Therapist Reacts To: National Anthem by Lana Del Rey *How is this the first time I'm being this?!?*
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No one talks about how pretty Mere is ❤
Love her hair
Right?
Her beauty is captivating, but what makes her stand out is her facial expressions and how they express empathy.❤
She is very Chemtrails era coded
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That epilogue is one of the most gorgeous things I ever heard in music. I wonder if it's a coincidence that the gunshot sounds as she is saying "He was torn"...
Omg I never noticed 😭😭
You definitely have to do ''Tropico'' some day! It's her biggest production (a short film containing three of her songs)
Yesss
Omg YES 👆👆👆
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah!
Y E S
This is the first time I have ever come across one of your videos and happily I clicked on it. As a long time admirer of the great Ms. Lana Del Rey, I thankfully appreciate your analysis. Just subscribed to your channel. I so look forward to watching your other videos, Lana and otherwise. You could probably devote an entire channel just to analyzing and reacting to Lana's lyrics. How this woman has never won a Grammy or multiple Grammys is an absolute disgrace.
The 'Born to Die: The Paradise Edition' album to me is Lana's masterpiece and the most preeminent musical effort of the 21st century by any artist to this point. The lyrics, the instrumentation, everything is just perfect in every possible way. There is no song on the entire record that I do not consider to be great to listen to or watch on a video when applicable. It is one of those albums that just mesmerizes you on first listen from start to finish and leaves you in awe. And I still feel this way over a decade later since its release. Cannot count how many late nights I spent listening and re-listening to this album. I do not so much as lament that it has been this long since it came out, but that I was alive when it did come out and experienced it in real time. Unlike let's say the Beatles or a number of the classic rock albums that came out in the 1960's or 1970's.
Anyway, thanks again for this video and your channel. Wish you the best personally, as well as professionally.😃
Absolutely loved your reaction.. I saw a theory saying that Lana’s discography serves as almost like a warning… from a big sis/ mother figure.. especially in her early work BTD & UV… she mentions a lot about drug abuse, abuse, codependency, and toxic relationships.. each song is meant to be triggering and brutal.. it’s showing you what may and will happen if you go down that path.. especially with ofc the BTD. Music video and UV music video. A lot of ppl assumed Lana was glamorizing and encouraging that type of toxicity but In reality she’s warning you.. definitely revisit or watch Carmen MV I feel like that song is a great example to what I’m saying…
The biracial comment was odd to me but I do love your pov and hearing different opinions 😊
I remember watching something a while ago where one of Lana's fans recommended that she sang as Marilyn in the beginning and she was like you know what ? That's a great idea 💡 and it was so tastefully done and she sang it so beautifully it was a perfect rendition to include in the story telling .. she's so good at what she does. How she hasn't won a single Grammy by this point is so far beyond me. How incredibly disrespectful after hearing the echoes of the countless voices calling it album of the year and song of the year for so many reasons, how many of the artists admitting how injected Lana's undoubted influence is in their own work, yet pass over her, again, it was so painful to watch. And then no hate to Taylor, but then drag Lana up onto that stage where she's off standing in the shadows, was absolutely heartbreaking. While Taylor thanks the academy for voting the way they do, which is a direct slap to Lana's face. They vote on what's the most popular and what makes them the most money. In saying all of this, I'm not saying that any of the winners don't deserve to win, I'm just pointing out the fact that Lana very clearly deserved her flowers. You can't say otherwise without sounding ignorant and foolish, among other adjectives. And like I've said, I'm more excited for the new album, The Tortured Poets Department (Lana's version) ❤
Great reaction as always! One of my favourite Lana songs. I've always felt it was an ironic take on our capitalist society. I think Lana believes money is important, especially as someone who didn't grow up with a whole lot, but like you said, it's not everything and really doesn't make you happy and I think that she is very aware of that. (not sure if you've heard it but she touches on this in her song Religion too, where she says "it never was about the money or the drugs, for you there's only love.") and I feel like this song is sort of being tongue in cheek when she says things like "money is the reason we exist". Like that's not what Lana actually believes, but it's the message that society and the media constantly seems to be pushing. I do know that Lana actually did date a very wealthy investment banker at one point when she was living in New York before she was famous, and I'm guessing that it's also partially about her initial feelings of inadequacy while being with him. (He says to be cool but, I don't know how yet) and eventually getting over that feeling and becoming more confident within the relationship. (He says to be cool but, I'm already coolest.) It's great this guy has money but it's really that feeling of love and safety that she wants from him.
Mere you’ve treated us today. We’ve been waiting for this!!!!
Loooove the typewriter on the background!!!
(and your reaction, as always)
I think se doesn't put Jackie O and Marilyn against each other or try to compare them, it's more like bringing them together. They both got attention from same man, they were both successful, but they also both lost the said man. Money didn't save either of them. To outside they where both beautiful, stylish and happy, but in the end there were two intelligent women who suffered. They were not that different after all, or should I say under the surface. Like ocean hides currents under it's surface
I lover how dramatic her facial expressions are 😂
Goddess. She’s at a whole different level.
Three observations: National Anthem was made during Obama era who also epitomized youth, is charismatic, distinguished-looking . . . similar to Chamelot, the JFK era. (2) Lana uses her poetry to send up obsession with designer clothes, shoes, and bags, sleek cars, diamond jewelry . . . the fast life (3) the Hamptons idyllic scenes on the yard on the waterfront are stolen from Tommy Hilfiger ads I am certain!
Trópico trópico trópico
Please react to the music video of burning desire or the lyrics of This is what makes us girls!!!
I think you hit it right on with the affairs, jfk and his wife didn’t marry for love it was for publicity of the “ideal family” and ideal man, jfk had a lot of affairs one being Marilyn Monroe
Amazing reaction as usual ♥️
you should definitely react to history of man by maisie peters, it is amazing and has Taylor swift type lyricism
Biracial here thank you it was not an easy road for my parents or myself ❤❤
Also, Lana Del Rey used a duplicate copy of Marilyn Monroe's dress, not the original. Unlike COUGH COUGH.
Pleaseee react to This is What Makes Us Girls!! the title says it all
Finally!!!! This is a really good song and im happy you did it. (Imo the demo one is better , change my mind)
you are so pretty!
one of her best bridges also yes those are her real tattoos
This is about JFK and Marilyn Monroe at his birthday party. Great job Lana!
React to "Tropico" is a short film by Lana and has important themes!
omg yessss i missed ur videos❤
Please, please react to her song Blue Banisters it’s so meaningful and nostalgic
Mend is so beautiful, omg ❤
I just know you are a fantastic mom!❤
Thx for the videos! Please react to the high by the beach music video❤
Something abt you reminds me of Kate Walsh
the way you were slightly surprised when you saw Asap playing the president haha....I think choosing a black man to play such an iconic president was a very smart choice by Lana.
You should react to Brooklyn baby!!!!!!!!!
LANA IS AMAZING
I love your reactions, you are so real for this, The next one could be The other woman by Lana PLSSS❤
This is why I refuse to marry anyone I need to date them for 4 years and live in the same house for 2-4 years then decide if I wannna marry
Please react to Carped Bed EP from Ethel Cain
Its a satire Mere ❤
9:50 my wwwwhhhooo you are real mother???? I’ve saying to my friends she’s look good mother and always I send to them you pictures and mother mommy mom mama i don’t know you even married I should go do my research about my mother😭😭😭😭
But you still my mother don’t even think I’ll leave you alone without saying mommy😭😭
so real 😭😭😭
Day 50 of asking for a reaction to Thunder by Lana
please react to love. that's a such important music video.
React Trópico Pleaseeeeeeeeee
Lana and ASAP Rocky actually have a few songs together: Ridin, Groupie Love, and Summer Bummer.
The part where she says "dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me" the scene just breaks me. Her eyes really show the sadness in that scene and it's just that it brings lot of tears when she looks at the camera
similar to the Born to Die music video when she sings "...and the road gets tough, I don't know why", she conveys sadness very well
"Lock and lonely; I need somebody to hold me"
National Anthem is an absolute definition of iconic and a proof of lana's aesthetic and lyrical genius
I have been WAITING for this video. National Anthem is absolutely iconic
I definitely hear a lot of the commentary on wealth in this song as being a bit satirical. Like “money is the reason we exist / everybody knows it, it’s a fact” is kind of campy/comedic to me, I feel like she’s falling into the characterization that romanticizes these things, is chasing the “American Dream” but really there’s so much suffering in the things being chased, such as her singing about “drinking and driving / overdose and dying” off our need/want to chase these grand things and thrills. I feel like it’s a piece that brings the Born to Die era together in looking at the story she is really telling behind the things she is singing and writing about. You did recognize this through the video but I wanted to say! There’s lots of complex reasons I imagine behind the decisions and the perspective of one watching/listening can vary so much.
Revisiting the different eras of her after Ocean really makes me see how she experiences the duel between her idea of the United States, the American dream, and the idealization of that life reflected in the media she grew up with, and how much it helped me with it feeling that grief for myself, not for the United States in my case, but for the romanticized ideas we grew up with
I needed this after my agony from the scammy’s. I’m tired of them playing in our and HER fucking FACE. 😭💔
i hope she never attends again honestly they hate her
@@yakuzio I said that on my Twitter. I genuinely hope she never submits or even goes again and I’m being so serious. She got Artist of the Decade. And I’ll take that W. That speaks volumes.
i think she plays both marilyn and jackie as a way to say i can be your everything. your national anthem. i can be your wife and your mistress, i have enough love for two women to give you the world. also could represent the duality of women and her own insecurities. the pressure to be the perfect woman as jackie represented in her time and the pressure to be a sex symbol and be desired all the time like marilyn. you either were the boring mother or the harlot no man could ever take seriously, you could only be the housewife or the whore. lana talks a lot about that in her music.
In fact, the blue dress carries a very relevant meaning for the clip! The baby blue represents purity, as she 'displays' herself over the dead animal, in these scenes, representing the wild - and slightly dangerous - life she submits to. The false idea of power; of being the "pretador", but in reality ("Blurring the lines between real and the fake") all individuals there are subjugated, even if they appear to be "grand and powerful" with so much money and spotlight. Which, on the other hand, basically represents an empty and meaningless life ("We’re on a quick sick rampage
Wining and dining
Drinking and driving
Excessive buying
Overdose and dying)
Lana was so right in including Marylin in this idea! Because her life was about that...
I love the story telling in this song. How this evolves, she starts with 'he says to be cool but i don't know how yet' and in the second verse 'but I'm already coolest' and the ending showing all the dark side of it, or when she first asks 'can we party later on? But in the second parts she asks for diamonds. This is a masterpiece to me! Loved your reactions as usual!!!
i can't even believe how this woman doesn't have any Grammy for all the ART that she made and keep making it. Literally I cannot understand all those people from recording academy
BOARDING SCHOOL BY LANA OMG IM BEGGGINNNG FOR U TO REACT 2 IT!!! its super old but im sure it will leave U shook
A lot, indeed. I, too, was jarred despite expecting the boom would happen at some point. This is beautifully sad. Lana is so good at beautifully sad. ❤
I love every Lana del rey reaction you do
I think she wasn’t playing two roles( Jackie and Marylin) i personally think she played Marylin as the First Lady instead of Jackie and that the outcome of him being shot was “inevitable” and has nothing to do with whom he stayed…. Some sort of criticism on the public and how they always have put women against each other and so on
Bangs look so good on you omgg
I feel like she plays a role of both Marilyn and Jackie due to her identifying herself as "the other woman" and with Marilyn it's obvious, but Jackie also was kinda "other women" to JFK becaus the only thing he was truly faithful and devoted to was the country, that's why she asks him to for once make her feel like the national anthem. Blurring the line between real and the fake is how their marriage appeard perfect to the public, then when the press found out about Marilyn this fasade was ruined but even the soultry romance with Marilyn wasn't that ideal, because she also never was his "national anthem", but even though - both of them, still loved this man and chose to stick with this fake idealistic picture of him in their heads because they just wanted this love so bad. I also feel like the "love from sixth page" is what public perceives as this life they're aspiring to but they're also "blurring the lines between real and the fake" and don't see how this newspaper stories are fake and how it leads to unhappiness and "overdose and dyin" and that's why they praise money as their national anthem.
Just a recommendation here, but i think if u r going to react to a new Lana dong and mv together in one vdo, I think u should react to the audio first then the mv, this way u won't grt distracted by getting the lyrics and visuals coming at u at one (ee know how dense Lana's lyrics and visuals can we) and it will be fun to watch if the vibes u get from the music matches the visuals
React "Dark but Just a game" by Lana Del Rey
i second this ^
may you react to the music video of "music to watch boys too"?
Mere react to “Eu Sei Que Eu Vou Te Amar” by Maysa. She was one of the greatest Brazilian composers and singers of the 50s and 70s, with a poetic and melancholic air. In my cr@z! mind she would be Lana Del Rey's “Brazilian Vovó 👵🏼”
Ia ser lindo ❤
Blurring the lines between real and the fake. What's the Truth? What's perception? Is there a difference? It's the human condition, and no amount of money can buy you a way out of heartbreak we all experience in the face of death
i think shes talking about how much shes griefing cuz ive never heard her talk so positive about a man without sarcasm still sarcastic but.... idk
Ok so … are we not going to talk about the roach 🪳 that appears in the back at 14:06 - 15:00 and 17:46 😂😂😂😂😂
Mere you’re sooooo gorgeous
i just want to say you are so gorgeous! you remind me of Elizabeth olsen and lily collins a bit!
I've been following your channel since you started reacting to Lana, i love how you chose to do separate reactions to songs rather than whole album reactions. Not only is it great for your channel to bring in viewers regularly, it also allows for a in depth analysis of each song which i love from you. ❤
Please react to "Big Eyes" and "I can fly" by Lana, you can react to the two in the same video because its from a movie about this man trying to steal his wife credits about paintings and she refuses to let that man takes what is hers. And I love it because big eyes is act 1 and I can fly is act 2 and is progressive
This video is iconic and song is a masterpiece ❤
this is really just a message of appreciation of you and your channel. it feels so grounded and real, and i love you for that. thank you for putting your content out there for us to enjoy!
You look extra gorgeous today! Keep these videos up! 🎀
Mere, could you please react to Chemtrails over the country club? If you haven't yet... And if you can, tell us the reason for that tornado to appear in the video, I never got that lol
PLEASE react to the tropico, it's almost half an hour long but you could do a live, i would LOVE IT!!!!
You should do Salvatore by lana del rey :) and Salvatore means savior.
I was in 3 mental hospitals and I am now in therapy and I just wanted to say you’re amazing 🍄
I'd love to see you react to the clips from Amy Winehouse's Back To Black album
102 million views and at least 400 of them are mine. I watched this video everyday for over a year. It makes me so emotional; it is gorgeous. Her epilogue just chokes me up every time. I loved learning about the Kennedys when I was younger. Lana did a really great job capturing the essence of them and the old American Dream that died with them. My husband's Great Uncle was even the police officer who was escorting Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot. I love her "trust no one" tattoo. Excellent analysis, Mere!
I am often suprised that so many miss the flip from irony to heartfelt that Lana often emphasis in her lyrics and singing presentation. It is so clear here, her whole voice changes and you even spotted in her eyes.
Maybe, being Australian im more in tune with tongue in cheek, because it is rare that we are literal in anything. But critics often falsely take Lana lyrics as always literal.
Hi!! I really love your videos and reacts, buuut i would like to say that the whole thing about Marilyn and JFK isn't true at all. It was a rumor made up decades after both of them died, and there's no real evidence (besides rumors people made) that could sustain it. In fact, Marilyn and the Kennedys barely saw each other when they were alive, and there's only three public appearances of them together (and in all, they were pretty far from each other).
I know this is something we all eventually hear when Marilyn's name is brought up and we end up by believing it, but it's just a fake news people made over a dead man and a dead woman to sell books and stories.
I love your videos, and I really hope you get to see this. ❤
I’m a new subscriber and I loved your tolerate it video. I just noticed the degree in the background!! O-H!
I love how the music video is about Marilyn and JFK affair and everything lana is asking, as both Marilyn and JFK wife, is to be his national anthem 🤧😭
I feel like you would have a lot to say about Lizzy Grant
not even in a bad way. I just mean it would be interesting to see your take on Lizzy
Girl we love when you stop and talk with us about your feelings and thoughts! It’s why I love your content🤗
You should so do religion. That song hits differently.
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The fact that Marilyn d!ed the day after singing Happy Birthday, and Kennedy also d!ed later, makes me think that this video is about they being together in some kind of heaven where they had a perfect life
She died like 4 months after singing happy bday
could you react to Yayo and Body eletric plsss?
Heyy could you react to "if you lie down WITH me", i think it's a beautiful Song and i love tour reactions so much!
Hey mere love the videos!! I’d love it if you reacted to thunder from blue banisters, I’ve somehow only just discovered it and I’m obsessed. Very much in the mould of nfr track, shitting on a man so think you’ll love it!!
Mere you’re literally glowing ❤️😭 by the way, off topic, you should definitely react to “Oblivion” by Grimes, it’s about the fear of walking alone at night as a woman. Ily🫶
We need Florence And The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful album REACTION
I need u reaction with put me in a movieeee please
Yes omg
i’m a huge huge lana fan, she’s my number one artist and has been for years but it’s total bs that she didn’t come from money. i love her but that’s one of the few things about her that im like girl it’s okay to admit that you came from a well off family. they weren’t super duper rich but she sometimes acts like she came from a lower class family instead of upper middle class and it’s irritating.
Hey, Mere. I wanted to ask if you have an email address for us. I thought you mentioned it during your livestream, but I can't remember! Sorry! And thank you. 😊
I really think this song and video is referencing her ex-boyfriend who suddenly passed away when she was young. She's comparing their love to the American Dream, and the monologue at the end is very telling of that. This is all just my opinion of course
You definitely have tio react to Mitskis 'Lush' Album
Please do Shades Of Cool