Lana's obsession with the clolour blue...#LANALYSIS

[NamiraWilhelm 5,050]

Well, I assumed it was because of her old love Boy Blue/Baby Blue, he still even gets a mention these days in songs like  West Coast. He's nearly as present in her memories as Jimmy is.

 

Also the fact that it's a colour and a mood she often believes herself to be in

[larina 682]

Where do I even begin? Sit back and enjoy kids:

 

TITLES

• Blue Jeans
• Blue Velvet
• Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)
• Pawn Shop Blues
• Baby Blue Love
• Tired of Singing the Blues

LYRICS

• "1949": You like my blue nail polish [...] New blue bathing suit [...] Blue LA Carte Docks
• "Birds of a Feather": Met you in front of a diner and you had blue hair
• "Black Beauty": Nothing, my sparrow blue [...] Sun and ocean blue [...] Seem so dark blue
• "Blizzard": Can't you see that I'm just feelin' blue?
• "Daddy Issues": They call you Baby Blue [...] Baby Blue. Because it’s your favorite color. Baby Blue [...] Remember how, Baby Blue
• "Driving In Cars With Boys": Miss America with the blue mascara on
• "Elvis": Sweeping scents and blue hydrangea
• "Hollywood's Dead": And you were 50s cool in blue suede shoes
• "Hundred Dollar Bill": Jimmy pulls up in his blue Chevy Nova
• "I Don't Wanna Go": In his soft leather, in his blue jeans
• "Living WIthout You": Wade into the waves until the water's blue
• "Making Out": And start listening to the way I sing the blues [...] Saw you skipping rope on TV looking blue, ooh, ah
• "Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight": Servin' coke and fries at the movie blue drive-in
• "Methamphetamines": Blue ‘50s queen, Blue Oyster Cult/Cove [...] The record spins blue '50s song
• "National Anthem": Red, white, blue is in the sky
• "On Our Way": Hot white, and blue
• "Off to the Races": Watch me in the swimming pool, bright blue ripples
• "Pin-Up Galore": American flags, blue blue streamers [...] Here's to the girl with the blue mascara
• "Queen of Disaster": Send my soul on fire and make me wild like the deep blue sea
• "Scarface": Light it up red, white and blue
• "Serial Killer": We can paint the town in blue
• "Shades of Cool": My baby lives in shades of blue. Blue eyes and jazz and attitude [...] I'm one of many, one is blue
• "This Is What Makes Us Girls": (Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice)
• "Trash Magic": Blue bedspread and silver tinsel, my heart’s delight
• "TV in Black & White": Wade into the water ‘til the waves turned blue
• "Video Games": Kissing in the blue dark
• "West Coast": That's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment, boy blue, yeah, you
• "Yayo": I like the ivy and the ink blue
• "You and Me": Blue water from the sea, hands all over me

Might've missed out on one or another

 

 

 

You have a lot of patience!

 

And she definitely likes that colour

[MahaMaha 1,112]

I've always thought of this lyric as being a metaphor for a bruise - 'I love your ultraviolent swing'; he hit Lana and turned her skin 'from black to blue', as in it went black from the punch, then a blue colour as it bruised. So it's kinda similar to thr 'hit me and felt like a kiss' line.But I might be reading too much into it.

I like that as well! Doesn't contradict what I said though, blue overshadows her whole life, sadness she got used to.

[Guest Dot]

They call you baby blue cause its your favorite colooour boy!

 

I agree with blue being associated with sadness BUT "you turn my mood from black to blue" -> black is prob deep depression and blue is actually happy but with a sad undertone.. I'm thinking of this interview:

Oh, what if BLUE stands for "sadcore"? OMG..."Ultraviolent swing"..."hit me and it felt like a kiss"..."you turn my mood from black to blue"...

 

Bruises have a kind of blue/purple/black colour. ULTRAVIOLENCE!!! :hdu: :hdu:

 

LMAO I literally just saw this

 

I've always thought of this lyric as being a metaphor for a bruise - 'I love your ultraviolent swing'; he hit Lana and turned her skin 'from black to blue', as in it went black from the punch, then a blue colour as it bruised. So it's kinda similar to thr 'hit me and felt like a kiss' line.But I might be reading too much into it.

 

Great minds think alike, HEARTCORE.

 

 

[prostitutestare 142]

This shows how transparent Lana is, and it validates the reason why I give her such praise for her songwriting. The girl is, in my opinion, a musical genius. She has so many layers, and I like that she is able to articulate it through her writing. This constant use of the word "blue." I would have never thought of it. Work, Ultraviolenc3.

[American Money 681]

Well in HDB she says "you turn my mood from black to blue"

To me, I consider black to be a color that represents a mood worse than blue. Like, not depressed, but possibly suicidal (or something equivalent). Although blue is typically associated with feeling sad, in HDB I think she considers feeling blue a hell of a lot better than feeling black. I'm not much for crazy analyzing Lana's lyrics, but I think she was implying that even though Jimmy's ultra-violent swing and the way he treated her mean (making her feel blue), was a lot better than when she was feeling nothing at all (black)

 

Does this make any sense?

[Wilde_child 490]

There is a lot of blue in Lynch's work but our favourite girl doesn't admit such an influence. I totally see a connection tho...

[larina 682]

This shows how transparent Lana is, and it validates the reason why I give her such praise for her songwriting. The girl is, in my opinion, a musical genius. She has so many layers, and I like that she is able to articulate it through her writing. This constant use of the word "blue." I would have never thought of it. Work, Ultraviolenc3.

Lana is the female, younger, songwriter version of Vladimir Nabokov!

[Wryta Thinkpiece 3,345]

What is a "clolour?"

 

[larina 682]

What is a "clolour?"

 

 

I JUST REALISED THIS!!!! I thought you were going to give us a report on what a colour is and explain that colours can represent moods and feeling and expressions, et cetera, I didn't realise that you said "clolour" and that the title of this topic was spelt like that!

:omfg2 :omfg2:

[Bae 565]

lana likes blue sonically... visually ... lyrically. Lana wants to make blue beautiful and a work of art.

[DeadAgainst 1,515]

All I can think of is ...

 

 

You wish and wish, and wish again
You've tried so hard to fly
You'll never leave your body now
You've got to wait to die

La la la la la la la la la la (x2)
La la la la la (x2)
Silly Boy Blue, silly Boy Blue

Child of Tibet, you're a gift from the sun
Reincarnation of one better man
The homeward road is long
You've left your prayers and song
Silly Boy Blue, silly Boy Blue

 

"Walk on the Wild Side" is a Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer. It was produced by David Bowie.

 

The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime

Come on take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words, this is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die

[Rayse 659]

The Black Keys' new record is called True Blue

[lanasgirl 3,800]

“I think the album was called ‘Ultraviolence’ before I even had the songs. That’s because I just really love words. I’m kind of inspired by just a one-word title. For this one, I had a motif of hydrangeas in mind. Mainly because these flowers I love are in shades of blue and violet and when I was talking to Dan [Auerbach] about inspirations and color tones, this sort of high violet vibration was on my mind. Maybe because blue is connected with jazz and also sorrow.”

 

Source: Radio.com interview

[Sebastian 327]

This is the blue I can find from Ultraviolence;

West Coast: "That's why I'm leaving you for the moment, you for the moment, boy blue, yeah, you"
Shades Of Cool: "My baby lives in shades of blue" "Blue eyes and jazz and attitude" "I'm one of many boniness blue"
Old Money: "Blue hydrangea, cold cash divine"
Guns And Roses: "See you workin' on that blue"
Black Beauty: "Nothing, my sparrow blue" "Sun and ocean blue" "Seem so dark blue"
 
Missed any?

[PinUpGaloreLana 1,399]

Maybe it's her favourite colour

[CarcrashBandicoot 760]

Maybe, hypothetically, it was one of her ex's favorite colors and maybe he says that she looked good in blue and so it reminds her of him? (Thinking of Jimmy, in particular, "Jimmy pulls up in his blue Chevy Nova")

 

She also uses "red dress" a lot, too. Maybe it's just to describe the way things were. Baby Blue might just be a shade of the color or a slight sadness, since blue means sad. Blue just might've been a color that she remembers a lot of? There's a lot of questions about her that I wish interviewers would ask, but they never do. (You can tell most of them aren't really fans...)

[Lirazel 700]

Blue = sad

Lana = sad girl 

 

if pink was sad, I'm pretty sure she would be obsessed with it.

[G4YB1RD 28]

Lana's Songs are obsessed with the color blue, and I love thinking she feels some sort of connection with that particular shade (of cool). Not only do Blue Jeans, Blue Velvet, Baby Blue Love, & Pawn Shop Blues have it in their titles, but over three songs from each of her studio albums have 'blue' somewhere in their lyrics. That's gotta mean something, right? The appearance of 'blue' in her later work is almost always used to convey a mood or feeling or atmosphere, and I'd love to know what both Lizzy and Lana think about when they use the word in their writing. What exact mood is she trying to capture and describe? Blue, I guess. Anyway, here's every mention of the word blue in Lana's studio album catalog. Enjoy and let it consume you as much as I am.

 

-b1rd

 

p.s. if literally anyone wants to tell me how the f**k to make a spoiler for each album, i'd really appreciate it

 

p.p.s. I'm also gonna do one of these for Black and maybe Gold. Should I do blue for the unreleased and AKA/Sirens? Does anyone want to help?

 

OFF TO THE RACES

"Watch me in the swimming pool

Bright blue ripples

You sittin', sippin' on your Black Cristal, oh yeah"

 

BLUE JEANS

"Blue jeans, white shirt

Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn"

 

NATIONAL ANTHEM

"Red, white, blue is in the sky

Summer's in the air, and baby heaven's in your eyes"

 

THIS IS WHAT MAKES US GIRLS

"Drinkin' in the small town firelight

(Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice)"

 

RIDE

"Singing blues has been getting old

But you can be my full time baby, hot or cold"

 

BLUE VELVET

"She wore blue velvet

Bluer than velvet was the night

Softer than satin was the light

From the stars"

 

YAYO

"I like the snake on your tattoo

I like the ivy in the ink blue"

 

 

 

 

SHADES OF COOL

"My baby lives in shades of blue

Blue eyes and jazz and attitude"

.....

"He lives for love, for women too

​I'm one of many; one is blue"

 

WEST COAST

"You for the moment, you for the moment

Boy Blue, yeah you"

 

OLD MONEY

"Blue Hydrangea, cold cash divine

Cashmere, cologne, and white sunshine"

 

​BLACK BEAUTY

"Oh, what can I do?

Nothing, my sparrow blue"

.....

"Sun and ocean blue

Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you"

.....

"Darling, you can't let everything

Seem so dark blue"

 

GUNS AND ROSES

"I can feel it coming in the air tonight

See you walking on that blue Pacific"

 

 

 

 

 

HONEYMOON

"We could cruise, to the blues

Wilshire Boulevard if we choose"

.....

"Say you want me too

Dark blue"

 

MUSIC TO WATCH BOYS TO

"Singing soft grunge just to soak up the noise

(Blue Ribbons on ice)"

 

TERRENCE LOVES YOU

"But I lost myself when I lost you

But I've still got jazz when I've got those blues"

 

GOD KNOWS I TRIED

"Sometimes I wake up in the morning

to red, blue, and yellow skies"

 

FREAK

"Flames so hot that they turned blue

Palms reflecting in your eyes like an endless summer"

......

"We could slow dance to rock music, kiss while we do it

Talk til we both turn blue"

......

"Leather black and eyes of blue (blue, blue, blue)

Sun reflecting in your eyes, like an easy rider"

 

SALVATORÉ

"All the lights in Miami begin to gleam

Ruby, blue, and green, neon too

Everything looks better from above, my king

Like aquamarine, oceans blue

......

"All the lights are sparkling for you, it seems

On the downtown scene, shady blue

Beatboxing and rapping in the summer rain

Like a boss, you sang jazz and blues"

 

THE BLACKEST DAY

"Carry me home, got my blue nail polish on

It's my favorite color and my favorite tone of song"

 

SWAN SONG

"Dive in, dive deep and dark blue, my sweet

Brushing up from the water where the ice meets"

 

 

 

 

 

LOVE

"Seen so much, you could get the blues

That don't mean that you should abuse it"

 

LUST FOR LIFE

"And he's cooler than ever

There's no more night, blue skies forever"

 

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS

"Blue is the color of the planet from the view above

Long live our reign; long live our love"

.....

"Blue is the color of the shirt of the man I love

He's hard at work, hard to the touch"

 

GET FREE

"Out of the black (out of the black)

Into the blue (into the blue)

[Lad 8,801]

You had me thinking this was a new song...

 

 

Not to be rude but this post would be an amazing contribution as a comment on the pinned post about recurring lyrical themes:

 

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/2550-recurring-lyrical-themes-and-words/page-8&do=findComment&comment=552797