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Lana Del Rey – Love
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“Love” sees Lana treading her familiar themes of nostalgia for an idealized American past.
She muses on how this generation’s youth maintain a sense of wonder and empowerment in
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Lana Del Rey – Swan Song
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“Swan Song” appears at the end of Lana Del Rey’s fourth studio album, Honeymoon. Its title and placement towards the end of the tracklist sparked fears of an announcement of
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Lana Del Rey – Religion
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“Religion” is the ninth song from Lana Del Rey’s fourth studio album, Honeymoon.
The song describes the relationship between Lana and a guy, in which she is devoted to him as
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Lana Del Rey – 24
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“24” is the twelfth song from Lana Del Rey’s fourth studio album, Honeymoon.
The title refers to the amount of hours in a day, which Lana mourns as she puts time into a
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Lana Del Rey – Music to Watch Boys To
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The concept of “Music To Watch Boys To” was first revealed back in June 2014 in an interview with Fearne Cotton. This song is also a nod to an earlier track “This Is What Makes Us
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Lana Del Rey – Jon Batiste Interlude
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[Spoken: Jon Batiste, Lana Del Rey] / Oh / Ooh, I'm I feelin' something right now / I didn't know I was gon' feel it so early (Pure honey) / Yay / I feel it early, I feel it / I
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Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon
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“Honeymoon” is the glittering title track and second promotional single from Lana Del Rey’s fourth studio album of the same name. Backed by dreamy string instrumentals and draped
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Lana Del Rey – A&W
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“A&W” is a 7-minute rant track that splits into two sections with Lana narrating an anecdote that begins in her innocent childhood and climbs through her adulthood, where she
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Lana Del Rey – Burnt Norton (Interlude)
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“Burnt Norton” is the first part of a poem by T.S Eliot recited by Lana Del Rey. The lines read by Lana are the opening of the first of The Four Quartets, published by Eliot in
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Lana Del Rey – Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind
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“Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind” is a song that makes allusion to Lana attending Coachella, remembering the freedom and excitement of the 1969 rock music festival Woodstock, but
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Lana Del Rey – Art Deco
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On “Art Deco”, a dreamy track with slow, echoed beats and soft synths, Lana sings about the reckless insecurity of teens partying by night.
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Lana Del Rey – Yayo
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On “Yayo”, Lana brings soulful, varied vocals against dreamy instrumentals that dip into an orchestral sound reminiscent of dark nights and city lights. In the lyrics, Lana tells
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Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
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“Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” is the lead single from Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album of the same name.
It was released on 7 December, 2022 as a surprise
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Lana Del Rey – Terrence Loves You
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“Terrence Loves You” discusses strength in the face of abandonment. Lana said it’s her favorite song on the album, reason being, “it’s jazzy.”
The song contains an interpolation
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Lana Del Rey – Blue Velvet
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On “Blue Velvet”, Lana Del Rey covers the 1954 classic pop song recorded by The Clovers. Lana’s cover joins a pantheon of “Blue Velvet” recordings, which include American singer-
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Lana Del Rey – Salvatore
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In southern Italy, “Salvatore” is a name meaning “savior.” On this luscious love song, Lana details imagery of soft ice cream and passionate love in 1940’s southern Italy. Lana
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Lana Del Rey – Body Electric
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“Body Electric” is about Lana’s struggle in getting over the loss of her boyfriend. She pretends not to be hurt but she is just escaping from reality, trying to have fun on a
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Lana Del Rey – Change
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“Change” is the fifteenth track on Lana’s fifth studio album, where one realizes how much Del Rey has matured in writing Lust For Life. The simplistic song contains vocals backed
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Bleachers) – Margaret
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“Margaret” is the thirteenth track on Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. The song features Jack Antonoff under his Bleachers
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Lana Del Rey – The Blackest Day
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“The Blackest Day” takes us through Lana’s emotional whirlwind throughout a devastating breakup. She works through the five stages of grief – denial and isolation in the first
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Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
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“Born to Die” is described by Lana Del Rey as a “homage to true love and a tribute to living life on the wild side.” To quote Chelsea Hodson from New York Times, “In [Lana’s
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. SYML) – Paris, Texas
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“Paris, Texas” is the tenth song by Lana Del Rey featuring “SYML” from her ninth studio album and eighth major-label studio album “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean
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Lana Del Rey – White Dress
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On “White Dress,” Lana reflects on her simpler life before fame, and wonders if it would be best if she never had fame in the first place. Her disillusionment with the music
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Lana Del Rey – California
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“California” is the ninth track on Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
The lyrics are scattered with romance, regret, nostalgia and personal references to an unnamed person that Del Rey has
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Lana Del Rey – Fishtail
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“Fishtail” is the fourteenth song by Lana Del Rey from her ninth studio album and eighth major-label studio album, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.
The word “
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Lana Del Rey – Judah Smith Interlude
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This interlude is a recording of a Judah Smith sermon. The sermon touches upon many of the themes of the album, and notably focuses on the difference between love and lust. Love as
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Lana Del Rey – Lucky Ones
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“Lucky Ones” is the last track on the Deluxe edition of Born to Die, as part of the three bonus songs available on that edition along with “Without You” and “Lolita”.
One demo
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Lana Del Rey – Gods & Monsters
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“Gods & Monsters” is the sixth track from Del Rey’s well-received EP, Paradise.
Lana sings of her longing for a change in the music industry with an eerie melody to support the
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Lana Del Rey – Love song
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“Love song” is an ode to Del Rey’s romantic partner. The lyrics encompass several hallmarks of a classical LDR song, with plenty of references to fast cars, being famous, looking
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Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
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“Chemtrails Over the Country Club” is the title track of Lana Del Rey’s seventh studio album. In this serenely melodic, quiet track, Lana contrasts the imagery of chemtrails, the
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Lana Del Rey – Bel Air
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As a follow on on from the critically acclaimed Born To Die – Bel Air, featured on the Paradise edition as an extra track and one of the most unique sounds on her whole discography
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Lana Del Rey – American
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In “American,” Lana Del Rey sings of pride and joy in her homeland. She talks specifically about someone who makes her feel “crazy” and “wild.” The song is produced by Emile Haynie
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Lana Del Rey – Cinnamon Girl
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In “Cinnamon Girl,” Lana Del Rey expresses conflicted feelings about an intense and possibly unhealthy relationship, while begging her love interest to nurture her instead of
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Lana Del Rey – Kintsugi
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“Kintsugi” is the eighth song by Lana Del Rey from her ninth studio album and eighth major-label studio album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.
Kintsugi is the
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Lana Del Rey – The greatest
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On “The greatest,” Lana Del Rey expresses extreme nostalgia for relationships, places, and the music industry of the past in the light of the chaos of the present. In the lyrics
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Lana Del Rey – Old Money
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“Old Money” is a ballad on Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence. It is melodically based on “What Is A Youth” in the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet.
“Old Money” is probably one of the
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Lana Del Rey – Queen of Disaster
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Queen of Disaster is an unreleased track by Lana Del Rey, recorded in 2011 and leaked in 2013.
A song that just, might (might, perhaps, maybe) be about our boy Pretty Flacko
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Lana Del Rey – Raise Me Up (Mississippi South)
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Released on Lana’s 2010 debut, this track is produced by David Kahne. A demo of the song leaked under the title “Rayse”. The chorus is later echoed on the title track of her third
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Lana Del Rey – Yosemite
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“Yosemite” describes the way relationships change over time, inferring that a great relationship “can stand the test of time.” Lana described the song to be “the yin of the yang
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Weyes Blood & Zella Day) – For Free
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“For Free” is a cover of the 1970 American classic of the same name by Joni Mitchell.
Del Rey first performed the song featuring Weyes Blood and Zella Day on The Norman Fucking
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Father John Misty) – Let The Light In
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“Let The Light In” is the twelfth song on Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. It features Father John Misty, with whom Lana has
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Lana Del Rey – Wild at Heart
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In “Wild At Heart”, Lana explores the freedom and nature of being wild and with her lover. The song title might be a reference to David Lynch’s 1990 cult classic film Wild at Heart
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Lana Del Rey – This Is What Makes Us Girls
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“This Is What Makes Us Girls” is the last track off of Born to Die.
The song recalls her troubled teenage past in Lake Placid, NY when she got involved with drugs and alcohol. As
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