base talk Did Lana Del Rey just drop her saddest song ever?

[NOW]

 

Of the 100+ songs she's released over the last 10 years, imo there's something particularly different about how this one feels...

[shookspeare]

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have—but I have it would like to have a word with you 

[liver]

Get Free would like to have a word with you 

[Darius]

Happiness is a butterfly would like to have a word with you

[TheBoss]

Hope, Happiness, The Blackest Day, Blue Banisters and White Dress say hi, but the cruising song i sup there with the others

Edited December 8, 2022 by TheBoss

[suburbannature]

Black Beauty, California, Oh Say Can You See, Shades of Cool, Terrence Loves You, Old Money, Pawn Shop Blues, Yayo, Heroin, The Blackest Day

 

not to mention unreleased 

[@michael]

Heroin would like to have a word with you

[Bacardo Royale]

Ultraviolence sweetie

[Jaay]

Old Money is literally depressing 

it’s so good 

[Antisocialites]

no

[Gorjesspazze9]

It’s good, but it’s a typical Lana song ? y’all doing the most 

[Duanielipa]

I actually agree first time I feel she properly deals with the fact she’s getting older and feels more mortal and you get a sense that she’s really scared of it. A lot of her sad songs deal with a break up but this feels more existential.

[hoax]

This isn't Old Money girl 

[Venice B]

I think Black Beauty and Swan Song are sadder 

[Jaay]

Old Money is literally depressing 

it’s so good 

[Ice Cream Skies]

There’s a really good, in depth fan analysis of the lyrics:

 

She’s comparing herself to the forgotten tunnel. Her inner beauty/personality is like the "mosaic ceilings, painted tiles on the wall" of the tunnel, but no man has wanted to explore her inner beauty/personality. They suppress it instead, just like the walls that form the structure of the tunnel but are covered with the mosaic painted tiles on the inside ("Handmade beauty sealed up by two man-made walls"). 

 

No men have cared enough to actually get to know the real her. She wants to know when it's her turn for a man to actually love her for her ("When's it gonna be my turn?") The suppression and apathy around her true self causes her to lose confidence in herself, relying on sex and his supposed love to make her love herself again ("**** me to death, love me until I love myself").

 

The woman in the second verse feels like another metaphor for Lana and the tunnel. She sings Hotel California, not because she enjoys it, but because she thinks it's what men want from herand will lure them in enough to want to know her inner beauty. 

[Ice Cream Skies]

This is the tunnel she’s comparing herself to.

[James_Dean]

Girl, not when this exists 

 

[aesthetic bih]

She has so many depressing (in a good way) songs

 

Particularly, I find Video Games, Old Money, Blue Banisters very melancholic 

[aesthetic bih]

1 hour ago, @michael said:

Heroin would like to have a word with you

This too but in a more Dark kinda sad

[EdgeofTeeth]

This song is existentially sad while a lot of her other sad songs are about immediate situations/relationships. I'd say it ranks among her saddest.

[ellis-bell]

53 minutes ago, Ice Cream Skies said:

There’s a really good, in depth fan analysis of the lyrics:

 

She’s comparing herself to the forgotten tunnel. Her inner beauty/personality is like the "mosaic ceilings, painted tiles on the wall" of the tunnel, but no man has wanted to explore her inner beauty/personality. They suppress it instead, just like the walls that form the structure of the tunnel but are covered with the mosaic painted tiles on the inside ("Handmade beauty sealed up by two man-made walls"). 

 

No men have cared enough to actually get to know the real her. She wants to know when it's her turn for a man to actually love her for her ("When's it gonna be my turn?") The suppression and apathy around her true self causes her to lose confidence in herself, relying on sex and his supposed love to make her love herself again ("**** me to death, love me until I love myself").

 

The woman in the second verse feels like another metaphor for Lana and the tunnel. She sings Hotel California, not because she enjoys it, but because she thinks it's what men want from herand will lure them in enough to want to know her inner beauty. 

A very good analysis

[Roberto]

1 hour ago, Jaay said:

Old Money is literally depressing 

it’s so good 

This.

 

My father's love was always strong...yet still inside, I felt alone, for reasons unknown to me. 

[GreatCoolBright]

old money made me depressed

[charmed23]

Damn You's lyrics.

Pawn Shop Blues' melody.

 

Her saddest.