Lana Del Rey and Intertextuality

[CherryGalore 99]

Anthony Burgess: Ultraviolence (Ultraviolence)

 

Belinda Carlisle: Heaven is a place on earth (Video Games)

 

Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys (Driving in Cars with Boys)

 

Bruce Springsteen: I'm on fire (Summertime Sadness, Body Electric)

 

Bryan Adams: We were young and wild and free // You're young, you're wild, you're free (Cruel World)

 

Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain biography): Heavier Than Heaven // Heavier than heavenly (On Our Way)

 

Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun (Driving in Cars with Boys)

 

Elvis: One for the money, two for the show (Million Dollar Man)

 

Ernest Hemingway: The sun also rises (Money, Power, Glory)

 

Funkadelic/Kanye West: Feet don't fail me now (Born to Die)

 

Gilbert Ryle: The ghost in (the) // your machine (She's Not Me)

 

Gods and Monsters (Jeff Buckley's first band): Gods and Monsters (Gods and Monsters)

 

Green Day: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Beautiful Player)

 

Guns N´Roses: Guns and roses (Guns and Roses)

 

Guns N' Roses: Sweet child of mine (Bel Air)

 

John Derek (Knock on Any Door) + True Romance: Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse // live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse (Driving in Cars with Boys)

 

John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see // Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind (Born to Die)

 

Lou Reed: Take a walk on the wild side (Born to Die)

 

Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a girl's best friend //  Diamonds are my bestest friends  (The Body Electric)

 

Nabokov: Light of my life, fire of my loins (Off to the Races)

 

Nabokov: A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames // Paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky (Angels Forever, Forever Angels)

 

Nabokov: Lolita (Lolita)

 

New Radicals: You’ve got the music in you (Westcoast)

 

Nietzsche: God's dead (Gods and Monsters)

 

Nirvana: Come as you are (Oh Say Can You See)

 

Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art (Gods and Monsters)

 

Phil Collins: I can feel it coming in the air tonight (Guns and Roses)

 

Samuel Johnson: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man // Man who makes a beast out of himself got nothing to lose (Tired of Singing the Blues)

 

Tennessee Williams: Relying on the kindness of strangers (Carmen)

 

The Beatles: (Lucy's) // Harvey's in the sky with diamonds (Cola)

 

The Crystals: He hit me and it felt like a kiss (Ultraviolence)

 

The Pogues: Queen of New York City (Old Money)

 

T-Rex: Children of the bad revolution (Children of the Bad Revolution)

 

The Who: Talking about my generation (Brooklyn Baby)

 

To Have and Have Not: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow //  You know how to whistle, don't 'cha? Just put your lips together and blow (Put Your Lips Together)

 

Tom Petty: Honey put on that party dress (American)

 

Whitman: I sing the body electric (I Sing the Body Electric)

 

Whitney Houston: Run to you (Old Money)

 

Whitney Houston: Queen of the night (Go Go Dancer)

 

Woodkid: Run, boy run (Money, Power, Glory)

 

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Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (West Coast video)

 

Erik Satie: Gymnopedie no 3 at the end of the Carmen video

[Constantine 4,072]

Live fast, die young

[James Dean 948]

Live fast, die young

James Dean

[Trash Magic 26,890]

smh at me reading this intersexuality

[Constantine 4,072]

James Dean

 

John Derek actually

[ElectrasHeart 17]

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

The sun also rises on those who fail the call

[Platinum Greenwich 13,582]

You can attribute "flame-colored paradise" from Velvet Crowbar and the various references to "flame-colored skies" in AFFA to Nabokov as well.

 

Aren't these just literary references, though? I was under the impression intertextuality was something else...

[Trash Magic 26,890]

John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found. Was blind, but now I see. (Amazing Grace)

 

Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind

[vmbb 110]

I love this thread

[dsvelca 837]

This is fun! Let's see... 

 

The Beatles: Harvey's (Lucy) in the sky with diamonds

 

Nietzsche: God's dead

 

Elvis: One for the money, two for the show

 

Sure there are more, but that's what i got off top of my head

[CherryGalore 99]

Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun

[CherryGalore 99]

Aren't these just literary references, though? I was under the impression intertextuality was something else...

 

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.^[1][2][3] An example of intertextuality is an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.

 

This is just from wikipedia. 

 

Oh yeah, that's totally right - like in Angels Forever she sings "paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky" and Nabokov writes: "A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise."

[CherryGalore 99]

Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys

[evilentity 13,303]

Ah, this fancy schmancy term is such a throwback to my college days as an English major...
 
Quick, let me go rename this thread "Is Beyoncé just a big exercise in Lana Del Rey intertextuality?"

[CherryGalore 99]

Ha! You should! 

[Philomene 927]

 

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth

 

[CherryGalore 99]

[Philomene 927]

I was born to live fast, die young
Leave a beautiful corpse

 

Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse! - John Derek

[CherryGalore 99]

I was born to live fast, die young

Leave a beautiful corpse

 

Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse! - John Derek

 

“Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!”

 

"The first quote has been slightly rearranged over the years. It comes from a 1949 movie called Knock on Any Door, starring Humphrey Bogart as a liberal-minded lawyer trying to save a young hoodlum accused of murder. The hoodlum, Pretty Boy Romano, was played by John Derek who was, indeed, one of the best- looking actors who ever stood before a camera. The exact phrase, as he said it in the movie, was: “I wanna live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.”

http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=718241

[CherryGalore 99]

“Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!”

 

"The first quote has been slightly rearranged over the years. It comes from a 1949 movie called Knock on Any Door, starring Humphrey Bogart as a liberal-minded lawyer trying to save a young hoodlum accused of murder. The hoodlum, Pretty Boy Romano, was played by John Derek who was, indeed, one of the best- looking actors who ever stood before a camera. The exact phrase, as he said it in the movie, was: “I wanna live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.”

http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=718241

Oops no, you're right - conflicting information out there