Narrator’s Discontent caused by her Celebrity Status?Īnd of course such an assertion takes on an added dimension when you’re dealing with someone as popular as Del Rey. That may be why in the first verse for instance she’s desiring a romance highlighted by the simplest of interpersonal pleasure, like ‘eating ice cream and watching television’ with someone you love. her “black bathing suit”, as opposed to who she is internally. If you look at her, she possesses the same beauty that she always has. But the true purpose of our bodies is just to serve as housing for our souls, so to speak. So one of the reasons the narrator is finding it so difficult to land a significant other is because romantic interests tend exclusively to focus on the outside, i.e. So with that in mind, perhaps the first thing we should tackle in this case is the titular metaphor. And it is obvious by the time the second pre-chorus rolls around that even though the “black bathing suit” may be a literal one, concurrently it serves primarily as a symbolic construct.Īnd when dealing with Lana, we really have no choice but to go out on limbs. So the theory being put forth in this post is that what this object actually represents is a concept like the vocalist’s physical attractiveness.