anyway "miss america with the blue mascara on" is a wonderfully delivered line
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 29 April 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
BTD could have been so much better, considering what else she had to work with. Some of the creative choices seem so bizarre or rushed to me... like how the first line of "Born to Die" and "Radio" have very similar lyrics and the same melody; or the phrase "take (your/that) body downtown" being used in two different songs. And "This is What Makes Us Girls" is such a bizarre choice to end the standard edition - it feels so random and abrupt as a final song (the bonus tracks obv improve the landing).
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Saturday, 29 April 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
I also think it's funny how, for an album (and artist) so heavily steeped in "Americana," she pronounces the word "vitamin" (in "Radio") a way that no American has ever pronounced it – just for the sake of a (corny) rhyme.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Saturday, 29 April 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
You guys, I’m at a party where there’s a karaoke hookup – I asked the host to pull up “Let Me Love You Like a Woman,” and I did it, it was awesome and so much fun even though I sounded like ass #noragrets
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Sunday, 30 April 2023 04:44 (one year ago) link
P.S. I’m actually wearing my LDR T-shirt from hot topic
Ooh ooh!
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link
Ahah
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 30 April 2023 06:46 (one year ago) link
Just realized I'd love to hear The Magnetic Fields cover "Let Me Love You Like A Woman."
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
dang. good call.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
From "Arcadia":
I'm not from the land of the palms, so I know I can't stay hereI'm not native, butMy curves, San Gabriel all dayAnd my lips like the fire licks the bay
It strikes the listener that palm trees also aren't native to Southern California (except one variety) – instead, they were mostly planted for symbolic reasons, and to lure visitors and new residents. So the couplet sets up this inherent irony: calling SoCal the "land of the palms" (not a common phrase), and then declaring "I know I can't stay here." Plenty of other folks move to L.A., but many put down roots and stay (you know, like palm trees). It's a fascinating (and I think intentional) contradiction, in a song where Lana presents her own body as so deeply ingrained with the local landscape that it's a kind of living figuration of it (literally, "a map of L.A.") – but then she skips town at the end, because ppl got mad at her Instagram posts or whatever.
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 04:33 (eleven months ago) link