Reasons Why Honeymoon Is a Great Album

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I am still of the opinion that Honeymoon is a complete dissertation about celebrity and fame itself.

And the inner battle of Elizabeth vs. Lana as witness Elizabeth on a Hollywood tour bus going to see the homes of the stars with Lana Del Rey being one of the

stars whose home will be looked at.

 

And how a younger starlet wanted all that fame had to offer, and the world seen as Elvis and Marilyn is not all it is or was cracked up to be

 

And how as our heroine ages, the realization that it's a Faustian battle with the devil and time to get off the Yellow Brick road

 

but with a twist. and a stern warning to the press and to the ones that won't let her grow old gracefully, that she will not succumb and she will not be the people Elvis and Marilyn, and the Beatles' John Lennon ended up in real life, all the others (a short actual career as opposed to a long life)

 

Honeymoon

Music to watch Boys to  Stated before, repeated, boys=musicians in music terms

Terence

God Knows I tried

 

High by the beach  where straight out, it conveys the evilness of 24/7/365 celebrity and Lana straight out says what she wants to do

Freak now self-evident after High by the beach

 

Art Deco  (it goes without saying)

 

Burnt Norton (read the words, once again that theme of "YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN" nor will she, and to say it should have been

or will be another Lizzie or another Born to die, negates all the meaning of everything she is saying in the first place

 

Religion channels Leonard Cohen which not only her love of Leonard, but symbolicly, Leonard is quite important as he didn't flame out, but is now in his 80s and alive and relevant to today, not a voice of the past, not living off his own "Born to Die/Video Games"

 

Salvatore I will keep repeating is Elizabeth/Lana the Billboard Trailblazer who is  walking so far ahead, she occasionally (picture a Boardwalk on a hot endless summer day with a soft ice cream cone, and just when someone might have thought they caught up

with her, only to have her miles ahead, looking back and winking that to be all the way back there is not where she is, and that the only way to keep up (while she is lapping up the competition, pun intended if lap=lick soft ice cream) is to keep moving forward into time present and not go into time past to get to time future

 

24 is saying literally there are only 24 hours in a day and there is not time enough to do the things SHE wants to do,if she were to only do the things OTHERS berate her for not doing (and that includes she wants her own time to be "High by the beach" she loves, and has traveled 3000 plus miles from NY to California to see the other side of the water (Santa Monica/Mailbu) she was on at the start (Brooklyn's Coney Island)

(as Born to Die/Paradise/Ultraviolence/Honeymoon are all chapters in a story using old Americana Route 66 type Road trips getting there

 

Blackest Day has a triple meaning the most important being Lana will go on, but on her own terms, and reiterating not what people want but what SHE herself wants, and she will give the people what SHE wants to give them, but not consume and give up her life to please others because the girl is now a mature woman who sees that giving what others want, does nothing but (and this is a direct call out as is the other references in this album to both the media, and the haters that have tried to take her down and failed, and she no longer will even attempt to appease the negativity, so (as in Salvatore, that is all in the past, and the past is gone...as the trailblazer goes forth

on the Boardwalk of life and the only way for anyone who wants to follow is, to just keep following

 

and for those that don't get it

Don't let me be misunderstood, is the final word saying you just heard every word, and if you don't get it, start again listen, in a continuous loop

 

until the next chapter is written (there are no eras, only chapters in a never ending story of a life

(regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention (Elvis & Sinatra and Sid Vicious sang in "My Way"

 

(and this played out while the person whose career most is like hers, David Bowie, name change, persona change, never listening always trailblazing, died not a rock stars death, but an average, ordinary common person run of the mill death from something millions and millions people die from) and knowing his time was running short, but never stopping, never slowing down, never rushing to die by his own hand

and never flickering out

 

They couldn't have invented a more perfect award for Lana than Billboard's Trailblazer Award. It so outshines any mundane up to the minute award that people forget in the next minute.

 

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All posts need to be read whole, y'all better stop attacking the poor guy this post is really good