks very 2014. It was shared by the spa's staff today though.) I can't believe someone can look this beautiful while receiving a facial.

I love how this song seems to combine elements of every era/album so far.
 
The melody is very similar to her Sirens/May Jailer songs, while the beats give me a BTD vibe, the guitars remind me of a stripped back UV and her vocals sound very similar to HM but even more beautiful! I'm also reminded of unreleased songs like Wayamaya and also with that Because of You lyrical flashback.
 
Queen of just getting better and better!

I dont think anyone knows for sure who Bill is, but I'm just gonna copy + paste what I posted in the post-release LDR5 thread:
 
 
 
I think I'll stop trying to figure this out cause im not going off very much evidence anyway :')
 
 
 
 
 People are saying both, so I don't know what to believe rn. Lets just hope the beeps arent in the real one :')

Hands down one of her best album tracks. I don't fucking care what anyone says. The fucking lyrics are golden. This album is going to fuck me up.

[Verse 1]
My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

To the Houses of the Holy

Smoking on them cigarettes

My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

He was cool as heck

He was cool as heck
 


[Pre-Chorus]

But you were so obsessed with writing the next best American record

But there was nothing left by the time we got to bed

Baby that’s a shame

You were so obsessed with writing the next best American record

You did it all for fame

You did it all for fame
 


[Chorus 1]

You did it all for fame

Tell me how it treats you now

You did it all for fame

How does that taste coming out

You did it all for fame

Baby, how's life treating you now

It's over


 
[Verse 2]

My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

He was seventies in spirit; nineties in his frame of mind

My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

We lost track of space

We lost track of time

 
[Pre-Chorus]

But you were so obsessed with writing the next best American record

But there was nothing left by the time we got to bed

Baby that’s a shame

You were so obsessed with writing the next best American record

You did it all for fame

You did it all for fame

(You know what I'm talking about)


 
[Chorus 2]

You did it all for fame

Tell me how it treats you now

You did it all for fame

How does that taste coming out

Now that you lost the game

Honey, how's life treating you now

That it's over

Baby, how you feeling now

That I told you

We're through


 
[bridge]

It's you
All the roads lead to you

Everything I want and do

All the things that I say

It's true

All the roads lead to you

Like the 405 I drive through

Everynight and everyday

Ah, ah

I see you for who you really are

Why the thousands of girls

Love the way Bill plays guitar

Ah, ah

 
[Chorus]

You did it all for fame

Tell me how it treats you now

You did it all for fame

How does that taste coming out

You did it all for fame

Honey, how you feeling now

That it's over

Baby, how's life treating you now

That I told you
 


[Outro]

Honey, how is it feeling now?

(Honey, how's it feeling?, Honey, how's it feeling?)

I told you

(Honey, how's it feeling?, Honey, how's it feeling?)

I told you

Hey, can I request a cover?  
Yours are some of my favorites, and I've got something pretty particular in mind  

Wow! You noticed! Yeah, I've been going very minimal and leaving most of the attention on the photo itself

Yes to Heaven

 

I actually turned my mom into a stan My mom and I always share whatever music we're into with each other, so she's heard a good mix of all of Lana's music from me, and ended up liking it-- now, she watches the entire "Ride" video every morning ("Luke, I feel like she's talking about me!!!") and sings Lizzy-era stuff all the time (PMIAM gets stuck in her head a lot, and I'll hear her singing it while she cleans-- I never expect to hear "you can be my daddy" come from my mother's lips, but what can u do). Besides "Ride", her other favorite track is "Kill Kill". And, I've told her enough useless Lana trivia that she knows it by heart now-- the other day, I was playing "Yayo", and she says, "Hey, wasn't that in the Keds ad Lana did?" and I cried a little bit inside because I stan that obsessively and she knows it
 
My dad knows she exists, but that's about it-- and my brother doesn't really care for her music, aside from Y&B and the SS remix  
 
As for what music I grew up listening to, my mom listened to a bit of everything-- but it may have been some of the 50s/60s pop she listened to (The Shirelles, Elvis, The Beach Boys, etc.) that really turned me on to Lana's vintage/retro vibes.

I actually turned my mom into a stan My mom and I always share whatever music we're into with each other, so she's heard a good mix of all of Lana's music from me, and ended up liking it-- now, she watches the entire "Ride" video every morning ("Luke, I feel like she's talking about me!!!") and sings Lizzy-era stuff all the time (PMIAM gets stuck in her head a lot, and I'll hear her singing it while she cleans-- I never expect to hear "you can be my daddy" come from my mother's lips, but what can u do). Besides "Ride", her other favorite track is "Kill Kill". And, I've told her enough useless Lana trivia that she knows it by heart now-- the other day, I was playing "Yayo", and she says, "Hey, wasn't that in the Keds ad Lana did?" and I cried a little bit inside because I stan that obsessively and she knows it
 
My dad knows she exists, but that's about it-- and my brother doesn't really care for her music, aside from Y&B and the SS remix  
 
As for what music I grew up listening to, my mom listened to a bit of everything-- but it may have been some of the 50s/60s pop she listened to (The Shirelles, Elvis, The Beach Boys, etc.) that really turned me on to Lana's vintage/retro vibes.