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What song are you listening to right now?

Geniusbetch on songmeanings.com:

Lana wrote this song from the perspective of human who is infatuated with a Smurf. The opening lines "My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude" make this theme evident immediately, because Smurfs are known for their blue coloring.

The narrator clearly met their Smurf crush in California, probably while he was filming a Smurf movie in Hollywood. The pressures of being an actor led the Smurf to a life of drug abuse ("he loves his drugs") and promiscuity; as a consequence of this reckless behavior, the Smurf has an illegitimate child- we know this from the line "he loves his baby too."

Regardless of these potential deal breakers, the narrator continues to obsess over the Smurf throughout the song, but she gets progressively more and more frustrated with the social constructs and barriers preventing her from pursuing the Smurf more seriously. For example, "I can't do nothing about his strange weather" is a clear allusion to the famously dismal weather in Smurf Village, which is notorious for giving Smurfs Seasonal Affective Disorder in the winter months. Unfortunately, since humans can't even find Smurf Village, she couldn't help with this at all.

Overall, the theme of the song is forbidden love, because humans and Smurfs are not the same species. The reason why she says "I can't break through your world" is because the Smurf population won't accept a human into their society, even in this day and age. Lana clearly wrote this song to spread awareness of human-Smurf romance in the hopes that someday, this sort of relationship will be seen as socially acceptable.
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Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool
 
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