"the greatest" for me is the perfect song to describe the whole album and the album cover, along with "mariners apartment complex" lana is singing about wanting everything to be like before, the loss or the change of things, as the culture is going to shit, that's why the "kanye west is blond and gone" line, kanye, who was a very important and promising figure, has ended up supporting Donald Trump and shit; climate change, how every year there are more and more fires, that we must do something now before it gets worse, thats why at the end of the song, she says "oh, the live stream's almost on" criticizing how we all worry so much about wars, the environment, etc.. but then we do nothing to prevent it and go on to other things (On the cover of the album there is a couple running away from LA that is on fire, everything has gotten worse, like it is no longer what it was, how the American dream has disappeared, Lana holds out her hand to us so that we can escape from all this, which looks beautiful but it breaks you inside) PS: sorry for my shitty english lmao
the kanye lyric refers to his political views and avid support for trump at the time. he posted on instagram in support of him and lana commented something along the lines of “this is a loss for the culture” referring to the music industry / scene. if u listen to the second half of her 2017 album “lust for life” she references the state of america at the time and also in the same year put a hex on trump.
The guy she was hugging at the end is her biological brother. Her sister is a photographer and has always been involved in her projects so you've seen her in a lot of her videos actually, she's the long haired blond girl who occasionally cameos!
Hearing her sing about the culture being lit but gone hits even harder especially when (No Shade) seeing Billie Eilish’s bad guy win instead of Lana’s NFR work.
Yesss love it thank you!!! Def react to her song “music to watch boys to” or “lust for life” w the weeknd! And if you want more artists def get into charli xcx! I love her songs “i got it” “click” “pink diamond” and “claws”
Basically the old Kanye. He was also put in a psychiatric hold in 2019. She also called out Kanye for having opposing political views saying it was a loss for the culture. Also she performed at his wedding or sum like that before and he said in the past she’s one of his favorite artist.
when lana deactivated her instagram account back in 2021, her goodbye post used the music video of the greatest with the lyric “i guess i’m signing off after all” and now she has an instagram she made in 2015 to promote her album “honeymoon” and the username is honeymoon. it was private for a while, i’m not sure if it’s still private. but i follow it
Im new to lanas music i just listened to her 2019 album for the first time with my headphones at night and when i tell you my whole body had chills when i played the greatest with the guitar chorus it was such an amazing feeling will not forget it.
Sameee!! When I heard The Greatest for the first time I just had chills throughout the song. I still remember the first time I listened to this album perfectly, it came out August 31st and I listened to it at night in my garden with headphones and I had rolled 2 joints for the experience. It was such a great time
I think at the beginning of her career Kanye publicly appreciated her and she even was invited to perform at his wedding. Recently with him publicly supporting trump she responded to his post about trump on his instagram stating her disappointment
kanye gone because he supported donald trump at that time and he was blond at the time of this song's release. this is funny because lana was the musical guest at kanye and kim's wedding since both of them were fans of her.
you should react to songs off of taylor swift - folklore, i feel like it has a similar vibe to this album. like august, cardigan or betty, mirror ball and my tears ricochet
