Pin-Up Galore (Live and Final Versions)

[Your Girl Lana 546]

Live lyrics in blue, final lyrics in red:

 

 

 

Pin up girls at the roller derby

Take me down to Newark, New Jersey

American flags, blue blue streamers

Everybody's laughing

The crowd is cheering

 

Baby I've become someone

Baby I've become

Baby I've become someone

Not of this world

Hey-ey-ey

Not of this world

Hey-ey-ey

 

Dance at night back in Alabama

Christmas lights on my teal green trailer

American flags, blue blue streamers

All the men are watching

The crowd is screaming

 

Baby I, I've become someone

Baby I've become

Baby I've become someone

Not of this world

Yeah-ey-ey

Not of this world

Hey-ey-ey

 

Baby, I have become someone

A monster

Hey-ey-ey

 

Prizes, prizes

A diamond tiara

Here's to the girl with the blue mascara

 

I have a disco ball mind

Lights flashing all of the time

I have a disco ball mind

I wanna die, I wanna die

I wanna die, I wanna die

 

Baby I've become someone

Baby I've have become

Baby I've have become someone

Not of this world

Hey-ey-ey

Not of this world

[Mileena 2,691]

This is the demo version, are the lyrics to the final live version up yet?(:

[Your Girl Lana 546]

I don't know...

[NEAL 740]

I thought I heard

The crowd is screaming

idk

[Matt 984]

I love this song, such a beautiful opening.

[Baby V Alex 2,859]

the studio version is the demo, the live version is the final one

[Madrigal 2,616]

the studio version is the demo, the live version is the final one

 

Please. We have no idea, so no making assumptions, 'Kay? ;P

[Baby V Alex 2,859]

Please. We have no idea, so no making assumptions, 'Kay? ;P

 

I don't remember who leaked the demo, jesse or CG, but it was the DEMO, on the live version I knda agree

[Madrigal 2,616]

 

 

I don't remember who leaked the demo, jesse or CG, but it was the DEMO, on the live version I knda agree

 

Be that way. And no, it wasn't Jesse...he didn't really leak anything. Well, he did share the "Blue Jeans" with the string intro, and from him we have a version of "Heavy Hitter," but I don't think anything else came explicitly from him.

[NEAL 740]

Be that way. And no, it wasn't Jesse...he didn't really leak anything. Well, he did share the "Blue Jeans" with the string intro, and from him we have a version of "Heavy Hitter," but I don't think anything else came explicitly from him.

 

How many Heavy Hitter version do we have?

[Madrigal 2,616]

How many Heavy Hitter version do we have?

My understanding is two, and with your edit, three.

[NEAL 740]

My understanding is two, and with your edit, three.

 

'twas James Dean's edit.

[latothemoon 11,845]

The demo called "Roller Dirby" leaked today, this is only by ear but these are the lyrics I heard

 

 

 

 

Pin up girls at,

The roller derby,

Take me down to,

Newark, New Jersey.

 

American flags, blue,

Blue streamers,

Everybody's laughing,

The crowd is screaming.

 

I used to think I was the (?),

Ah oh, mmm

Baby, I've become someone,

Baby, I've become,

Baby, I've become someone.

 

Not of this world,

Hey, yeah, yeah.

Not of this world,

Hey, yeah, yeah.

 

 

 

If anybody knows the word in the (?) space that would be great

[lernerderrey 2,415]

maharaja

[Angel Fire 543]

Can someone post it here all the three versions of Pin-Up we have now? 
I would like to listen and compare them.

[Platinum Greenwich 13,845]

am i the only one who still suspects there's a pin up galore session out there, where the "final" version must have come from?

[Hundred Dollar Bill 21,804]

her best song, fuck

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

her best song, fuck

 

 i second this

[Mafiosa 1,089]

this is my favorite song of all time, it's really special to me. i'd like to share my own personal meaning that i connect to this song, which is part of what makes it so magical for me. you don't have to agree, it's just my perspective.

 

pin up galore is generally about the female pin up archetype. it's a heart wrenching and melancholy tale told from the perspective of a pin up; lana is putting herself in the place of one of these women, as part of the pin up lives in every woman. she can empathize in a way, and she feels connected to a bygone era of glamour. 

 

these girls exist to entertain others: crowds, men, america - the world. lana invokes strong americana imagery to take you back to the height of the pin up era - the 40s in particular. they thrive off of the screams and cheers, it makes them feel alive. when she sings about becoming someone "not of this world," this is where she gets into the dehumanizing aspect of it. these beautiful women have dedicated their lives to pleasing others. eventually it gets extremely numbing and you can't even feel anything but a disconnect. the "monster" line is even more illustrative of this concept; she can't even recognize herself anymore after fame. 

 

"prizes, prizes a diamond tiara / here's to the girl with the blue mascara" this feeds more into the beauty queen archetype, but it's still the same idea. just more imagery to invoke the obsession with glamour and materialism. girls are lauded for their appearances and must appeal to men. "i have a disco ball mind" "i wanna die" is really just going into detail about the mental state that she's in. her mind has become reflective, she can see the lights from the cameras, from the stage. her brain has been replaced with thoughts of performance. she can't handle it anymore, she wants to die, she wants to die.

 

lana can connect to pin up girls like marilyn. in the early stages of her career, singing at open mics, she felt empty performing night after night with little success. the only thing that kept her going was her own passion and will. she didn't want to conform to how other people saw her or wanted her to be. 

 

lol this wasn't supposed to come off as being super feminist-y, just how i see the song and connect with it curious to see what other people think, as this is such a rich and dark song!

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

 

this is my favorite song of all time, it's really special to me. i'd like to share my own personal meaning that i connect to this song, which is part of what makes it so magical for me. you don't have to agree, it's just my perspective.

 

pin up galore is generally about the female pin up archetype. it's a heart wrenching and melancholy tale told from the perspective of a pin up; lana is putting herself in the place of one of these women, as part of the pin up lives in every woman. she can empathize in a way, and she feels connected to a bygone era of glamour. 

 

these girls exist to entertain others: crowds, men, america - the world. lana invokes strong americana imagery to take you back to the height of the pin up era - the 40s in particular. they thrive off of the screams and cheers, it makes them feel alive. when she sings about becoming someone "not of this world," this is where she gets into the dehumanizing aspect of it. these beautiful women have dedicated their lives to pleasing others. eventually it gets extremely numbing and you can't even feel anything but a disconnect. the "monster" line is even more illustrative of this concept; she can't even recognize herself anymore after fame. 

 

"prizes, prizes a diamond tiara / here's to the girl with the blue mascara" this feeds more into the beauty queen archetype, but it's still the same idea. just more imagery to invoke the obsession with glamour and materialism. girls are lauded for their appearances and must appeal to men. "i have a disco ball mind" "i wanna die" is really just going into detail about the mental state that she's in. her mind has become reflective, she can see the lights from the cameras, from the stage. her brain has been replaced with thoughts of performance. she can't handle it anymore, she wants to die, she wants to die.

 

lana can connect to pin up girls like marilyn. in the early stages of her career, singing at open mics, she felt empty performing night after night with little success. the only thing that kept her going was her own passion and will. she didn't want to conform to how other people saw her or wanted her to be. 

 

lol this wasn't supposed to come off as being super feminist-y, just how i see the song and connect with it curious to see what other people think, as this is such a rich and dark song!

 

 

totally love this! your interpretation really fits-- lana seems to enjoy probing into all the ins and outs of fame in her songs, so this definitely resonates.

 

I've always thought Pin-Up Galore said a lot about how fame is such a double-edged sword, due to some smart wordplay in the song:

 

in the first verse, "everybody's laughing" and "the crowd is cheering"-- energy is high, everyone seems to be having fun; even the performer, who feeds off positive reactions.

 

by the second verse, this has changed to "all the men are watching" and "the crowd is screaming"-- in contrast, these words carry darker connotations-- now, the men are singled out, and I've always felt that "watching" gives such a detached air to it-- the relationship between crowd and performer is no longer mutualistic or give-and-take, it's predatory, and parasitic-- the men are observing, watching, scrutinizing this female figure, who's no longer in on the enjoyment. she's an object that they're staring down. then, while a "screaming" crowd could still be positive in some instances, the shadow over that previous phrase makes this feel dark to me, too-- are they screaming out of joy, or out of fear/horror? is the performer breaking down or growing paranoid or frantic in some way that frightens them? maybe their reaction is both-- they're terrified by what they're seeing, but they also enjoy the spectacle, no matter how gruesome the display-- they won't try to stop what's playing out.

 

those lines always strike me as her saying that the relationship between a singer (or any performer) and their audience is so delicate-- mutual respect and appreciation can create a positive, enjoyable atmosphere; but it's far too easy for the audience to forget that the singer is human-- they become something inhuman, "not of this world", and standards for their act and behavior are raised accordingly-- so, they don't get treated as human, either. they're held under a constant magnifying glass, as anything from a sexual object to be ogled ("the men are watching") to a living freakshow when they fall and make human error ("the crowd is screaming")-- everyone can see that something is wrong, the performer is struggling-- but, as a performer, the audience believes that even their missteps belong to the world for entertainment. all of life becomes a show when you're famous.

 

anyway, I think this is all eerily evocative of what Lana began facing (and is still facing) once she became famous-- that constant scrutiny by her worldwide audience, the objectification, the love that can just as quickly turn to backlash when she slips-- it's like she knew what was coming. fame excited her, but she was also aware of what it could do to you.

 

or, i'm reading too much into it. who knows