Rebel 3,176 Posted July 24, 2013 Paradise is a game of do or die 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sitar 22,206 Posted July 24, 2013 I don't think lyrics have to be really complicated or profound to be considered "good" .. I mean that varies from person to person anyway and I think when they are combined with Lana's voice+ how she emotes them + production, etc. it just works Yes! I think even just phrases, like a few words strung together can be better and more effective than whole lines of songs. for example "Easy rider" in AFFA resonates with me, there's so many more like "heavy metal lions", "prostitute stare", "Velvet crowbar" too. Even something so simple as "I do what I like... I just don't care" in Disco. The way she says it. Such a poet Yes exactly! But I didn't wanna just write "prostitute stare", "heroin fiend", "midnight answer", "I'm bereaved by you"... Didn't seem to fit the question 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creyk 11,674 Posted July 27, 2013 "Stefani, you suck, I know you’re selling twenty million Wish they could have seen you when we booed you off in Williamsburg" :legend: :legend: 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sitar 22,206 Posted July 27, 2013 "Stefani, you suck, I know you’re selling twenty million Wish they could have seen you when we booed you off in Williamsburg" :legend: :legend: The praise Fan song in disguise. Lady Gaga Husband. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rways 405 Posted July 27, 2013 The praise Fan song in disguise. Lady Gaga Husband. IKR 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markeyvee 221 Posted July 28, 2013 The praise Fan song in disguise. Lady Gaga Husband. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keanefar 1,007 Posted July 28, 2013 This isn't exactly contributing to the thread, but has anyone else ever noticed that once you started listening to Lana, any other artist you used to listen to or now hear has really "inferior" lyrics? Maybe that's just me. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COLACNT 5,177 Posted July 28, 2013 take another drag turn me to ashes its nice to love and be loved but its better to know what god knows jerry says that anytime i think i have a good idea that i should do the opposite of what it is i feel and thats because i have a bad mind and i have gold in my veins but he says i got the purest heart that he's ever seen what god give me a brain for if he won't let me use it what god give me a plan for he never helps me do it you're gonna love me i'm gonna make you she prays the rosary for my broken mind baby, i have become someone not of this world you got the world, but baby at what price something so strange, so hard to define its a love story for the new age, for the six page want a quick, sick rampage? wining and dining, drinking and driving excessive buying, overdose and dying on our drugs and our love and our dreams and our rage blurring the lines between real and the fake my pussy tastes like pepsi cola 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creyk 11,674 Posted July 28, 2013 This isn't exactly contributing to the thread, but has anyone else ever noticed that once you started listening to Lana, any other artist you used to listen to or now hear has really "inferior" lyrics? Maybe that's just me. I think you can only feel like that when you forget about songs like delicious or summer of Sam But yeah I see where you are coming from, her released material is so pretty and eloquent. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keanefar 1,007 Posted July 28, 2013 I think you can only feel like that when you forget about songs like delicious or summer of Sam But yeah I see where you are coming from, her released material is so pretty and eloquent. *ignores Delicious* hey, SoS isn't bad lyrically 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creyk 11,674 Posted July 28, 2013 *ignores Delicious* hey, SoS isn't bad lyrically I think it's mediocre only because of the "I am the baddest girl in NYC You can look but please don't touch boy Stay away from me" parts. Like, the bad girl card is such a cliche. But other than that the other lyrics are real nice 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adrift 4,813 Posted July 28, 2013 "Life is death when blow is life." "Sometimes I get lonely, millions can hold me now." "When I was sleeping without you, haunted by the baddest dreams; At last, you're beside me, I have you smiling in your sleep, pillow talk to me." " Sun will rise, I'm a supernova; I walk on water and I dance like Joplin. When the night descends, I dive into the waves again." "Are you gonna be my lover, are we gonna be true love suicide? It's either live or die, boy." 4 Quote X----into me, into you----X Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ednafrau 836 Posted July 28, 2013 Posted 24 July 2013 - 08:22 PM TrailerParkDarling, on 24 Jul 2013 - 5:19 PM, said: I don't think lyrics have to be really complicated or profound to be considered "good" .. I mean that varies from person to person anyway and I think when they are combined with Lana's voice+ how she emotes them + production, etc. it just works Trash Magic, on 24 Jul 2013 - 5:56 PM, said: Yes! I think even just phrases, like a few words strung together can be better and more effective than whole lines of songs. for example "Easy rider" in AFFA resonates with me, there's so many more like "heavy metal lions", "prostitute stare", "Velvet crowbar" too. Even something so simple as "I do what I like... I just don't care" in Disco. The way she says it. Such a poet Yes exactly! But I didn't wanna just write "prostitute stare", "heroin fiend", "midnight answer", "I'm bereaved by you"... Didn't seem to fit the question All of this! I think there are eloquent ways of saying things in a very personal way, that become poetic in that context. I love that Lana's lyrics paint a singular world of her own: they reflect her unique experiences, her interpretations of what she's lived and fantasized, her re-creation of her reality, as well as her dreams and desires, often paying homage to the artistic and thematic influences that colored her subjectivity. Her initial detractors never could have predicted that this slightly strange, uncommon, shamelessly personal - and, on the surface, unrelatable - perspective would appeal to the general public. I guess it's as Tolstoi once said: "Describe your village and you will be universal." Most of my favorite lyrics have been mentioned, but I didn't see this line: "Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why." Simple but very real! 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lanareydelmar 86 Posted August 14, 2013 "Hello Heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night" "The voice of Nirvana says come as you are, and I will" "Make it fun, don't trust anyone" "Heaven is a place on Earth with you" "Everything is fine, but I wish I was dead" "No one lives forever, but that's no reason to give up" "Don't you know that I have really never loved nobody, but you?" ...and so on 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StationToStation 249 Posted August 14, 2013 ''Life is death when blow is life'' Just the tune she says it and just the meaning behind it makes me really love the song and the lyric 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Divisive Princess 3,754 Posted August 15, 2013 I hope you remember me like this, smokin' cigarettes in my sundress. / I hope I remember you just like that, looking fresh to death in your ball cap. So many more but I'm lazy. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seraphinej 13 Posted August 15, 2013 "HEAVEN IS MY BABY SUICIDES HER FATHER" "It's the voodoo, Mississippi south 69 million stars Birds are flying out of my mouth Spirits creeping in my yard" "Scowling like the sunshine over Sarasota Happy like a twister over Oklahoma" "Got my bad baby by my heavenly side" (and the rest of summertime sadness) "Red, white, blues in the sky, summer's in the air and baby heaven's in your eyes." "Keep out the stars, turn out the lights, this little world is yours tonight" "In the light, you're sickeningly beautiful" "I am my only God" "You're screwed up and brilliant, look like a million dollar man, so why is my heart broke?" Um and all of off to the races and trash and carmen and tired of singing the blues and pawn shop blues and pretty much all her other songs too ok bye 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
my ol man isa batman 480 Posted August 15, 2013 fuck you attitude 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lanareydelmar 86 Posted August 15, 2013 "Don't fuck with me" 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creyk 11,674 Posted August 15, 2013 "Don't fuck with me" tbh 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites