| Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song's really clearly about domestic violence in an abusive relationship; there's physical violence, emotional invalidation, power imbalance, etc. but she still adores the abuser ("He hit me and it felt like a kiss"). I doubt "Jim" is an actual person.It could just be the personification of Lana's relationship with substance abuse - which is destructive, "but felt like true love". I mean, "Comprende mis white lines" and "He used to call me DN/That stood for deadly nightshade" are about cocaine and poisonous hallucinogenic plants. (But like other people said, I totally think he could be Jim Morrison, Jim Jones, Jim Beam, or like the 70's version of the word "dude".) |
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| Bright Eyes – Padraic My Prince Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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TLDR; Just Conor feeling sorry for himself & being morbid about his lost childhood. Padraic represents the younger, happier, and more innocent person that Conor once was. His mother blames herself for not noticing Conor's early signs of depression, and blames herself. (Conor was 18 when this was released, so if Padraic drowned 'six years ago today', that would be when he was 12 and first started having problems). He thinks his unhappiness is his fault from his 'selfish and self-absorbed' choices and alcoholism. The second half of the song that begins with a flashforward suggests he thinks his vices will continue into times to come. "Watching churches on TV" might be a reference to a distance from religious salvation and his Catholic upbringing. Four years after this song was released, he refers to it again in From A Balance Beam says "It was in a foreign hotel bathtub/I baptised myself in change/And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been" - one of those people being Padraic. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Summertime Sadness Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I personally think it's about Lana Del Rey's best friend who died in a car crash when she was 13 years old. ("Cruising down the coast goin' by 99/Got my bad baby by my heavenly side/Oh if I go, I'll die happy tonight"). The 'lesbian lover' in the music video is a stand-in for her friend. | |
| Lana Del Rey – Dark Paradise Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Lana Del Rey's best friend died in a car crash when she was 13 years old. It makes sense to assume it's about a romantic interest that died, but I personally think it's about that friend. | |
| Lady GaGa – Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Basically: "You can body shame me all you want, but that's not going to take away who I am or what I do." Like most of the songs on her album, this is just a general middle finger to her critics and haters in the media. |
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