The title track and opener of her fifth album eviscerates a pretentious and naïve lover (“G–d-, man-child/You act like a kid even though you stand six foot two/Self-loathing poet, resident Laurel Canyon know-it-all/You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you”) while resigning herself to living with their flaws.
You wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of Lana.
The same year the song came out, G-Eazy released a song called “Nothing Wrong,” in which he says, “Lana think I’m crazy, and I maybe am.” – Sorrell Forbesġ3: Norman F-ing Rockwell ( Norman F-ing Rockwell, 2019) As she told Complex magazine: “I must have 13 cups a day.” Many fans have claimed that the “loser” she refers to is rapper G-Eazy, who Lana is said to have dated (she flashed a “G” sign with her hand before debuting the song at the Spotify launch party for Lust For Life). – Jamie Atkinsġ4: In My Feelings ( Lust For Life, 2017)įocusing on the aftermath of a relationship, rather than being in one, “In My Feelings” finds Lana Del Rey “Sobbin’ in my cup of coffee/’Cause I fell for another loser”, before exclaiming, “You wanna make the switch/Be my guest, baby.” The lyrics reflect one of her guilty pleasures: coffee. The man in question offers to fix her “Weathervane/Give me children, take away my pain/And paint my banisters blue.” By the time the chorus comes around again, those promises have fallen by the wayside but Lana has her “sisters” to repaint those banisters. One of a number of songs on Blue Banisters that celebrates female friendship, the spectral-sounding title track appears to detail the support that Lana’s friends offer in the wake of a relationship gone awry. Lana told Interview, “It mentions wanting so much to be normal and realizing that when you have an overactive, eccentric mind, a record like Chemtrails… is just what you’re going to get.” – Jamie Atkinsġ5: Blue Banisters ( Blue Banisters, 2021)
It mirrors the enigmatic lyric, which describes scenes from a life of privilege backdropped by chemtrails (commonly associated with conspiracy theories) streaked across the sky. There’s a sense of foreboding looming as “Chemtrails…” progresses, it begins as a dreamlike and gauzy piano waltz before noise and distortion take hold and darkness creeps in. Here the New York native compares her body to LA and confirms the city’s importance to her, “In Arcadia, Arcadia/All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries/That get the blood flowing straight to the heart of me.” The sting in the tale is that Lana feels she must move on, suggesting criticism has forced a new start, “They built me up 300 feet tall just to tear me down/So I’m leavin’ with nothing but laughter, and this town/Arcadia.” – Jamie Atkinsġ6: Chemtrails Over The Country Club ( Chemtrails Over The Country Club, 2020) Arcadia describes a mythical place of refuge and simple pleasures, but it’s also a city in Los Angeles. An elegant highlight of Blue Banisters, “Arcadia” is a beautiful ballad of defiant self-love.
0 kommentar(er)
