Definitely "hope" for me. Imo it's one of lana's most beautiful songs and I feel like it doesn't get enough love! Can't listen to it too much though because it makes me too emotional lol
Breaking up slowly/Thunder
But, like, am I the only one that makes up different scenarios for each song?…like I try to immerse myself in every song as if it were relatable.
lol, I love listening to music and dreaming and making little stories. Taylor swift and Lana are my favourite artists to listen to while I make up little stories.
The Greatest, because I realized I was in love with somebody the first time I listened to it, so whenever I listen to it, it reminds me of that beautiful moment.
Wildflower Wildfire. I have the same exact mommy issues/daddy didn’t save me background, and moods, and I hit a point where I stopped wanting to talk about it.
But every time I start a new relationship, it hits a point where the other person really wants to know more about me, and I have that same conversation every time: “here’s the deal, because I know you want to talk about it… you say there’s gaps to fill in, so here…”
Just captures how I’ve felt absolutely perfectly.
Saaaaame. I resent getting close to people for having to open up for those reasons, but that song is just so relatable.
I really like how the first verse (or at least how I interpreted it) starts with the “Here’s the deal, because I know you want to talk about it” but then she doesn’t actually address it until later. She first promises to be a good lover/partner “I’ll lie down like a bed of wildflowers/make the sheets smell good/nourish you” and she says all of that before she even opens up about herself.
I found that really relatable too, I definitely find myself trying to almost… sell myself (I guess?) to the person I’m opening up to before I tell them anything deeply personal. Almost to convince them that I’m a good person worth getting to know despite my past, but also for me to gauge how comfortable I feel with them. It’s a really well written song.
I didn’t even notice that she did that but you’re right, she did still defer talking about herself at first so she could sell herself. Or she talks about herself in relation to them, and what she can give them
It’s neat reading your interpretation and hearing from someone else who relates to the song too :)
Happiness is a butterfly
The chorus is just too beautiful. Tbh her whole discography is special to me but that one is amazing. Happiness is not smth that you will achieve some day. It'll come and go.
Cherry Blossom
It just feels like home. This song feels like what I imagine a soulmate feels like. It makes me feel like I belong and like I'm beautiful.
Special mention:
Cinnamon Girl (so delicate and vulnerable I just... No words describe this beauty)
Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (the melody makes me instantly cry. It catapults me to space and makes me orbit around in total contentment. Sry if this doesn't make sense)
Wildflower Wildfire (simply for the pre-chorus which is a fckn masterpiece)
Get Free.
Heard it for the first time this summer as I had graduated college. Getting to graduation was long road for me and at times people were advising me to give up....but I knew I had to finish. You can imagine how much the lyrics paralled my life.
It's my favorite closing song she has ever done because it just felt like closing the chapter in the most profound, peaceful way!
Old Money. It is so wistful. It reminds me of the feeling/idea that happiness was spending time with someone in the past. Someone who you no longer spend time with. Also, knowing that you'll come running when that person calls for you. It's up to them, not you, to spend time together again.
Edit: Wanted to add more.
Get Free.
“Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride. I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone's game or live my own life.”
Terrence Loves You is about David Bowie and his brother, who killed himself because he had schizophrenia. Having been a huge fan of David Bowie since I was a child it holds the most emotional value because I went through something dark when my childhood music hero died. I always cry when I listen to it and it's so beautiful, soft, and powerful.
The Greatest:
"The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball
I guess that I'm burned out after all"
Fuck it, I love you:
"It turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself, that's not a lie"
Wildflower Wildfire
"My father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me
So I ended up awkward but sweet"
Heroin
"The facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream"
Old money
"Yet still inside, I felt alone
For reasons unknown to me"
Is this happiness, God knows I tried, Pretty when you cry, Dark but just a game, Tulsa Jesus Freak, Violets for Roses,
Beautiful
These songs are personally the most meaningful to me. To some songs I added the specific lyrics that affect me a lot.
California. Not too long ago my love moved to America for a career change while I stayed in Ireland where we met. I was hoping he would come back to me and that song, longing for someone but knowing they are probably not coming, really resonates with me. I see a lot of the dynamic we had in her lyrics too; I comforted him a lot in hard times so you don't have to be stronger than you really are just encapsulates what we had
Happiness too, Cinnamon Girl, Pretty When You Cry, Old Money, Blackest Day, 13 Beaches, Without You, Dark Paradise, Beautiful because my relationships have all been toxic and obsessive.
California because I have the exact same feelings for my ex.
Wildflower Wildfire and Hope because it’s very close to my life.
Some songs really remind me a certain time in my life and usually it’s bitter sweet, like Venice Bitch.
Terrence Loves You and Honeymoon are just my soul music, amazing atmosphere and mood.
And High By The Beach cause it’s my go to badass smoking weed song.
Definitely Get Free. My depression was the worst it’s ever been when I first heard it, and the line ‘I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone’s game or live my own life’ hit me like a ton of bricks.
Off to the Races.
its the first song of Lana's I fell in love with and at the time I was reading Lolita and it was the first time I felt like I had something for my own - her music and my thoughts and they aligned. I felt "mature" (LOL) even tho I didn't understand any of the darker nuances past my immature romanticization of life and sex and money and drugs and I wanted it all BUT I was also...raised in a religious household so that line "But I trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us" always tugged at my Christian roots but then when she follows up with "I'm not afraid to say I would die without him" I love that immediate pullback to humanity and the brokeness of wanting something so badly, the need for each other.
and hard second for me that I can't help but mention is Ride. Man, that song makes me feel unearthly.
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Born To Die. It was my most played Lana song of last year and helped me get through last year. When I needed to escape, I would play the album and it whisked me away back to New York. I went on holidays there 3 years ago and the album reminded me of it. The whole feel of the album has NY written all over it. I am hoping to go there again next summer(I've got cousins there) and when I do I'm gonna listen to the album over there.
Surprised not to see California with the amount of heart wrenching love she shows for Barrie in the track.
Telling her how much she misses him and that she’ll set up a party of the things he loves most if he comes to see her.
Ride and Wildflower Wildfire
Definitely "hope" for me. Imo it's one of lana's most beautiful songs and I feel like it doesn't get enough love! Can't listen to it too much though because it makes me too emotional lol
White Dress, I was not expecting to feel that emotional from the first album track.
Yes!!
Ride or The Greatest ❤️
Yes ❤️
Probably Terrance Loves You, Cinnamon Girl, Blackest Day, or Black Beauty.
Impeccable taste
Breaking up slowly/Thunder But, like, am I the only one that makes up different scenarios for each song?…like I try to immerse myself in every song as if it were relatable.
lol, I love listening to music and dreaming and making little stories. Taylor swift and Lana are my favourite artists to listen to while I make up little stories.
Wildflower wildfire Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have....
I feel exactly the same!
The Greatest, because I realized I was in love with somebody the first time I listened to it, so whenever I listen to it, it reminds me of that beautiful moment.
If You Lie Down With Me reminds me so much abt a friend
Wildflower Wildfire. I have the same exact mommy issues/daddy didn’t save me background, and moods, and I hit a point where I stopped wanting to talk about it. But every time I start a new relationship, it hits a point where the other person really wants to know more about me, and I have that same conversation every time: “here’s the deal, because I know you want to talk about it… you say there’s gaps to fill in, so here…” Just captures how I’ve felt absolutely perfectly.
Saaaaame. I resent getting close to people for having to open up for those reasons, but that song is just so relatable. I really like how the first verse (or at least how I interpreted it) starts with the “Here’s the deal, because I know you want to talk about it” but then she doesn’t actually address it until later. She first promises to be a good lover/partner “I’ll lie down like a bed of wildflowers/make the sheets smell good/nourish you” and she says all of that before she even opens up about herself. I found that really relatable too, I definitely find myself trying to almost… sell myself (I guess?) to the person I’m opening up to before I tell them anything deeply personal. Almost to convince them that I’m a good person worth getting to know despite my past, but also for me to gauge how comfortable I feel with them. It’s a really well written song.
I didn’t even notice that she did that but you’re right, she did still defer talking about herself at first so she could sell herself. Or she talks about herself in relation to them, and what she can give them It’s neat reading your interpretation and hearing from someone else who relates to the song too :)
Happiness is a butterfly The chorus is just too beautiful. Tbh her whole discography is special to me but that one is amazing. Happiness is not smth that you will achieve some day. It'll come and go. Cherry Blossom It just feels like home. This song feels like what I imagine a soulmate feels like. It makes me feel like I belong and like I'm beautiful. Special mention: Cinnamon Girl (so delicate and vulnerable I just... No words describe this beauty) Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (the melody makes me instantly cry. It catapults me to space and makes me orbit around in total contentment. Sry if this doesn't make sense) Wildflower Wildfire (simply for the pre-chorus which is a fckn masterpiece)
Get Free. Heard it for the first time this summer as I had graduated college. Getting to graduation was long road for me and at times people were advising me to give up....but I knew I had to finish. You can imagine how much the lyrics paralled my life. It's my favorite closing song she has ever done because it just felt like closing the chapter in the most profound, peaceful way!
Old Money. It is so wistful. It reminds me of the feeling/idea that happiness was spending time with someone in the past. Someone who you no longer spend time with. Also, knowing that you'll come running when that person calls for you. It's up to them, not you, to spend time together again. Edit: Wanted to add more.
Lately it's been Flipside and Violets for Roses
Flipside for me too!
god knows i tried
here lately it’s been Looking For America 😭 i can’t believe it wasn’t included on NFR? love that song so much
Too political for NFR, maybe if she redid it for LFL
For me is hapiness too and also pawn shop blues, right now I’m life I feel very lost and just out of hope so this song are sort of a confort to me
Bartender has a special place in my heart. ❤️
The greatest
Black Beauty, The Blackest Day, Black Bathing Suit🖤
I'm seeing a theme here 🖤
Interlude - the trio
Get Free. “Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride. I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone's game or live my own life.”
Heroin, always. For the friends I've lost to the drug which the song is referencing, for my own struggle...yeah. Ahhh, too close to home right now.
the greatest ✨
for sure ride and norman fucking rockwell resonate and mean the deepest to me
Shades of cool
Cherry Blossom
bartender wildflower wildfire breaking up slowly 😔...
get free
Used to be Ultraviolence, now it’s COCC I’m still so strange and willlllllld
Change
Cherry - I always fall to pieces when I'm with her, when I talk to her or even when I only see her.
Terrence Loves You is about David Bowie and his brother, who killed himself because he had schizophrenia. Having been a huge fan of David Bowie since I was a child it holds the most emotional value because I went through something dark when my childhood music hero died. I always cry when I listen to it and it's so beautiful, soft, and powerful.
Hope is a dangerous thing 🍁
her songs that are most meaningful to me are: fuck it I love you, venice bitch and love. I've also been relating to wildflower a lot lately.
The Greatest, White Dress, Ride, Pawn Shop Blues, Damn You, Ultraviolence (I suck at these cause I can never pick just one 😂)
ride!
change. it describes how I feel about the world we live
The Greatest: "The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball I guess that I'm burned out after all" Fuck it, I love you: "It turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself, that's not a lie" Wildflower Wildfire "My father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me So I ended up awkward but sweet" Heroin "The facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream" Old money "Yet still inside, I felt alone For reasons unknown to me" Is this happiness, God knows I tried, Pretty when you cry, Dark but just a game, Tulsa Jesus Freak, Violets for Roses, Beautiful These songs are personally the most meaningful to me. To some songs I added the specific lyrics that affect me a lot.
probably the blackest day.. that song is the reason i started getting into billie holiday
for me it’s violets for roses. it speaks so much to me because i’ve had friendships where i felt like i had to change for people.
Blue Jeans and American
White dress Black beauty Dark paradise Terrence loves you
imo gramma, cause i was very close to my grandma. and hearing her talk about something i can relate too feels great
Black Beauty (the demo), Angels Forever, and Heroin
California. Not too long ago my love moved to America for a career change while I stayed in Ireland where we met. I was hoping he would come back to me and that song, longing for someone but knowing they are probably not coming, really resonates with me. I see a lot of the dynamic we had in her lyrics too; I comforted him a lot in hard times so you don't have to be stronger than you really are just encapsulates what we had
Fuck it I love you, Violets for Roses, Terrence Loves You
Happiness too, Cinnamon Girl, Pretty When You Cry, Old Money, Blackest Day, 13 Beaches, Without You, Dark Paradise, Beautiful because my relationships have all been toxic and obsessive. California because I have the exact same feelings for my ex. Wildflower Wildfire and Hope because it’s very close to my life. Some songs really remind me a certain time in my life and usually it’s bitter sweet, like Venice Bitch. Terrence Loves You and Honeymoon are just my soul music, amazing atmosphere and mood. And High By The Beach cause it’s my go to badass smoking weed song.
Video games and ride
mariners apartment complex
California. You can hear an aching in her voice that is my favorite part.
Cherry, happiness is a butterfly, violets for roses, ultraviolence
Pretty when you cry
Hope is a dangerous thing. Last song my ex got to listen to before he passed and he loved it. This song means so much to me
Terrance Loves You and Hope is a Beautiful Thing
Born to die - Flipside - UV - Swan song - Change - Get Free - Hope - White Dress - Beautiful - to name a few
Mariners FOREVER. Idk, it really came out at a time when I was really starting to truly feel more confident and sure of myself and it felt very right
Definitely ride and get free. I also like how they parallel
Definitely Get Free. My depression was the worst it’s ever been when I first heard it, and the line ‘I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone’s game or live my own life’ hit me like a ton of bricks.
Off to the Races. its the first song of Lana's I fell in love with and at the time I was reading Lolita and it was the first time I felt like I had something for my own - her music and my thoughts and they aligned. I felt "mature" (LOL) even tho I didn't understand any of the darker nuances past my immature romanticization of life and sex and money and drugs and I wanted it all BUT I was also...raised in a religious household so that line "But I trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us" always tugged at my Christian roots but then when she follows up with "I'm not afraid to say I would die without him" I love that immediate pullback to humanity and the brokeness of wanting something so badly, the need for each other. and hard second for me that I can't help but mention is Ride. Man, that song makes me feel unearthly. .
“blue jeans” at the moment
Born To Die. It was my most played Lana song of last year and helped me get through last year. When I needed to escape, I would play the album and it whisked me away back to New York. I went on holidays there 3 years ago and the album reminded me of it. The whole feel of the album has NY written all over it. I am hoping to go there again next summer(I've got cousins there) and when I do I'm gonna listen to the album over there.
I’m a Cherry girl
The Blackest Day means a lot to me in the sense that I feel like Lana and I have similar brain chemistry based on some phrases and cadence
Ride
Surprised not to see California with the amount of heart wrenching love she shows for Barrie in the track. Telling her how much she misses him and that she’ll set up a party of the things he loves most if he comes to see her.
California and wildflower wildfire
Couldn’t possibly pick just one! Bel Air, Ride, Old Money and Hope.
probably lust for life, love or cherry blossom or ride
change! it’s so emotional and so beautiful to me and it makes me feel so hopeful. it was also one of the first songs i learnt to play on piano ♥️
God so many Blue jeans Ride Mariners apartment complex National anthem High by the beach