The Magic of Romanticizing Life: Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain are probably some of the most popular examples of celebrities that choose a "small-town romanticized aesthetic", but what you may not know is just how beneficial romanticizing your life in general can be. Ever since the meteoric rise of Lana Del Rey, social media, and later artists like Ethel Cain, reclaiming your narrative and appreciating your life has gained mainstream popularity. In todays video i wanted to talk about Lana Del Rey (aka Lizzy Grant), Ethel Cain, different eras in Art history, and the psychological benefits of romanticizing your life. Romanticizing life has definitely become a trend in recent years and hopefully in this video i can help explain why its much more impactful than people may know
If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out the others in the series!:
"How Lana Del Rey Reinvented The Vintage Aesthetic"
• How Lana Del Rey Reinv...
"How Lana Del Rey Changed The World"
• How Lana Del Rey Chang...
"The Untold Story of Lana Del Rey (Documentary)"
• The Untold Story of La...
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:43 Lana Del Rey
03:37 Its Okay to be Vulnerable (Sad Girl Aesthetic)
05:29 Lana Del Rey Unreleased Music
07:18 Ethel Cain: Preachers Daughter
09:00 True Meaning of "Romanticizing Life"
10:08 Inherent Significance of the Human Experience
12:50 Baroque Del Rey
13:50 Benefits of Romanticizing Life
15:09 Romanticizing Life "Cured" My Depression
16:14 The Divinity in Romanticizing Life
20:10 Romanticizing Life is Empowering
20:37 Outro
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Do you romanticize your life?
Trying to :-)
i think lana’s music rewired my brain. her video games music video gave me so much peace on first watch; now i seek that vintage-y simple living aesthetic in my own life. everything about her art is bare and raw and beautiful, and as someone who has experienced depression, that vulnerable expression is really comforting
No but I used to as a long time OG Lana fan, and I was honestly in a better headspace than now. I probably should again but I've been going through some really traumatic stuff lately
With lana and ethel, especially with lana
Si
if we don't romanticize the hardships, we die. period.
True
I found Lana when I was 13 and struggling with poverty and puberty and learning the cost of beauty in this dark world. She saved me and seeing someone romanticize the kind of life I was born into was so comforting. I was kidnapped at 14 and played her music in my head in my darkest times had her in my mind as an imaginary friend. Maybe it sounds unhealthy but sometimes you just have to survive.
you were kidnapped? are you okay now, what happened and what was it like if you don't mind sharing (ok if not)?
100% agree, romanticize abuse is not justify abuse. People should have right to romanticize abuse while simultaneously take the abuser to court.
I guess I've been subconsciously romanticizing my life ever since I had a psychotic breakdown and developed severe anxiety. Sometimes getting knocked on your ass is what will allow you to appreciate the simpler things.
I hear youuu. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to be able to smash your expectations and live in the moment. After I hit rock bottom a couple years back I was the happiest I had ever been lmaoo. The inherent irony in life
"god loves you, but not enough to save you" is such a haunting lyric from ethel cain. she's such an incredible artist who, like lana, finds the middle ground between romanticization of life and realistic depictions of the trauma of it
I loved that you didn't compare Lana with Ethel in this video unlike so many other people, as they're both completely different artists to me imo. Reminded me of how bad toxic positivity is. Great video overall and I found it very uplifting as I'm struggling with some mental health issues atm too.
Thank for watching glad to hear it made you feel a bit better 🎙️
Most of the time what we perceive as “Romanticizing abuse” is simply the victim’s coping mechanism
For sure. It’s only after you “heal” that you realize it was a cope
O would love to sit on the floor of a living room, listening to music and talking about Lana all day long. She does this, connects people with thoughts about life
As someone who romanticizes my life sometimes, honestly it is more of an escapist cope than an example of real mindfulness. It's a way of not being in denial of your pain (which is a good thing) but also not actually feeling it directly in its full unglamorousness. I find romanticization often times is a way of actually holding our pain at arm's length in a counterintuitive way, which can make it less painful but also prevents you from healing fully. Doesn't stop me from loving Lana and Ethel though.
It’s very very satisfying to see somebody dissect Lana’s music and work in a way that lines up with how I love and see her music. P.S. : would love to see a video on Mitski if ever possible.
I saw Ethel live last month without knowing who she was, i was only waiting for Lana. I wish i knew her earlier she was amazing
I found Ethel Cain early last year and my life completely changed. Never have I felt so represented in somebody's music, her unreleased songs that are so specific to some of my trauma, the tears I could finally cry because there was finally music about what I have lived through, the way I could finally let it out and feel it fully and let it go. A lot of people try to say oh it's just romanticizing being abused!! But for some of us, we need this stuff so we feel less alone, doesn't mean any of us think it's fun or cute to go through. They are both such powerful artists, both my favorites who keep me going
I worship Lana del Rey am I had no clue Ethel is trans I’m shook I love that so much doll representation is so important theses days
You absolutely nailed this! I've never been able to properly articulate what Lana's music has always done to me but this is perfection
These two are my LIFE. Thank u so mutch for doind this vídeo.
Thank you for watching happy you enjoyed ❤️🔥
9:44-9:53 thank you! this is why no matter what anyone’s said about her writing or personas i’ve been a supporter of her art since day one (which for me was in 2011. i wish i knew her when she was singing in bars!) her unreleased stuff is what made me love her because you could be as glamorous in the dirt (feel as beautiful in the drabness) as you always wished you could be; feel as freed of (but not as hateful of yourself in) your traumas and addictions and whatnot; etc. her hard-to-interpret songs were portraits of many different personas and the music/videos were her trying to beautify them all, no matter how personal or darkly misunderstood, and standing for it even when people didn’t get it. many didn’t respect her, even lorde spoke against lana when she came up, not realizing she was writing the same kind of romanticizing-life-music…but with different topics of discussion so, understood much differently. (b/c lana sang about how she at times loved men or drugs with such intensity that it was killing her or ruining her, lorde and others like her took it as her living only for romance and not for herself, and making it sound cool to party or whatever, when it was genuinely painting the portrait of how dark love & life can become, how it completely transforms and consumes us.. but she found ways to lighten it up and make us not hate ourselves for it regardless. no matter how much hate she got for doing so! which i respected more than i can possibly describe. even if it seems like i described it already _too much_ here.
and then we see her later transformation, unexpected by many, into romanticizing life in a more acceptable way, but still uniquely her, especially with it being at dark times. even her fame is discussed somewhat with an uncomfortable honesty (say, 13 beaches, or bartender)- then goes back to her being grateful for this life anyway. (she has to _find_ the empty beach or _buy_ an anonymous car but then it takes her back to her happy place on the earth she loves & w/ the people she loves…)
and gratefully FOR ME, you can still go back to the beginning, to songs that sound like noir-films-turned-indie-pop/folk, and it remains as frozen in time as the music and film that inspired her in the first place, because it remains unreleased and un-studio-produced ;) ~ that’s sorta beside the point but it’s something that keeps her down to earth in my opinion, like she knows it’s just our special way of connecting to her.
also glad you tied ethel cain’s work to lana’s, it’s verrry accurate and beautifully described. hayden silas is a genius and a beautiful writer
I never get tired of these videos. Please keep them coming!
I found Lana when I was about 13 I fell in love with her from the moment I heard her having been SA’d growing up and poor and without a dad my world was a struggle but Lana showed me there was beauty in sadness eventually making me a more healthy minded man
Please keep up the Lana deep dive videos I love your unique perspective I find it very enlightening. You are so talented don’t let anyone tell you different ❤
Great job articulating all of this, i feel most people who truely felt moved by lana when she first came out, and have 'become' adults throughout her career also have similar spiritual beliefs or had similar spiritual development, we can see her work beyond the music, its a soul thing - i think its because we're the types of people to acknowledge and transmute the beauty in pain, something that lana completely encapsulates. Thank you for your work on these videos 🖤
First artist who i feel like wrote the life as it is, was Morrissey/The Smiths. My biggest dream is to see/hear Lana and Morrissey singing together.
This video is fucking poetic so beautiful
For real, he's amazing and perfectly gets Lana, she absolutely deserves such beautiful analyzing
Thank you so much ❤️🔥
i love these topics and both artists. you are the coolest 😭
ethel cain has indicated that she does not want to be compared to lana in the past, but the inspiration is obvious. i initially started listening to her because someone referred to her as ldr’s “goth little sister” and i completely agree. she is far more like lana than she is like florence welch imo
I think they're both completely different. Why compare her to Florence Welch too? Also there's nothing "goth" about Ethel Cain. Look up actual goth music. Ethel is a mix of genres. Just because something is dark doesn't make it "goth".
Florence Welch was actually an inspiration and role model of Hayden Andehonia's (Ethel Cain). Vocally, there are similarities, but thematically, yes, Ethel is similar to Lana.
Florence and Ethel have performed together on stage also
@@brookemcdermott3002Yes I've seen them perform together. What I meant was I'm just a bit annoyed at the younger fans screaming about how Ethel is the new Lana. I just don't like comparing artists in that way. Lana has so many themes, even in her earliest work as Lizzy Grant, that I can't even imagine Ethel singing about. Maybe 1 or 2 of her newer songs are more "Ethel themed" but still not as dark. One of the reasons I can't relate to Ethel like a lot of her fans.
I’m so glad I found u, i really do relate a lot to ur words and u have such a understanding perspective on this world. Love ur vids and u talking about ur own personal experiences ❤
Great video !
It's insane that some ppl found her messages were unhealthy when her art is mostly cathartic and beautiful at the same time.
Also I can't find your video on the individualism in art
Thanks for watching, happy you enjoyed! What video were you talking about?
@@Sagethis The one in which you talk about Gaga, Cindy Sherman and Lana del rey.
@@LaPaisiblePetiteGnomette clocked me. I deleted it bc I’m redoing it with better editing/ more information, uploading next week!
@@Sagethis Oh cool ! I really liked this video post-modernism and trans-humanism are very interesting topics.
@@LaPaisiblePetiteGnomette I definitely agree! I tend to think long term/ big picture & it doesn’t matter if I’m talking about art/ science/ or culture, I always come back to these topics
Beautiful! Thank you ❤
This breakdown was so fucking good. Everything was spot on. Your content is incredible.
I really needed to hear this ❤ I know Lana and love her songs, but I never thought to start romanticizing my own life, in my head she's just an artist and I'm not.. The facts on why it can be a good tool for mental health just gave me a newfound inspiration 💖 Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video 💞 I think it may save sensitive people such as myself 💫💥
so thankful to hear the video helped you💞
This is so gooood, wow, the spiritual part is on point (to me and what i believe) , perfect!!!!!
i love ur videos. no one’s doing it like you. keep it up bookie
Thank you for speaking from your mind and heart 💗
Dear Lord I’m in love with your videos.
This video is really good
i loved this, especially your personal thoughts on life and spirituality ❤ thanks for sharing xx
happy you enjoyed, thanks for watching💓
As a gay man I believe in keeping my Christianity because what a sad life it is to not have faith in anything. I love my religion and I love God and that will never change. Other people in this so called community have been pretty terrible to me just because I decide to keep my religion.
What a sad life is to live a whole life based on a lie
I think that’s great. Sucks you get opposition from people whose platform is acceptance. I get it. I’m gay too. I’m not as religious but find my spiritual connection so helpful and supportive. I do feel connecting to something bigger than our human stuff is fulfilling and heart opening.
having faith and believing in a higher power is great. subscribing to a doctrine that rejects a fundamental part of who you are and is founded on the patriarchy, misogyny, violence, fear and intolerance is not. and shows a lack of critical thought.
@@eudaldvidalcodony7089 My point proven, "a lie" Its not a lie when science and history prove it. I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and there is nothing wrong with that and there is nothing wrong with me sticking with the facts and having a good simple healthy life.
@@xaviergallegos614I'm apart of the lgbt community as well, and have a strong Catholic faith. People these days are all too quick to label Christianity and religion as oppressive and a bad force when it's the one thing that's gotten me through everything. God loves us just as we are. I feel sorrowful for those who will never open up to His embrace, and pray for them. Life is so beautifully made and complex, the human system,nature, space,dreams, they've all been created by a higher force, Him. God bless you, stay strong in your faith. Lana uses so much religious symbolism and lyrics too it's so beautiful.
Such a good watch!🎉
And that's why I love them.
Of course we do❤❤
The person interviewing Lizzy Grant in 2008 is Brea Tremblay from Index Magazine not Grimes. I can definitely see why Brea could be mistaken for Grimes but Grimes has a very distinct way of talking because of a speech impediment. Very interesting video though, I really enjoyed it 😊
I wish I was mature enough to feel the same as you at that age! Lana's music made me sadder lol
Love this! This must be in the aether; someone else talked about Magical Realism this week! I would love to know your take on how you think Lana's work will change if this really is the end of the Boomer Truth Regime / The American Empire - will it grow increasingly nostalgic for the 'best times' when 'America was great'? She seemed to capture this in 'The greatest' and said in her Ivor Novello interview she has a great nose for where the cultural winds blow.
Lizzy Grant 🥲
Grimes interviewing Lizzy Grant 😱
@@likeadiamondshiningintherough
Putting Ethel Cain in the same category as Lana Del Rey is crazy work😭
I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about Lingua Ignota!
Mitski in the corner🧍🏻♀️
Love euphoria rip the best actor on the show
our Lana origin story is the same-- Blue Jeans from a friend, 2012
Haven’t watched the video yet but why is Mitski in the thumbnail but not the title
Debbie Dawson y'all
"God became human, so that we may become God".
Sublimation
😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is a dangerous video . This trend is about to blow up . watch out
Romanticizing abuse isnt cool though. Theres nothing pretty or glamorous about it. I think romanticizing too much can be dangerous to the point its not healthy. Dont get me wrong I'm a huge lana fan, but it upsets me that people think its cool to glorify such a miserable thing such as abuse.
Oh I definitely agree, not trying to say it’s okay to romanticize abuse, just saying that I DONT think Lana *was* doing that. To me she was just exposing & accepting what she goes through, instead of stigmatizing & trying to ignore it.
I think accepting your situation can sometimes be the first real step in overcoming it.
But I definitely agree! romanticizing everything and “wanting to be sad” is dangerous too, but just know that’s for sure not the point I was trying to make