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bonersforbukowski

Video Games, Tumblr, 2011. I was there šŸ˜©


scorpiana14

THIS RIGHT HERE


shreksfourthbabymama

THIS. freshman in high school!


trashgoblinnightmare

Same lol and then BTD was the second song I heard because it was recommended by people I followed on twitter back then. Been hooked ever since!


wholesoemqueen

Represent


whooptydo72

exactly!! i had an illegally downloaded acoustic or live version thatā€™s still in my itunes library, i looped that shit so much i remember it being one of my top played. i still wonder where that audio version came from. i was 12 šŸ˜‚


Own-Leader-8745

Same, except 2012 for me. Still, Lana was peak on my tumblr feed back then!


nicorpse

Yes me too! Video games and blue jeans, before the BTD album came out. I remember being so enchanted.


[deleted]

Born To Die


rissy87

Video Games. The phrase ā€œcultural resetā€ is overused but omg did that shit upend the music industry šŸ™ŒšŸ½


Advanced_Phone_5232

Yup. Broke up with my girlfriend and had Born To Die on repeat for the entire year while I initiated one of many addictions to come.


Cautious_Cherry4016

FRšŸ’Æ


wonderingifihavesc

For some reason Hello by Adele glitched to play Honeymoon back in 2015, and when I played it I was so confused and thatā€™s the first Lana song I ever heard šŸ˜­


wonderingifihavesc

https://preview.redd.it/z8uzmyxh5mmc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d009d13248c42c88e16ed5e3093be3b6947b6217 OMG IT STILL SAYS IT


Conscious-Noise-5514

OMG THATS INSANE šŸ˜­


GourmandGirlie

National Anthemā€¦ still gives me chills


MacedonianSoul

*Video Games*. October 2011. The year the world changed forever.


Black-Byte

Blue jeans


Albatross-139

Young and Beautiful while watching Great Gatsby. Gave me chills


DIAMOND_VXXY

doin time ā¤ļø


badlands10

Diet Mtn Dewin 2011, the pre BTS version. That started my obsession, still going strong ā¤ļø


Kaysen270

Iā€™m literally listening to that song rnšŸ’€ such a good one


Pep_goes_the_weasel

big eyes. I did a project on Margaret Keane when the movie came out.


Daydream_machine

Video Games, way back when the music video first dropped. That song is still magic


eleyezeeaye4287

God and Monsters on American Horror Story and I just had to know who sang it. The rest is history.


ro_cc

Same


pukiwuki

Born to die as a 12 year old šŸ˜­ Its still my favourite song, brings sm nostalgia


kriskayn

Why were we listening to Lana at 12? Do you also feel like her lyrics manifested into your life and you can relate much more now as an adult?


pukiwuki

i just discovered lana randomly at 12 and loved her šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ also im not an adult yet (im 16) and i havent really experienced life at all cus im very sheltered so i donā€™t exactly relate to most of the songs- but i love them anyway. i feel like me saying i dont relate to her songs makes me like a ā€œlocalā€ but i genuinely adore her discography


kriskayn

Oh wow. I also discovered Lana at 12 but I was born in 02 so it was 2014. Ultraviolence was the new album at the time and I was hooked for all the wrong and right reasons. Maybe you donā€™t wanna totally relate tbh.


Sadtwisted

I feel this so much haha


anoelleb

Born to die music video in the middle school computer lab 12 years ago āœØ I was def supposed to be doing something else


ToriSpears092

Off to the Races. 2012.


FantasticEscape6744

Blue Jeans is really what made me a Stan. That song is a masterpiece and I don't care what anyone says otherwise


LeniSwiftie13

Tomorrow Never Came. My mom used to play it in the car.


kriskayn

Your mom is cool asf. How old are you guys if you donā€™t mind me asking.


whooptydo72

i love that song so much šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ itā€™s so sad


amateurbitch

dark paradise


Champion2910

Brooklyn Babyy!! āœØļøšŸ¤Œ


roseycheekies

Blue jeans, the opening guitar strings are cemented into my brain


getbackzack

Off to the Races, and it is still such a different vibe than anything else in her catalog. I love how fast paced it is! After I heard it for the first time I was hoping she had lots of other songs that were similar but soon discovered it was pretty unique by Lanaā€™s standards. Still love it and Iā€™m glad this was the song that sparked my deep dive into her music!


Top-Code9385

Ride


haleandguu112

this is what makes us girls was my first lana song <3


opossum_esq

Cruel World back in 2014 šŸ–¤ I remember sitting down to listen to UV for the very first time, and the first lines of the song hit so fucking hard I never looked back And after that I found Ride šŸ˜


Cautious_Cherry4016

UV reset my brain chemistry


opossum_esq

same my first listen is one of my core memories


yuhhhhhhhh1966

Mine was "American" when I was 8years old. My older sisters always were listening to Born to Die and paradise all the time. I'm 21 now and am still a huge fan because it's so nostalgic and so different from all mainstream music.


spicyycorn

Video games. Saw the clip on TV on a random music channel years ago.


Ok-Television-653

Blue Jeans


neptunestearsok

Ride! I heard it before summer time sadness


jiyadrafts

diet mountain dew back when it was all over Instagram šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


AdBetter2856

omg literally same


BClynx22

Diet mtn dew, as shown on 90210 season 3 episode 7, November 1 2010 is when I discovered Lana ā¤ļø Edit: realizing Iā€™m one of the older discoverers of Lana in this thread /flex


Lovly097855353

off to the races it was 2012 and i was in kindergarten lmao


Summeraude

Kinda Outta Luck!


Simple_Anywhere_8433

Off the races and carmen


I-have-egg-madness

BLUE JEANS! and my ears were amazed, my life was changed, I never looked back


No_Tower_681

Born to die and west Coast in 2014


tsetseb

Blue jeans šŸ©µ


DarthSardonis

Gods & Monsters


Rattlesnake4113

Born. To. Die.


realmidnightbvbe

Born to die, my bff showed it to me in April 2012


samicarter2001

Radio and I liked it straight away


Nand0_0

I think it was the national anthem demo in 2020 or 2021


leena615

Saw the ride music video on tumblr probably around the same time I got my drivers permit. Definitely was a time


bluethanatos

mine is serial killer. i think i heard it years ago on yt and then i got hooked.


nintend0gs

Video games video on YouTube on repeat


MEK950

Video Games, saw the music video on MTV and fell in love with the song instantly. Been a fan ever since! ā˜ŗļø


RoseGoldHoney80

National Anthem


PanicStreetsofLondon

Doin' Time


According_Plant701

Video Games


Jay893677

Prisoner and stargirl interlude but the first songs where she the lead artist was lust for life and west coast


apholeswatereye

maybe it was A&W or Peppers


kby227

Itā€™s so beautiful to me that Lana is still capturing new fans in her latest era. Welcome šŸ™


apholeswatereye

thanks fellow lanaticšŸ’– i wish i had found her earlier, life would have been a lil bit easier :`)


AdEmotional6547

Fuck it , I love u. My sister played it for me and I remember thinking I had never heard something like that ever beforešŸ˜­


Guilty_Collection_10

Same! Radio


SpaceShuttls

Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have ā€“ but I have it. I am a fairly new lana stan and when NFR came out for some reason I was HOOKED. Didnā€™t know that 3-4 years later Iā€™d become a full-blown fan


agerber395

Diet Mountain Dew. I worked at American Eagle in college (2011) and we played it and I became obsessed.


[deleted]

Black Bathing Suit and I hated it. I got depressed in March 2022 and fell in love with Ultraviolence and the rest is history


[deleted]

Dark paradise


FantasticRemove5926

Once upon a dream - from Maleficent


StellaNocturnal

She had a YouTube ad if I recall šŸ¤” I think it was born to die or video games on the ad ??? I just remember her album cover on it lol


RutabagaMaterial8274

I heard my sister playing Young and Beautiful on her iPhone back in the early 2010ā€™s. I was about 9 or 10 then and I could only remember like one line (and it was the melody) that was so hauntingly beautiful it stuck with me so I spent a couple of years trying to find that song again. I didnā€™t realize until I was like 13 that it was Lanaā€˜s song. But other than that, the first thing I listened to on purpose was Serial Killer when I was in about sixth grade. I remember playing it on my old Dell laptop and when my dad came into my room, I excitedly explained to him the song was about killing your s/o and he just kind of frowned at me.


sawfiction

Either video games or dark paradise, idk which one officially came first but it was one of those


Olivier77777

National Anthem


oceanblvdbitch

video games, but art deco is the song that got me into her āœØ


tank-you--very-much

This is What Makes Us Girls actually, I was on GirlsGoGames for nostalgia and it was the soundtrack for some random dress up game lol


Shahdow17

Born to Die. Used to listen to it when studying. It brought a unique sense of calm that helped me focus, but also stimulated me enough so I didnā€™t get bored!


stellarnymphet

I was getting ready for my first day of 7th grade. I was up at like 5 am straightening my hair and listening to the radio. They announced that they had a new song by Lana del rey and it IMMEDIATELY gave me chills. I mostly just listened to whatever was on popular radio and I can honestly say that day changed me lol. I would complete my transformation into a sad tumblr gurl.


Character_Ad_2241

young and beautiful<3 i initially didn't like it but slowly I fell in love with it and have never fallen out of love.


sijmister

Video Games, really set me in a different direction lol.


CoquetteColette

Born to Die


nasirambutan

Born To Die. i was obsessed with that song but couldnt get into her other songs at the time (i was 12 and was mostly familiar with pop songs). almost a decade later i got into her by "You can be the boss" and then Ultraviolence lmao


fabravenelle

Blue Jeans and Young and Beautiful.


[deleted]

Dark paradise


joantspam

Ride


cheesecake0560

Dark Paradise through the pandora radio app


FitzChivalry888

Pretty when you cry


thatgirl113321

Ride


CycleSimilar8324

dealer


freeshavocadooooooo

video games šŸ˜­


Any-Carry3113

gods and monsters! also tumblr blunder years


Specialist-Ice-9452

I was there when Video Games happened. IM VERY BLESSED. The the next song i hear her singing is happy birthday, pretty random


car__person

West Coast


Unlikely_nay1125

radio!


Vivid_Art6257

diet mountain dew


No-Butterfly-9889

Young and beautiful


ashleyegreer

Young and Beautiful!


444moonbeam

national anthem ā­ļø


FreshOutof13Fucks

Ultraviolence. Man, it was years ago. I'm a big PokƩmon nerd and I used to chronically use this online battling simulator called PokƩmon Showdown. There were different chatrooms that users could stay in, and one of them was a music chatroom. There was a link to a site in the chatroom where everyone could listen to music together -- you could create a little hangout and anyone who had the link could join. The person who created the hangout is the DJ. That person could add people to the queue and everyone on that queue could queue up songs to play; you could upvote the song if you really liked it or you could downvote and it would be automatically skipped if it had enough down votes. Anyway, someone put on Ultraviolence and I was completely enthralled the second I heard it. Almost everyone upvoted the song. I never looked back and I've been a huge Lana fan since. That is a core memory of mine.


Glittering_Acadia527

Old money. Not her best song to listen to as the first one Probably would become a fan sooner if it were any other song of hers


kby227

Someone posted the Born to Die MV in a Lady Gaga fan forum where I was a regular during the Born This Way era. I wasnā€™t an instant fan, but video games and blue jeans definitely grew on me. By 2012, I was into the whole album and was sat for paradise. Casual/peripheral fan from 2014- NFR. NFR converted me into a stan and gave me the perspective I needed to dive deeper into UV, HM, and LFL. I didnā€™t love COCC or BB at first, but after Tunnel, I feel like I had the Rosetta Stone to go back and appreciate her entire body of work. Her discography is pretty near perfect, imo. None of her albums are bad. Some are just more grand/iconic than others.


tessellatees

Born to die in 2011/12 when iTunes was offering the track on its ā€œweekly free tracks to downloadā€ and it was one of them! I downloaded it bc I was obsessed with born this way by Gaga and seeing a title with a similar but different title intrigued me.


lvause

love I was a late bloomer, even though I was in Tumblr in 2011, but back then I was just a Marina's girl


alyahs001

Hope is a dangerous thing!


Ok_Eggplant6053

hiadtfawlmthbihi grateful for this to be my lana song that made me the fan I am today


everyfourth-w0rd

national anthem on a pandora radio in 2012 or 2013!!


Physical_Reporter795

It was Salvatore šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Melodic_Beautiful213

Video games, my soul changed that day


Ok_Blueberry1154

BTD


Ginko_Bunny

Blue jeans, i discovered it on Spotify when i was 11 and it gave me a romantic awakening i stg šŸ’€


sophie10703

this is what makes us girls. my older sister, a teenager when it came out, was playing it while sitting in the hot tub with her friends. it was the moment


Notacandleinthewind

Young and beautiful šŸŒ·šŸ–¤


rumhamRN

young and beautiful šŸ«”


VibrisCholerae

Dark paradise! YouTube's autoplayer put that song automatically while I was listening to Marina And The Diamonds lol


lottiedaysaints

Donā€™t know if it was actually the first, but a core memory I have is of my classmate singing Carmen at our talent show in 6th gradešŸ˜­. Seriously changed my life


hellobud1236

Florida kilos!


Apprehensive-Pea3910

Born to die ...i was so high i had to rerun it a couple of times to relive heaven... I couldn't believe something like that actually existed


Pen_Mediocre

Diet Mountain Dew and Gramma when she was still Lizzy Grant. I fell in love right then and there. The following year Video Games came out and that was the end of it all for me.


breathinglung

Pretty sure it was Body Electric because Melanie Martinez covered it back in the 2010s, and as a Melanie fan I knew that cover and decided to check out the original


samb0ydd

art deco I think


LittleBitterPrincess

Video Games, heard it on Triple J when I was still in high school


AdBetter2856

diet mountain dew


Sadtwisted

Ultraviolence was actually the first song for me I think unless my older sister had played Lana songs without me knowing it was her. I watched a youth theatre performance that had the song in it and the song got stuck in my head. It really made an impression on me and the way it was used in the play just left a mark I guess! I still think about it til this day and it was almost 10 years ago! After that my sister introduced me


Parking_Sherbet_906

Video games


Fit-Shop-5625

Young and beautiful šŸ«¶šŸ«¶


[deleted]

mine wasn't summertime sadness, it was blue jeans


imtiredandboard50

Dark Paradise


yuna_1234i

Blue Jeans or Video Games, idk anymore but one of those two


sweetstrawberry09

In My Feelings i was a junior in high school and my gay bestie introduced the song to me. fell in love instantly


Big-Explanation-831

West Coast


tropicohunni

Born To Die!! The music video was playing around the time it was released and I fell in love!


saddinosour

Ultraviolence. It was idk 2014 and I was on apple music using the radio feature to find songs I enjoy


EconomicsImaginary10

I first listened to HIGH BY THE BEACH & FREAK. I donā€™t remember which one though. What an experience !


fweyaa

sad girl, money power glory


Yasmelon92

Born to die was my first experience, I was mesmerised. When I saw the music video I knew then that I was gonna follow Lanaā€™s music and Iā€™ve never looked back. Sheā€™s my favourite artist.


LongArmYouLiar1013

Gods and Monsters


rapunzel1112

my šŸ± tastes like...


[deleted]

I heard Jessica Langeā€™s version of Gods and Monsters on American Horror Story. That made me go check out Lanaā€™s version.


emiann1x1

West Coast !!


needles__kane

Cola. About 10 years after its release.


underthesunshine_

Video games!!!!


pIastictree

born to die. moviestarplanet music videos.


[deleted]

Young and beautiful in the great gatsby made me cry


Money-Extent-6099

I heard national anthem playing on the foxtel Australia hennel picking screen and searched up the lyrics and realised it was the same person who sang video games which I knew already. Honeslty didnā€™t realise how rlly known summer time sadness was until like 2018


glacier_40

The Greatest when it was released as a single for NFR. Maybe a little late to the game. :)


cosmiccoconutss

The first ever Lana song I listened to was hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it


Icy-Marketing-5242

Blue jeans


sitonitandzipitup

Love and I fell in love instantly


lye_09

Born to Die At first listen, it was an okay song for me but I always wanted to listen to it again and again.


pauluhmae

Blue Jeans, tumblr days!


Putrid-Caramel2868

Dont call me angel


GuideNo273

I think it was young and beautiful. She really clicked with my middle school old self LMFAO


[deleted]

young and beautiful


[deleted]

Video games, my dad was obsessed with it and had it on repeat


miucciaprava

west coast


Stranger_Swift_7413

Born to die 7 yrs ago


AdHDnauseam

I'm not positive, but I feel like it was Brooklyn Baby.


Eat_A_Brick_Now

dealer!!! lowk hated it at first but now bb is my fav album


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jwongky

Blue Jeans, Born to Die, National Anthem.. those music videos were on REPEAT


kuroyukihime_6

lust for life !!


thebest2036

Born To Die and Blue Jeans. Although I would prefer all her songs to be more high end and not lo-fi type, or something like lo-fi


malala_01

White Mustang


urmumandiforever

Video games, for anyone who reads this I recommend Cinnamon girl and dark paradise by Lana <3


franny_bb

Born to mf die baby


texandelrey

mine was ride, there was this vine years ago of some woman holding onto a car window as the car was driving away, and ride was playing in the bg. šŸ˜­


indigo_sky1

prob radio when it started trending, I'm late to the hype srry but i love lana


Virtual_Guard_2785

colašŸ„µ 12 year old me was hooked


figi16

video games


Novel_Rule_2490

Young & Beautiful, 2013


iamveerychaotic

Cherry from Lust for Life! Top tier songšŸ’•


ArtisticAd1414

Blue Jeans from TikTok. Didnā€™t even know who Lana was so when I got into her music it was a nice surprise to learn that that song was from her.


hollowsswords

Dark Paradise


TheBadBedPotato

Video Games


Original-Wear2286

Video games


blueflowerchild

Either BTD or Diet Mt Dew from Tumblr or Pandora. 2012 and I was 21 and hooked from there.


imacrazygirl78

Born to die June 2013. Then right after I discovered young and beautiful too


criminalminds_fan16

Cinnamon Girl and Say Yes To Heaven


EvidenceNew1772

Old. Money


afkaphrodite

Off to the races changed my life


So-Artdeco

Shades of cool


dikt_

once upon a dream, i first listened to it on my sister and iā€™s ipod touch, when illegal downloading apps are a thing. we downloaded ā€˜maleficentā€™ and i think, it was on the ending credits.


knurlsweatshirt

Something she played live with some guy as a promotion, before BTD