| Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"This is not a "negative," as one commentator suggested." Excuse me, I said it had "negative undertones", which means something different. Are you saying metaphors that involve references to cancer, burning and death are completely positive? Or don't show contain sort of negative undertone, that is separate from their surface-level meaning? "Also, this is not a negative, either. In hip-hop slang, "sick" is the same thing as saying "dope" or "ill." It means that person/thing is cool/awesome." Of course "sick" is slang, that's incredibly obvious, we're not all from the 18th century. She linked it back to cancer because she's being ironic, and is probably commenting on the origin of the word. She does the same thing with "fresh to death", which is pretty paradoxical. All her compliments on him use imagery that is negative, but is reshaped into something positive. Which points to the fact that there is underlying negativity, on at least a subconscious level. Your interpretation of these lyrics are incredibly shallow. Even though I'm not a fan of Lana Del Rey, I understand that her lyrics aren't just "hip" ways of expressing that "you are the best, you're awesome!" and nothing more. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First, there's a mistake. She sings that she grew up on hip hop, not "air pop" (whatever that is). The internal rhyming between remember/december and waiting/anticipating/pacing is probably the nicest-sounding lyrical element in the song. This song has a pathetic feel to it. But in an interesting way. It's simple and is from the perspective of a subservient woman in a relationship which the man doesn't really value. Or which he can't fulfil. The song meanders in the actual emotions that she'd be feeling at the time, as though she was still in the relationship. "I will love you 'til the end of time / I would wait a million years" -- rather than bitter, or criticizing his absence. And that's why it's interesting. The way she glorifies him -- seeing him a kind of James Dean. And even seems to be worshiping the jeans that he's wearing. It's really quite sad. The comparison to him being as "sick as cancer" and making her "eyes burn" has negative undertones. And then she compares him to her "favorite sweater" -- this shows how she sees him superficially. It's hard to know whether Lana Del Rey is being ironic or just vapid. And who is he actually? He chases paper (which actually means money, not college degrees like others have suggested). He left on a Sunday, and never came back on Monday. And he's playing "the game". It sounds like he's cheating the system and doing something illegal. Whether that's stealing or drugs we can't know. But he doesn't seem able to hold a stable job. "Told you I wanted more / That's not what I had in mind" This lyric seems to refer to the break up cliche of 'you deserve more/better than me'. And maybe that's his reason for leaving her? That, or he was tired of her waiting at home for him every night like a lonely puppy. It seems like she loves him regardless of whether he's a jerk, prances around in jeans, and goes out every night and doesn't spend any time with her. So yeah, the general tone of the song is pathetic. |
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