LANALYSIS: Relating Songs To Known/Assumed Relationships

[CALIFORNIA DRIVE 265]

Sorry for being so clueless but can someone give me some insights about this Rob guy?

[99centlips 8,526]

Sorry for being so clueless but can someone give me some insights about this Rob guy?

Check my post on the Shiny Toy Guns thread

[Peachycream 3,648]

Check my post on the Shiny Toy Guns thread

Do you have the link by chance? I'd like to read it but i can't seem to find it (even through the search bar )

 

Edit:

Nevermind i found it. Didn’t realize i posted in there and liked your post sorry

[HollywoodHills 452]

K = King

[WildMustang 14,774]

K = King

Rey=king in Spanish

And previously Lana del Ray

So Ray=K

(We changed our names to Lana and Ray -Wayamaya)

illuminati confirmed

[HollywoodHills 452]

Rey=king in Spanish

And previously Lana del Ray

So Ray=K

(We changed our names to Lana and Ray -Wayamaya)

illuminati confirmed

 

I don't think Ray existed. I honestly just think she likes the name. Most of the things she's written about I'm pretty sure are fictional, including the concept behind her chosen name. I don't really like the idea of referring to the guy as Ray if he did exist either. We still don't know who she's actually singing about if that was the case.

[WildMustang 14,774]

I don't think Ray existed.

Im pretty sure he did

i remember Lisandro talking about him but Im not sure

[HollywoodHills 452]

Im pretty sure he did

i remember Lisandro talking about him but Im not sure

 

Who?

Some people literally do think K is just the first letter of somebody's name, that's why I posted initially btw lmao

[WildMustang 14,774]

Who?

The person who leaked her old photos recently if you remember

[HollywoodHills 452]

The person who leaked her old photos recently if you remember

 

Oh yeah. I've never remembered who leaked anything haha

[NamiraWilhelm 5,050]

edit

[kitschesque 9,884]

Did they all have a lesbian foursome and Naomi/Nicole photograph an intimate moment of “Alpha Females?

 

 

[cherryblossoms 10,433]

Wait.

I know she started writing Dark Paradise before Rob's death but I think she actually may have adjusted the lyrics to be about it. The song started out a lot different thematically.

 

First Demo, produced by Bjorn Yttling at Cutting Room Studios in September 2011

"I got the ice, you got the fire I got the stuff to take you higher

That's how you played it

I got the brains, you got the money This is a race, let's go fast, honey

That's how you played it

 

C'mon, pretty baby, I'll be takin' you down

They say you got crazy like all over town"

 

Version performed in September 2011 at the Glasslands

"That's why I stay here

Everybody told me I was falling in love

I said, you would fall too if you knew what I was dreaming of

Everybody told me I was stupid because you were bad, you were wrong and I knew it"

 

She doesn't explicitly mention anything about the person no longer being alive other than the chorus ("I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side") but it probably didn't have any real life connections when she wrote it. These are the verses of the second demo and the album version which features entirely new lyrics.

 

"All my friends tell me I should move on

I'm lyin' in the ocean singin' your song

That's how you sang it

 

Loving you forever can't be wrong

Even though you're not here, won't move on

That's how you played it

 

And there's no remedy for memory

Your face is like a melody, it won't leave my head

Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine

But I wish I was dead (dead like you)"

 

BTD was released in January the following year and I believe Rob passed in December so if my guesses are correct, the second demo was probably written and produced in December as well. I'm assuming it was produced by Rick because he has writing credits for the song and the first demo was confirmed to be produced by Bjorn. Rick also said that they wrote Dark Paradise in between takes but I'm thinking they only wrote the new verses together and just reused the chorus from the earlier demos. This could be entirely wrong but that's just my two cents.

[Wynwood 19,967]

I'm convinced every song but salvatore is about Rob

[99centlips 8,526]

I'm convinced every song but salvatore is about Rob

Gosh I’m starting to think this too...besides the ones that are clearly about Barrie

 

What what about the record executive she was with for 7 years?!

[softcore babyface 4,377]

I'm convinced every song but salvatore is about Rob

I think 80% are about Rob, 5% about that record executive ( I mean lines like 'Record executive I need you to live' make it pretty obvi) I think the other 15% is about whatever and probably her english teacher she had a thing for, also her more current relationships.

Gosh I’m starting to think this too...besides the ones that are clearly about Barrie

 

What what about the record executive she was with for 7 years?!

Songs like Axl Rose Husband are about the record executive. I even think songs like Put Me in a Movie, Cola, Fucked My Way Up to the top, where inspired by him to some degree. I think the more romantic songs were about Rob.

[CALIFORNIA DRIVE 265]

I don't think Ray existed. I honestly just think she likes the name. Most of the things she's written about I'm pretty sure are fictional, including the concept behind her chosen name. I don't really like the idea of referring to the guy as Ray if he did exist either. We still don't know who she's actually singing about if that was the case.

 

didnt lana used that name because of arthur? https://angiescreams.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/lana-and-ray/ 

[Peachycream 3,648]

didnt lana used that name because of arthur? https://angiescreams.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/lana-and-ray/ 

Oh wow

[fl0ridakil0s 3,960]

didnt lana used that name because of arthur? https://angiescreams.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/lana-and-ray/ 

 

sorry, I'm not totally into Lana's past - what is this blog?

[CALIFORNIA DRIVE 265]

sorry, I'm not totally into Lana's past - what is this blog?

thats arthur lynns blog, he was a guitar player in the phenomena, a band where lana singed for a brief time