"I'm gonna be doing Heroin" is a wild way to start a video 😭😭

@caprareyaveto1070

22 күн бұрын

POV KZread in 2013

one of her best songs, in my opinion. so dark deep and emotional but beautiful and euphoric.

@zs02

10 ай бұрын

I've never been on hard drugs in my life, but this song touched me deeply.

@JoeHartman80

10 ай бұрын

I’ve abused alcohol years ago and this song is so deep to me

@jonathanlorenzo4211

9 ай бұрын

It’s hands down one of my favorite songs. This was probably my least favorite album overall, but this and “get free” are two of my top favorite songs. They’re so creative and elicit so many intense emotions

“But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream.” One of lana’s best lyrics

@katebretusch3752

10 ай бұрын

Times are hard for dreamers

@chrystianaw8256

24 күн бұрын

​@@katebretusch3752 le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain?

I see “heavy metal that you wear” as maybe jewellery, specifically rings. going back to ultraviolence “he hit me and it felt like a kiss”. I think this is a similar idea. “life rocked me ultra softly like the heavy metal that you wear”. another hit that felt like a kiss

@ache4u

10 ай бұрын

this one not necessarily being a physical hit from another person and just being rocked/hit by the situation or life in general

@ryan-kane

10 ай бұрын

I mean given in the next verse there’s the line but with hear instead of wear. Not sure why she heard wear and thought music..? This is not her best take

@cocobot90

3 ай бұрын

I see it as her taking the drug, zoning out despite trouble in her life (that now feels far away), she's rocked to sleep "ultra softly" because she's high and numb. The "heavy metal that you wear" part is slightly foreboding (and shows that she's not a novice, but already deep in it or looking back) and refers to the all the 'heavy" or hard aspects of the drug that come with the "soft" effects: heavy withdrawals, side effects, increasing social isolation (slowly loosing your energy, interests, personality - which I usually associate with the "took your life away" part). MARZIPAN because people in withdrawal crave sugar/sweets as a substitute. This woman surprised me with her...almost random interpretations, most seemed way off the mark. Maybe do some research before filming yourself interpreting lyrics about such a specific topic. And SHE'S a therapist AND wrote a book about/related to addiction??? Kinda worrying.

@chrystianaw8256

24 күн бұрын

​@@cocobot90 the song is about watching a friend lose themselves to a drug addiction

i think she mentions Manson bc she feels responsible in this persons OD, like how he didn’t kill anyone but he was complicit

@R4CHEL__

Ай бұрын

Definitely agree. Such a deep sentiment

I'm pretty sure the "writing in blood on my walls and shit" is another reference to the Manson m*rders, where the k*llers wrote things on the walls in their victims' blood. Definitely a dark song, but so dreamy and ethereal sounding at the same time

@cocobot90

3 ай бұрын

I always thought it refers to Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue literally writing all over the walls with his own blood, during the darkest days of his heroin addiction. It's a relatively well-known fact, in relation to him especially and to Motley Crue in general. Because it also works as a callback to her "Motley" line, I never considered that it would mean anything else.

The sound of a gun being triggered in the background by the beggining and the end of the chorus actually makes so much sense now.

@holdmacat9932

10 ай бұрын

So you didn't try to listen the the lyrics before?..

@shilohgoes5544

10 ай бұрын

@@holdmacat9932if you don’t analyze them or know what Topanga Canyon is it can be confusing. I thought it was about a girl named Topanga who was addicted.

Omg finally!! The song that helped heal me. Been in recovery since it came out

@michellebastiani6470

10 ай бұрын

Likewise. I actually got out of inpatient rehab after 6 months and this was the first song I listened to off of Lust for Life. I was in a place thayt you're not even allowed to have a phone at any point in your stay. I got out and that first month was pretty hard but for some reason this song helped me big time ❤

@katherineauber

10 ай бұрын

@@michellebastiani6470 wow that’s absolutely amazing. Congratulations on your sobriety. I had a very similar experience. I went in to a 90 day treatment program and three days before I went in she released the love video. I remember her talking about being young and in love and I remember it being a goal of mine because I’ve always been a hopeless romantic, and all I wanted was to be healthy and find love (spent way too long in an abusive relationship) And in the song the way she says “don’t worry, baby“ it just made me ready. I had no more fear. All of a sudden all my worries went away, and I just dove straight in and went into a program.. not too long after I got out, the whole album was out. I heard heroin and it was incredible how relatable it is. When she talks about winter in the city and how that can effect you rang true to me. I remember going to San Francisco for work in February very early on in my addiction when i was just dabbling. It was February but still hot out. I met people in the haight/ashbury area and the way I saw these people and the usage of drugs stuck with me. Ive never seen drugs so accessible. Still never seen anything like it. When I returned to Boston where I lived my addiction spiraled. I feel being in the city contributed to that. So finally I came home to small town Ohio in beginning of 2017 to leave the atmosphere that was making me worse. I remember after I got out of treatment (couldn’t have phones either) i listened to this song a few times a day for a year at least. It’s crazy because after thousands upon thousands of times listening to it I still choke up and sometimes full on bawl my eyes out. I cried pretty heavy watching Mere’s reaction to it.

@marihaf

10 ай бұрын

i’m so proud of you! well done lovely

@pauline6092

10 ай бұрын

❤

@JoFitts

9 ай бұрын

Same here. Congrats to you.🎉

my favorite song ever since lust for life came out. perosnally, not my favorite album of lana but somehow heroin had such strong grip on me that past those 6 years i've been listening to this song daily. the lyrics just are so emotional and dark and incredible. i used to be so obsessed with it, id listen to it while falling asleep. thanks for reacting Mere

@estebandelaserna4905

5 ай бұрын

Same here! One of her best songs ever imo

“Bad beginning to my new year” has been the saddest lyric of this song for me since I found out it’s (allegedly) about her ex who overdosed at the end of 2011. You’re absolutely right when you said she’s been through so much. And yet she still manages to be such a bright light for so many of us ❤️‍🩹

@kadinmay

10 ай бұрын

Where did you hear that? The Aaron Greene boy?

@_beatngu_

10 ай бұрын

@@kadinmay No, his name was Rob Dubuss. If you look it up there’s quite a bit on him.

@laincoubert7236

10 ай бұрын

@@kadinmay there has been a fan theory about the song for years now, idk if it's commonly known or agreed upon in the fandom but there are some coincidences in the lyrics.

@Dave-vb4nd

10 ай бұрын

You people are so arrogant thinking you know it all. WELLL

@_beatngu_

10 ай бұрын

@@Dave-vb4nd We’re arrogant for sharing theories, that we acknowledge could be true or false, to someone making a video reacting to the song and its lyrics? Go be dumb elsewhere.

React to Living Legend by Lana del rey please! (it's my favorite song)

@haleybice4763

10 ай бұрын

yesss

I'm so glad your liking the songs on Lust for Life! It's probably my favorite album for how it is about change. It has that hopefull lenses about the future and you can really feel the message of "taking your life where you want to". I also always find "Love" to be a really conforting song about how it's okay to feel like life is too much and that everything will about alright at the end. Hoping you react to that one someday, I think you'll like to see this more hopefull side of Lana 😁

i swear this is one of her darkest lyrics

Back in 2017, this song really helped me in very very bad moments of my life. I remember each day going in the woods next to my house for a walk and humming this song. I was looking at the cloudless blue sky above my head between the branches and taking every paths in and out of the woods to delay the moment i had to go back home.

Man… this one hits hard. I had a very close friend… partner, we cared so much about each other. She was so talented, she lost her physical therapy license due to drug use, and I couldn’t get her out of the seedy motel she was at. The last time I saw her was outside of that motel room. I was a fresh recovering addict at the time. I am glad you clarified that Lana didn’t “let” this person use heroin. I didn’t let her use it. I couldn’t force her. We kissed one last time and that was it. She was gone. It’s happening over and over to families everywhere. Thank you for covering this song.

I wish I was able to be present for this live! I have this theory and am super curious if anyone else has seen it this way. I listened to this song so many times before I even thought about this, but it makes sense to me. Pretty much every time she references shooting up (drugs), there is a g*n cocking noise in the background. To me it adds so much meaning to this song because she starts out talking about sending someone on an airplane (getting h;gh). Toward the end, it sounds like she starts using herself because of the regret out of what happened with this other person, or wanting to join them, or for several other possible reasons. Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts about this! It could be totally off, but I listen to Lana all of the time and always find random things in her songs that seem to connect with other songs or themes. Thanks for reading. :)

@harleydarius4195

6 ай бұрын

I used to think that when she says "I put you on an aeroplane, destined for a foreign land", it is about getting high with heroin. But now when I know that her ex died from overdose, and looking at the lyrics again, it kinda sound like she was doing heroin, and with the ex, or she could be the one who introduced it to him. And it eventually killed him. Therefore she said SHE put him on the aeroplane, and thought/hoped that he would come back (either from the ecstasy or from death) to tell her everything's ok.

I took “hot” as like the streets are hot with crime. But I think she uses it both ways. I was assuming she gave all of those examples of the things happening around her and why she should probably leave but won’t for a while. Anyway! Love your videos and I always get excited to see a new post 🤍 I also deal with/love an addict (my mother) who is currently staying with me so I resonate hard to what you say!

@R4CHEL__

Ай бұрын

It could also be a “hot shot” reference possibly. Perhaps somebody giving this person a hot shot.

One of my favorites 😭 it's so deep

Dark paradise is a classic. Great song

Starlight by Oktaf Kanis, I hope you enjoy this Mere

Mere you must do 'Oktaf Kanis - Starlight' 💕

Hello Mere, you should get up 'Oktaf Kanis - Starlight' thank you Mere 🙌🏻

The Song is a memorial of one of Lana's best friends, who passed away due to an heroin OD. It's not a conceptual song, it's completely real story. If you Google it, you can even find a photo of her and the mentioned friend in a car, looking happy and all...

Hello, I hope everything is fine. I just wanted to say that it's interesting that in this song she talks about how she was tired of it and about wanting to change and the song that follows is "Change" which you reacted to a while ago.

It’s my favourite Lana song. It resonates with me so much. At first it stressed me out so much because listening to it felt weirdly invasive, even though I could relate to the themes. I respect the fact she didn’t glorify any of it, too many folks are quick to romanticise heroin. The melody is beautiful but she kept it real

"Life rocked me ultra softly like the heavy metals that you wear". Like valium or lithium.

Yosemite please or 13 beaches

This one hits hard

I love, love, love this song as it is my favorite from “Lust For Life.” I love switch up at the end from being about someone else to her since she is the one getting on that plane and hoping to come back changed. This song, while heavy, does have optimistic elements like “Change” at the end. Enjoyed your thoughts and reaction as per usual.

This song is special ! Thank you for reacting to it !

the video just jumping straight into "so i'm going to be doing heroin" is so crazy

Lana

Please do Starlight by Oktaf Kanis :)

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

I love your unedited reactions!

LOVE THIS SONG!!

omg finally!! Yayo and Herion are my fav songs from Lana

crazy that you just posted this because I was just thinking today abt how you should do this song!!

I love so much mere recently found out about your channel ❤❤❤

hi mere im rewatching ur lana reactions and i have to say ur so amazing and help me understand her lyrics so much more, im italian and i love english but i feel many times i miss lots of meaning of lana and u just open my mind so much and make me get it so much more❤ also on another note i only went to a therapist once and got scared cuz she said i had to take meds after an hour meeting… ur the only one that i feel i would be comfortable talking to, u seem soooo much supportive and helpful and kindhearted and gentle but also telling u like it is, ur so special and im so happy for the people ur helping i wish i was one❤ love xo

Rewatching every single one of your Lana reactions just to say that you are amazing and I love you

her best song

My mom let me live with her while I was using because she didn’t want me out on the street getting assaulted and r@ped while killing myself. Her letting me stay with her is the reason I am alive and clean today. 19 months clean. If she had kicked me out I would’ve lost hope and died on the street. Just some perspective.

Amazing reaction as usual

Lovely reaction 👏

I love your reactions

I am here. :) Love this song.

Hi mere, such a wonderful reaction, thank you! From what I've learned (and this could be false) Lana actually has struggled with drug addiction in the past, specifically heroin, which she talks about a little bit in her song "Fuck it I Love You". Thank you again I love your videos

You should totally react to pretty when you cry from Lana. Would fit really well into you Lana series! Loving your takes on her music! ❤

I love this song

Finally somebody suggested this song it’s one of my faves

Yesssss❤

Hey queen , you should listen to dark paradise. That song has a special place in my heart ❤

Ultra softly: Ultraviolence

I love you mere ❤️❤️❤️

please react to some Marina music. I recommend "obsessions" or "teen idle"

I think the rumbling could be how she is going crazy and how her world is falling apart. She says it sends her to sleep, can sleep be a way of saying she is drinking and it used as a coping mechanism? This is the aftermath of losing someone she was so close. Again, I can be VERY wrong!

The song sounds like a person who can’t feel the temperature, like she’s about to be cold to death but she still thinks it’s so hot.

@chrystianaw8256

24 күн бұрын

True

What I love about Lana's music is how all of us relate to the same song on so many different ways. For example for me heroin represents my childhood town (where I still live, unfortunately) It's very small, toxic a lot of drug and alcohol use. Here people often start drinking at the age of 12. It has the highest drug use (by percentage of citizens) in the whole country. And yet sometimes it's all you have. It can lure you in that world and make you the worst version of yourself. I'm 16 I have good grades, nice behavior and all that stuff but my parents have no idea how many times I was wasted not knowing where I am and how I got there. I stopped drinking but when you live here sometimes you just can't escape it. And I am living for the moment when I can leave this town for college and hopefully leave this country as well. Cause deep inside I know I'm not the way this town makes me look like. And I know that I can only become better person when I move somewhere else and have new start. Edit: also we all know how many addicts started with: "just wanna try it" to see how it feels saying that they won't get addicted, that they can control themselves etc. And the same thing happens with this town. All the good kids be like it's just one night in club, then it's just one drink, one cigarette, "that won't become their lifestyle", they won't get addicted to it. But they do. And even if you wanna quit it it's too late cause you already surrounded yourself with people who wouldn't let you go like that.

Could we maybe have Dark Paradise? I'm really curious to see your takes on it.

@tinkerthetinyrobot

10 ай бұрын

no remedy for memory

@a.a677

10 ай бұрын

@@tinkerthetinyrobot amazing line

@sarinaazari3187

10 ай бұрын

your face is like a melody

@katebretusch3752

10 ай бұрын

It won't leave my head

Hope your son was ok xx

Ok stop. Stop it Mere. Stop…… seriously I’m beyond shook im deceased🤣 I literally commented on one of your videos two days ago for you to do this song, and meanwhile you actually were already doing it🙃🙃🙃 we are too connected and it’s freaking me out….so much love for you tho🤣💜💜💜

Beautiful and so powerful. Really puts you in a trance like state of mind listening. Highly recommend wildflower wildfire

@mendwithmere

10 ай бұрын

It does! I’ve already reacted to that song. It’s probably in the lana reaction playlist. Love it so

4:57 meaning of could have been worse. Ultra softly

I'm majoring in Portuguese/English here in Brazil and one of theses days I've read a critic about an portuguese writer, "Florbela Espanca", saying that she "used her blood as ink for her poems" (not quoting) meaning she 'exhausted' her life onto her poetry... That got me thinking if maybe, both in "Heroin" and in "hope is a dangerous thing", this what Lana means by "writing in blood": that she's tired of pouring every bit of her life onto her songs, wich would make even more sense in "hope" because she talks about being "24/7 Sylvia Plath", that is another woman-poet that "poured" here actual life in to her art. This also resonates with her poem "Salamander", where she says that "she doesn't want to sell her stories anymore". Florbela Espanca was deeply criticized at her time for making her poems "too biographical", she was treated like she wasn't an actual poet/writer and for a long time she was forgotten for it; Sylvia Plath also is in this category of "autobiographical" poems/stories but on both, and on Lana, there's so much more than that.

"ultrasoftly" is a refference to the word "ultraviolence" which the character Alex in A Clockwork Orange used a lot in his speech, and which lana refferenced before in songs. So, here "ultrasoftly" is to say actually not so softly, since the next line is "Like the heavy metal that you wear". So it's a poetic way of saying he hit her and she probably she was too indoctrinated to mind it, since she talks about this guy like he's Charles Manson or some other cult leader.

Black beauty next pleasee

15:15 I don’t believe the lyric is actually “jumping off from the walls into the docks and shit” following the “writing in blood on my walls and shit” im pretty sure the next line after is “dripping off from the walls into the ducts and shit” meaning the blood on the wall

Ur facecam is so small, i didn't like that streamyard thing, it is kinda bother me n it's blurred your pretty face

she did go to rehab

I don't know if you have done Change by Lana del Rey too .. thanks for this videos

can you do sweet carolina please ??

She has another lyric "dope shoot it up straight to the heart plz". Maybe she tried heroin experimentally but i doubt she could be as functional as she is if it had lasted a long time. If it's not a metaphor then im guessing she ditched it pretty quickly. Its a terrible thing to go through i have a lot of emparhy for addicts i know what opiate withdrawl feels like because im on prescription pain management and if i miss a dose it is a horrendeus feeling, you feel hot flushes one min and cold shivers the next (maybe that lyric "its hot even for february" could be a refremce to that) also sleep is impossible you get leg cramps and body tremors (she talked about a rubling making it hard to sleep) but there are so many ways these lyrics could be intetpreted so who knows. I liked your analysis.

Heroin in my opinion is just a metaphor for fame

I the it’s fucking hot thing is talking abt global warming bc that whole album was for her fans talking abt real world stuff going on

Very random song to recommend but could you listen to the song Poachers Pride by Nicole Dollanganger? I first heard it about a month ago and have been thinking about it since.

@michellebastiani6470

10 ай бұрын

I had said something a few weeks ago about Nicole after I watched a reaction of hers to an artist who's name escapes my mind RN. But I had commented that it was very reminiscent of Nicole Dollaganger. Honestly I don't know if she would be able to handle Nicole's music. And to be a hundred percent honest, I think she might have a couple opinions that wouldn't sit well with me. Especially since she has had the reactions and opinions to certain lyrics of Lana's and choices for some of the men in certain videos. It just gives me pause because I think she could quite easily be "too" judgy when it comes to Nicole's music. Just imo.

did you know if she reacted to Mitski ? i would love to see that

Can u plz do living legend by lana

Omg the start “I’m going to be doing heroin” imagine a blind person watching this

listen dark paradise

Next is nectar of god

Heroine is good but only if you mix it with cocaine for a smooth speedball❤otherwise it makes you puke

I love this song but there are rumors of her over using pain medication

@tinkerthetinyrobot

10 ай бұрын

everyone knows lana has been a drug addict and alcoholic. that doesn’t take away from her art

Hello Mere! Do you think Lana suffer from depression? Many of her songs are very sad and depressives and I just adore her pure sadness.

You prefer fentanyl 😂

I personally get from this she is referring to a man as heroin and he is her heroin and she knows he is not good for her and he is her heroin. Bit that is just my personal thoughts on this...

Lana gives off serious BPD former hard drugs/sleeping around vibes.

@katebretusch3752

10 ай бұрын

People are too stupid for her music, no offence to them, she is just way too clever

@elizabethbednar6338

9 ай бұрын

Yes it’s been obvious since the first album

loved this vid 🖤 , i should be getting your book this sunday !! can’t wait to read it. 🧚🏻‍♀️🫧🦋

You talk too much with little sence.Take another bump because you’re not being featured.❤

tysm for thisss it's one of my favs