That is to say that her most-successful album to date has actually been her second, 2012’s “Born to Die”, which has sold some 7,000,000 copies. And even though none of the projects she has dropped since have reached even half that amount, they were all critical successes nonetheless. In fact out of seven studio album Lana has released leading up to “Blue Banisters” only her self-titled debut project failed to break the top 3 of the Billboard 200. Lana Del Rey is a singer from New York that has been professionally active since 2005. And the general consensus seems to be that as the years progressed her music has become better, even if sales may not necessarily reflect that reality. That is to say that she is selling herself as a lover to the addressee. And on one hand she is pledging her rugged loyalty, which is her “wildflower” attribute. And simultaneously, she is also promising not to leave him ‘burned’ like a “wildfire”. Instead, her only goal as far as this romance is concerned is simply to do her best to make him happy. But at the end of the day, the above explanation appears to be the gist of what the vocalist is putting forth. “Wildflower Wildfire”Īnd there is arguably a lot more going on therein taking into consideration all of the colorful metaphors being used throughout Wildflower Wildfire. What the singer is doing in that regard is pledging to what appears to be a romantic interest she will not misbehave or let’s say do anything to mess up their relationship. And she is apparently making this claim in acknowledgment of the fact that other past girlfriends may have done him dirty in the past.
What the “Wildfire” MeansĪnd that then brings us to what the “wildfire” part of the title means.
Indeed “like a wildflower”, she “lives(s) on sheer willpower”. Moreover this tenacity, if you will, seemingly manifests itself in a heightened degree of self-control.
The “wildflower”, most pointedly, refers to the resiliency of the vocalist. Or an alternative way of looking at this symbol is that she has come from a hard, experienced upbringing.