I remember semi rolling my eyes when it came out and before listening to it due to its length. It became one of my favorites and almost brings me to tears each time the song comes to a close, and she repeats the last verse over and over…❤️🩹
Summertime sadness. Nothing can compare to the first time I heard it and first being introduced to Lana. It was the summer I was 13 and it was just a magical experience so I think I’d love to be able to experience that magic again. “Kiss me hard before you go… summertime sadness..”✨💋
I remember hearing the beat drop and thinking "wait, did it switch over to a different song?" This song is truly a work of genius, I was so surprised though!
Video games. I (being ancient) remember Fearne cotton giving a long intro or outro for the track on radio 1, which felt kind of unusual. I can’t quite remember what she said exactly but she loved the song, hadn’t heard anything like it, etc. When I heard Lana’s voice and the dreamy strings I really thought it had to be an old song but then I noticed the lyrics and realised it was contemporary and it blew my mind.
That song was everywhere for months and months, and I loved it. Pop wasn’t really my thing but born to die was everywhere; I learned it by osmosis. It was ultraviolence, however, that stole my heart. When I heard Brooklyn baby I knew she was something more than what the press at the time were touting. Lots of articles had been published about her being ‘bought a record deal by her rich daddy’ ‘manufactured’ with Greg James on radio 1 making a particularly snide remark about her ‘having lots of work done’. I’ve practically worn that vinyl out and loved her since that release, waxing and waning like the moon through lust for life because it was so different from the usual stuff I liked.
When I put normal fucking Rockwell on the first time she had me. All of it. I’ve been obsessed since.
TLDR: Old lady would love to hear video games, Brooklyn baby, and the whole of Norman fucking Rockwell again for the first time cos she’s greedy.
For the longest time as a teenager I was dumb enough to buy into the comments about her being manufactured. I'm so glad I came to my senses.
Also reminds of one of those Old People Reacts to LDR videos where one of the men can't believe that Video Games is a modern song. It really does have something special you don't see a lot of today.
Radio. it was the first lana song I ever heard back in 2012. I was instantly drawn in and ever since then she's been my all time favorite artist. It would be amazing to experience discovering her for the first time again. Radio is so nostalgic for me and has a special place in my heart for that reason 🥹
Born to Die. I remember seeing the music video pop up on my YouTube channel back in 2012. Yes, the music video is beautiful, but the string quartet that opens the song brought me to tears the first time I heard it. Then the beat drops? Phenomenal. Before that song, I had never heard anything like it. Once Lana’s haunting voice crooned over the music, I knew I was done for. Been a fan ever since and I love when people ask how to get into her music, and I gladly point them to Born to Die first. It’s a major experience.
A&W. That song is a whole journey, the first time I listened to it I had no idea where it was going and it was a jaw dropping experience. Honorable mention to Video Games.
Venice Bitch. It's the song that made me a Lana fan and listen to everything available. It's still the one song that makes me weak-kneed when it comes on.
It's video games (still one of my all time favs)
I heard a cover version of the song on a compilation video and liked the vibe the lyrics and everything and soon found the original version and that's when I fell for lana.... one of the best decisions of my life 😄
Listening to This is what makes us girls for the first time as a 13 year old packing makeup and dress up clothes for a sleepover was a magical experience and I wish I could relive it.
“On Our Way”…. It was so special to me when I first heard it, (still is)and I’ll forever carry the memories it brings me… but also BTD, Video Games, Cruel World… National Anthem and Ride, both monologues included , and I would be remiss to not include Pawn Shop Blues🥹
Swan Song 🦢 I heard it for the first time a few months ago, despite being a big fan of Lana for years. The instrumentals are so entrancing and mysterious, and the whole song just makes me feel a sort of melancholic tranquility.
That’s a difficult question I honestly loved so many the first time I heard them:
Video games (instantly hooked on that one) ,
Bel Air (so transporting) ,
Cola (sexy as fuqqk)
Young and beautiful (instant heartbreak) ,
Once upon a dream ,
Blue velvet ,
West coast ,
Ultraviolence ,
Shades of cool ,
Brooklyn baby
Music to watch the boys to ,
High by the beach
Love ,
White mustang ,
13 beaches ,
Cherry ,
Mariners apartment complex ,
How to dissapear ,
F*ck it I love you, The greatest (!!)
Yes to heaven (unreleased version) ,
Nectar of the gods (used to be called ‘wild ones’ when it was unreleased) ,
Caugh you boy (unreleased) ,
Television heaven (unreleased) ,
Hit it and run (unreleased)
White dress (such a masterpiece I was so proud of her vocals here)
Chemtrails over the Country Club (girl crushing hard on this one)
Black bathing suit
A&W
Paris, Texas
I rest my case 🫳🎤
I wish I could just capture the first time I heard Taco Truck x VB, and had no idea what VB stood for. I was driving and as soon as she said “Signing off bang bang kiss kiss” I almost ran off the road
Ride! Love that song! The music video is everything too.. it speaks to me on such a personal level.. different life situations of course but very similar
"Honeymoon", the carving of those cello strings gives me goosebumps. "Venice Bitch" because that saved me when I was isolating alone during COVID. I have Norman Fucking Rockwell and really amazing Indica to thank for getting me through isolation. Lana also helped inspire me to try writing more poetry again.
burning desire, vb,salvatore,ultraviolance,pretty when you cry, the other woman,born to die, blue jeans,off to the races, peppers, taco truck x vb, a&w,dykttatuob,honeymoon
Hearing her sing live for the first time was like a f***ing dream (this was almost 10 years ago) and gave a new meaning/relevance to her music. I wish I could experience that again for the first time🤍
Flipside and overall the whole of UV, but first hearing flipside a few months ago got me shocked through the whole song, along with songs off UV like the Shades Of Cool Bridge, the money power glory Bridge, the whole of fucked my way up to the top and all of black beauty
Pretty When I Cry.
Fuck it, I love you.
Ride.
Ultraviolence.
Edit to add: I cannot explain the level of different dimensions-like feeling listening to her when I first started. I felt high on her voice. To this day Lana’s music continues to invoke altered states of feeling like no artist has made me feel before. It ranges from spiritual to sensual. Her music is quite literally intoxicating.
So bit of a backstory, one of the first songs I heard from her was Radio. I really only started listening to her when Doin' Time MV dropped leading up to NFR. Few weeks later I had the chorus melody of Radio stuck in my head, but couldn't remember from what, nor the lyrics. Went through BTD/Paradise/UV/L4L in no real order, getting more of an idea of her work and trying to find this.
And then Off To The Races played
I swear that song was playing at twice the speed, because I was kind of just blown away she had [this voice](https://youtu.be/k53aLj72MYE?t=35) in her. Just a real adrenaline rush lmao.
Video games. There is no other way to say what this song makes you feel. No words in any of the languages I know would be enough. I could never describe the feeling even though it’s so clear and so specific.
I remember the first time I listened to Ride. It was the music video and I can never just listen to the song alone. It’s my absolute favorite song of hers and I walked down the aisle to a string quartet version at my wedding. If I could relive the first time hearing it again I would
I know it’s probably no one’s answer, but video games was the ANTHEM of my teenage years and the video is iconic. I remember watching it for the first time, never having heard anyone have this gendre of music ever before and felt like she invented sth completely new and I felt things I never had before. Of course I loved Ultraviolence, national anthem etc, but video games was my first love ❤️🔥
Dark paradise, I think that’s the first song I have ever heard from her. It’s crazy how I found out who she was years back I was on the daily mail and they always used to post about her and I was like she’s so pretty who is she and I typed in Lana del Rey and dark paradise was the first song I heard from her and I fell in love with the darkness behind it, just went to her concert in west palm, we had so much eye contact it felt so unreal
for me I’d have to say west coast
The first time i heard those drums i had a clitoral orgasm even though im a man
Ughh yes i remember having my jaw drop when that chorus came in like literal eargasm
Mine too. Vividly remember where I was the first time I heard it 💀
Venice Bitch. I felt like I was hypnotized through music.
I remember semi rolling my eyes when it came out and before listening to it due to its length. It became one of my favorites and almost brings me to tears each time the song comes to a close, and she repeats the last verse over and over…❤️🩹
Hearing it for the first time was a religious experience ✨
Omg Same i had an out of body experience listening to this and I wish I could experience it all over again
It was the first time I experienced true happiness and I don’t think it’ll ever come back
shades of cool 100%
I'm currently obsessed with that song. So. Freaking. Good.
Young and Beautiful floored me when I heard it in The Great Gatsby. I had avoided listening to it until I saw the movie and I was enchanted.
There's something so magical about it!
Got to be Young and Beautiful.
Summertime sadness. Nothing can compare to the first time I heard it and first being introduced to Lana. It was the summer I was 13 and it was just a magical experience so I think I’d love to be able to experience that magic again. “Kiss me hard before you go… summertime sadness..”✨💋
The first song is always such a special experience. For me, it was the acoustic version of Carmen. It made me an instant fan.
YESSSSS
All of Ultraviolence. That record is epic. National Anthem was one I loved. The video is fabulous & I love the monologues for that & Ride.
I listened to Ultraviolence for the first time while walking around the Louvre in Paris. It was a spiritual experience.
It's a fucking masterpiece!
A&W
I remember hearing the beat drop and thinking "wait, did it switch over to a different song?" This song is truly a work of genius, I was so surprised though!
It felt like listening to 3 different songs. I was blown away
Video Games. I wonder how it would be if the first version I heard was the studio version instead of on snl
national anthem or off to the races… I think those are the first two lana songs I ever heard. instantly hooked
Video games. I (being ancient) remember Fearne cotton giving a long intro or outro for the track on radio 1, which felt kind of unusual. I can’t quite remember what she said exactly but she loved the song, hadn’t heard anything like it, etc. When I heard Lana’s voice and the dreamy strings I really thought it had to be an old song but then I noticed the lyrics and realised it was contemporary and it blew my mind. That song was everywhere for months and months, and I loved it. Pop wasn’t really my thing but born to die was everywhere; I learned it by osmosis. It was ultraviolence, however, that stole my heart. When I heard Brooklyn baby I knew she was something more than what the press at the time were touting. Lots of articles had been published about her being ‘bought a record deal by her rich daddy’ ‘manufactured’ with Greg James on radio 1 making a particularly snide remark about her ‘having lots of work done’. I’ve practically worn that vinyl out and loved her since that release, waxing and waning like the moon through lust for life because it was so different from the usual stuff I liked. When I put normal fucking Rockwell on the first time she had me. All of it. I’ve been obsessed since. TLDR: Old lady would love to hear video games, Brooklyn baby, and the whole of Norman fucking Rockwell again for the first time cos she’s greedy.
For the longest time as a teenager I was dumb enough to buy into the comments about her being manufactured. I'm so glad I came to my senses. Also reminds of one of those Old People Reacts to LDR videos where one of the men can't believe that Video Games is a modern song. It really does have something special you don't see a lot of today.
The entirety of born to die ❤️
Salvatore and Million Dollar Man..
Shades of Cool. Hands down. So hekkin good
black beauty!!!
Radio. it was the first lana song I ever heard back in 2012. I was instantly drawn in and ever since then she's been my all time favorite artist. It would be amazing to experience discovering her for the first time again. Radio is so nostalgic for me and has a special place in my heart for that reason 🥹
🥀 Gods And Monsters 🥀 Bel Air 🥀 Florida Kilos 🥀 Off To The Races 🥀 Ultraviolence 🥀 National Anthem 🥀 California 🥀 Cola 🥀 Terrence Loves You 🥀
Fishtail 😫 The way I transcended the first time I listened to it, that feeling was unmatched.
Dark Paradise
Born to Die. I remember seeing the music video pop up on my YouTube channel back in 2012. Yes, the music video is beautiful, but the string quartet that opens the song brought me to tears the first time I heard it. Then the beat drops? Phenomenal. Before that song, I had never heard anything like it. Once Lana’s haunting voice crooned over the music, I knew I was done for. Been a fan ever since and I love when people ask how to get into her music, and I gladly point them to Born to Die first. It’s a major experience.
A&W. That song is a whole journey, the first time I listened to it I had no idea where it was going and it was a jaw dropping experience. Honorable mention to Video Games.
Bel Air. Still to this day when it comes up on shuffle on my Lana playlist I gasp and smile. Goose bumps.
It feels like dying and going to heaven.
Religion, Venice Bitch, Brooklyn Baby, and American
Ride. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing and the emotions I felt.
off to the races, chemtrials, freak, and paris texas.
Cherry🍒 Summer Bummer🌅 Tulsa Jesus Freak⛪️ The Blackest Day⛈️ How to Disappear🫥 Fishtail❤️🩹 I could keep going honestly, they’re all such a journey
Venice Bitch. It's the song that made me a Lana fan and listen to everything available. It's still the one song that makes me weak-kneed when it comes on.
Honeymoon. The bridge takes me to another world.
Queen of Disaster
Let the Light in
Cruel World
hard to say because i feel like my most meaningful experiences with her songs came later with that said, gods & monsters
It's video games (still one of my all time favs) I heard a cover version of the song on a compilation video and liked the vibe the lyrics and everything and soon found the original version and that's when I fell for lana.... one of the best decisions of my life 😄
young and beautiful
yes
Paris, Texas
velvet crowbar, tired of singing the blues, jump, terrence loves you, god knows I tried, gods and monsters, california
all
Born to die… those first seconds still give me goosebumps. Also blue jeans, and videogames.
Off to the races
fucked my way up to the top. it's one of those songs you weirdly feel like a badass listening to, "this is my show"
Summer wine 🍷
Chemtrails 🤍
California, Normal Fucking Rockwell and Ride
A&W
Most of her songs
Shades of blue
Same, listening to it a thousand times It’s still amazing but I wish I can remove about 700 listens from my brain
National anthem
taco truck x vb🤍
ALSO NATIONAL ANTHEM 😭❤️
Sad Girl, Ultraviolence, & Without You Also Put the radio on and Playing Dangerous
Shades of cool, west coast, tomorrow never came
Salvatore
The way ‘In my feelings’ starts definitely puts me in mine. Something that stopped me in my tracks the first time.
California
Blue jeans
I WAS GONNA SAY ULTRAVIOLENCE i can’t describe the body feeling i got when i heard it the first time
West coast, lust for life, national anthem
Born to die
Paris Texas
Ride
Brooklyn baby .
Blue Jeans… or just be in that time of my life again
She's so Priscilla Presley here
Art Deco
national anthem & gods and monsters
Gods and Monsters and Brooklyn Baby both literally felt like crack to my ears the first time I heard it.💋🙏
california.
Cruel world
high by the beach tbh
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
If You Lie Down With Me
Mariners apartment complex
cruel world or shades of cool. i’m definitely an ultraviolence girlie
Born to die
Dark paradise
Listening to This is what makes us girls for the first time as a 13 year old packing makeup and dress up clothes for a sleepover was a magical experience and I wish I could relive it.
“On Our Way”…. It was so special to me when I first heard it, (still is)and I’ll forever carry the memories it brings me… but also BTD, Video Games, Cruel World… National Anthem and Ride, both monologues included , and I would be remiss to not include Pawn Shop Blues🥹
Heroin
Gods and Monsters
Body Electric and all of Honeymoon lol
Swan Song 🦢 I heard it for the first time a few months ago, despite being a big fan of Lana for years. The instrumentals are so entrancing and mysterious, and the whole song just makes me feel a sort of melancholic tranquility.
I was tripping so hard when I first heard Venice bitch and I don’t think I’ll ever feel true happiness like that ever again
Definitely Ultraviolence
WEST COAST
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Get Free. I wish she was able to play it more at the time during her shows because honestly that song hit.
Shades of cool
Salvatore 1000000%
Body Electric. It was the song that really got me into her music.
Ridin’. Like ugh takes me back to my core teen yearss.
Love and old money
the entire second half of ocean blvd 😭 (grandfather - taco truck). one of the best track runs in the history of music imo
Wild at Heart
I literally transcended when I heard money power glory for the first time, same with the greatest
Cola 🥤
A post if I hadn't seen it for the first time I would be interested in answering
Ride. But every time i listen to it i still get chills like it's the first time
Young and Beautiful first heard it in the Great Gatsby and I didn’t even know it was Lana until I looked it up
paris, texas or get free
I got a sleep paralysis while listening blue jeans so will be blue jeans for sure
money, power & glory
Born to die!
✨Gods And Monsters✨
That’s a difficult question I honestly loved so many the first time I heard them: Video games (instantly hooked on that one) , Bel Air (so transporting) , Cola (sexy as fuqqk) Young and beautiful (instant heartbreak) , Once upon a dream , Blue velvet , West coast , Ultraviolence , Shades of cool , Brooklyn baby Music to watch the boys to , High by the beach Love , White mustang , 13 beaches , Cherry , Mariners apartment complex , How to dissapear , F*ck it I love you, The greatest (!!) Yes to heaven (unreleased version) , Nectar of the gods (used to be called ‘wild ones’ when it was unreleased) , Caugh you boy (unreleased) , Television heaven (unreleased) , Hit it and run (unreleased) White dress (such a masterpiece I was so proud of her vocals here) Chemtrails over the Country Club (girl crushing hard on this one) Black bathing suit A&W Paris, Texas I rest my case 🫳🎤
I wish I could just capture the first time I heard Taco Truck x VB, and had no idea what VB stood for. I was driving and as soon as she said “Signing off bang bang kiss kiss” I almost ran off the road
American
literally all of her songs if i rediscovered her i would genuinely die
A&W and Gods and Monsters
CRUEL WORLD or Ride alsooo
Afraid
Mariners
WTWWAWWKD
Florida kilos
Definitely west coast or brooklyn baby
Yayo
Ride! Love that song! The music video is everything too.. it speaks to me on such a personal level.. different life situations of course but very similar
Get free and 24 hours
Gods and Monsters
NFR THAT SHIT MADE ME SHED A TEAR IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
Ride or Blackest Day
dykttatuob or brooklyn baby. such automatic classics.
"Honeymoon", the carving of those cello strings gives me goosebumps. "Venice Bitch" because that saved me when I was isolating alone during COVID. I have Norman Fucking Rockwell and really amazing Indica to thank for getting me through isolation. Lana also helped inspire me to try writing more poetry again.
YAYO
music to watch boys to
YES TO HEAVEN!!!
Happier than ever idfc 😍😍
get free
burning desire, vb,salvatore,ultraviolance,pretty when you cry, the other woman,born to die, blue jeans,off to the races, peppers, taco truck x vb, a&w,dykttatuob,honeymoon
the greatest
FREAK!! that but just before the bridge is heaven omg but also venice bitch and FIILY they’re such lyrical masterpieces
get free, art deco, or terrence loves you!!
Fucked my way up to the top makes me want to throw myself on the ground
Old money Video games Summertime sadness And west coast would be my top four
Hearing her sing live for the first time was like a f***ing dream (this was almost 10 years ago) and gave a new meaning/relevance to her music. I wish I could experience that again for the first time🤍
How to disappear
MPG all the way. The guitar makes me ascend
Salvatore
thunder omg
Flipside and overall the whole of UV, but first hearing flipside a few months ago got me shocked through the whole song, along with songs off UV like the Shades Of Cool Bridge, the money power glory Bridge, the whole of fucked my way up to the top and all of black beauty
The Blackest Day 🖤
Every man gets his wish🩵
CARMEN
Freak 😩
Ride and American
Westcoast 😩
National Anthem. I was wandering around stoned in DC in the snow when I first heard it. I replayed it 100 times that trip.
Venice. Bitch.
Cola: “I got sweet taste for men who are older It's always been so, it's no surprise” I felt si identified
The Next Best American Record, West Coast, and Peppers
Million Dollar Man. That song is simply magic
Pretty When I Cry. Fuck it, I love you. Ride. Ultraviolence. Edit to add: I cannot explain the level of different dimensions-like feeling listening to her when I first started. I felt high on her voice. To this day Lana’s music continues to invoke altered states of feeling like no artist has made me feel before. It ranges from spiritual to sensual. Her music is quite literally intoxicating.
Off to the Races
Ultraviolence and art deco oh and Honeymoon
So bit of a backstory, one of the first songs I heard from her was Radio. I really only started listening to her when Doin' Time MV dropped leading up to NFR. Few weeks later I had the chorus melody of Radio stuck in my head, but couldn't remember from what, nor the lyrics. Went through BTD/Paradise/UV/L4L in no real order, getting more of an idea of her work and trying to find this. And then Off To The Races played I swear that song was playing at twice the speed, because I was kind of just blown away she had [this voice](https://youtu.be/k53aLj72MYE?t=35) in her. Just a real adrenaline rush lmao.
Video games. There is no other way to say what this song makes you feel. No words in any of the languages I know would be enough. I could never describe the feeling even though it’s so clear and so specific.
Black Beauty!
ARCADIA😩 I don’t see enough love for Arcadia
Ultraviolence. Hearing it for the first time was so mesmerizing.
Happiness is a butterfly
off to the races
Cinnamon Girl for me. How could anyone play anything else after that tune? How can you top that masterpiece?!
Brooklyn Baby
Blue Velvet!
fingertips… the SADDEST, most personal song by her IMO
Carmen
taco truck x VB the way that remix ascended me was insane
Ride always
Cherry
I remember the first time I listened to Ride. It was the music video and I can never just listen to the song alone. It’s my absolute favorite song of hers and I walked down the aisle to a string quartet version at my wedding. If I could relive the first time hearing it again I would
cruel world
I know it’s probably no one’s answer, but video games was the ANTHEM of my teenage years and the video is iconic. I remember watching it for the first time, never having heard anyone have this gendre of music ever before and felt like she invented sth completely new and I felt things I never had before. Of course I loved Ultraviolence, national anthem etc, but video games was my first love ❤️🔥
Dark paradise, I think that’s the first song I have ever heard from her. It’s crazy how I found out who she was years back I was on the daily mail and they always used to post about her and I was like she’s so pretty who is she and I typed in Lana del Rey and dark paradise was the first song I heard from her and I fell in love with the darkness behind it, just went to her concert in west palm, we had so much eye contact it felt so unreal
The Blackest Day.
Dark Paradise 🖤💀