First Time Hearing PARADISE ~ Songwriter Reacts to Lana Del Rey EP

[@Luscent]

I’ve just covered Lana on my podcast! ✨✨✨ My episode with @FernStone goes down a surprising (and political) rabbit hole 👀listen to the episode here: linktr.ee/CriminallyUnderratedPod 🥰

[@swiderek1028]

I was born for watching cola reactions

[@SunshineJournals]

Their faces every time 👏👏👏

[@k.d.5603]

Someone on KZbin actually made a reaction medley video for that line lol

[@teampsychobarbare8941]

me too lmaoo

[@bebanocap]

literally me

[@Ирина-э6ы2у]

polska

[@LawrenceBarkley]

😇 time stamps 😈 3:07 Ride 6:15 American 9:18 Cola 12:31 Body Electric 15:43 Blue Velvet 17:33 Gods & Monsters 20:30 Yayo 23:05 Bel Air 26:00 Burning Desire

[@ecnrern]

26:00 Burning Desire

[@BrokenGodEnt]

you are a God amongst mortals

[@jarillay1479]

🌈🌈🌈

[@Marqo974]

You will understand the concept of the album, when you watch music video for Ride, which is one of her best videos (if not the best) and short film Tropico, which consists of three songs - Body Electric, Gods and Monsters and Bel Air. Paradise is about Lana coming to L.A., land of gods and monsters, where innocence is lost. From outside, it may look like paradise, but it's not. You have to try hard to make your own version of paradise there. There are many religious refferences, not only in this EP, but in her whole discography. There's a lot to say, this is only my interpretation. Lyrics of her songs is as always very deep, so even after years you can find something you didn't see by then.

[@mateussouza4021]

Wow I completely agree. I know Lana since 2013 and I can still find new things on her lyrics

[@HunterGreenMusic]

Spot on

[@markthomasjohnson4732]

Paradise is a metaphor for both Los Angeles and the afterlife. If she's Born to Die, she goes to Paradise after she's dead.

[@brandonpadilla5402]

I think this comment just opened a new perspective for me. It is almost like she’s saying Lizzie grant and that relationship was born to die because she had to let that portion of herself go in a way to become a star as Lana deal Rey. as a youth you have your normal self discovery but that version of her died in order for her to go to paradise (LA/heaven ) and live her dream 😮

[@bluewescott4631]

@@brandonpadilla5402 🤭

[@AlexSantos-sn6ks]

ride mv is AMAZING, it has a hole monologue that matches perfectly with the song, giving u a different perspective about the lyrics

[@someebodycruel]

Please do a reaction video to the Ride video !!!

[@LollieVox]

Yes she seems to be portraying someone who has murdered someone & is running ....

[@drinkmoreagua8984]

that vid is my religion

[@mckp]

Minus the cultural appropriation when she's wearing a headdress

[@awkward_anna]

i came here to comment about the mv monologue too! fun fact for a junior year poetry project i memorized, analyzed, and recited the entire monologue.

[@OfficialPrettyLittleLiars]

Yayo is actually from her first proper album (AKA Liza Grant) that was later buried when she reworked her image for Born to Die. It’s about drug use. The original has much more clear vocals, but I love the dreaminess of the Paradise version! Can’t wait to see you do UV and beyond

[@k.d.5603]

She wrote Yayo when her friend came over with his new tattoo, a dragon. She said she changed it to a snake because it sounded better

[@bluewescott4631]

Yayo is my fave ❤️

[@excelynite]

Her first album it's "Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant", just trying to help :D I loved the first version of Yayo more tho.

[@lhnyg]

@@excelynite no, it is not, her first album is sirens

[@excelynite]

@@lhnyg that's just a demo album, she recorded it under the name May Jailer, but didn't officialy release it, it was leaked in 2012. But she recorded lots of stuff before Lizzy Grant. I mean youtube is full only of her leaked stuff (thank God for those, lol).

[@k.m.5824]

RIDE isn't bout relationship but it's so much deeper than it seems at first listen. it's Lana's most philosophical song ever the metaphors, Questioning conventional lifestyle to mental state of being free there r so much things to dissect from this one single song ... It's MASTERPIECE !

[@Anthony-pm2tb]

This EP was dark, but just wait till you get to ultraviolence... it’s her darkest

[@Luscent]

Crazyyyy

[@diegomena768]

Cola is, yes indeed, a song with a lot of "patriotic stuff" but because one day her scottish bf at that time told her something like "the americans girls walk around as is ther p***y tastes like a coca-cola" and also something like "if you'd have a flag you'd problably sleep on it" and so she used that to write the song from that perspective of being very "exotic americana"

[@Luscent]

Ah yes that makes sense! Lol at us British taking the mic out of Americans 🤣

[@JenniferDelRey]

Body Electric is still one of my top favorite songs of hers- but Body Electric is also a title of a poem by Walt Whitman. If you read the poem, the lyrics of the song will make a bit more sense.

[@LollieVox]

Yayo is cocaine, the song is very 1940's 50's jazz singer like Rita Hayworth meets the guy on a motorcycle & her 50's babydoll dress. She's talking about getting married. "Daddy" & "Mama" are 50's gangster terms for love interests. :) Also Blue Velvet is a cover song, she did it for a commercial & included it on the album or vise versa. You really nailed so many of the lyrics, just wanted to clear up those two.

[@Luscent]

Ah ok cool! Thanks for the info! Her lyrics are so deep and unique it's so cool

[@LollieVox]

@@Luscent You're extremely insiteful.

[@lottiesummers]

i was looking for this comment bc this (h&m) commercial was the first time i ever heard or saw her when i was 12 or 13 and i was completely entranced by it, i remember i’d stop whatever i was doing or thinking when it came on and just watch it and get hypnotized and i probably went on youtube a few times to watch it before getting into her as an artist fully, now she’s one of my top two favs so Blue Velvet is really special to me

[@lottiesummers]

and i’ve always loved 50s music so it made sense. Just so you know there’ll be quite a few covers coming up throughout her discography @luscent

[@LollieVox]

@@lottiesummers I never thought her music was entirely biographical ( off to the races ie; Rikers Island), I always felt she was creating characters. I've recently rethought all that with her comments in interviews. I'm sure she must have been inserting herself into the fiction thou.

[@tangerine4665]

Your interpretation of Bel Air - her wanting to be a better mother - hits really weird after she disclosed some things in Wildflower Wildfire, her newest single.

[@Luscent]

Huh that's really interesting! I'm excited to listen to the full album!

[@MultiKimimaro]

@@Luscent she has also mentioned in several interviews that she really wants to be a mother so that kind of makes sense...

[@edensylvester13]

what did she say? I only heard the song once so far and didn't really hear the lyrics

[@menade99]

And listen to Cherry Blossom...

[@ellalyons1440]

@@edensylvester13 She talks about how her mother was very angry and abusive and her dad did nothing. "My father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me so I ended up awkward but sweet later than hospitals and still on my feet" are the lyrics

[@rxqueen1540]

i love the line, “living like jim morrison”, i always considered her as a female version of jim. lost in the drugs & alcohol, very poetic & sad

[@matthewdeleon2543]

Blue velvet was a cover she did and pale moon light is from summertime sadness ☺️☺️

[@carterjackson8384]

DO A REACTION TO THE RIDE MUSIC VIDEO or at least watch it when you get a chance! It has intro and outro monologues that add even more meaning to the song. The visuals of the video also really help the story she’s telling come through! 💜💜

[@vanvinnie8429]

In cola she says ‘harvey’s in the sky with diamonds and he’s making me crazy’ allegedly referring to Harvey Weinstein! Lana had spoken in an MTV interview about that specific song and stated she will remove that song from the live performance catalogue due to show respect and support for the victims of assault from Weinstein. Bel Air has some notorious links to the same drama from Cola

[@Luscent]

Oh damn! Wow yeah I can understand why she'd do that

[@VeelouC]

You’re probably thinking of ‘dancing in the dark, in the pale moonlight’ from Summertime Sadness! ps. the Land of Gods and Monsters is L.A. so she’s saying (imo) that even though it’s dark and twisted it’s what she wants. I really liked your interpretation for American!

[@Luscent]

Yes that's it! That interpretation for G&M is good!

[@jcakazzzmorfeozzz1633]

Sorry, but when you interpreted "daddy" meaning that she talks about her dad, I CRIED LAUGHING HAHAHAHA. Love your reacts ☺️❤️

[@Luscent]

😳oh nooooo

[@melnb9949]

I invite you to see "Tropico", it is a short film By Lana Del Rey done by Paradise, It's lovely I loved your reaction, I await your reaction to Ultraviolence 🙋

[@ellendeg303]

i can’t wait for you to hear ultraviolence up next!! and piece together the next part of her narrative and chronicles of her life after her search for paradise!!

[@ejvillegas2149]

i cant wait for you to get to honeymoon it’s her slowest album but it’s full of beautiful bridges and vocals

[@finorussel8164]

I would say chemitril is her slowest album

[@estebangonzalez823]

Ultraviolence it's actually quite different, it's more like an alternative/indie genre. And of course it's darker than BTD. Ultraviolence was recorded in just ONE take and one of its song was recorded freestyled, she just sang what she wanted to.

[@Luscent]

That's so cool!! I'm really excited for it now

[@toparis2361]

What song was the feestyled?

[@talhakostence502]

@@toparis2361 pretty when you cry

[@militiasf]

Blue velvet is a cover of a Jazz Standard considered part of the Great American Songbook

[@eddyjohnson1096]

'Pale moon light' is mentioned previously in Summertime Sadness 'I got my red dress on tonight, Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight"

[@Luscent]

Yes that's it!

[@wonderland4515]

@@Luscent she also has a song from her Lizzy Grant era called ''Meet me in the pale moonlight'' lol i guess Lana just loves the pale moonlight

[@queencadencesinclair9812]

I think you'll understand this EP more if you watch the music videos of Ride and Tropico. "Los Angeles, the city of Angels, the land of Gods and Monsters, the in-between realm where only the choices made from your free will, will decide your souls final fate. Some poets called it the entrance to the Underworld, but on some summer nights, it could feel like Paradise, Paradise Lost..."

[@TheJasiebaby]

Yes to the Ride video reaction! ✨

[@stellabonet-downie1002]

i'm honestly in love with all of these songs. they're just so deep and beautiful

[@scrimbo5319]

This is the best reaction channel I love how passionate you are about music and how you really dive into the lyrics :)

[@Luscent]

Aw thank you so much!

[@veryeasytitletoread5696]

Yayo was a track that was featured in the album lana del ray aka lizzy grant, but honestly the track in paradise is a bit distorted than the one in lana del ray aka lizzy grant. Hope you react to that album even though I'm a bit late to recommend it. The album is really good, full of many interpertations❤

[@nat3255]

Omg, you broke down the Americana culture metaphors on the album so nicely

[@LollieVox]

I agree, even as a Lana fan I felt I learned something from this.

[@GAAZriot]

When reacting to Lana, keep in mind that she has an official cover on every album (except Lust For Life) BTD/ Paradise - Blue Velvet by Tony Bennett Ultraviolence - The Other Woman by Nina Simone Honeymoon - Don’t let me be misunderstood by Nina Simone NFR - Doin Time by Sublime COCC - For Free by Joni Mitchell Hope this helps! Greetings from El Salvador 🇸🇻

[@Luscent]

Oh cool!

[@edgaraguilar9443]

god's and monsters is a whole vibe, I just wanna smoke a blunt and dance in the middle of the room like a crazy white woman lol

[@victoriaalcaraz595]

when you do ultraviolence, don't forget flipside and is this happiness! those are in youtube

[@Luscent]

Oh ok I'll make a note of that haha

[@vanessax6092]

Blue velvet is a cover

[@bruthaniall]

ok time for the next albums!! :)

[@Luscent]

I'm hyped!

[@mrcanyonmoon]

I love the reaction (as always) and I can't wait to see you react to ultraviolence, it's darker than any other album on her

[@krolsky8831]

Dude i really enjoy watching urs reaction, among the guys who do reacts and sits talking some shit etc youre the one whos interested in lyrics and all the things around like drums and all music things. Love it

[@sultait1696]

RIDE MUSIC VIDEO, IT ADDS SO MUCH MORE DEPTH TO THE ALBUM

[@Luscent]

Cool!

[@scrimbo5319]

Body Electric is about the afterlife. She refers to many dead iconic American figures and almost criticised the culture that lead to their deaths, and the chorus is a reference to a poem called ‘I sing the body electric’

[@Luscent]

Wow that's so interesting it's like those people are immortalised I guess

[@theoc5979]

If you watch Tropico, Lana's short film based around Paradise storyline you would understand better

[@Luscent]

Ok cool!

[@MrLintonbrandon]

I’m sooooo happy you’re listening to this album now, I LOVED your reaction to her first album! I love how you dissect lyrics and metaphors, while also paying attention to the melodies and different musical elements of the song! I just wanted to add that I’m pretty sure “Gods and Monsters” is about her moving to LA, and all of her experiences there, trying to be successful and make it in LA. Also Yayo is another name for coke, a street name if you will, so I’m pretty sure that song is also about her relationship with drugs. Why she’s out of it, going through all of these experiences and relationships, while also battling drugs/alcohol. Love her and love you! ❤️

[@Luscent]

Aw thanks!! Yeah it seems like there's a lot about LA being a "paradise" on the outside but super dark irl it's really interesting

[@virginiaalves8548]

You have to listen Body Electric played in LIVE!

[@gabrielasuarez8423]

Ride is my favorite Lana song (even after dozens of other masterpieces - that song remains it). Yayo was written when she still playing under Lizzie Grant - she said that the song was for a guy he used to be with back when she lived in the trailer park (she moved to a trailer park after college to focus on her music). Read the lyrics, things make more sense

[@Luscent]

Yeah I'll have to go and look the lyrics up 😂 I really like ride too!

[@k.d.5603]

@@Luscent Ride is one of the most loved Lana songs. The music video is pure art especially with her monologue in the beginning and the end. Prepare to cry, it's very moving

[@beatrizrmlh]

I LOVE lana del rey ❤️, so iconic

[@wonderland4515]

I dont know if you do mv reactions to songs you've listened to but either way i really recommend u watching Ride's mv with the monologue, it really adds a lot to the song and the monologue she has in the beginning and end of the song are so pretty and it tells a story of who she was before fame

[@Luscent]

Cool I sometimes do mv reactions but probs won't have time for this one but I'll defo check it out!

[@Goldun-nah]

Wow your interpretation of bel air is so emotional and I never thought of that. She wants to be a better mother than her own. Ugh so deep

[@shamarmittelholzer2985]

In body electric music video she portrays eve. And it shows eve and Adam's story in an American portrayal in a sense.

[@luissandoval7811]

Cant wait for your ultraviolence reaction!!!!

[@Luscent]

Me too!!!

[@k.d.5603]

Ride Music Video is a must!

[@Luscent]

I'll have to watch it!

[@jacowwow5]

When ypu said INVITING HIM OVER FOR A TASTE! 😂💀 Im soooo fckn dead 😱😂 actually cackling out loud hahaha

[@lukesummers51]

Remember Radio song in Born to Die's album? She says she finally moved to LA and started to sing, right? Born to Die is where we meet her. Her personality, her life before fame in New York, her past relationships. Paradise is about her way through LA, when she started to live there and make music. That's why she talks about loneliness in Ride, or drugs in Gods and Monster. In Paradise is where she lost her innocence, discovering how dark the fame is. According to the story, as she started to fail in her music career, she became a stripper, that's why Cola and Gods and Monsters too. There's much more storytelling in the music videos, I recommend you! Love your reactions!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@lukesummers51]

omg I forgot one thing! Yayo means cocaine. In the part of "hello heaven..." she overdosed. Bel Air is actually her looking to the gates of Heaven, but not entering "So I run like I'm mad, to heaven's door".

[@Luscent]

Awesome thanks for all the context! I love this metaphor of LA being a paradise on the outside but dark irl it's so cool

[@ruangali2]

Blue Velvet is a cover or Lana's rendition (I'm not sure about the term) of Bobby Vinton's song with the same title from the 60s.

[@kayleigh5030]

You're truly the best I've seen describe the meanings behind lanas videos. The way you know what you're talking about is amazing a I took the last lana album reaction wrong but wow you're amazing

[@equestrianfeminist9097]

Lana has another (unreleased) song called Angels Forever with the line, “paradise is a hell-colored flame sky” which is I believe is one of her numerous references to Lolita so I guess there’s that as to what paradise means.

[@lesiaguinn7358]

Wow this was such a pleasure watching this video and seeing you listen to every lyric and contemplating it.. truly magical, thanks for the experience!

[@mirroredheart7292]

Yayo stans rise

[@Luscent]

🤣🤣🤣

[@LudmilaRamirez7]

I love how you always get the lyrics. Love your reactions

[@matteoresca1479]

Paradise is the best ❤️❤️

[@Luscent]

It's certainly unique and definitely growing on me!

[@Bambiblue954]

Omg I wish you would watch the music videos along with the songs so epic.

[@fleeko180]

Luscent: it sounds like a hollywood movie Lynch: Am I a joke to you?

[@jcakazzzmorfeozzz1633]

Cannot wait for the Ultraviolence reaction. You will adore it as much as Born To Die.

[@Luscent]

I'm so hyped!!

[@yellowgina23]

Bring back song of the week!!!!

[@ryanjackkay]

Im so ready

[@johnpaulkarasig547]

watch the Music video of Ride :)

[@bruhkittycat]

body electric is a direct reference to a Walt Whitman poem 'I Sing The Body Electric'

[@Luscent]

Oh cool!

[@pablovaldivia6378]

Your reaction is pure gold. I love it

[@Luscent]

What a crazy Ride... hehe soz I couldn't be there for the premiere I had to work!! Remember you can get 7% off your first year with DistroKid ▶ ▶ distrokid.com/vip/luscent

[@melnb9949]

I leave you the fact that Blue Velvet is a cover 🙋, good reaction 😀

[@melnb9949]

I'd love a reaction to Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood, my favorite album of 2019 ^-^

[@09ledm]

Yayo is from her days as Lizzy Grant. Yayo is drugs

[@ChimiChi1989]

Fun fact lol cola line she says it came from a Scottish boyfriend she had in the past. Apparently he said “all you Americans p/$/$/ taste like Pepsi” Also. Body electric comes from a poem of the same name. Gods and Monsters is inspired by “paradise lost “

[@Luscent]

Cool! Thanks for the info ☺️

[@ChimiChi1989]

No problem. I had to do my research first time I heard all this Cux I was like what??? Lol

[@ousslak1143]

Gorgeous reaction, can't wait to see u get to experience the darkest and one of her best albums '' Ultraviolence ''. Can't wait!

[@lullzi]

I recently found your channel and I really love your reactions vids, very expressive and insightful!! Been listening to Lana since 2012, still I feel there's always something new to discover about her art! The beautiful elegant sound with an eerie kind of feeling underneath - I intepret as partly an inspiration by David Lynch movies, the way he directs is very much like that feel, and she has mentioned she has been inspired by his work. Blue Velvet is also a title of a Lynch movie, the original song was featured as an intro to that movie, which is an expression of the image of that "perfect American suburban life", white picket fence and perfect red roses, (also like the movie American Beauty) - which isnt that pretty underneath. Pretty much another type of expression of that twisted paradise, the longing for the American dream which is not as it seems. Think that song helps to paint the whole picture of Paradise and makes it even more vivid, I think. The lyrics kind of bring out that lost dream of something beautiful, and even though it's gone/doesn't exist, she still sees it through her tears, still holding on to the feeling of it.

[@elizabethbednar6338]

Innocence lost sounds just like In a sense lost

[@PandoraStolen]

Loved your reaction! If you thought some of these songs were dark just wait for Ultraviolence. For a lot of Lana fans it is their favorite album. But most people who do reactions at the end they say it was really dark and really heavy so just be prepared for that. Excited for all the reactions especially NFR (Norman fucking Rockwell), that's my peraonal favorite! Also my interpretation of Bel Air is that it's a metaphor for heaven or some kind of afterlife. And her waiting to meet someone again to she has lost.

[@chloebennett3586]

YOU SHOULD WATCH TROPICO!! it’s lanas short film on youtube with i believe gods and monsters, body electric, and bel air but i could be wrong

[@rodolfoherrera8483]

23:02 I apreciate that drag race reference. You're amazing tbh

[@Luscent]

Hahahaha opaleeence

[@rodolfoherrera8483]

@@Luscent you own everything!!! ✨

[@lizamorina5531]

I hope you will react to the video clips of the songs and also Tropico which is a short film that includes 3 paradise songs and its amazing

[@Oren....]

blue velvet is a cover! not her song- also, there are a few songs by lana that are based on the book lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, like off to the races, lolita (surprising lol), carmen, gods and monsters and cola (i think those i might be wrong lmao yeah- in off to the races its a direct reference with "light of my life fire of my loins" its the first line of the book) yeah idk-

[@mcleanmsisthebest]

I don't know if someone already commented this but Blue Velvet is a cover.

[@jotch4113]

Burning Desire was actually used (and maybe written?) for a Jaguar commercial! It wasn't considered a part of the album until it was released a few years later so it's not on any physical releases. Most don't consider it to be a part of the EP.

[@Luscent]

Ohhh yeah that makes sy

[@josearaujo2801]

OPULENCEEEE. YOU OWN EVERYTHINGGGGG

[@josearaujo2801]

I caught that reference

[@ajmata4808]

Blue Velvet is actually a cover!

[@tulsajesusfreak2924]

this ep actually has a short film called "tropico" you should check it out its about 30 minutes long its also on her youtube channel

[@annakabibe615]

Everybody is hyping Ultraviolence so much and don’t get me wrong, it’s my favorite Lana album, but Norman F*cking Rockwell! Is a literal MASTERPIECE, that’s what I’m excited about

[@jaded_dahlia]

Ugh looking forward

[@i.m1ss.y0u.s0.f4r]

You should react to Jim and the Povolos! I love listening to their music to make me feel happy, it just has good vibes. They have 2 albums and a couple EPs and singles. Holiday Club EP- 2011 Seems Right- 2013 Make Party- 2017

[@mikebalestra8348]

Great EP and a great reaction!

[@Bambiblue954]

Yeah Americana is what we call it. Also the pepsi cola lyric comes from a British ex of hers who made that statement and the Beatles reference you spoke of and where she says your wife wouldnt mind is allegedly written about HArvey Weinstein " harveys in the sky with diamonds."

[@Luscent]

Ah yeah that adds up

[@lukesummers51]

this is my favorite one!

[@Luscent]

It's certainly unique!

[@JenniferDelRey]

I’ve always listened to Bel Air as if it’s in the perspective of God, and some parts are her talking to God, like the “lead me to war with your brilliant direction.” Bel Air is a metaphor for heaven. I’m not sure if she wrote this before or after she planned her short film called Tropico, but I highly recommend you watch it. It’s just incredible! Gods and Monsters will make a lot more sense to you after you watch it. Please make a reaction video for it🙏🏻

[@elizabethbednar6338]

Bel air is about the singer from guns and roses

[@Pupeyes]

I think Gods and Monsters is her coming to the realization that if she wants to be in the entertainment industry she has to lose her innocence to be able to reach her goals because that world is full of monsters. She came in innocent but she was like, “is this what I gotta do to succeed? Fine”

[@kimdierickx4117]

I can't wait for Ultraviolence ! :)

[@annakabibe615]

Loved the Mercedes Iman reference 🤣 OPPALANCEEEE

[@marvicramonconde1712]

Please watch and react to the music video of RIDE.

[@iancarvalho6947]

please react to ride mv and tropico to fully understand this ep!!!

[@damagedgoods2663]

Blue Velvet is a cover.

[@TaiNguyen-um2ji]

Clicked on this so fast… but I can’t wait for Ultraviolence

[@09ledm]

Bel Air is so dreamy

[@McsDanhi]

Could you react to Norwegian singer AURORA? Her first album called "All my Demons Greeting me as a Friend" is amazing!!

[@karlasilva2461]

Yes! ❤

[@alex15rojas]

Please react to Tropic…. It’s just stunning 🙏🏼