Is Heroin that song?

[Creyk 17,819]

1 minute ago, FfFfFfFF said:

For me Coachella is that song.  I know everybody hated it, I hated it too but people should give another chance, it's is definetely a grower.

I love it a lot too, it's catchy and excellent. It's just sheep mentality, that makes many diss it...

[Creyk 17,819]

16 minutes ago, Yonce Jr said:

It's one of my least favs from Lust for Life.  it's not a bad bop tho.

 

7 minutes ago, John Wayne said:

that song being the worst on the album, then yes 

I used to be on the same opinion, I really was. But after listening to it over 50 times my opinion has changed

[Solitaiire 2,564]

12 minutes ago, Creyk said:

 

I used to be on the same opinion, I really was. But after listening to it over 50 times my opinion has changed

Well sis, if you listen to any song 50 times you're going to start to like it, even if it's a halsey song, so there's that

[Sneaky Oliver 22,219]

I don't like it that much. 

35 minutes ago, bostonGUY said:

I feel weird listening to a song glorifying heroin...

 

33 minutes ago, Creyk said:

But it glorifying an obviously negative thing is the main charm of the song!

The song is not glorifying heroin tho. It's clearly about the struggle to let go of your addictions and change.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

4 minutes ago, bostonGUY said:

I'll have to give it a good listen then

You don't have to if its triggering, but I do think that the lyrics and the placement on the record (From Heroin - Change - Get Free) is deliberate.

My in depth interpretation if it helps:

Spoiler

In this track shes struggling with the duality of her addiction - whatever that addiction might be, because the song is so metaphorical, it probably isn't actually about Heroin, but something else. She admitted to writing about alcohol through the lens of love during the BtD era, so perhaps this is a relapse? Or just love, bad relationships, self-doubt, mental trauma etc... Regardless

She's using the setting of Topanga and the story of the Manson murders as a metaphor for her struggle with addiction. Topanga, where the stars live is a place that the old Lana might have glamorized, in spite of all of the awful things about it,  but the "facts of life can make it hard to dream" - she can't find it in her to ignore the death and destruction in her addiction. She can't deny that her addiction has real consequences, and that they are life-ending. But still.. she's addicted, "I want to leave, I'll probably stay another year".

In the bridge she's on a bad high - and it's supposed to feel like it sonically. She's burning up (a theme she uses often), even though its still Winter and its cold (February). Her addiction is violent, like the blood on the walls from the Manson's victims. She'd be "lying if she said she wasn't sick of it" - she's tired of facing all of it and wants to give it up, even if its not apparent. Thus the final chorus changes perspectives. She's going to a sort of rehab, now she's dreaming about Marzipan (a drug, also a kind of sweet food?) to take her thoughts away (the inner, violent ones she explored earlier). She's getting on a literal aeroplane, and shes leaving her old man - again (she was sent away to a boarding school because of her severe alcohol addiction and later ended up in rehab at a very young age before eventually working at an outreach program for addicts and alcoholics) this time she's going to actually get the help she needs, so that she can say that she's "really changed". She ends the song saying that although there's so much chaos in this city, and that it makes her crazy, there's a faint glimmer of hope that she can change "all of her evil ways and ****"... She'd be lying if she said she wasn't sick of it..

Which is why the next song is Change, followed by Get Free. It's a logical progression.

 

[Yonce Jr 333]

20 minutes ago, Creyk said:

 

I used to be on the same opinion, I really was. But after listening to it over 50 times my opinion has changed

For some reason it kinda reminds me of Guns and Roses, and I like that song. Who knows maybe in a couple of months I'll like it more.

[Creyk 17,819]

1 hour ago, Solitaiire said:

Well sis, if you listen to any song 50 times you're going to start to like it, even if it's a halsey song, so there's that

 I didn't manage to do it with DWUW and PI

I really wanted to

[SirLudicopro 1,351]

It’s the best song on the album yes 

[crybrowz 3,310]

It's def in my top 5 Lana songs, everything about it is so amazing