PROOF: Lana is a great songwriter

[lazybooklet 575]

Good lyric has to go with good melody as well and Honeymoon the song achieved this.

 

Daaaaaaaaaaaark blue

 

[xAlex 56]

I think For K Part 2 is beautiful brilliant poetry!

[Crimson and Clover 22,505]

I don't think American is that bad, at least compared to Honeymoon.

[slang 1,532]

Go Go Dancer has really excellent lyrics. I mean it has imagery, eroticism, character, and multiple character perspectives. The "My Daddy is Rich" line and the Larcombe production have always suggested to me that it was written in the BTD era, as LDR is inclined to use criticism creatively in her songs (FMWUTTT, MPG). In another post (somewhere) I compared GGD to Nabokov. In yet another post I compared TIWMUG and NA to Bob Dylan. It's something about the wordiness and wry humor of the songs, maybe also in the execution. "Drinking on the job.... with the boss" gets me every time. Last Girl on Earth has some excellent name dropping and hyperbole. How that one was never released is probably the biggest enigma for me.

[May 13,311]

Why Crooked Cop and Hurricane aren´t in Amazing lyrics?

 

sis that's a Halsey song...

 

[plush 656]

at first glance I was a bit offended, but then I realized that every song in her "best" category is actually true, I see a lot of my faves

[leenb 35]

OTTR is a masterpiece. 

I love Gods & Monsters, Is This Happiness and Old Money. 

Although I think Diet Mountain Dew is okay, I love the line 'Let's take Jesus off the dashboard, got enough on his mind'
 

[Creyk 11,699]

Why would you put Burning Desire to bad lyrics like what even....

[BlueJeans 2,608]

Okay, let's talk about "Diet Mtn Dew" 

 

"Diet mountain dew, baby, New York City

Never was there ever a girl so pretty
Do you think we’ll be in love forever?
Do you think we’ll be in love"

 

I just love the way that she starts with the simple (most random) things in life, as a trampoline to deeper questions. And the melody is just beautiful.

 

The verses are all one thing : cute and dreamy and hopeful and melancholic. All in one. 

 

And what about this : 

 

Baby stoppin’ at seven eleven

There in his white Pontiac heaven
Do you think we’ll be in love forever?
Do you think we’ll be in love?

 

 

I mean, the flow on the first two lines is so good, and right after that moment where the song just floats in mid air for a couple of seconds...

If you prefer the demo versions, that's perfectly fine, they're great ! I fell in love with the one she posted on her YT account, with that picture of her, with the rose crown on her blond hair ... Such a throwback. 

 

(As a bonus : )

 

Hit me and tell me you're mine

I don't know why but I like it

Scary, my god, you're divine

Gimme them, gimme them dope and diamonds

 

Members of the jury, I'm done.

[delreyfreak 5,342]

Mess @ y'all forgetting JFK and Bel Air, two of Lana's best lyrical masterpieces 

[MahaMaha 1,111]

Elvis is the peak of her lyrical work

[hollywoodsdead 277]

Unfortunately English is not my first language, so I can't easily understand at first listen the lyrics and sometimes neither the sense of some of them.

 

Anyway, I think that American shouldn't be on the bad lyrics. I love the references of the American singers like Springsteen and elvis

[demiannn 83]

sis that's a Halsey song...

 

#TheImpact

[technicolor 243]

I think Waimea hasn't been mentioned yet, I love this bit:

 

I remember we came in May
And we changed our names to Lana and Ray
We'd be up 'til the sun rosé,
I'm in gold lamé, your pink floral haze

 

I think her lyrics were somewhat stronger in her unreleased songs. Waimea, The man I love, 1949, Pin up galore etc, that's my favourite style of Lana's songs. They are ofter very simple, but they still conjure these eerie atmospheres.

[ZeroZero 2,225]

DISCO I AM MY ONLY GOD

[Chiunzhan 1,475]

Subjective…..