POET REACTS to LUST FOR LIFE by Lana Del Rey | FIRST Interpretations

[@sherthetruth]

Beginning- Overview of the album, people's faves etc... 2:14 Love 7:10 Lust for Life 12:20 13 Beaches 20:30 Cherry 25:41 White Mustang 28:30 Summer Bummer 32:03 Groupie Love 34:38 In My Feelings 38:21 Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind 41:33 God Bless America 44:00 When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing 48:37 Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems 51:44 Tomorrow Never Came 55:45 Heroin 58:40 Change 1:03:35 Get Free 1:07:01 Some final thoughts/wrap up FAVES: Love, 13 Beaches, In My Feelings, Tomorrow Never Came, Change, Free Sorry, this took so long. I was traveling and it took way longer than I anticipated! Also, let me know if you prefer me to break up longer reactions into two parts? So I've had some after-reaction thoughts- This album is actually good, not my favorite, but when I look back on my reaction, I realize I liked a lot of the songs! I was just thrown off by some of the big duds in it and the length which hindered me from fully enjoying it the first time around. Also, I think if I would have listened to it when it came out (2017), my emotional response to some of the songs would have been magnified 100% because I think she captured that time so well. Overall, as a full album, Id take points off because I won't be listening to this straight through, just plucking my faves.

[@AsiaKishai]

55:45 Heroin

[@sherthetruth]

Opps added lol

[@fierybkn2717]

yep this album is way too long and the rhythm is quite slow all along, but the songs individually are good I just don’t listen to them anymore cause she has such other great works

[@kylem9756]

I don’t care what anyone says I LOVE this album

[@edwardchen9619]

me

[@locttus]

HAHAHA the tip in the letters 👀

[@jacksondanielles3347]

It'd sooooooooo good

[@camara1194]

i love this album!!

[@katherineauber]

Sorry but my fav next to new one and NFR because I can’t choose. I have too much relation to these 3

[@selimjadue7865]

I LOOOOOOOVEEE your outfit!! I think Lust For Life divides the fandom, it was the inflection of her catalogue. BTD, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon were like the reflection of her past and toxic relation with alcoholism and this was rehab. Next was NFR (made history) Chemtrails and Blue Banisters, her maturity I think 🤔. Well, that doesn’t mean this was a bad album, I looooove 13 Beaches, Cherry and Heroin ❤

[@daniilnoun8262]

0:20 I think people just assumed that you're gonna go through the albums anyway, but also Lust for Life to Lana stans is what Lover is to Taylor stans. An underrated, sometimes hated, transitional work towards the beloved NFR.

[@0485dlp]

As a Lover stan I can confirm 😂 Ironically Lover and LFL have some of the most skips for me when it comes to full albums, but the songs that are left are so damn good that it bumps both albums to top 3 in each of their discographies.

[@kluski3423]

I didn't expect her to react to LFL and BTD because I don't think it's as poetic as the other albums. I hope she does BTD too now

[@jspettifer]

@@0485dlp You can drop your least favourite 6 songs from LFL and you get a great 10 track album

[@0485dlp]

@@jspettifer oh that's exactly how I listen to it! 1. 13 Beaches 2. Cherry 3. White Mustang 4. Summer Bummer 5. Groupie Love 6. In My Feelings 7. God Bless America 8. When The World Was At War 9. Tomorrow Never Came 10. Heroin (my personal #1) When I'm in the mood for it I listen to Get Free like it's a bonus track.

[@katherineauber]

Heroin changed my life . Love came out day before I went into rehab and the “don’t worry baby” soothed my fear. And the hopeless romantic hoping once I was better I’d find that love. When I got out of treatment and I heard the whole album once I got to heroin it was like someone wrote a song in my point of view. I can explain almost every track meaning something to me. I get a lot of crap for this album being a fav.

[@lanabanana5301]

The comparison of woodstock to coachella is because during woodstock people were free loving, lost in the music whilst vietnam war was going on. Meanwhile while she was at coachella the tension in north korea was happening

[@headwound]

I actually love Summer Bummer! And this entire album. I had no idea it wasn't super popular. 13 beaches is one of my all time favourite Lana songs. Top five at least :)

[@inlovewthemovies]

beautiful people beautiful problems (demo) is one of her saddest songs ever. The fact that she changed it to be one of her most happy and hopeful songs just proves her talent on songwriting

[@Iann-]

Tomorrow Never Came is my absolute favorite from this album ❤️ it’s so beautiful

[@Thatluckydiva]

Tomorrow never came is probably my favourite song by lana, their voices together is like two tones cuddling together

[@DorianEyre]

I love how you matched your outfit with Lana's

[@daveleciel]

get free is like transition for her, she really wanna be more positive and be better in life and i love that

[@OfficialPrettyLittleLiars]

She actually covered Scarborough Fair during the tour for this album!

[@abcdeqwerty1047]

i am so grateful there are people to appreciate the art in her writing!!!!

[@bellevue6198]

i think you might like the lust for life demo! it feels much more meaningful and impactful (and the chorus and verses are switched interestingly)

[@lukavojinovic7246]

It’s also kinda creepy, there’s something so unsettling in the melody. I hope sher reacts to some of her more popular demos, I would love to hear her thoughts on those

[@kobrownkid1356]

No one talks about LFL because it's lyrically amazing but still almost simple for a Lana album + it's a moody/viby album, so it gets behind the others *for most people* HOWEVER!! IT'S ONE OF MY MOST PLAYED ALBUMS. that's how much i enjoy it. Idc where it falls in other's rank.

[@suruthilenin829]

Honestly you look soo soo pretty miss sher, you should totally wear flowers in your hair, makes you look like a princess.

[@arlesque]

As a long time LDR fan, I think we are so used to the music that she makes for herself and then decides to share with us and on this album, she scrapped her hedonistic approach and actually crafted it for her fans. This album is her most commercially accessible album sonically. Honeymoon on the other hand was ahead of its time. Honeymoon is objectively a great /times-less record as opposed to Lust for Life which is a dated record. If you hear some L4L demos you’ll see that she was going for more witchy/darker approach at first which I think would’ve resonated with us a lot more. This album is great for what it is but it’s at the bottom for me but it’s not because the album isn’t good. It’s just her other records were just SO good and this one didn’t measure up for me.

[@moonlightbae6365]

i think LFL is on top 3, its just so good

[@camara1194]

See I feel like Honeymoon is at the bottom of the list for me

[@camara1194]

@@moonlightbae6365 Same!!!

[@Goldun-nah]

Honeymoon is her most sophisticated album imo. This is her most commercial album, and I love them all. Honeymoon is so dark and sad and gorgeous and cinematic. And this album has the chill trap beats that I love so much that’s much like the first album just a lot more chill.

[@midnightfield]

Ahh I'm so happy you reacted to this album, thank you! I always enjoy hearing your thoughts and opinions on & interpretations of music. This album/era is special to me because the one and only time I've seen LDR live was summer 2017, and I heard so many of this album's songs during that concert (Cherry, White Mustang and Change were three particular highlights). Such a special occasion and memory that I feel grateful for. The "what what what" in Summer Bummer is truly so funny; also something about that song's atmosphere makes me want to learn to skateboard. This reaction reminded me of how lovely Tomorrow Never Came is, haven't listened to that one in a long while. Also, I love the lyric "when I don't feel beautiful or stable / maybe it's enough to just be where we are". I remember at some point many people were saying Get Free sounds too much like Radiohead's Creep (which, at some point, was said to sound too much like The Hollies' The Air That I Breathe) but idk about that. "Out of the black, into the blue" is a beautiful line and sentiment.

[@tobi6876]

I'm kind of late but i hope you read this cause it really changed my overview of this album. There's two aspects about it that, to me, are really important, first to understand it completely you need to realize that the first 8 tracks are the Lust half and the latter 8 tracks are the Life half and the Coachella song is the switch point (noticed by how she says she's enjoying herself at this very expensive music festival and out of nowhere she just starts thinking about everyone that is not there, the climate, people all around). The second aspect is that this album is probably the most important one in her whole discography, it acts as a stepping stone not only from one sound to another but also from a state of mind to another. She closes the album with Get Free saying "out of the black, into the blue" and she has said that to her, the word blue, is more of a retreat into nature, a happiness kind of feeling, not really the sadness that people often associate wth blue and later begins the making of NFR which she has also stated she associates with the color blue (NFR title track "'Cause you're just a man It's just what you do Your head in your hands As you color me blue"). Just a fun little analysis.

[@Anthony-pm2tb]

Omgggg I missed your Lana reactions, so glad you’re back 🥲

[@javis2555]

Lana doesn't have a bad album. Love your taylor and lana videos!!

[@kluski3423]

Omg more Lana!!! I love how the first half of the album is about lust and the second about life. My favourites are definitely Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, Get Free and Cherry 🥰 I also like Summer Bummer and Tomorrow Never Came (which I hated at first) 😳

[@haendellmagalhaes6112]

this is album is amazing and it's definitely one of her best. period.

[@emanuelcrbll16]

if i remeber correctly coachella wimm is about her being at coahella during a time where the us was at tension with north korea and missle threats were all over the news. the song seems to be reflective of her own contribution and the feeling of guilt she has for being able to be at coachella while people are scared out of their minds, vulnerable, not knowing what might happen to them or their parents or their children

[@abezhr]

Heroin is a song about losing a lover to addiction, she kind of blames herself for not doing much about it “i put you on an aeroplane”. She describes her moving on from her loss “all my friends have come cuz they still feel him here, I wanna leave I’ll probably stay another year” being stuck to a memory. “Taking all my medicine to take my thoughts away” gets mentioned as a question if she’s going through the same path, as well as just coping with all that’s going on. “It’s hot!” Climate change, heroine in the blood. She’s describing her observations of the world and how scary it’s getting as she going around alone this time. “Makes me feel like I could change” she still somehow finds her purpose in all of that. I think it’s one of her strongest storytelling and capturing of a moment of shift and change in one’s life. Makes it relatable to many including myself

[@paytiejadie]

I haven't watched yet but wanted to say this is my FAV lana album and I'm so glad you're finally hearing it!

[@cellnahwl6711]

She chose the "white mustang" to sound like she's saying: why I'm staying

[@heavenlytropico]

That’s actually not true. That was made up on tiktok and people believed it. Same thing happened with “soft ice cream/soft I scream”

[@Heart-shapedBox]

@@heavenlytropico lmao it wasnt made up on tiktok its been a debate before tiktok was a thing

[@СарматТедеев-э8м]

@@heavenlytropico you should listen again Salvatore and hear screams on background. Soft I scream makes sense. It’s and why am I staying are play on words. Lana is a real poet, so…

[@honeymoon5854]

@@Heart-shapedBox lana has never confirmed it. y’all just made this up and ran with it

[@Heart-shapedBox]

@@honeymoon5854 and neither has she denied it so? I'm not saying that's the confirmed meaning. It's just food for thought since lana has many lyrics with double meanings

[@DeeDeeFatmLoverWanab]

aww Sher you are so cute! this album is so iconic

[@DeeDeeFatmLoverWanab]

it's not as popular but I love this album so much ahaha

[@かつみぃぃ]

cool fact, the repetition of "white mustang" can be implied as "why am I staying" which is absolutely genius of Lana tbh, it also gives more story to the song and explains the lyrics too.

[@andrewduanebarr4737]

Lana is a legend !

[@thevilkids]

Tommorow never came is heartbreaking and gorgeous. It deserved to be a single.

[@joicheri6206]

Oh this is a lovely notif to receive during a monday afternoon! Your video analyzes brings me so much joy and entertainment, especially the Lana and Taylor ones, but I am always interested on what you have to say as a poet. I think I've been following you since the beginning of your channel and I hope it keeps growing! Also: Love the look for this especial reaction!!!

[@medellintangerinedreams]

Lust for life is actually my number one fav lana album! Love was the first song that got me into her, great introduction.

[@aaronbarragan8339]

The fact that you dressed up for the occasion. 10/10!!🎃

[@daniilnoun8262]

22:17 Lana actually covered their song live during the LFL era

[@AsiaKishai]

Change is my personel fav and the hair is amazing sis!!

[@lukavojinovic7246]

It’s such an underrated Lana song, and it’s coming from someone who doesn’t like LFL. It’s such a powerful song it’s up there for me

[@AsiaKishai]

@@lukavojinovic7246 Yeah special song for me too

[@ploos8784]

You're so beautiful! As always it was a pleasure to re-listen to an Lana album with you, thanks for the content 😊

[@drew8450]

get free is my favorite song by lana. thanks for reviewing!!

[@user-nr6zz6bt6h]

I never really liked this album but a few days ago I listened to it and became kinda obsessed.

[@Goldun-nah]

That’s what happened with me and honeymoon lol it was my least fav album for years and then one day I let it play in the car all the way through and then I had it on repeat for months. Still my fav album. I think I needed to get older to appreciate it for the sophisticated cinematic dark art deco musical piece that it is.

[@davidmezo4784]

I can’t wait for Lana’s new album and your reaction. Until that, you should definitely check out Melanie Martinez, her lyrics (just like Lana’s) are extremely deep, and grasp some really important topics, problems. You won’t be disappointed!

[@jordanserranotorres7610]

In White Mustang Lana is also saying "Why I'm Staying"

[@zee9900]

i think maybe the reason this was the least requested album is because its probably the least poetic album. it is actually in my personal top 3 lana albums but it was definitely made to be more mainstream than her other albums, which many lana fans (at least on twitter which is where i've interacted with the most lana fans) hate the idea of liking something that can be considered mainstream in any form.

[@eudaldvidalcodony7089]

I completly disagree I think Lust For Life is has a strong poethic lyricism in it

[@user-xv9rf2ll3m]

Ironically UV and NFR are more mainstream... lol.

[@zontzooit2415]

There’s a demo of lust for life on KZbin that sounds so much like a honeymoon song and I know you liked honeymoon so I do recommend listening to it on your own time it’s good and more peaceful and og Lana with different Melodies lyrics and production.

[@a_propos_ryan_8918]

THE QUEEN IS BACK

[@CrownedNatty]

Change and Tomorrow Never Came are one of my favorite Lana songs ever! ❤️ So many good songs on this album!!!

[@mistergalaxy53]

I love all of Lana's albums and Lust For Life is definitely in my top 3 favs.White mustang and In my feelings are about G-Eazy ( they had a brief affair in 2017 🙈). Thank you for this video, and your hairstyle is great!

[@kentinatl]

LANA IS LIKE A STREET SMART,SPIRITUALLY SMART T.S. ELIOT LIKE SINGER/SONGWRITER. BEST OF HER GENERATION,AND ONE OF THE BEST EVER.I AM 65,,AND HAVE LISTENED TO MUSIC FOR 55 YEARS...THANK YOU FOR IT ALL SO FAR ELIZABETH.GREAT REACTION GIRL,LOVE WHEN PEOPLE ARE ENTHUSED BY LDR...ALL MY BEST,KENT IN OHIO.

[@luna1945]

LFL is one of my top three albums, truthfully! it's my favorite era of hers (the 70s). Plus, all of the symbolism and callbacks to pop culture. MUAH! if you haven't, I highly suggest listening to the beautiful people demo and the lust for life demo. They are amazing. Thanks for the Video

[@raymondhodgson1190]

I feel like there's half of a really great album here, but (like all of her other songs) she doesn't always know when to rein it in a little. But I can still give it a spin 5 years later and find something good in it, which is something.

[@josephd3275]

I really get that the « take off all your clothes » line sounds weird and breaks the immersion for you, but I personally always thought it had its place in this song. The way she repeats « take off » twice before saying the whole sentence the sentence emphasizes the double meaning of these words, with the idea of a plane taking off, or in this case of a career since I do believe the song is about fame. I understand it as a commentary about how women in the entertainment sector sometimes have to « take off their clothes » for their careers to take off because of the double standards they have to face in a male dominated industry. To me it makes sense here since the « climb up the H of the Hollywood sign » line is a clear reference to Peg Entwistle, a young actress from the golden age of old Hollywood (which Lana loooves to reference) who killed herself jumping from this letter. Maybe she is to Lana a symbol of the pain female artists go through. Of course this is also a very fun song and I don’t want to force on you my pessimistic vision of it hahaha but maybe that way this line, which indeed seems kind of off, has a reason to be the pre-chorus. Anyway, this was a great video as always

[@sherthetruth]

Interesting insight! I enjoy hearing thoughts like this actually. Makes me listen differently. Thanks for sharing!

[@sadam7451]

Wow. I thought about double meaning with "lust for life" but it didn't occur to me with "take off". Thanks for the perspective

[@crescent3894]

White Mustang, Heroin, Get free-the best songs in this album🤍

[@hrctdelrey9540]

You should def check out Lust for life DEMO. It’s a whole vibe. So different and dark and beautiful ❤

[@rutiletwins7237]

I absolutely love this album!! 🥰

[@jamie8481]

omg please react to stevie’s solo work after this!! it’s so underappreciated, starting with her first is probably the best idea ! bella donna

[@francisco6591]

i think you would love to listen to vulnicura by bjork!!!! she wrote it during the time she was divorcing the love of her life so the lyrics are really heavy with emotions and they mix so beautifully with the instrumentals. it will probably be a bit hard to get into it since her work is very experimental but im sure it would be a great experience

[@sherthetruth]

One of my favorite albums 🥰

[@ivanillachoco]

you're gorgeous!! love ur reaction and interpretations

[@viniciusferreira4773]

You look gorgeous Sher!! I just wanna say we can compare the song Coachella by Lana with the song Woodstock by Joni Mitchell. Both songs are about these festivals in a war/conflict context. Is a really nice comparison!!

[@Goldun-nah]

My fav Lana album is whatever album I’m playing at the time lol. It’s too hard to choose. While this album doesn’t hold my favorite songs, it holds some of my most sentimental memories during this time. I just came out of long term relationship and was finally slowly getting out of the depressed phase and this album really helped with that. And I had it playing so much that year and made so many happy memories and this album just has so much nostalgia attached to it.

[@whenthepawn1999]

this album is one that takes a while to love, it started as my least fav lana album and then one day it just clicked and now it’s top 3

[@yameenakhatri2717]

Aaahhh you look so gorgeous!!!!! 🥺

[@biravijnya]

OMG this is like a gift for me xmas came early this year :D

[@day439]

I lovee the outfit and hairstyle 😭💞💞

[@danielmusch2082]

The fact you wore her look is so iconic, I love your reactions

[@angell1432]

ommggg the costumes so good!! you look so cute 😭😭❤️❤️

[@Goldun-nah]

Honestly I notice the difference between which albums people love depending on which album got them into Lana and your age. It’s different for me who was 29 when Lana came out with the BTD album and followed her since. It’s no surprise that her last two albums were my least favorite. But I still love them too. I got a couple of favorite songs on those albums.

[@sunnyday1441]

I absolutely love your Lana reaction ❤️

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

I'd recommend you to listen to her outtakes from the albums. I really like the LFL outtakes. BTD has A LOT of outtakes so it'll be a wild ride. Also her unreleased albums are really good, too.

[@jerryt4604]

change is the best song period!!!

[@Goldun-nah]

I didn’t relate to “getting all dressed up to go no where in particular” till Covid lockdowns about 2 months in lol

[@sunnisideup444]

This album is awesome! I think you would actually like the demo version of lush for life as it is more poetic and less radio focused as the album version, as beautiful as both versions are.

[@wilsonponce6464]

You should react to Sun Outside My Window by Strawberry Guy!! His songs are majestic and I always find deep meaning in them!!

[@abcdeqwerty1047]

she covers that simon garfunkel song in her concerts! please react to her live rendition of it so beautiful!

[@jamalrana8504]

By out of the black, into the blue I feel like she means she’s left the pitch black and gone into the slightly lighter blue. It’s still not bright but it’s a step and a shade lighter ( navy)

[@eltiletulf5049]

out of the black (ultraviolence) into the blue (NFR)

[@ambientnymph]

Love this album! Also, I don't know if you like Bjork, but you should react to her new album Fossora!

[@andres7th]

I love this album because it has Heroin and Get free

[@Littlestrawberii]

You should listen to “Ridin” it features asap but it’s way different I think u may actually like it . I believe it was supposed to be on born to die album bc she has a music video with asap for national anthem . And ridin seems to fit the norm to die era

[@Goldun-nah]

I love beautiful people beautiful problems. I love the lyrics and uplifting mood and of course Stevie…

[@dylancook8863]

I love love love and appreciate your reactions so much !! Lana's my one and only obsession when it comes to the music industry and I'm enjoying you enjoying her just as much as I do 😁😁 Oh and here enjoy this lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZOsqWywYqd9qJo it's Lana singing Scarborough Fair lol 🤪

[@pepsicola3561]

The fit omg!???? You're so mother for that

[@thejuryspeaks]

This is my favorite Lana album idc

[@inlovewthemovies]

you definitely have to listen to the demos of lust for life (song) and beautiful people beautiful problems so much better than the original imo

[@erinyesoneirus8438]

ive been waiting for this, thank youu💖

[@valterssluka1945]

you look absolutely gorgeous!

[@jorgeloy8155]

LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE THE COSPLAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY~~~~~

[@lispectordream]

finally!! love your vids and was very excited for this 🥹

[@1234willali]

Heroin, Get Free, Change, white mustang, when the world was at war we kept dancing…. Tomorrow never came and Cherry lol. All of them except some songs in the middle

[@jaiiqqo3790]

Looking forward to Paradise and Born to Die! :)

[@warrenmacdonald3463]

thanks for the vid! I would love to see you react to some Aurora, especially Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1). she is an amazingly talented Norwegian singer-songwriter with a heavenly voice

[@hikunee1174]

UR SO PRETTY OMG!!!

[@rojurr]

THIS OUTFIT!!! so cute 💗💗

[@hrctdelrey9540]

The weeknd is another great artist to get into his discography. I’d suggest After hours and My dear melancholy and Dawn Fm

[@galvant]

Lust for Life is my fav Lana album

[@eyeorigins77]

this was like the first album i listen from lana

[@Swan-Songs]

You need to do a review on Rina Sawayama’s sophomore album Hold The Girl!

[@abcdeqwerty1047]

this hair looks gorgeous on you

[@cupcakkequeenofrap]

React to All Mirrors by Angel Olsen and Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast ❤

[@karinaemel4407]

Weyes Blood released a new album and it's healing society.

[@Iann-]

Love your lust for life outfit ❤️