Lana's Songs That You Have Misinterpreted

[Embach 40,910]

We can use that thread for music videos too!

 

In this scene:

 

When I watched this music video for the first time, I thought she was wearing a leather jacket and a light teal tulle/tutu skirt and she was leaning against a piano. 

 

After few rewatches, I was shocked when I found out that she was wearing that same black dress and she was sitting on the condructor's step/staircase/stage...

[Ultra Violet 18,850]

8 hours ago, DrunkBeautyQueen said:

"I am a dragon, you're a whore' It took me until this month to realize that dragons only ate virgins, so the line is just Lana saying this person has no use to her. 

It took me until reading this to realise 

 

She's a genius wtf?

[ImenaOphelia 9,656]

when i first saw the title "gramma (blue ribbon sparkler trailer heaven)" i thought it was probably about grammar and not her grandmother

[Dark Angel 200,982]

8 hours ago, DrunkBeautyQueen said:

"I am a dragon, you're a whore' It took me until this month to realize that dragons only ate virgins, so the line is just Lana saying this person has no use to her. 

 

 i have no words... that is so smart

[Eugene 26,662]

[Dark Angel 200,982]

i don't want to label these as "misinterpretations" but this thread is so fascinating and wild, i wait patiently and happily for @DeadAgainst's next contribution

 

 

[blackenedrussianpoetry 2,383]

6 hours ago, Embach said:

We can use that thread for music videos too!

 

In this scene:

 

When I watched this music video for the first time, I thought she was wearing a leather jacket and a light teal tulle/tutu skirt and she was leaning against a piano. 

 

After few rewatches, I was shocked when I found out that she was wearing that same black dress and she was sitting on the condructor's step/staircase/stage...

I dont/even ever know that was Lana ha

[Embach 40,910]

I used to think (I still kinda think) that California was partially about suicide because of the line: "I shouldn't have done it, but I read it in your letter". Because of the word letter, I thought she was reading a suicide note. I've read that some people have thought that too. Still the song is sad. 

[PARADIXO 32,925]

32 minutes ago, Embach said:

I used to think (I still kinda think) that California was partially about suicide because of the line: "I shouldn't have done it, but I read it in your letter". Because of the word letter, I thought she was reading a suicide note. I've read that some people have thought that too. Still the song is sad. 

 

Yeah, even if it's not about that (I never knew about that theory), California is a goddamn sad song. Actually Norman has multiple deeply sad moments expressed in a rather calm yet highly emotive way.

[Crimson and Clover 22,485]

never forget this classic

[Dark Angel 200,982]

oh say can you see very obviously describes the nighttime, but it's such a daytime song to me, the demo of oh say can you see, however, makes me think of the nighttime  

[Tana Mongeau 4,985]

I used to think Lolita was about a love story…I think that tells you about my past enough lol

[Embach 40,910]

On 7/6/2023 at 5:52 PM, Divisive Princess said:

"I am a dragon, you're a whore' It took me until this month to realize that dragons only ate virgins, so the line is just Lana saying this person has no use to her. 

This is still one of the most genius things I have ever read in my life

[evalionisameme 13,888]

I’ll always disagree with some of the lyrical analyses of fcked because it goes more with the narrative that Lana stated about lorde(there was no other woman it could have been) and the media attacking her.

 

to me that line about dragons is lorde making a judgement on Lanas lyricism and saying her music is unnecessary + this also links in with Lanas culture essay….a decade later 

Lorde- “I’m a dragon you’re a whore”

Lana- “mimicking mes a fucking bore”

[Dark Angel 200,982]

when i was younger, i didn't know that old money was an actual term that meant something, so i thought that "old money" literally referred to money, like dollar bills, that are old, it still would've worked for lana's aesthetic honestly

[Embach 40,910]

31 minutes ago, Surf Noir said:

when i was younger, i didn't know that old money was an actual term that meant something, so i thought that "old money" literally referred to money, like dollar bills, that are old, it still would've worked for lana's aesthetic honestly

Same lol, I literally imagined the same thing in my head 💀

[Embach 40,910]

There's one this I have noticed about Diet Mountain Dew demo lyrics recently and now I'm kinda confused, is it:

 

"Scary, my God, you're divine!" - this is the one I had always thought the lyric was, meaning that "omg, how scary that you're divine!"

 

Or is it:

 

"Scary? My God, you're divine!" - that's what I have seen most fans quote as and I only just noticed that recently, meaning that "omg, you're not scary, you're divine!"

[never2heaven 6,725]

4 minutes ago, Embach said:

There's one this I have noticed about Diet Mountain Dew demo lyrics recently and now I'm kinda confused, is it:

 

"Scary, my God, you're divine!" - this is the one I had always thought the lyric was, meaning that "omg, how scary that you're divine!"

 

Or is it:

 

"Scary? My God, you're divine!" - that's what I have seen most fans quote as and I only just noticed that recently, meaning that "omg, you're not scary, you're divine!"

for me i interpret as it’s scary, like a huge adrenaline rush from the violence of hurt me and tell me you’re mine, and the immediately being like into it and super attracted to them, maybe also attracted to the fact they’re into the same kind of messed up damaged love she is

 

i think that’s pretty similar to your interpretation of it too

[Rock Candy 1,730]

I'm diving into this topic like it's quicksand 

[Ultra Violet 18,850]

On 9/3/2023 at 4:13 AM, Surf Noir said:

when i was younger, i didn't know that old money was an actual term that meant something, so i thought that "old money" literally referred to money, like dollar bills, that are old, it still would've worked for lana's aesthetic honestly

Same! That's exactly what I pictured lol, and I was like "how random, it must have some meaning to Lana"