Visuals You Get From Lana Songs

[cherryblossoms 10,420]

What are some visuals that pop up in your head to certain Lana songs or lyrics?

Here’s some of mine to start!

 

 

TNBAR verses

- The ambiance during the verses gives me a kinda mystical/hypnotic feeling. Like the deep introspection you feel while looking at the stars on a clear night.

 

Yosemite

- Also hypnotic/introspective like BAR and reminds me of sitting around a bonfire and listening to stories with the above setting in mind. Kinda getting lost in your thoughts and zoning out while looking into the fire.

 

Black Bathing Suit intro

- The first few seconds of instrumental is giving me Children of the Corn/rural farm energy. It feels like it could be the background sound to a movie intro where there’s establishing shots of the exterior and the little things surrounding the farm.

 

Sad Girl intro

- The intro instrumental always gave me a very Western and badass (?) sort of feel. People kicking open the doors of a saloon in slow motion always comes to mind.

 

SYTH (James Ford Demo)

- Exactly the above. Paddling in the dark and seeing the ripples in the water from the moonlight.

SYTH (Patrick Warren Demo)

- This version kinda has an almost medieval feel to me for some reason 

The sounds effects like the cymbal/gong (?) before the chorus, the church bell ding in the bridge and the harmonica/accordion makes me think of a joust or duel

Heroin bridge

- Mostly the “oh, makes me feel like I can change” part. It’s such a satisfying climax to the buildup from the start of the bridge and an intense/shaky eclipse comes to mind visually.
 

LA Who Am I snippet lol

[pin up galore 18,997]

Cruel World's chorus is sooo suburban tornado imagery

 

Norman Fucking Rockwell's outro always makes me think of Alice drowning in her own tears 

 

I picture Cherry being Lana going slutty mental in a motel  

 

and ending with her setting it ablaze while she's inside 

[Dark Angel 202,360]

i consider myself to have synesthesia and i just have a strong imagination to begin with, so i get a lot of visuals from lana's music  

 

oh say can you see - warm, sunny, summer day with vibrant green grass and a beautiful, bright blue sky, despite the fact that the lyrics obviously depict nighttime, however, OSCYS's demo is distinctly reminiscent of nighttime to me, specifically, a silent, summer night

pin up galore - i always picture something rural and desert-like whenever i listen to pin up galore

trash magic (demo 1) - pink/mauve sunset

trash magic (demo 2) - dark blue, darker purples, it feels oceanic to me

wayamaya - a beach, light and breezy, with hints of pastel colors, specifically pastel pink

heavy hitter - new york city, amusement parks, a fuchsia sunset

live forever - i get a color from that one, almost like a root beer sort of brown? 

strangelove - a desert road at nighttime

bentley - most certainly a nighttime song but when i really pay attention to the lyrics i can picture the bright blue sky, and somebody being at the shore, sort of dream-like, elusive, ominous

coca cola - light and happy, white sunshine at a coney island-like amusement park

dance for money - green and gold, almost static-y in a way

elvis - another song that seems like a root-beer kind of brown, i've noticed that nearly every song that feels brown is specifically like a root-beer sort of color (born to die would be another one of them)

methamphetamines - hard to describe, but somehow oceanic, like being on the beach on a day where the sky's blue yet it still appears dark and dreary outside, such a dreamy and elusive song in general

neon palmmm - silhouettes of palm trees, a vast assortment of colors, like a rainbow, sort of like a VHS recording?

i talk to jesus - a weird muted shade of blue-green, yet also gray, hints of different colors like red, purple, blue, also static-y

if i die young - pink/mauve, very dream-like

lust for life (demo 1) - a muted blue/gray color, spacey and otherwordly, like glaciers floating in the sky

pink champagne - like being outside during a summer afternoon, smokey, hazy air, pale yellow sunlight peeking through trees as the sun slowly begins to set, almost like the afternoon

transitioning into twilight on the fourth of july, or a day of a barbeque, something you'll remember and one day feel yearning and nostalgic for

dark paradise - weirdly enough, it's more light, and makes me think of a beach?

radio - also root-beer brown lol

ultraviolence - a warm, darker purple with hints of some sort of gold/bronze color

old money - seafoam green, interestingly

florida kilos - vibrant green, almost neon

freak - similar to wayamaya, light and breezy, with hints of pastel pink

bartender - green grass, blue sky, hills, rabbits hopping about, eerily quiet

yosemite - a cozy cabin belonging to two people in love deep into a forest filled with evergreen trees, cloudy sky

a&w - dark, murky red, dark green, and more static-y during the second half

[cherryblossoms 10,420]

14 minutes ago, pin up galore said:

Cruel World's chorus is sooo suburban tornado imagery

 

Norman Fucking Rockwell's outro always makes me think of Alice drowning in her own tears 

 

I picture Cherry being Lana going slutty mental in a motel  

 

and ending with her setting it ablaze while she's inside 

Not while she’s inside LMAO. She’s never beating the I wish I was dead allegations I fear 

Though Cherry also makes me think of fire/burning!

[cherryblossoms 10,420]

13 minutes ago, Surf Noir said:

i consider myself to have synesthesia and i just have a strong imagination to begin with, so i get a lot of visuals from lana's music  

 

oh say can you see - warm, sunny, summer day with vibrant green grass and a beautiful, bright blue sky, despite the fact that the lyrics obviously depict nighttime, however, OSCYS's demo is distinctly reminiscent of nighttime to me, specifically, a silent, summer night

pin up galore - i always picture something rural and desert-like whenever i listen to pin up galore

trash magic (demo 1) - pink/mauve sunset

trash magic (demo 2) - dark blue, darker purples, it feels oceanic to me

wayamaya - a beach, light and breezy, with hints of pastel colors, specifically pastel pink

heavy hitter - new york city, amusement parks, a fuchsia sunset

live forever - i get a color from that one, almost like a root beer sort of brown? 

strangelove - a desert road at nighttime

bentley - most certainly a nighttime song but when i really pay attention to the lyrics i can picture the bright blue sky, and somebody being at the shore, sort of dream-like, elusive, ominous

coca cola - light and happy, white sunshine at a coney island-like amusement park

dance for money - green and gold, almost static-y in a way

elvis - another song that seems like a root-beer kind of brown, i've noticed that nearly every song that feels brown is specifically like a root-beer sort of color (born to die would be another one of them)

methamphetamines - hard to describe, but somehow oceanic, like being on the beach on a day where the sky's blue yet it still appears dark and dreary outside, such a dreamy and elusive song in general

neon palmmm - silhouettes of palm trees, a vast assortment of colors, like a rainbow, sort of like a VHS recording?

i talk to jesus - a weird muted shade of blue-green, yet also gray, hints of different colors like red, purple, blue, also static-y

if i die young - pink/mauve, very dream-like

lust for life (demo 1) - a muted blue/gray color, spacey and otherwordly, like glaciers floating in the sky

pink champagne - like being outside during a summer afternoon, smokey, hazy air, pale yellow sunlight peeking through trees as the sun slowly begins to set, almost like the afternoon

transitioning into twilight on the fourth of july, or a day of a barbeque, something you'll remember and one day feel yearning and nostalgic for

dark paradise - weirdly enough, it's more light, and makes me think of a beach?

radio - also root-beer brown lol

ultraviolence - a warm, darker purple with hints of some sort of gold/bronze color

old money - seafoam green, interestingly

florida kilos - vibrant green, almost neon

freak - similar to wayamaya, light and breezy, with hints of pastel pink

bartender - green grass, blue sky, hills, rabbits hopping about, eerily quiet

yosemite - a cozy cabin belonging to two people in love deep into a forest filled with evergreen trees, cloudy sky

a&w - dark, murky red, dark green, and more static-y during the second half

So interesting! What you described for Bartender, If I Die Young, LFL demo 1 and Neon Palm are much the exact vibes I get from those songs as well.

Radio being root bear brown though, I must pick your brain about that

[Dark Angel 202,360]

4 minutes ago, cherryblossoms said:

So interesting! What you described for Bartender, If I Die Young, LFL demo 1 and Neon Palm are much the exact vibes I get from those songs as well.

Radio being root bear brown though, I must pick your brain about that

 

honestly i don't think i've listened to radio in a while so it may not exactly be that kind of brown, i feel like songs that sound like brown just remind me of soda for some reason? like a coca-cola or root-beer color... 

[cherrytropico 11,076]

“you’re cold as ice baby, but when you’re nice baby, you’re so amazing in every way”

 

”there are roses in between my thighs, fire that surrounds you”

 

“white lines, pretty baby, tattoos. don't know what they mean, they're special just for you”

 

mermaid motel

 

high by the beach 

 

lust for life demo 

 

1949

 

st tropez

 

every man gets his wish

 

raise me up 

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[psycho lifegaurd 528]

Groupie Love gives me ethereal dream vibes!! 

 

[Mer 61,780]

On 12/16/2023 at 6:11 PM, pin up galore said:

Cruel World's chorus is sooo suburban tornado imagery

 

 

omg yes...Cruel World just always gives me suburban Florida/deep south during a hurricane--in the best way

[cherryblossoms 10,420]

On 12/16/2023 at 5:53 PM, cherrytropico said:

“you’re cold as ice baby, but when you’re nice baby, you’re so amazing in every way”

 

”there are roses in between my thighs, fire that surrounds you”

 

“white lines, pretty baby, tattoos. don't know what they mean, they're special just for you”

 

mermaid motel

 

high by the beach 

 

lust for life demo 

 

1949

 

st tropez

 

every man gets his wish

 

raise me up 

Your vision! You really summed up the vibes of Freak, Florida Kilos, LFL demo and Raise Me Up perfectly to me.

Especially that slowmo shot of Lana going down under with Bradley to that Freak verse 

[bonniewinterbottom 3,163]

Your Girl gives off My Own Private Idaho vibes asf...

[honeymooncd 3,745]

Ocean Blvd - A girl running down a hallway with mirrors all around, Kinda like an abandoned pool room? It's hard to explain, but it's all dark and eerie.

[YourGirl666 13,251]

I love how everyone evisions something completely different from each other.

[Mer 61,780]

In the woods somewhere, in the night, in the heart of the valley 

In the Sweet North Country 

[shadesofblue 15,539]

fishtail makes me visualize either diving into a cold water lake surrounded by trees during dusk and the feeling of sinking into the coldness of the water but also swimming at a water hole along a bayou surrounded by a bunch of plants with the peaceful sounds of nature like birds singing and frogs croaking.

 

 

its so interesting to see people answer the same songs differently. when listening to cruel world, i imagine walking along a foggy windy and cold beach along the pacific coast and looking out into the ocean

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