LANALYSIS: Relating Songs To Known/Assumed Relationships

[Valentino 885]

The "Rich Whores" leak inspired me to look for more of her early stuff and I noticed something kinda neat. Remember that list of interests from Arthur Lynn's flickr?

 

 

 

music, girls, guitars, america, diet mountain dew, van halen, ice cream, photography, jersey, angiescreams, indian summer, woods, food, freckles, the sun, the moon, seasons, amplifiers, family, friends, karma, october, yo mama, yo mama's apple pie, and those little people we call doggies

 

According to this site, this was once the biography on lizzygrant.com. We've seen most of this stuff before, about the circus and whatever, but notice one more thing.

 

 

 

Lizzy Grant was born on the day of Worldly Rapture. She is inspired by Caffeine, G-d, and David Lee Roth. She spent two years as a trapese artist in a southern California circus. She’s been married four times in 5 countries. Having shared the stage with such acts as Mirah, The Blow, and John Mayer, it’s no surprise that she’s one of the most sought after and intriguing acts to have errupted on the New York music scene. A regular friend and influence on the downtown crowd, Lizzy Grant has been named the unofficial sweetheart by hipster musicologists everywhere. A winner of the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Contest, and notorious femme fatale, she’s sweeter than yo mama’s apple pie

 

"Yo mama's apple pie?" The Arthur Lynnfluence lives on, I guess. I wouldn't be surprised if Arthur Lynn wrote that biography for her, now that I think about it. 

 

Finally, this one mystery was kind of cleared up. I wondered who the "tags & tim" listed as band members on this Sirens-era myspace page:

 

But a closer look at another myspace era page tells me they continued being her band members into the Arthur Lynn period. So they're old friends she continued playing with for a while. Kinda neat!

 

 

Continuing the Arthur Lynn info dump, I found out that "angiescreams," which was the username he used for flickr iirc, was also a band of his, and that the drummer for this band of his was also the drummer for the Rich Whores, Aaron Brooks! This band appeared to have existed from 2005 to 2009, so it overlaps with the "Rich Whores" period. I wonder if this was how Lana met Lynn? I'm especially curious about the fact that she got one of his drummers to join her band.

 

And for even more evidence that Arthur Lynn was a hugely influential boyfriend, check out the News section on that website...  "9.11.07 G-d bless America. G-d bless our troops." G-d is a pretty idiosyncratic way to spell "God," wouldn't you say? And it also shows up in that biography of Lizzy's up there! Now I really can't help but wonder if Arthur Lynn wrote that biography as a joke. Which she would be in on, of course. Or maybe their cross-pollination was so much that Lana just adopted that much of his humor, spelling, tastes, and interests.

 

Lanalysis is (barely) alive and breathing.

[evilentity 13,343]

"Yo mama's apple pie?" The Arthur Lynnfluence lives on, I guess. I wouldn't be surprised if Arthur Lynn wrote that biography for her, now that I think about it. 

 

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And for even more evidence that Arthur Lynn was a hugely influential boyfriend, check out the News section on that website...  "9.11.07 G-d bless America. G-d bless our troops." G-d is a pretty idiosyncratic way to spell "God," wouldn't you say? And it also shows up in that biography of Lizzy's up there! Now I really can't help but wonder if Arthur Lynn wrote that biography as a joke. Which she would be in on, of course. Or maybe their cross-pollination was so much that Lana just adopted that much of his humor, spelling, tastes, and interests.

Though I don't think anyone ever explicitly spelled out these specific connections before, you're definitely not the first to notice them. In fact, I'd assumed you had already noticed them before.

 

At any rate...

 

I wondered who the "tags & tim" listed as band members on this Sirens-era myspace page

Tags is Adam Tagliamonte, who seems to have leaked "Let My Hair Down" and was rumored to be the leaker's source for the Disco sessions and whatnot.

 

Continuing the Arthur Lynn info dump, I found out that "angiescreams," which was the username he used for flickr iirc, was also a band of his, and that the drummer for this band of his was also the drummer for the Rich Whores

Yeah, the Rich Whores basically seems to have been a Lizzy-fronted version of angiescreams:

Arthur Lynn was the lead singer for Angiescreams, which at least partially shared (if not completely) the same lineup as the Phenomena/Rich Whores minus Lizzy.

Another fun fact about the drummer:

Fun fact: Lizzy's 2008 Mercury Lounge performance was as an opener for Moby's side project The Little Death, and is the basis for her claim to have shared the stage with Moby. The drummer for The Little Death was also her drummer in Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena.

But a closer look at another myspace era page tells me they continued being her band members into the Arthur Lynn period. So they're old friends she continued playing with for a while. Kinda neat!

Yeah, I don't think that's really the way it happened at all. Based on the chronology of performance photos/videos/reviews and MySpace archives/screenshots, I believe the Phenomena consisted of Tags & Tim in early 2007, by mid-2007 she had chopped her hair and completely replaced Tags & Tim with the angiescreams line-up but just didn't take their names off anything, and shortly afterwards started using the name The Rich Whores. Though it should be noted:

A: While she played a number of shows with the members of The Rich Whores/The Phenomena (a large portion of which comprised the line-up of angiescreams), the July 7, 2007 Cutting Room show was the only one billed as Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena, and only on their ReverbNation page. Every other show they played and every other reference to that show billed the band as Lizzy Grant. While a Jezebel Music write-up plugging her November 14, 2007 performance at Laila Lounge references "a full band, The Rich Whores", it does not appear the band shared billing.

 

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A: Aside from the Cutting Room performance as Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena and the Highline Ballroom performance as Lana Del Rey and the Casinos, there is no evidence she ever billed herself as anything else. However, she did sing at a fundraiser with a band of Fordham University faculty members that billed themselves as Dr. N's Rhythm Review and she performed at house parties with a group of musicians that called themselves the Loveseat Collective.

 

If the YouTube account that leaked "Let My Hair Down" really was Tags, as seems to be the case, he supports this narrative in terms of never being part of a Phenomena lineup that involved Arthur Lynn or the angiescreams/Rich Whores lineup:

i have not personally worked with angie screams and did not know that band with Lady was called the rich whores, if it was. i cannot remember being introduced to these artists.

Lanalysis is (barely) alive and breathing.

Speaking of barely breathing, a later lineup of her backing band included Duncan Sheik's drummer.

[Trash Magic 28,372]

I never invested too much into "The Rich Whores" before simply because theres only like 1 page of it archived and I assumed it was just her having her way with crazy aliases. but with the rehearsal leaks I realise it was actually a legitimate thing

[Valentino 885]

Though I don't think anyone ever explicitly spelled out these specific connections before, you're definitely not the first to notice them. In fact, I'd assumed you had already noticed them before.

 

I just wanted to spell out that specific connection. Her spelling God "G-d" could've come from any source, but now there's evidence to show that came from Arthur Lynn specifically. And I remember some people being like "wtf" at her fake profile, so the fact that one of Arthur Lynn's jokes in it is interesting, at least.

 

Thanks for the info about Tags and the various connections between the bands! I don't know how you find all these things OTL.

[longtimeman 8,918]

I don't have any idea where Lizzy got it from, but that spelling of God is standard among religious Jews.

 

I just wanted to spell out that specific connection. Her spelling God "G-d" could've come from any source, but now there's evidence to show that came from Arthur Lynn specifically. And I remember some people being like "wtf" at her fake profile, so the fact that one of Arthur Lynn's jokes in it is interesting, at least.

[Slumdog 817]

So here's another Mr. Campbell dilemma. The following post mentions real but non-famous people. I don't know if I should name them or not. The problem is they've willingly put out all the information themselves, and it's not hard to find. I want to see what the ethics committee (i.e. you guys) has to say about this situation.

 

Okay, so this song, Joshy and I.

 

It leaked August 2015.

This was posted in June 2015:

So this guy says his cousin dated Lana, and that his cousin posted an instagram video backstage from a Lana concert. If you look at the instagram video, you'll see it's made by somebody called Josh. The caption: "Sometimes this happens when you ignore your gf to play World of Warcraft." Now this is a bit odd. This guy claims to be the reason Lana wrote Video Games. However, we had received "insider info"~ from the ldr.fm days (alas, I wasn't there) that the song was written about Mike Mizrahi. If you take into account that Lana said BTD, BJ, and VG are all about one guy, it gets even murkier. Here are some interviews where Lana mentions why she wrote the song (emphasis mine).[/size]

 

 

The date the song "Joshy and I" leaked with was 2011, the same year Video Games started blowing up.

 

Moreover, she said she picked the model for the BTD video based on his resemblance to a former boyfriend. Once again, hesitant to give links, but Josh's instagram shows that he is heavily tattooed.

 

So here's a crazy theory - could Josh be a guy Lana dated after Mizrahi?

 

We have a date for when Mizrahi first met Lana (January 2009 iirc) but we don't have any solid indicators of when they broke up that I know of.

 

Before Joshy and I leaked, there's a guy who says his cousin, Josh, dated Lana Del Rey (before she "became Lana"). We didn't have any clue that a Josh would be someone in the Lanaverse, so it's hard to say this is some guy BSing who happened to come up with the right name. Josh fits the description of the BTD model, who is said to be based on an ex. Could the Mizrahi relationship have ended before 2011, and could Lana have started dating Josh in 2011 (ultimately breaking up with him and then getting together with Barrie, can anyone find the earliest known reference to Lana and Barrie dating?).

 

I can't find the original tweet for the second image up there, so if anyone would like to help, that'd be swell.

EDIT: Found it. It was posted October 25, 2014. And it was directed at Josh's cousin. So this isn't every poser with a cousin named Josh coming out of the woodworks after the leak to claim he's the real Josh - this is way before Josh was even a twinkle in our eyes.

I'm almost sure that's the guy because he's friends with her and Rob on facebook and he's reminiscent of Bradley (but I could be wrong of course).

And apparently he's a gamer and has liked a Lana Del Rey song remix, although that might not be him on youtube and it's just a coincidence.

[James19709 638]

Okay but who the fuck is Benny Mason

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

This may have been mentioned before, but what do we know about Lana's relationship with Aaron Peer, who made and starred in the short film "Poolside" with her? It struck me that his character is called "Ray" in the film-- at first, I dismissed it as coincidence or perhaps creative input from Lana, but come to think of it, could Ray be a nickname for someone named Aaron? My brother's name is Aaron, and I can't help but think of the way our southern great-grandmother prounounced it-- "Ay-ron"-- which in turn reminds me of Ray.

 

This is a big stretch, of course, but perhaps it would be an interesting avenue to explore-- if Aaron Peer was indeed the "Ray" Lana has sung about (and even apparently named herself after), this could be the first step in unlocking some big mysteries. 

 

Just a thought! 

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, (and sorry for double-posting!) but has the theory ever been raised that Lana took her name from Delray Beach in Florida? We all know Florida is a favorite place of Lizzy's, and I found this article about T.R.A.F.F.I.C. that mentions that the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference was held in 2004 at Delray Beach: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/september-october.htm

This has probably been mentioned, but still thought it was pretty cool 

[TRENCH 15,450]

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, (and sorry for double-posting!) but has the theory ever been raised that Lana took her name from Delray Beach in Florida? We all know Florida is a favorite place of Lizzy's, and I found this article about T.R.A.F.F.I.C. that mentions that the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference was held in 2004 at Delray Beach: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/september-october.htm

This has probably been mentioned, but still thought it was pretty cool 

I don't think it's been mentioned much but I've wondered about this too

[Trash Magic 28,372]

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, (and sorry for double-posting!) but has the theory ever been raised that Lana took her name from Delray Beach in Florida? We all know Florida is a favorite place of Lizzy's, and I found this article about T.R.A.F.F.I.C. that mentions that the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference was held in 2004 at Delray Beach: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/september-october.htm

This has probably been mentioned, but still thought it was pretty cool 

She has given many wild reasonings behind her name but I think the most recent mention when it came up in an interview was that it was inspired by her Spanish speaking friends in Miami so yes that could have been a factor

[Wynwood 19,967]

i remember one day i was in deep thought and i came to the conclusion that Shades Of Cool was about salvatore but i forgot why so ill let yall know when i figure it all out again

[HawaiianTropic 566]

i remember one day i was in deep thought and i came to the conclusion that Shades Of Cool was about salvatore but i forgot why so ill let yall know when i figure it all out again

 

something about the shades of blue/shady blue lines possibly? 

[Valentino 885]

We're gonna listen to The Beach Boys,

We're gonna ride in the rollercoaster,

When we get high Jimmy propose,

We're in love and we are flying.

 

I'm ready for a return of the "Lana and Jimmy are secretly married!" theories.

[cheaptrailertrashglm 3,527]

this thread is everything.

 

I NEED TO KNOW WHO K IS!!

well i don't NEED to, but the mystery of him is greattttt.

 

also who the eff is Josh?!

[alexthecannibal 199]

this thread is everything.

 

I NEED TO KNOW WHO K IS!!

well i don't NEED to, but the mystery of him is greattttt.

 

also who the eff is Josh?!

 

I believe Josh is (one of the two?) people she wrote Video Games about. I feel like I remember reading about that long ago. He said something like "when you play world of warcraft instead of spending time with your girlfriend and she writes a song about it" lol. I might be confusing that with something else though.

[cheaptrailertrashglm 3,527]

I believe Josh is (one of the two?) people she wrote Video Games about. I feel like I remember reading about that long ago. He said something like "when you play world of warcraft instead of spending time with your girlfriend and she writes a song about it" lol. I might be confusing that with something else though.

oh yeah i just got done reading the entire thread haha.

someone had screenshots of his twitter and mentioned his instagram. i wanna see

 

edit: i'm coming off as a creeper haha PMing me would be cool tho

[norwegianwoodland 256]

So I was listening to TLY today (like 5 times in a row) and I was thinking about what could she be singing about/what was this song written about?

 

So here's my theory....

 

TLY is for/about K?

 

Although he isn't dead (at least to my knowledge-know that he was on death row but idk if he was actually killed)

 

"I put the radio on, hold you tight in my mind

Isn't strange that you're not here with me

But I know the light's on in the television

Trying to transmit, can you hear me?"

 

These lyrics hit me as her wanting to reach someone who isn't here or who she can't contact anymore.

 

Just a bogus little theory I thought of and I don't know if it makes sense or anything. Just a lot of the lyrics allude to a guy who had a bad reputation and she didn't mind because she loved him, she lost him, she thinks of him a lot, and she's tried to communicate with him or something. Knowing homegirls interest in philosophy and the higher powers, maybe she has actually attempted to communicate with someone who isn't here anymore lol.   

[cheaptrailertrashglm 3,527]

So I was listening to TLY today (like 5 times in a row) and I was thinking about what could she be singing about/what was this song written about?

 

So here's my theory....

 

TLY is for/about K?

 

Although he isn't dead (at least to my knowledge-know that he was on death row but idk if he was actually killed)

 

"I put the radio on, hold you tight in my mind

Isn't strange that you're not here with me

But I know the light's on in the television

Trying to transmit, can you hear me?"

 

These lyrics hit me as her wanting to reach someone who isn't here or who she can't contact anymore.

 

Just a bogus little theory I thought of and I don't know if it makes sense or anything. Just a lot of the lyrics allude to a guy who had a bad reputation and she didn't mind because she loved him, she lost him, she thinks of him a lot, and she's tried to communicate with him or something. Knowing homegirls interest in philosophy and the higher powers, maybe she has actually attempted to communicate with someone who isn't here anymore lol.   

I can see it.

using white noise is something people use to contact the dead. I believe it's used in alot of horror movies too. Poltergeist being a bit one.

"i lost myself when i lost you." seems like it could be about K.

 

my theory on K - he probably committed suicide while in prison after finding out he got sentenced to death row. people can spend YEARS or just die waiting for their execution date.

[norwegianwoodland 256]

I can see it.

using white noise is something people use to contact the dead. I believe it's used in alot of horror movies too. Poltergeist being a bit one.

"i lost myself when i lost you." seems like it could be about K.

 

my theory on K - he probably committed suicide while in prison after finding out he got sentenced to death row. people can spend YEARS or just die waiting for their execution date.

 

 I could totally see her doing that lol

 

I'm not sure what I think about K just yet....I'm sure I could research into it and find out what really happened or who he really is but who knows if the whole thing just isn't made up