Grab your tissues 🥺 | writing Stream of Consciousness | writing a song like Lana Del Rey 

Do you have a favorite line from Fingertips?

What I got from the "They say there's irony in the music, it's a tragedy, I see nothing Greek in it" line: Lana, especially in her early discography, used to talk explicitly about heavy topics such as abusive relationships and domestic violence. I recommend you take a look at her song Ultraviolence to get a better idea. The media criticised her excessively on this, saying she was glorifying and romanticising abuse. On the other hand, some of her fans would defend her by saying her songs are stories, do not depict real life and they're just an artistic way to discuss serious topics. I think that line is basically Lana saying, "There's no 'irony' in my music, it's real, it's what I personally went through" and it is very powerful. I think women should be allowed to artistically express themselves the way they want to. It's what she was feeling at the time, most times women are not aware how bad they are treated in a relationship until they get out of it. If the music was her way of expressing and processing that trauma I think she's more than justified.

A&W would be great to cover next. It’s from the same project and was even nominated for best song at the Grammys.

I get so happy when I receive your notifications. Especially if it's Lana!

I love your interpretations, Love your Lana videos. This and Kintsugi were perhaps the saddest songs in this album. Wildfire Wildflower is another one that dives in her family dynamics, particularly her mother. I would love to hear your interpretation of "Get Free" and "Blue Banisters". Also the song "hope is a dangerous thing for me to have, but I have it" is one that I understand to some degree but theres certain parts im not quite sure I grasp.

you should check Lana's poetry book too 🫶🏻

I always thought that the neighbor was actually trying to save her from her suicide attempt

Lana fan here, you are mostly on point! The 'cocktail of things' is the antidepressant lithium, she revealed that herself. There's a minor lyric mistake: "it's said that my mind is not fit or so they said to carry a child" is the correct line. This ties back to her being on antidepressants and probably the doctors saying she is not in a fit state to carry a child. I am curious why you picked Kintsugi and this to analyze by Lana, they are very dense, extremely personal and vulnerable. She has more easier to listen, lighthearted options. Nevertheless great video!

Yes more Lana please!! A&W

I'm FASCINATED by this song, every single time that I hear it I just cant belive it exists. Im so happy you took a look in this one

I cannot stress enough how fast I click on reactions to Lana!! Let’s goooo!! Pkease react to Happiness is a butterfly and also Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but I have it.

That black cat's "step up" was smooth af ! 😅❤ PLEASE do more Lana !! Lust for Life, Honeymoon, NFR !!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!!! 💞

I feel like Lana creates so beautiful things from sorrow, the song Beautiful says it haha but It's truly amazing how deep her lyrics are. It makes me have hope that all painful experiences leave some kind of art behind

Yes! More Lana reactions please

Hi Megan, great reaction! Fun fact: this was just some voice notes she recorded for herself, and when the album and the idea of the song came out, her producer helped her to put it all together and create this beautiful song, and they barely changed any lyrics. So, the writing itself it's not awesome just for how it's written, but also because it just came in her head from different thoughts, like a freestyled diary. She's a genius. ❤️

14:50 she was also sent away to live in spain on her 16th birthday since she wasn’t getting better

ok this made me cry why so sad but so beautiful too

i think the telomere line refers to longevity escape velocity which is the point at which for every year that a person ages, medical advancements would be able to extend their life expectancy by more than one year. SO that is the ten-year mark.

your analysis is beautiful!

Love the video! What she meant by the neighboors doing a drive-by I think it's because she tried to drown and they pulled her up by her waist, since after that she says I wanted to go out like you, swim with the fishes

i think the lines about her family are saying if i survive the 10 year mark will you also be there, will you be there too, will it be worth it? this relates to the following lines about her wishing her brother to quit smoking, the worry for the babies health and her mental health struggles with her previous suicide attempt. also i think the ten year part is a play on words for tenure which is a position usually held for 5 to 10 years. perhaps it relates to her career as well? if i stay Lana Del Rey will you guys still be around to celebrate me or should i focus on family cause you never know when you could lose them

ughhhhhh this is so cool... great great great video and analysis!!!! love it

Such a beautiful and insane song it’s so tear bringing

lana fan here i just wanted to point out that lana has suffered from mortality issues since a young kid she grew up catholic and said that she had a problem with thinking that we are all going to die lana represents mortality issues in many of her songsa

Would love to see you react to more Lana songs 🙏

I think it's meant to be "pulled me out by my waist-long hair to the beachside". As in, she was drowning, the neighbours grabbed her hair (which was long, down to her waist) and pulled her out to safety.

I’d love to see more Lana, I’d love to see the title track (did you know there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard) or the grants ☺️

Aphrodite really ties well with A&W! You should totally check that one out

the way you emphasizes on "transition lines" so much made more clear to me that the neighbor thing was actually he saving her from suicide, this comes right after she talks about her uncle who hung himself real high so it was in a way a transition line to the moment where she felt like him, as a kid. p.s. i loved this concept "transition lines"

Pls do Mariners Apartment Complex, i love that song!!❤

how can one end this video and just not saying out loud "goddamn this is a poet" ugh shes so smart

More lana plssss

please please please react to "Grandfather please stand on the shoulders..."! it has some of her best lyrics imo

Please do A&W!!!

Love song by lana del rey Please, for my birthday make a sense

Diehard Lana fan here. OB to me is a strange dark album and not her best. Blue Banisters is beautiful and underrated. Did you do OB because it’s new?

the fifteen part was about her suic/de attempt

Oh SUSCRIBED!

I think you are charming and cute , it's a sad song though we might get also some back from it , about our lives and how we live them , I wished I remember more of my english classes , to be as poetic I could in my main langage french , if you think to be a bit weird sometimes you should not worry about it , I found that to be in some ways not as everybody else to be a good thing and not a bad one and one last thing Megan is great name , I find that pretty :)

This song is fucking sad like I probably the saddest song she ever wrote