I asked for something more of a soft singing tune … YALL RECOMMENDED SOMETHING LEGENDARY 😮💨. this shit was so beautiful man this was literally exactly what i was looking for. YALL KNOW ME OR SOME?! cuh nah. but i can’t just pick one favorite song off here man it all sounded so beautiful... but gun to the back of my head and i HAD to make a choice. “LOVE SONG” was chef kiss gang. RECOMMEND MORE AND THANK YOU FOR 5K YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE 💙 and for the new people i only do vids like these to find some shit for my playlist gang 😂 Also i accidentally cut out too much of venice bitch 😭 my bad twin, youtube gave me ptsd editing these type of videos
Please react to Renee Rapps Snow Angel deluxe album! She just played Regina George in the new mean girls movie and she had the biggest debut album this year. She has the best voice I have ever heard and the songs are amazing. You will love it so much and will be shocked. You won’t regret it for sure.
I'm kinda upset that you didn't finish hope is a dangerous thing all because of the black narcissist lyric !!! You missed out on one hell of a closer ! Black narcissist is like the darker parts of herself that she would like to not exist but are there .. has nothing to do with race my guy lol
When she said “Black Narcissist” she’s referring to herself, like her dark depressive side that she’s tries to break free from by dancing and partying. She explained this after people were confused. It makes sense because she uses colors to display the different parts of her mind. The line before it is “white gown sociopath”
Love seeing black men tap into their art and just like being happy and joyful. It’s so simple but society does not let yall just be yall, some dudes would be like oh she’s so soft why are you listening to that, and they miss out on so much. Made me happy finding this video, I hope you’re still enjoying Lana
literally but i just enjoy good music and don’t care about others opinions which makes life even better. nothing wrong with a straight male listening to good singing.
norman fucking rockwell nfr - 1:36 mariners apartment complex - 7:00 venice bitch - 11:28 fuck it i love you - 16:24 doin' time - 21:57 love song - 25:24 cinnamon girl - 30:38 how to disappear - 34:04 california - 37:54 the next best american record - 42:27 the greatest - 48:50 bartender - 53:52 happiness is a butterfly - 1:00:01 hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have, but i have it - 1:07:30
according to genius, the “black narcissist” is actually another version of herself. lana uses the color to describe the condition of depression in multiple songs, including 2014’s “black beauty” and 2017’s “get free" lana has also mentioned that she doesn't have any song about race of any kind
LOL The way you stop listening to the last track. She's not talking about a person. By "black narcissist" she means another part of herself. Like her depression. So "Shaking her ass" AKA performing ... is the only thing that has kept depression off her back.
the album title and single is based on Norman Perceval Rockwell who was an American painter and illustrator. His works were known to reflect American culture and the American dream. the ‘Fing’ suggests that the dream is dead maybe and that things are a lot darker and corrupt like her relationships perhaps
in the last song quoting “got this black narcissist off my back, she couldn’t care less and i never cared more” she’s referring to her own persona/soul, wbk that lana has serious mental health problems, so that’s how she sees a part of herself that haunts her to this day also what she means by hope can be dangerous, especially for a woman like herself, who has lived through many ups and downs, these lyrics convey a sense of desperation and emptiness, which may suggest that she places a great deal of importance on maintaining hope, despite the risk, she also acknowledges the struggles with her depression, and the power of hope, the song is a reminder that even in our lowest moments, we should never give up on hope.
ahh lana has so many different types of genres in her discography. she even has a song with playboi carti & 2 songs with asap rocky. she can rap if she wanted frfr😭
@@mkmetri yes you have to!! the features are on her album “lust for life” and the songs are called groupie love & summer bummer. also there’s an unreleased song called ridin she has with rocky ,she raps on that one😭
Lana has rapped in unreleased songs! She's not going to be the next Kendrick or anything but there's this cute girlish quality to it that I enjoy. Listen to "Playground (another lonely day)" "Live or Die" and "Summer of Sam"
Man, this reaction was everything! Lana is a masterpiece, all her music is amazing! You will be wrapped up in that beautiful, magical voice... some call her Witch, because her music casts spells on you, and I saw that magic happening in this reaction. Thank you!!!
Everytime I see someone reacting to Lana's, i just love it again with through that person. And I understand her art with another perspective. So thanks. And also, i cant wait to see your reaction on Ocean bvd especially A&W
lana's influence to most of the new artists in the industry is extremely evident, from the sound and style up to the concepts and lyricism. she has obviously revolutionized the music industry in a way that is inclusive, experimental, and creative
Hi ! I am an hardcore lana stan, she is truly amazing. she grew up in Lake Placid, NY as elizabeth grant on 21 june 1985. At 15,she had an alc0h°l addictioin. Her mother (we don't like her!!) hit her, and her father never defended her (she sings it on wildfire wildflower, Blue banisters). She isso so mysterious. Behind every lyric, there's a reason behind it. Mesmerizing. discography: 2012-... disclaimer: -she released before 20212 multiple albums (sirens, AKA lizzy grant,...) under other names than lana, BORN TO DIE/PARADISE - 2012 ULTRAVIOLENCE - 2014 HONEYMOON - 2015 LUST FOR LIFE - 2017 NFR - 2019 VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS - 2020 (poetry book) CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB - 2021 BLUE BANISTERS - 2021 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE4S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD - 2023 LASSO - 2024 not confirmed yet, it's a country album according to her Norman Rockwell is an american painter , he was popular in the '60-'70. she reffers to many 70's culture in this album. I thinkyou would like her album from 2017: "Lust for life", it has an ethereal cinematic vibe. ASAP ROCKY and playboy carti feature on it. Her voice is tender on it. There are some trap beats like doin time on that album, so idk if you'll like based on your reaction
So, the part you left on the last song many fans interpret(like me) as being a metaphor for herself. The Black narcissist being her shadow, the things she doesn't want to show, her vulnerability, altogether her shadow. And 'shaking her ass' would be masking all of that with a wild life and being someone she's not, following standards that are set for her and other young women to be fun, and put out, and be less frigid. It's and easy lyric to misinterpret, but anyone can thing whatever they want about it.
DON’T GET ME STARTED ON HONEYMOON!!! Till this day, I can’t believe that someone in our day and age would create such a fucking masterpiece of a song (and record)!
Beautiful to see how she enchants you, like she does with almost everyone that listens to her, ive got friends in the punk scène, hip hop lovers, edm listeners they all really got into her. Really cool man!! Would love to see more reactions to her, listen to dealer, shades of cool or yayo,youll love it
Dont listen to people telling you to do her early work first, you shoul get to it sometime, but judging by the songs you were vibing to you'd like her later albums, like blue banister, chemtrails over the country club, and did you know that theres a tunnel under ocean boulevard
I don’t think I’d like her earlier work if it wasn’t for liking her later work first. I’m the classic saw high praise on NFR first type person, and I hear a lot of weakness on things like BTD, but I can see where she was going, so they’re far more enjoyable now.
@@augusttierney3199 I know I’m late to replying but decided to rewatch this reaction again but how did you see weakness in BTD? I don’t get what you mean by that. It’s still spent 550 weeks on the billboard 200. It’s still charting after over 10 years. It literally spent 10 full years on the billboard since it was released. It was still in the best selling albums of last year too. On some lists. I’ve watched a lot of reactions and I’d say especially with younger people they will like BTD more. Ocean Blvd is very heavy and personal and a lot to take in. Lust For Life is easier but the second half is better if you know her previous. Chemtrails i guess you could do randomly and the rest maybe but she has personal references that people might not pick up on without googling. People are always gonna like Born to Die, Summertime Sadness, Blue Jeans, National Anthem, Dark Paradise, Radio and Video Games. I’m not counting the Paradise EP edition but BTD. Off To The Races, Diet Mountain Dew, Carmen, Million Dollar Man and This Is What Makes US Girls are all amazing songs but it depends who’s listening. I just named the other ones because they’re more known.
“black narcissist” is a metaphor/she means her state of mind, her depression and mental health that follows her around…that dark side of herself. Black used to describe the mood, a color you would associate with depression and depression can be associated with narcissistic tendencies. People who judge mental health often say that you might be too self involved/narcissistic tendencies.
@1:12:07 Bro, she uses a lot of colors to associate feelings or emotions. Red, White, Blue, Green, Violet... has been used a lot in her songs, and Black as well (Black Beauty). In the last song when she uses "Black Narcissist" she's referring to her mother. She said that "shaking her ass" was the only thing that got "her mother" off of her back, because due to Lana's "bad behavior," her mother sent her to abroad institutions (refer to her song Fingertips). No worries bro, keep listening to Lana. Don't get scared by the colors on her songs. Don't "judge her like a picture book...by the colors" Don't forget to read! lol (See what I did here with Brooklyn Baby?)
Black narcissist is actually referring to her mother. She's saying her mother has a dark soul. She talks about it more in the second verse, "She couldn't care less, and I never cared more, so there's no more to say about that."
You genuinely made me more observant when listening to music and now I listen to music I've already heard and fall in love with the song even more idk where I would be without music. Just wanted to say thanks for helping me see music in a different way, congrats on 10k🎉
You are so genuine and FUNNY, LOVE THAT, love that you also say that you're open minded since a lot of people be insecure listening to this type of music where you're from, haha respect for that, clearly it's worked in your favour too. Lana is QUEEN. Just wait till you hear the other albums ..
Thank you for this amazing reaction. I have become such a Lana Stan that I’ve gone down such a deep rabbit hole that I’m watching hour long random reaction videos! Ha. That’s how good she is and it’s great to see someone hear it for the first time. As many have said, yeah, “black narcissist” is not referring to a black person at all. Lana is so well read and educated she often references literature and other cultural things. I think she is shouting out the 1947 classic film “Black Narcissus.” And she is talking about herself on top of that. So it definitely has nothing to do with race. It was really interesting that the one song you didn’t really vibe with was “Doin’ Time” which is a cover of the 90s song by Sublime and the only song I think on the album that she didn’t write. I definitely want to hear you dig deeper into some of these lyrics. I agree her phrasing vocal performance is one of the stronger elements of Lana, and the production by Jack Antonoff including some of the incredible changes is amazing but her songwriting is what makes her an absolute legend at this point. It’s funny you say she should try rapping, definitely do a reaction to the entire BORN TO DIE album because it has a LOT or hip hop influence. And of course on LUST FOR LIFE she does tracks with ASAP Rocky and The Weeknd. You won’t find a better album than NFR but I would love to see what you think of BORN TO DIE. Or the song “White Dress” which I think you will die at a certain moment because she has an iconic and insane vocal phrasing moment that you will flip out over. More lana :)
Lana has always supported every race and colour. She also has a song called text book and Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he’s deep‐sea fishing where she emphasise that
the country comment- its interesting youve noticrd that because after that album she went really country tone, country but lana basically. shes even coming out with an officially country album ''Lasso this year
Lana once explained on an interview why she named the album and the opening track Norman F Rockwell. Norman Rockwell was a painter/illustrator very well known during the 20th century for portraying the American way of life. Sometimes with very idealistic images, sometimes with a bit critical tones towards the American way. During the process of writing and recording the album, Lana started to notice how those songs were painting very vivid scenes of her own feelings and personal life, and how they could relate to how she saw where the American way was setting during that time (2017-2019). Lana kinda explains the name of this album as an affirmation “Norman F****** Rockwell!” in a sense of how impressed she was by the fact that one century later his portraits are very accurate of the idealistic side of the American way but also the critical side of it. A lot of people notice even in the songs that seem to be about relationships, that this album has very political undertones, those undertones becoming very explicit during the greatest. One exemple can be the song F*** it I Love You, where she sings “you moved to California but it’s just a state of mind, it turns out everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie”, which is her way of saying “New York and California are very idealized places by literally everyone, both those places can be a sh*tty hole sometimes, that’s why I left New York, that’s why I see all my insecurities even in a place I idealized so much like California”.
tbh i love when swifties are also little fuckers it's so sweet for me idk why (in case you didn't know, "little fuckers" is the name of lana fans we kinda appropriated to ourselves this name because on a meet and greet (?) someone said "can you say hi to my group chat 'little fuckers'?" and lana went "'sup little fuckers!")
The group chat was named that because in one of her lives on Instagram when someone leaked her music she in the moment said "you little fuckers" 😅 but it's actually not as cute of a fanbase name as the little fuckers think *INSERT METRI LAUGH* 😅😅😅
If you get it, she will consume you. Every single album has its own place. Elizabeth Grant, aka Lana Del Rey…she’s a special one. 1:11 She’s had a very difficult relationship with her mother, and other very difficult life traumas. She’s very vulnerable inside her lyrics, throughout her albums. 👌🏼🔥
In the last track she said shaking my ass is the only thing thats got this black narcissist of my back. She isnt talking about a black person. She is just talking about how being free and dancing and entertaining is the only thing that sets her free of the dark narcissistic and and bad egotistic feeling that comes with being a celebrity. She is talking about that dark side of her not black people. She is an ally. Do blue banisters next
@@mkmetri Here is a sidenote from Parfums Caron: The house's first famous perfume, Narcisse Noir (1911), reached Hollywood. In the 1950s, on the set of Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson pronounces the name of the perfume. The title of the 1947 film Black Narcissus refers to this very perfume. I sent you the cup of coffee Paypal message.
this is soo late, but norman rockwell is a man who creates paintings of really picture perfect american families like with a son and a daughter and two happily married parents, but lana’s life was never like that so she’s saying like ‘norman f*cking rockwell’ because it’s all a lie! i hope this makes sense.
Metri, the producer on 'Mirrorball', Jack Antonoff, produced 11 of these tracks. He started off with Taylor and his career has snowballed to so SO many talented artists. Also, "Doing Time/Summertime" is a cover she did of a Sublime song. That's why the arrangement doesn't feel like her. She did as a track for a documentary on the band. I agree that it shouldn't have been put on the album and breaks the flow of her original tracks. 👏
I know I’m late to the party but I’ve been loving your videos! It’s probably been mentioned already but Doin’ Time is a cover of a Sublime song she just lanaified it.
I’ve always thought that the black narcissist was her mother. I think you would realy enjoy her latest album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean blvd
i think this is one of my fav reactions ive seen to lana lmao ur so into it i love it, also i think youd likeher newer albums and maybee honeymoon? some very pretty vocals in that one
So idk if you knew or noticed this but at the end of the songs it tells you who writes the songs & most of the albums that you’ve really liked, Jack Antonoff has been a co-writer & produced on those albums! Aka Folklore, Melodrama, & NFR :) ♡
you absolutely have to go through her discography in chronological order to understand more of her and artistry and you'll also see how much rap influences her music and lyricism, especially on her mainstream debut album born to die, which was a cultural reset that influenced pop music and all of these other girls you mentioned. as a fan of hers of 12 years now, that was a great reaction to watch! even if NFR isn't really in my top 5
I asked for something more of a soft singing tune … YALL RECOMMENDED SOMETHING LEGENDARY 😮💨. this shit was so beautiful man this was literally exactly what i was looking for. YALL KNOW ME OR SOME?! cuh nah. but i can’t just pick one favorite song off here man it all sounded so beautiful... but gun to the back of my head and i HAD to make a choice. “LOVE SONG” was chef kiss gang. RECOMMEND MORE AND THANK YOU FOR 5K YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE 💙 and for the new people i only do vids like these to find some shit for my playlist gang 😂
Also i accidentally cut out too much of venice bitch 😭 my bad twin, youtube gave me ptsd editing these type of videos
Please react to Renee Rapps Snow Angel deluxe album! She just played Regina George in the new mean girls movie and she had the biggest debut album this year. She has the best voice I have ever heard and the songs are amazing. You will love it so much and will be shocked. You won’t regret it for sure.
love song is my fav too
I'm kinda upset that you didn't finish hope is a dangerous thing all because of the black narcissist lyric !!! You missed out on one hell of a closer ! Black narcissist is like the darker parts of herself that she would like to not exist but are there .. has nothing to do with race my guy lol
@@dylancook8863 i’m new here i didn’t know 😂
@mkmetri it's okay you can redeem yourself ! I believe in you brother ! 😅😊
When she said “Black Narcissist” she’s referring to herself, like her dark depressive side that she’s tries to break free from by dancing and partying. She explained this after people were confused. It makes sense because she uses colors to display the different parts of her mind. The line before it is “white gown sociopath”
But I think she had some beef with azalea banks by that time also
@@rafaelpallens7856 she said herself that the lyric wasnt about Azalea Banks
@@seeleb3056 thanks for de detail
It's about her mother i think
About her mother...
Love seeing black men tap into their art and just like being happy and joyful. It’s so simple but society does not let yall just be yall, some dudes would be like oh she’s so soft why are you listening to that, and they miss out on so much. Made me happy finding this video, I hope you’re still enjoying Lana
literally but i just enjoy good music and don’t care about others opinions which makes life even better. nothing wrong with a straight male listening to good singing.
I think it was ynw melly that said he a gangsta but he loves Adele.
@@mkmetriabsolutely ❤
"i want her to read me a book" Well lucky you Lana has a spoken word poetry album
“Why she switch it up like that?” *waiting for the A&W reaction video*
LITERALLY.
Fr the meaning of that one really speaks to my heart though
BORN TO DIE HAS TO BE YOUR NEXT LANA ALBUM.
agreed!!!
Agreed
Yes! It’s pure beat, and Lana RAPS
No no no please react to Ultraviolence or honeymoon
@@arianna4351whyy😢
"this aint loud enough" ur so real for that
norman fucking rockwell
nfr - 1:36
mariners apartment complex - 7:00
venice bitch - 11:28
fuck it i love you - 16:24
doin' time - 21:57
love song - 25:24
cinnamon girl - 30:38
how to disappear - 34:04
california - 37:54
the next best american record - 42:27
the greatest - 48:50
bartender - 53:52
happiness is a butterfly - 1:00:01
hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have, but i have it - 1:07:30
Tysmsmsmsm
the way he kept saying that she's a freak when she LITERALLY has a song called freak😭
according to genius, the “black narcissist” is actually another version of herself. lana uses the color to describe the condition of depression in multiple songs, including 2014’s “black beauty” and 2017’s “get free"
lana has also mentioned that she doesn't have any song about race of any kind
ok ok thank you for the knowledge
WE LOVE A KING WHO LISTENS TO HIS AUDIENCE
LOL The way you stop listening to the last track. She's not talking about a person.
By "black narcissist" she means another part of herself. Like her depression.
So "Shaking her ass" AKA performing ... is the only thing that has kept depression off her back.
this is the first album i've ever listened to by Lana and I fell in love with it. My favorite being "How to Disappear"
Actually she has an audiobook. It's called "Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass" so, yes, she may read you a book by herself!!! ✨
the album title and single is based on Norman Perceval Rockwell who was an American painter and illustrator. His works were known to reflect American culture and the American dream. the ‘Fing’ suggests that the dream is dead maybe and that things are a lot darker and corrupt like her relationships perhaps
in the last song quoting “got this black narcissist off my back, she couldn’t care less and i never cared more” she’s referring to her own
persona/soul, wbk that lana has serious mental health problems, so that’s how she sees a part of herself that haunts her to this day
also what she means by hope can be dangerous, especially for a woman like herself, who has lived through many ups and downs, these lyrics convey a sense of desperation and emptiness, which may suggest that she places a great deal of importance on maintaining hope, despite the risk, she also acknowledges the struggles with her depression, and the power of hope, the song is a reminder that even in our lowest moments, we should never give up on hope.
He didn't let cinnamon girl end, it one of the best outro's
yes
I wish I found a man that loves Lana like I do ❤so precious so happy he’s loved it
You might as well do a Lana series now 😂 your soul needs it.
we knew you’d love her! the song you weren’t feeling fr is a cover (doin time)…not a lana original so she really didn’t miss 🤣
An appropriate reaction to how to disappear. That song changed my brain chemistry
This was the first time I saw the lyrics and I realized how dumb I am.. Now it is one of my favorites.
This album slap me hard cuz it took me 4 years to realize how good it is 😢
ahh lana has so many different types of genres in her discography. she even has a song with playboi carti & 2 songs with asap rocky. she can rap if she wanted frfr😭
wtf no way 😭 i gotta listen to that
@@mkmetri yes you have to!!
the features are on her album “lust for life” and the songs are called groupie love & summer bummer. also there’s an unreleased song called ridin she has with rocky ,she raps on that one😭
Lana has rapped in unreleased songs! She's not going to be the next Kendrick or anything but there's this cute girlish quality to it that I enjoy. Listen to "Playground (another lonely day)" "Live or Die" and "Summer of Sam"
@@sparklecloverfucking love playground oml
Man, this reaction was everything! Lana is a masterpiece, all her music is amazing! You will be wrapped up in that beautiful, magical voice... some call her Witch, because her music casts spells on you, and I saw that magic happening in this reaction. Thank you!!!
Everytime I see someone reacting to Lana's, i just love it again with through that person. And I understand her art with another perspective. So thanks. And also, i cant wait to see your reaction on Ocean bvd especially A&W
Exactly my thoughts. A&W will be a whole experience to him!!
@@pablitoperaFR BECAUSE HE LIKES RAP VERSES AND SHIT I CAN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO REACT TO IT 😭
lana's influence to most of the new artists in the industry is extremely evident, from the sound and style up to the concepts and lyricism. she has obviously revolutionized the music industry in a way that is inclusive, experimental, and creative
Doin’ Time is actually a cover, it was original sung by Sublime, but that is also a sample of ‘Summertime’ by Herbie Mann!
Originally is by George Gershwin. It’s from the play “Porgy and Bess”
its actually a chain reaction from an opera play thing
Hi !
I am an hardcore lana stan, she is truly amazing.
she grew up in Lake Placid, NY as elizabeth grant on 21 june 1985. At 15,she had an alc0h°l addictioin. Her mother (we don't like her!!) hit her, and her father never defended her (she sings it on wildfire wildflower, Blue banisters). She isso so mysterious. Behind every lyric, there's a reason behind it. Mesmerizing.
discography: 2012-...
disclaimer:
-she released before 20212 multiple albums (sirens, AKA lizzy grant,...) under other names than lana,
BORN TO DIE/PARADISE - 2012
ULTRAVIOLENCE - 2014
HONEYMOON - 2015
LUST FOR LIFE - 2017
NFR - 2019
VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS - 2020 (poetry book)
CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB - 2021
BLUE BANISTERS - 2021
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE4S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD - 2023
LASSO - 2024
not confirmed yet, it's a country album according to her
Norman Rockwell is an american painter , he was popular in the '60-'70. she reffers to many 70's culture in this album.
I thinkyou would like her album from 2017: "Lust for life", it has an ethereal cinematic vibe. ASAP ROCKY and playboy carti feature on it. Her voice is tender on it. There are some trap beats like doin time on that album, so idk if you'll like based on your reaction
I love how the first song that "missed" was a cover
So, the part you left on the last song many fans interpret(like me) as being a metaphor for herself. The Black narcissist being her shadow, the things she doesn't want to show, her vulnerability, altogether her shadow. And 'shaking her ass' would be masking all of that with a wild life and being someone she's not, following standards that are set for her and other young women to be fun, and put out, and be less frigid.
It's and easy lyric to misinterpret, but anyone can thing whatever they want about it.
I’m glad I’m just now finding your channel now I can binge
Also fun fact, Jack Antonoff (singer, cowriter, producer) collabs with BOTH Lana AND Taylor Swift!!!
AND Lorde 🥰
To listen to this masterpiece for the first time again! Nfr,ocean blvd, honeymoon are the holy trinity
DON’T GET ME STARTED ON HONEYMOON!!! Till this day, I can’t believe that someone in our day and age would create such a fucking masterpiece of a song (and record)!
Born to die first
rather born to die, ultraviolence, nfr
Lana Del Rey has FLOWS!!! it's so good how she mix her influences so smoothly
she makes timeless music
I LOVE watching guys react to Lana, I got tired of the stigma that only women listen to her, but she’s an artist for the people 🩵
Beautiful to see how she enchants you, like she does with almost everyone that listens to her, ive got friends in the punk scène, hip hop lovers, edm listeners they all really got into her. Really cool man!! Would love to see more reactions to her, listen to dealer, shades of cool or yayo,youll love it
Dont listen to people telling you to do her early work first, you shoul get to it sometime, but judging by the songs you were vibing to you'd like her later albums, like blue banister, chemtrails over the country club, and did you know that theres a tunnel under ocean boulevard
I don’t think I’d like her earlier work if it wasn’t for liking her later work first.
I’m the classic saw high praise on NFR first type person, and I hear a lot of weakness on things like BTD, but I can see where she was going, so they’re far more enjoyable now.
@@augusttierney3199 I know I’m late to replying but decided to rewatch this reaction again but how did you see weakness in BTD? I don’t get what you mean by that. It’s still spent 550 weeks on the billboard 200. It’s still charting after over 10 years. It literally spent 10 full years on the billboard since it was released. It was still in the best selling albums of last year too. On some lists. I’ve watched a lot of reactions and I’d say especially with younger people they will like BTD more. Ocean Blvd is very heavy and personal and a lot to take in. Lust For Life is easier but the second half is better if you know her previous. Chemtrails i guess you could do randomly and the rest maybe but she has personal references that people might not pick up on without googling.
People are always gonna like Born to Die, Summertime Sadness, Blue Jeans, National Anthem, Dark Paradise, Radio and Video Games. I’m not counting the Paradise EP edition but BTD. Off To The Races, Diet Mountain Dew, Carmen, Million Dollar Man and This Is What Makes US Girls are all amazing songs but it depends who’s listening. I just named the other ones because they’re more known.
i love watching people ascend while reacting to ms lana for the first time💅🏼
“black narcissist” is a metaphor/she means her state of mind, her depression and mental health that follows her around…that dark side of herself. Black used to describe the mood, a color you would associate with depression and depression can be associated with narcissistic tendencies. People who judge mental health often say that you might be too self involved/narcissistic tendencies.
thank you for the background 🫡
@1:12:07 Bro, she uses a lot of colors to associate feelings or emotions. Red, White, Blue, Green, Violet... has been used a lot in her songs, and Black as well (Black Beauty). In the last song when she uses "Black Narcissist" she's referring to her mother. She said that "shaking her ass" was the only thing that got "her mother" off of her back, because due to Lana's "bad behavior," her mother sent her to abroad institutions (refer to her song Fingertips). No worries bro, keep listening to Lana. Don't get scared by the colors on her songs. Don't "judge her like a picture book...by the colors" Don't forget to read! lol (See what I did here with Brooklyn Baby?)
Black narcissist is actually referring to her mother. She's saying her mother has a dark soul. She talks about it more in the second verse, "She couldn't care less, and I never cared more, so there's no more to say about that."
You genuinely made me more observant when listening to music and now I listen to music I've already heard and fall in love with the song even more idk where I would be without music. Just wanted to say thanks for helping me see music in a different way, congrats on 10k🎉
appreciate you 🫶🏿
It’s soo good too see when people just keep realising how genius she is❤
You are so genuine and FUNNY, LOVE THAT, love that you also say that you're open minded since a lot of people be insecure listening to this type of music where you're from, haha respect for that, clearly it's worked in your favour too. Lana is QUEEN. Just wait till you hear the other albums ..
I hope you finished the rest of “hope is a dangerous thing…” now that you have background. It’s an incredible song, and one of my faves.
Cinnamon girl & ART deco ❤️
been waiting for this one !!!! this is one of my favourite albums ever 🫶
Thank you for this amazing reaction. I have become such a Lana Stan that I’ve gone down such a deep rabbit hole that I’m watching hour long random reaction videos! Ha. That’s how good she is and it’s great to see someone hear it for the first time. As many have said, yeah, “black narcissist” is not referring to a black person at all. Lana is so well read and educated she often references literature and other cultural things. I think she is shouting out the 1947 classic film “Black Narcissus.” And she is talking about herself on top of that. So it definitely has nothing to do with race. It was really interesting that the one song you didn’t really vibe with was “Doin’ Time” which is a cover of the 90s song by Sublime and the only song I think on the album that she didn’t write. I definitely want to hear you dig deeper into some of these lyrics. I agree her phrasing vocal performance is one of the stronger elements of Lana, and the production by Jack Antonoff including some of the incredible changes is amazing but her songwriting is what makes her an absolute legend at this point. It’s funny you say she should try rapping, definitely do a reaction to the entire BORN TO DIE album because it has a LOT or hip hop influence. And of course on LUST FOR LIFE she does tracks with ASAP Rocky and The Weeknd. You won’t find a better album than NFR but I would love to see what you think of BORN TO DIE. Or the song “White Dress” which I think you will die at a certain moment because she has an iconic and insane vocal phrasing moment that you will flip out over. More lana :)
My favorite album of Lana.
She not talking about a person her inner demons and addiction
Lana has always supported every race and colour. She also has a song called text book and Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he’s deep‐sea fishing where she emphasise that
the country comment- its interesting youve noticrd that because after that album she went really country tone, country but lana basically. shes even coming out with an officially country album ''Lasso this year
Lana once explained on an interview why she named the album and the opening track Norman F Rockwell.
Norman Rockwell was a painter/illustrator very well known during the 20th century for portraying the American way of life. Sometimes with very idealistic images, sometimes with a bit critical tones towards the American way.
During the process of writing and recording the album, Lana started to notice how those songs were painting very vivid scenes of her own feelings and personal life, and how they could relate to how she saw where the American way was setting during that time (2017-2019). Lana kinda explains the name of this album as an affirmation “Norman F****** Rockwell!” in a sense of how impressed she was by the fact that one century later his portraits are very accurate of the idealistic side of the American way but also the critical side of it. A lot of people notice even in the songs that seem to be about relationships, that this album has very political undertones, those undertones becoming very explicit during the greatest. One exemple can be the song F*** it I Love You, where she sings “you moved to California but it’s just a state of mind, it turns out everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie”, which is her way of saying “New York and California are very idealized places by literally everyone, both those places can be a sh*tty hole sometimes, that’s why I left New York, that’s why I see all my insecurities even in a place I idealized so much like California”.
You are going to LOVE her discography!!
Did you know Kanye asked lana to sing young and beautiful to kims engagement party!
ive watched this video 3 times in the last 2 weeks it's so fun
Watching this after you reacted to Lana's newest album hits different
ikr 😭 we came a loooooooong way.
LISTEN TO LUST FOR LIFE
tbh i love when swifties are also little fuckers it's so sweet for me idk why (in case you didn't know, "little fuckers" is the name of lana fans we kinda appropriated to ourselves this name because on a meet and greet (?) someone said "can you say hi to my group chat 'little fuckers'?" and lana went "'sup little fuckers!")
@christiandellipaoli2991 😂😂😂
The group chat was named that because in one of her lives on Instagram when someone leaked her music she in the moment said "you little fuckers" 😅 but it's actually not as cute of a fanbase name as the little fuckers think *INSERT METRI LAUGH* 😅😅😅
I FEEL LIKE HED LOVE THIS ONEEE
can’t wait to see your other reactions to lana!
i love when you pause and take the headphones off like you need a moment to reflect.
‘I want her to read me a book’ she has a poetry book called violets bend backwards over the grass I think there’s an audio version of it online
her music is genuinely something else. it’s incredible. definitely give her other albums a listen! Born To Die you should visit next!
lov ur reaction man, the way u feel lana is the right way
If you get it, she will consume you. Every single album has its own place. Elizabeth Grant, aka Lana Del Rey…she’s a special one. 1:11 She’s had a very difficult relationship with her mother, and other very difficult life traumas. She’s very vulnerable inside her lyrics, throughout her albums. 👌🏼🔥
Excellent reaction! Watching someone enjoy one of my favourite albums ever is the closest feeling to listening to it for the first time so THANK YOU!
This album and others is what I listen to when I'm getting ready to go out, smoke chill vibe sing, doing that rn reacting to you 🩷✨
valid reaction to f it ily that song changed my life
She has some rap inspired songs! She’s collabed with asap rocky, playboi carti, the weeknd…
In the last track she said shaking my ass is the only thing thats got this black narcissist of my back. She isnt talking about a black person. She is just talking about how being free and dancing and entertaining is the only thing that sets her free of the dark narcissistic and and bad egotistic feeling that comes with being a celebrity. She is talking about that dark side of her not black people. She is an ally. Do blue banisters next
thanks for the information 🫡😂. and i gotchu
@@mkmetri Here is a sidenote from Parfums Caron: The house's first famous perfume, Narcisse Noir (1911), reached Hollywood. In the 1950s, on the set of Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson pronounces the name of the perfume. The title of the 1947 film Black Narcissus refers to this very perfume. I sent you the cup of coffee Paypal message.
this is soo late, but norman rockwell is a man who creates paintings of really picture perfect american families like with a son and a daughter and two happily married parents, but lana’s life was never like that so she’s saying like ‘norman f*cking rockwell’ because it’s all a lie! i hope this makes sense.
finally someone who appreciates lana's vocals AND how to disappear 🥹
thanks for your appreciate to Mariners Apart complex
I love watching/listening to your reactions bc you catch up on every detail, you are just me when listening to music. ❤️
I think the times where you start singing it like when “the coture es lit” are my favorite parts of your videos
The trio of love song, cinnamon girl and htd is seriously hard to get through without balling your eyes out.
One of the best albums of 2010s
‘ doin time ‘ is a sublime cover
Give us more Lana!! Loved your reaction!!
Metri, the producer on 'Mirrorball', Jack Antonoff, produced 11 of these tracks. He started off with Taylor and his career has snowballed to so SO many talented artists.
Also, "Doing Time/Summertime" is a cover she did of a Sublime song. That's why the arrangement doesn't feel like her. She did as a track for a documentary on the band. I agree that it shouldn't have been put on the album and breaks the flow of her original tracks. 👏
Running it back after just the first line in ‘f*** it I love you’ is soooo real
skipping the outro of cinnamon girl ... jail
Right away! Right. away ! 😅
doin time is a cover btw
You need to see “Fck I love you”video!!! Lana is so beautiful there 🔥🔥🔥
I know I’m late to the party but I’ve been loving your videos! It’s probably been mentioned already but Doin’ Time is a cover of a Sublime song she just lanaified it.
I’ve always thought that the black narcissist was her mother. I think you would realy enjoy her latest album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean blvd
I already wa5ched this but i had to watch again. You are so freaking funny 😅
i think this is one of my fav reactions ive seen to lana lmao ur so into it i love it, also i think youd likeher newer albums and maybee honeymoon? some very pretty vocals in that one
Thank you for reminding me exactly why I fell in love with this album! Amazing reaction buddy 🙏
Norman Rockwell was a painter who just painted like the perfect all American family stereotype
React to her recent album "Did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean boulevard." It is very much peak Lana IMO
Bro, I enjoyed this. It's literally how I felt when I heard this masterpiece.
My new favorite thing is watch men becoming lana stans 😂
The song Doin Time isnt hers, she covered it
the t-t sound in bartender is supposed to mimic the sound of glasses clinking together. She truly is a genius, and i love your reactions!
The 7.5 score song is actually my fav song. Dying 🤣
The way her "Blue" on the 1st track made u replay nonstop already showed how this album would grind u hard 🤯
i subbed just bc of your laugh IT´S SO GOOD MY GOD
Soo true. It makes me laught all the time 😂😂
Right ??? 😅 same for real
So idk if you knew or noticed this but at the end of the songs it tells you who writes the songs & most of the albums that you’ve really liked, Jack Antonoff has been a co-writer & produced on those albums! Aka Folklore, Melodrama, & NFR :) ♡
YOU NEED TO DO IT ALLLLLL OMGGG I LOVED UR VIDEO SM
i didn’t think i would find anyone that dislikes doin time that’s honestly insane 😭
he’s a madman he didnt like off to the races either
you absolutely have to go through her discography in chronological order to understand more of her and artistry and you'll also see how much rap influences her music and lyricism, especially on her mainstream debut album born to die, which was a cultural reset that influenced pop music and all of these other girls you mentioned. as a fan of hers of 12 years now, that was a great reaction to watch! even if NFR isn't really in my top 5