 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Cherry
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“Cherry” is featured on Lana’s fifth studio album. Alluding to the relationship with a man that takes risks and turns them into the relation where Lana feels like breaking apart
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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 – West Coast
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“West Coast” is a surf-rock throwback produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. It uses the west coast to frame Lana Del Rey’s tale of leaving her lover to travel—only to return
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Lana Del Rey – Video Games
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Considered Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit, “Video Games” served as the first single off the artist’s wildly successful sophomore studio album and major label debut, Born to Die
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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 – Fuck it I love you
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“Fuck it I love you” is the fifth single from Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
This song is a summer anthem that incorporates the frequent gloomy
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Lana Del Rey – How to disappear
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In “How to disappear” Lana describes her mixed feelings and how this guy seems incapable of expressing his own.
Del Rey said the song was one of the last ones to be written for
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Lana Del Rey – Young and Beautiful
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From the soundtrack for the 2013 film version of The Great Gatsby. The song was also featured in the second trailer released for the film, and used throughout the film as a motif
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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 – Norman fucking Rockwell
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The title track of Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album speaks about an immature, pretentious poet. There’s a link to this song on “Venice Bitch,” the second song released from 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 – 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 – Million Dollar Man
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“Million Dollar Man” is off of Lana Del Rey’s album Born to Die.
The song sings about a man who she thought was one of the most exotic people she had ever met. On the outside he
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Tommy Genesis) – Peppers
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“Peppers” is the fifteenth track on Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album, Did you know that there’s under Ocean Blvd. It features Canadian rapper Tommy Genesis, and samples “Angelina
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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 – 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 (Ft. A$AP Rocky) – Groupie Love
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“Groupie Love” connotes the relationship between an artist with a type of fan—usually a young woman which seeks for emotional or sexual intimacy, involved in obsessive adoration of
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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 – National Anthem
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The concept of this song seems to involve Lana expressing her feelings for two distinct lovers, alluding to the life and death of President John F. Kennedy and the love triangle in
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Lana Del Rey – Off to the Races
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This song has Lana professing her love for her rich, gangster boyfriend. However, their Bonnie & Clyde-like relationship is doomed.
“Off to the Races” is inspired by the book
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Lana Del Rey – Freak
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On “Freak”, Lana Del Rey invites her lover for slow dancing and passionate love in California. With echoed vocals and flowing instrumentals, the track was described by Lana as “
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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 – Blue Jeans
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“Blue Jeans” is about an ex-boyfriend whom Lana compares to James Dean. The relationship started off well, but soon “the bad boy” up and left. Eventually he became caught up in
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Lana Del Rey – Happiness is a butterfly
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The title of track 13 from Norman Fucking Rockwell! is inspired by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who once said:
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always
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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 (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 – 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 – Playing Dangerous
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Recorded in 2010 and leaked in August 2012, this unreleased track was produced by Del Rey, Mads Louis Hauge and Phil Thornalley.
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Lana Del Rey – Without You
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Like her song “Radio,” “Without You” relates love to fame. In this song Lana is saying to her partner that she loves him so much she’ll give up fame and everything she’s ever
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Lana Del Rey – Doin' Time
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Lana Del Rey’s “Doin' Time” is a cover of the American band Sublime’s 1996 song of the same name, which itself is a cover of Summertime from the opera Porgy & Bess.
As explained
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Sean Lennon) – Tomorrow Never Came
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“Tomorrow Never Came” is a song about an unrequited or crumbling romance. It was co-written by Sean Lennon, the son of music legend John Lennon.
The title of the song was revealed
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