Mollie's Blog: Lana Del Rey

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Showing posts with label Lana Del Rey. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Young and Beautiful

This is just so damn wonderful. Actual orchestral music, with actual instruments. These days everybody wants to be a singer but no one wants to play an instrument so this is fantastico. I haven't seen Baz Luhrmann's film yet but if the soundtrack is anything to go by it will be quite the treat.

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

-F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Lana Del Rey: National Anthem Video (ft. A$AP Rocky)

Lana Del Rey's latest video for her single National Anthem is, according to A$AP Rocky, "some cool trippy shit, some real 2015 shit".

Proceeding the famous moment in which Lana imitates Marilyn Monroe singing for the president's birthday, the instagram-style video begins in unison with the song and both Lana and A$AP Rocky depict the perfect, presidential American lifestyle of JFK and his wife. This unblemished portrayal heightens the doomed fate at the end of the video as a gunshot sounds and the underlying message of the song comes to it's climax. The lingering shot of a tattoo reading "trust no-one" is quite significant to the story of JFK, considering how Marilyn was his lover and this video comes from the perspective of his wife. The audible voice of Lana is then carried out with an instrumental that is so emotionally burdened and powerful. It's just a perfect seven minute forty piece of cinema that represents the song beautifully.

For me, I find that this video captures the meaning of the lyrics perfectly, which I never quite understood as clearly without the visuals. It also brings into light such a monumental moment in history (JFK's assassination) that maybe the 'newer generation' hadn't known about prior to this.

p.s. Am I the only one who finds A$AP Rocky quite attractive with this powerful and polished demeanour?

Monday, 7 November 2011

Video Games

Although it's a little bit of a delayed reaction in regards to a post on this, i still love this wonderful song by Lana Del Ray as much as i did the first time i heard it. There's something beautifully melancholy about her voice and i love this live rendition of Video Games. Enjoy.

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"They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. No, one man is clever, one knows no better." - Joey Bada$$, Right On Time

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"The only thing in life worth learning is humility. Shatter the ego, then dance through the perfect contradiction of life and death. It encourages you not to walk with your head down and your hands in your pockets and be closed off to life, but to be open and nonjudgmental and accessible to experience a lot of wonderful journeys within this short life of ours." - Ethan Hawke, Ash Wednesday

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"People love you when they're on your mind. A thought is love's currency." - Mac Miller, Objects In The Mirror

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"People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand." - Elvis Presley

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” - Jack Kerouac, On The Road

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"When I was five years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when i grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go" - T.S Eliot

"When the power of love overcomes the love of poer, the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix

"Do animals have less fear because they live without words?"