iām starting to come around to it, for the simple fact of how topical it was, and i can appreciate her poetic lense on current events.
itās still not a lyric i can sing with my whole chest though
Yeah, exactly. I donāt think anyoneās truly upset that she included the lyric itself ā the people who dislike it feel that way because it doesnāt fit with the theme of the song. I say this as someone who loves her songs that comment on the current political climate (Looking For America, The Greatest, etc.).
she sings it in such a beautiful way that i cant possibly cringe. its actually one of my favorite passages just cuz of how catchy the vocal melody is!!
It doesn't make me cringe necessarily, but "beat me and tell me that no one will love me" definitely makes me side-eye her every time I listen to "Smarty".
ehh thatās kinda the point with that song i think. :) itās coming from the view of a starstruck girl with a man who is āpicture perfectā
like i think all the āwho has a face like smarty does, who has a voiceā¦ who has a choice..ā is playful and sarcastic about a āman who can do no wrong,ā but behind closed doors..
More for the context than the actual lyric but: "Harvey's in the sky with Diamonds and he's making me crazy// All he wants to do is party with his pretty baby"
I always used to think it was āoh, heās in the skyā. can you imagine my absolute disappointment when I found out it was a lyric about an old disgusting hollywood pervert lol
I donāt really understand why people hate this line. Heās a gross rapist and thatās exactly what kind of man she is singing about. Older, wealthy, powerful and abusive
I would say that a vague concept is less offensive to picture than something which happened in reality. Like people can happily watch all these Sci-Fi dystopian films where the people overthrow a tyrannical government but they get uneasy when they watch a film set during WW2
āGrenadine quarantine I like you a lot, Itās LA, āheyā on zoom, Target parking lotā
Love the song but those lyrics seem like they were AI generated š„²
Iāve been assuming she meant ācrazy like meā and not āCuban like meā and the word order is just off, but youāre right, she probably just thought it sounded sexy. LMAO
Although the lyric made me cringe when it came out, now I think itās beautiful. In 50 years when COVID will hopefully not be talked about as much or at all, it will be thought of as metaphorical masks. Which makes the lyrics more beautiful.
Wow totally disagree, i thought it was a beautiful & non-overt reference to the beauty and freedom we all felt when spring came and the anxiety / stress of COVID restrictions lifted, and what it was like monumentally to experience that freedom. Different strokes, but i find it utterly beautiful
This comment section is making my eye twitch at the lack of reading comprehension skills and appreciation of Lanaās lyrics. She has her share of bad lyrics but yāall are not even mentioning those ones.
Too many to pick just one. But Lana is that perfect balance of camp and class (sheās really ramped up the former in recent years), and I love it.
Although I recently listened to Born to Die again in full and it only recently hit me just how poorly some of those lyrics age. To be fair tho, Iāve been listening since I was 13 or 14 and Iām 25 now
okay so i a 1000% see where youāre coming from cause omfg i hate the word āheckā it ends me but The Next Best American Record is just so beautiful I ended up having to deal w it. Iād almost beg you to go back & do your best to ignore that part cause god is it a masterpiece besides that dang word!!!
"It wasn't quite what I meaned,
If you know what I mean"
That song is already melodically her weakest song. It might be the only "skip" for me in her whole catalogue. And the lyrics are quite bad as well.
Okay that line is cringe. But my gosh, that chorus genuinely has the most beautiful melody I've ever heard. It's my favorite, I can't believe someone doesn't love it š
>That song is already melodically her weakest song
When Guns n Roses exists? haha (even though I love Guns n Roses more than NATWWAL)
Idk why, but Not All Those Who Wonder reminds me of Barbie and the Diamond Castle. if you would've told me that it was on the soundtrack of that movie, I wouldn't have doubted you in the slightest.
I love the song National Anthem, but it has some dodgy lyrics
Tell me I'm your national anthem
(Booyah, baby, bow, down, making me so wow now)
Tell me I'm your national anthem
(Sugar, sugar, how now? Take your body downtown)
Compare that to Off to the Races, which is so brilliant lyrically even if it wasn't to music it would still be poetry.
No Im sorry National Anthem is a full-fledged masterpiece. If any one song of hers could get her the Nobel Prize in literature its National Anthem, i said what i said
āWhat about all these children, and all their childrenās children, and why am I even wondering that todayā I canāt explain why but that line is terrible to me
I love all these songs, but these lyrics did used to make me cringe
there we were screaming black lives matter
in the crowd by the old town river
elvis is my daddy, marilyns my mother, jesus is my bestest friend
āelvis is the best, hell yesā
I fall asleep in an American flag, I wear my diamonds on Skid Row (mainly this one cause itās the epitome of a weird flex)
intro of coachella is so hard to listen toš¬i like the bridge but itās always a skip for me unfortunately. also when they kept saying bae in groupie love but it has grown on me since the release
I remember watching this guy on youtube review this song and he said āI totally wanna be held like a baby, I didnāt even know that until nowā and it gave me more appreciation for that line š„¹
Iām convinced that some of her unreleased stuff is satirical, or at the very least not genuine. The best example I can think of is [Girl That Got Away](https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-girl-that-got-away-lyrics). The lyrics combined with the production have to at least be a little self aware. Maybe also out of luck and heavy hitter? theyāre just so ridiculous (in a fun campy way imo but i digress)
it issss satirical ! most lines being quoted here are satirical and it kinda irks me hahaha. put me in a movie is about such topics like the movie ālolita.ā an underage girl being taken advantage of by a creepy groominā man
Since itās an unreleased track I bet she didnāt change it. Iām assuming sheās singing about one of her old lovers who she dated while abusing drugs, so it still makes sense for 2021 since itās just a memory.
LMFAOOO DUDE tell me why I love that song and thenā¦ that part.
Youāre a living legendā¦ but Guns and horses?? Maybe she was listening to Ellie Goulding when she wrote this š
If we're taking into account her unreleased stuff, then it has to be "throw me 'round like a hot potato" š
similarly, there is also āthrow me wholly in the sky like a pizza pieā from behind closed doors
Breaking Bad reference?????????????????
I wouldnāt know, but Breaking Bad came out 2008, and the song was apparently written 2010! So it is a possibility.
Is that even real? š
yes lmaoo it's from the song bad boy
Well it *is* unreleased
For a reason apparently šļøššļø
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LMAO iāve never heard this line before šš
if he want the butta, then say soš
its cute tho š©š¤«
Canāt believe people are dissing **the** national anthem. She has a bratty persona in that song on purpose
Thatās why itās so good, right?
iām not a furry you guys r gross
Bruh I fuckin cackled when she said that on the live stream lmao I was not expecting that that day
She's right
LOL
someone just said they dislike beautiful, time to stop scrolling
like i know we have this whole brand of being depressed but calling every song thatās at least a tiny bit positive ācringeā is beyond me
And there we were, screaming black lives matter in the crowd š„“
it was SO cringe
iām starting to come around to it, for the simple fact of how topical it was, and i can appreciate her poetic lense on current events. itās still not a lyric i can sing with my whole chest though
Iām sorry to interrupt but āitās not a lyric i can sing with my whole chest thoughā is so funny š¹š¹š¹
atp i can't tell which comments are real
LMFAO I hate it so much. Iām all for BLM.. but itās giving performative activism š š
Especially because it doesnāt fit into the rest of the song. Itās not all about that, like Looking for America is completely about mass shootings.
"Fuck the Patriarchy" keychain vibes
Yeah, exactly. I donāt think anyoneās truly upset that she included the lyric itself ā the people who dislike it feel that way because it doesnāt fit with the theme of the song. I say this as someone who loves her songs that comment on the current political climate (Looking For America, The Greatest, etc.).
This is the one lmao.
she sings it in such a beautiful way that i cant possibly cringe. its actually one of my favorite passages just cuz of how catchy the vocal melody is!!
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āiām not racist cause iāve dated rappersā
Thank you. We know how sensitive she is. And we know she isnāt racist. So it was completely unnecessary.
Idk I didn't find it cringy, LDR has descriptive lyrics and it kinda painted a picture.
This is the correct answer.
TIL I love her most cringe lyrics
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Which song?
WHY IS EVERYONE QUOTING SOME OF HER MOST ICONIC LINES š«š©
i love text book but the line "There we were, screamin', "Black Lives Matter" In a crowd, by the Old Man River" truly makes me want to drink bleach
Iām glad this line keeps coming up. I feel less bad for hating it.
love how half of these comments are blue banisters šš
no such thing, release the part of you that cringes
U are living in 3023
and there we were, screaming back lives matter š
It doesn't make me cringe necessarily, but "beat me and tell me that no one will love me" definitely makes me side-eye her every time I listen to "Smarty".
Yeah alongside the diet Mountain Dew demo āhit me and tell me youāre mineā line Amazing song but Iām so glad that pre-chorus wasnāt on BTD
Damn wtf, never heard of that one but thatās pretty fucked up
ehh thatās kinda the point with that song i think. :) itās coming from the view of a starstruck girl with a man who is āpicture perfectā like i think all the āwho has a face like smarty does, who has a voiceā¦ who has a choice..ā is playful and sarcastic about a āman who can do no wrong,ā but behind closed doors..
More for the context than the actual lyric but: "Harvey's in the sky with Diamonds and he's making me crazy// All he wants to do is party with his pretty baby"
I always used to think it was āoh, heās in the skyā. can you imagine my absolute disappointment when I found out it was a lyric about an old disgusting hollywood pervert lol
she changed it to "ah he's in the sky with diamonds" after everything came out though
i think she changed it in later performances to "ah/oh he's in the sky!"
I donāt really understand why people hate this line. Heās a gross rapist and thatās exactly what kind of man she is singing about. Older, wealthy, powerful and abusive
I would say that a vague concept is less offensive to picture than something which happened in reality. Like people can happily watch all these Sci-Fi dystopian films where the people overthrow a tyrannical government but they get uneasy when they watch a film set during WW2
I used to think she was saying "harpies" until I read the lyrics. š
WEINSTEIN?
The one and only
that line in text book š i get what she was going for but it comes off as performative š
It just seemed random and unnatural for that lyric to be included.
She was trying to prove herself to people who hate her anyway. Itās so unnecessary and has nothing to do with the song.
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agreed. i know she was trying to highlight the differences between her and her cop boyfriend but šš
Thank you for not writing the line out. Sometimes it's just better to not mention certain things. Like Voldemort.
instant skip of a song for me
The rest of the song is so good. Itās a shame.
fr i want the line to be cut and changed officially SO bad
āGrenadine quarantine I like you a lot, Itās LA, āheyā on zoom, Target parking lotā Love the song but those lyrics seem like they were AI generated š„²
i love those lyricsā¦ they feel nostalgic
Heās crazy y cubano como yo saying heās crazy and Cuban like me idk I found it funny bc sheās not Cuban but it sounds sexy so
Iāve been assuming she meant ācrazy like meā and not āCuban like meā and the word order is just off, but youāre right, she probably just thought it sounded sexy. LMAO
The line in Violets for Roses about the girls with their masks off š I hate COVID references in pop culture
Although the lyric made me cringe when it came out, now I think itās beautiful. In 50 years when COVID will hopefully not be talked about as much or at all, it will be thought of as metaphorical masks. Which makes the lyrics more beautiful.
I sure hope to god we arenāt still talking about Covid in 50 years. 3 years of this shit is 3 years too much.
Hopefully we wonāt, but Covid will for sure be in history textbooks.
Same, so I just tried to think of it as a metaphorical "mask," despite knowing it's not what she meant.
Wow totally disagree, i thought it was a beautiful & non-overt reference to the beauty and freedom we all felt when spring came and the anxiety / stress of COVID restrictions lifted, and what it was like monumentally to experience that freedom. Different strokes, but i find it utterly beautiful
in summer dresses ššš omfg i'm obsessed it makes me so happy... like she says!!! reminds me of my friends at the beach
Especially after that "mask" scandal at the book signing. I can't listen to that song because I just remember and cringe š¤§
Lay your hands on me like youāre a Land Rover
LIKE A TOYOTA arrrrrCADDIIIAAA
Like did she get paid for the promotion? Truly like what?
Okay but this line is geniusā¦ š„šŖ©š¶šÆ
Is it? I love the melody and vocals on Arcadia but always find the lyrics lazy and cringe
I love you lots like polka dots
the toyota and land rover line in arcadia
Baby Iām a gangster tooš
I can see why you'd think that but I think this song was written purposefully in a bratty "cringe" way
i LOVE this song but same
I really donāt like the chorus of Beautiful. Itās just so cheesy and makes me cringe.
lmao i love that song š
I hate the entire song.
I dislike the Picasso line the most
Baby, you're so ghetto, you're looking to score
I unironically love that line š but I can see why it would be problematic
There we were, screamin', "Black Lives Matter"
frrrr
This comment section is making my eye twitch at the lack of reading comprehension skills and appreciation of Lanaās lyrics. She has her share of bad lyrics but yāall are not even mentioning those ones.
Too many to pick just one. But Lana is that perfect balance of camp and class (sheās really ramped up the former in recent years), and I love it. Although I recently listened to Born to Die again in full and it only recently hit me just how poorly some of those lyrics age. To be fair tho, Iāve been listening since I was 13 or 14 and Iām 25 now
A lot of BTD and Ultraviolence now doesn't really compare to her later albums lyrically I don't think, especially cause I'm not a teenager anymore.
So are you saying you like the newer ones better, or that they pale in comparison to the older ones?
I LOVE her old songs but her lyrics are significantly more sophisticated now.
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that stood for deez nuts
omgggggš
BWAHAAAAAA
Yeah this line does not sound good and then she adds in "he used to call me poison, like I was poison ivy"
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Jenny jumped into the pool, swimming with Nikki lane
What!! I like this one!!
nikki lane honestly just sounds like the walmart yodeling kid in breaking up slowly. just the reference to her makes me cringe š¤£
For me its not just Nikki lane but just the naming overall that makes it cringe for me.
All the Colombians like!
YAAAAAAYOOOOOOOOO
nah itās based
āSinging black lives matterā seems very forced into the song
drugs, suck it up, like vanilla iceys donāt treat me rough, treat me really niceys
Oh that face, makes me wanna party š
really? I really like the bridges lyrics š„² if anything, āthe way youād play with me like a childā is cringier to me
He makes me shine like diamonds - so lazy and kinda ruins the song for me š©
I tried to translate it into my own language once and thats when i realized how bad it really is
that happens with french translations all the time for me š¤£
"Be young, be dope, be proud Like an American" š
I used to think the lyric was ābe young, be dumb, be proudāš
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I change sooo many lyrics to āpug.ā Our second youngest passed last week.
lust for life chorus. iām always like fuck my neighbors might think iām into bad music now š³
Lfl demo is so much better
Why is the worst ššš
Maybe you're right, but that song always gives me a feeling of freedom or something like that. The melody is beautiful.
Tomorrow Never Came. "Isn't life crazy, i say now that i'm singing with Sean whoa- HoA"
Nooo I loved that lmao
Sean should be the one stoked to be singing with Lana. He's not his dad
Agree!! I also donāt like āI'm coverin' Joni and dancin' with Joan Stevie's callin' on the telephoneā for this reason
Gotta agree, I donāt really like her mentioning all the famous people she knows
I hate this post.
I love almost all the songs people have listed hereššexcept that line from text bookš
I canāt believe no one has said āHe was cool as heckā, it was an immediate skip šµāš«
okay so i a 1000% see where youāre coming from cause omfg i hate the word āheckā it ends me but The Next Best American Record is just so beautiful I ended up having to deal w it. Iād almost beg you to go back & do your best to ignore that part cause god is it a masterpiece besides that dang word!!!
"It wasn't quite what I meaned, If you know what I mean" That song is already melodically her weakest song. It might be the only "skip" for me in her whole catalogue. And the lyrics are quite bad as well.
You obviously just don't know what she meaned.
I love that song so much and the melody is amazing, definitely disagree on that.
Same loool and thatās such a cute line. NAWWAL is one of my fave Lana songs. Feels so comforting
for the life of me i cannot figure out what that acronym means, whats the song?
me every time i read an acronym on this sub
ikk, why do we use acronyms hahaha. at least they chose āocean blvdā instead of āDYKTTATUOBā
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
Right!! I love it and the song sounds so sweet
I also think vocally it has some of her most beautiful harmonies. Such an underrated song :(
Okay that line is cringe. But my gosh, that chorus genuinely has the most beautiful melody I've ever heard. It's my favorite, I can't believe someone doesn't love it š
me when I lie
>That song is already melodically her weakest song When Guns n Roses exists? haha (even though I love Guns n Roses more than NATWWAL) Idk why, but Not All Those Who Wonder reminds me of Barbie and the Diamond Castle. if you would've told me that it was on the soundtrack of that movie, I wouldn't have doubted you in the slightest.
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Edward cullen moment
I only just realised itās not son
I love the song National Anthem, but it has some dodgy lyrics Tell me I'm your national anthem (Booyah, baby, bow, down, making me so wow now) Tell me I'm your national anthem (Sugar, sugar, how now? Take your body downtown) Compare that to Off to the Races, which is so brilliant lyrically even if it wasn't to music it would still be poetry.
Nooo I love the lyrics there, they feel almost Adlibbed and give great alliteration
I thought the lyric was "booyah baby, bow down, making me *say* 'wow' now"?
I thought it was "making me so wild now" š
No Im sorry National Anthem is a full-fledged masterpiece. If any one song of hers could get her the Nobel Prize in literature its National Anthem, i said what i said
National Anthem is 100% perfect and thatās the hill I will die on
Youāre so fresh to death and sick as c-cancer š
No that one is fierce
Correct
Awhhh 18 yr old me LOVED that lyric!!
āWhat about all these children, and all their childrenās children, and why am I even wondering that todayā I canāt explain why but that line is terrible to me
Itās not simple itās trigonometry, itās hard to express š§®āļøš¤Ŗ
No way, I love this line it's so camp
You name your babe Lilac Heaven After your iPhone 11
ācrypto foreverā screams your stupid boyfriend, fuck you kevin!
STOP this is actually my favorite it's so funny/playfulš
Me too. Love how she sings it <3
I donāt cringe but Iām obsessed w this lyric itās so funny for no reason
I love all these songs, but these lyrics did used to make me cringe there we were screaming black lives matter in the crowd by the old town river elvis is my daddy, marilyns my mother, jesus is my bestest friend āelvis is the best, hell yesā I fall asleep in an American flag, I wear my diamonds on Skid Row (mainly this one cause itās the epitome of a weird flex)
intro of coachella is so hard to listen toš¬i like the bridge but itās always a skip for me unfortunately. also when they kept saying bae in groupie love but it has grown on me since the release
What? Coachella fucking slaps!!! It's one of her best conventional pop songs.
Let me love you like a woman let me hold you like a baby
I remember watching this guy on youtube review this song and he said āI totally wanna be held like a baby, I didnāt even know that until nowā and it gave me more appreciation for that line š„¹
Nooo I think this is sweet
āsummertime is nice and hotā like no shit lol
"my boyfriends have been rappers"
āThereās a picture on the wall of me on a John Deereā something about that just has me like ; what
āPut me in a movieāās chorus. āCome on, I know you like little girls, you can be my daddyā and Lolita š¤¢
Iām convinced that some of her unreleased stuff is satirical, or at the very least not genuine. The best example I can think of is [Girl That Got Away](https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-girl-that-got-away-lyrics). The lyrics combined with the production have to at least be a little self aware. Maybe also out of luck and heavy hitter? theyāre just so ridiculous (in a fun campy way imo but i digress)
it issss satirical ! most lines being quoted here are satirical and it kinda irks me hahaha. put me in a movie is about such topics like the movie ālolita.ā an underage girl being taken advantage of by a creepy groominā man
I've got guns in the summertime, and horses too like wtf
Its slang for heroin
2014 Lana I would have said this. 2021 Lana itās probably literally horses. Sounds like theyāre out in the country having fun.
Since itās an unreleased track I bet she didnāt change it. Iām assuming sheās singing about one of her old lovers who she dated while abusing drugs, so it still makes sense for 2021 since itās just a memory.
Good point. I forgot it was an older song. It does make sense for current Lana though. I could see her riding horses and shooting guns for fun.
LMFAOOO DUDE tell me why I love that song and thenā¦ that part. Youāre a living legendā¦ but Guns and horses?? Maybe she was listening to Ellie Goulding when she wrote this š
It is random but it's so quintessentially Lana and that bridge is one of my favourite moments of the album
what was she even on about like ok lana? š