Pop Culture in Lana's Songs

[Limelight 4,707]

Queen of ARTPOP!

[SissyReed 578]

In breaking my heart Lana mentions Jean Paul Gaultier and Versace.

i'll add everything from "breaking my heart" tomorrow, thanks!

Here's a previous thread that might have some more ideas  http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5073-lana-del-rey-and-intertextuality/?hl=intertextuality

THANK YOU SO MUCH <3 i can already see that this post has so many references i have forgotten about, i'm gonna add them later

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Also, The Man I Love is actually fan-made! It's just a fan-made song from a Tumblr user with Trash Magic and TM's demo

[SissyReed 578]

Also, The Man I Love is actually fan-made! It's just a fan-made song from a Tumblr user with Trash Magic and TM's demo

OH MY GOD, REALLY?! I HAD NO IDEA! IT USED TO BE MY FAVE LONG TIME AGO... thanks for the info, but idk should i delete it from the list?

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OH MY GOD, REALLY?! I HAD NO IDEA! IT USED TO BE MY FAVE LONG TIME AGO... thanks for the info, but idk should i delete it from the list?

I think you should delete it and just put it in Trash Magic and Trash Magic (Demo). and yeah, not too many people know that. it's one of her best edits! 

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/117-trash-magic-the-man-i-love-demo/

[SissyReed 578]

I think you should delete it and just put it in Trash Magic and Trash Magic (Demo). and yeah, not too many people know that. it's one of her best edits! 

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/117-trash-magic-the-man-i-love-demo/

done! i put Trash Magic instead of The Man I Love thanks for the info :*

[CrazySister 2,239]

Bel Air - Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door ("So I run like I'm mad to heaven's door")

Cruel World - Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa's Young, Wild and Free ("Because you're young, you're wild, you're free")

Body Electric - Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot ("Drop it like it's hot in the pale moonlight") and Grand Ole Opry ("Grand Ole Opry")

Go Go Dancer - Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot ("I drop it like it's hot, on the pole, on the pole")

Ultraviolence - It could be a reference to Joni Mitchell's Woodstock or just a reference to the festival. ("We could go back to Woodstock").

Swan Song - The Art of Non-Fiction by Ayn Rand talks a little about "The White Tennis Shoes Syndrome" ("Put your white tennis shoes and follow me")

 

"Years ago I read an article in The New Yorker by a writer who described what she does in the morning before writing. What she describes is universal. When she sits down she knows she does not want to write. Here is what her subconscious does to 'save' her from that difficulty. She thinks of everything she has to do. She continues in this way until she runs out of excuses and has to start writing. But suddenly she remembers that last summer (it is now winter) she never cleaned her white tennis shoes. So she cleans them. That is why I refer to this syndrome as the 'white tennis shoes'. " 

^So relatable 

[Cashew 1,823]

I love how organised this is. Good job 

[SissyReed 578]

Bel Air - Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door ("So I run like I'm mad to heaven's door")

Cruel World - Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa's Young, Wild and Free ("Because you're young, you're wild, you're free")

Body Electric - Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot ("Drop it like it's hot in the pale moonlight") and Grand Ole Opry ("Grand Ole Opry")

Go Go Dancer - Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like It's Hot ("I drop it like it's hot, on the pole, on the pole")

Ultraviolence - It could be a reference to Joni Mitchell's Woodstock or just a reference to the festival. ("We could go back to Woodstock").

Swan Song - The Art of Non-Fiction by Ayn Rand talks a little about "The White Tennis Shoes Syndrome" ("Put your white tennis shoes and follow me")

 

^So relatable 

thank you, i'll add everything tomorrow! but isn't "young, wild and free" just a phrase often used? lana uses it in almost every song and i'm pretty sure it existed before snoop dogg lol but i may be wrong

[CrazySister 2,239]

thank you, i'll add everything tomorrow! but isn't "young, wild and free" just a phrase often used? lana uses it in almost every song and i'm pretty sure it existed before snoop dogg lol but i may be wrong

I thought it could be, but I don't know. 

[nevada darling 541]

Great thread!

 

Greenwich - Greg Kinnear (“And your leather looking like Greg Kinnear?”)

 

She actually says Ray Gillen, not Greg Kinnear

[SissyReed 578]

Great thread!

 

 

She actually says Ray Gillen, not Greg Kinnear

are you sure? most of the lyrics sites say it's Greg Kinnear but I may be wrong

and THANK YOU :*

[nevada darling 541]

are you sure? most of the lyrics sites say it's Greg Kinnear but I may be wrong

and THANK YOU :*

 

Yeah I'm sure, other people have pointed it out as well. It also makes a lot more sense that she'd write about this guy than Greg Kinnear

 

[SissyReed 578]

Yeah I'm sure, other people have pointed it out as well. It also makes a lot more sense that she'd write about this guy than Greg Kinnear

 

well now when i see his pic, it makes more sense to me as well, thanks!

[cashcomesquick 5,381]

"I was so wrong not to tell, Medellín, tangerine dreams" in Salvatore might be a reference to Pablo Escobar and his drug cartel.

 

"Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever." - Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

 

Considering the name of the album is UV, it might be possible that she chose the title "Cruel World" for the opening song since the novel itself deals with a "cruel world".

[SissyReed 578]

"I was so wrong not to tell, Medellín, tangerine dreams" in Salvatore might be a reference to Pablo Escobar and his drug cartel.

 

"Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever." - Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

 

Considering the name of the album is UV, it might be possible that she chose the title "Cruel World" for the opening song since the novel itself deals with a "cruel world".

THANK YOU <3 i'll add it in a while

[SissyReed 578]

UPDATED - "Love", "Best American Record" and "Butterflies part 2" reference I missed.

the list's gonna be updated after LDR5 premiere, I hope you'll help me with the references like the last time :kiss:

[surfnoirswing 2,483]

I love all the references in Live or Die:

"Baby, you’re my Bugsy Malone and I’m your suicide blonde" - a gangster movie

 

"You can be my Tony Montana and I can be your Pfeiffer" - from Scarface

 

"Are we gonna be Bonnie and Clyde?"

"Baby, you’re Sylvester Stallone and I can be your Adrian" - from the "Rocky" films, the two are a couple.

 

"You can be my Tommy Mottola and I can be Mariah " - the two were married in the 90s and Tommy is a very succesful music executive who "made" Mariah Carey

[Flowerbomb 65,592]

Lana's song name 'Gods and Monsters' was named after a band that musician Jeff Buckley used to be in.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley (Skip to tributes section where Lana is mentioned).

[SissyReed 578]

I love all the references in Live or Die:

"Baby, you’re my Bugsy Malone and I’m your suicide blonde" - a gangster movie

 

"You can be my Tony Montana and I can be your Pfeiffer" - from Scarface

 

"Are we gonna be Bonnie and Clyde?"

"Baby, you’re Sylvester Stallone and I can be your Adrian" - from the "Rocky" films, the two are a couple.

 

"You can be my Tommy Mottola and I can be Mariah " - the two were married in the 90s and Tommy is a very succesful music executive who "made" Mariah Carey

Darling, all those references are on the list already but thank you

Lana's song name 'Gods and Monsters' was named after a band that musician Jeff Buckley used to be in.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley (Skip to tributes section where Lana is mentioned).

Thank you I'm gonna add it later!