No one will ever convince me that this is not one of her best songs. The background vocals during the verses alone are incredible. I hope she uses hard-hitting drums like in the pre-chorus again in the future.
Alot of people Say ultravio is her best work, but this right here is the Real shit, the incredible dark lyrics, the pure genius production, and of course those majestic violons.
That's because she's definitely a demented angel. She used her body and looks to ride to the top and now she's singing about it, it's beautifully eerie.
My dad is a 50 year old man, he is the leader of a biker gang and always dresses in black with chains, has a lot of tattoos and is very into metal and hard rock. Oh, and also he is the biggest Lana del Rey fan I've ever met
It's simple, because she hits those places, real, gritty, sexy, no BS and not afraid frankly to curse and be real. Metal above everything in my world, but yes, addicted to her music and has little to do with her looks. Music that affects comes from many places.
It's so interesting how young and innocent she sounds while singing "I'm your little scarlet, starlet..." But then the rest of the song it sounds very mature. I love that contrast.
Mm…not that she is innocent but mature at the same time..its more like…she is very mature and smart. She's seen quite a bit throughout her lifetime, so she knows how to get her way and all that. BUT she has the qualities of an innocent girl (Alt. sweet voice, beautiful, soft looks) and thats good to have. She can get what she wants with that "innocent" side. Its like a cover up for the "bad girl" It actually comes in handy if you ask me ;*
People have probably pointed this out before, but the noise in the background sounds like a playground/kids playing. In lolita, it ends with him hearing these kids playing and he realises he stole Dolores childhood so she never got to have that. I always thought that was a really cool reference
i love the quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, “light of my life, fire of my lions.” The protagonist refers to Lolita this way often throughout the book. Basically the whole song is a Lolita aesthetic and theme anyway, but I still adore that she uses an actual line from the novel Lolita to match with it.
I love the fact that when she says "...fumes, says it feels like heaven to him," she sounds kinda like she's disgusted. It sounds like she's rolling her eyes and spitting the words back. I love the way it sounds so fucking much.
I´ve finished that movie literally 5 minutes ago and the first thing I did was listen to this fantastic song XD I was like man this line sound really familiar to me XD and it was a Lana songs XD (sorry 4 my english)
Favorite things about this song: 1. The way the tone of her voice changes along with the story 2. The way she sounds confident, yet fearful at the same time 3. The way she says "Scarlet, starlet" and "Harlot, Scarlet" 4. "Says it feels like heaven to him" 5. "sorry 'bout it" 7. "You never looked as beautiful as you do now with my man" 6. the last "You are my one true love"
The way the song progresses from her just wanting to have a sugar daddy and the chic-ness and diva-ness to her falling in love and realising that he is all that she has left and loving him is absolutely genius(feels like heaven to me ;)
Anyone else think this is maybe her best song lyrically? It takes the same sort of thing she went for with songs like Video Games and Blue Jeans, as in the dependent dysfunctional relationship idea, but here she just expands it until it feels like a full story. Oh and she manages to chuck in a handful of Lolita references as usual.
The shouting at the background (I could barely make out some but some sounds like "up here!") adds such an interesting layer. It confuses me if it's her desperately looking for help or giddily inviting someone. Either way it feels like there are demented undertones which fits perfectly with a demented love song and that's one of many reasons I think Lana is an incomparable brilliant artist.
this is one of the most difficult songs I ever had to sing because she goes from a deep voice at the start then to the highest pitched voice ever at the end
Is it possible that Lana is my favourite singer, just because I can't hate or even "don't like" any of her songs? The lyrics, the rithme and her voice are always so well together! WOW ...I'm just glad I found her
It shines. The story, the persona. Pure Americana. Film noire, 50s LA. That an individual could have created this vision of a woman's life is beyond me. An x-ray of the soul in all earnestness, and yet, it's capricious, spurious, mischievous. The lost woman as hero. And a triumphant Lana as songwriter and queen. The live version is polished, brilliant and captivating. When will she star in a David Lynch film? They must both humble themselves.
Smells_like_teen_ idles It's a good book, stunningly written. it's just been romanticised, Nobakov would probably turn over in his grave if he knew haha
Smells_like_teen_ idles at first, I was very doubtful about reading the book but then I abolutely fell in love with it and there was only like one sentence that made me feel a bit disgusted but it was totally worth reading, it's one of my most favourite books
She portrays his ex lover as an old man; that doesnt mean her ex was an old daddie, its just a metaphor. And she just keep embracing that idea (from Born to Die concept) in her latest album (Ultraviolence - Shades of Cool, for example).
the first time i heard this song, i thought it was about a young woman infatuated of an older man, and asking him to take her out to have fun. but then i realised that in fact is about a young woman who is about to be imprisoned, and this is a desperate call for help directed to an older fellow criminal (probably a dealer) who is the one infatuated of her, and she is using her charme to convince him to help her flee town. she is trying to manipulate him, when she is talking ABOUT the man, she uses her mature voice, but when she is talking TO the man she uses her childish voice, to make him think she is a little girl in trouble, but yet she tells him what to do (do what i want/gimme the gold/pay us), and eventually they do leave town. i love her story telling.
Patrick Fazeli it kind of is, because she is using him, but he is getting something is return, which is her company. both parties are using each other, but she has to pretend not being aware of this as a part of her manipulation. she leads him to think he is in charge, when in reality she is in charge. she is facing jail time, there is nothing left to lose for her, so he is taking the entire risk.
Okay so I did some research she does write her own songs or co-writes, like all artists they will colab together to create something but her songs are self written or co written,
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-Lee-ta: tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
Love this part! "Likes to watch me in the glass room, bathroom, Chateau Marmont Slippin' on my red dress, puttin' on my makeup Glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac Fumes, says it feels like heaven to him" Queen Lana
0:36 Song remind me I miss the Lana that sang with her nose. Like a little kid pouting. She used to add it in many songs early on. She no longer uses it.
@104252952212958453931 Lolita (or Dolores Haze) it's a character from Vladimir Navokov novel "Lolita", She's a 12-year-old nymphet and basically the song it's about that.
Not a fan of Lana Del Rey, but musically, vocally, structurally and production-wise it's one of the most interesting, unique and unusual songs I've heard
This comment is a few years old but you’re the only other person I’ve seen who has said this. Definitely not diagnosing her but I felt major BPD vibes from her in so much of her music and personality, especially in the music video of Ride. She always seems to lose herself in other people.
She needs to make songs like this for for 5th album! Don't get me wrong I LOVE Ultraviolence & Honeymoon vibes but I agree with a lot of the fans I want BTD vibes again...
One of the Greatest Songs Period. The structure, production, Story Telling…It Just transports you into it! The greatest songs of all time do just that, and I think this is one of them 😎❤️
this song will forever bring tears to my eyes. from her amazing voice, to the sick beat, the beautiful orchestra (which is my favorite) the lyrics make me imagine an amazing rich gangster love story, i can imagine all the places she sings about I LOVE LANA
Amy Rose its my favorite book actually and i liked the movie too. I agree it is weird and the story sometimes makes you want to throw up but the writting is excellent.
This song seems so screwed, but I love art cuz it's unapologetic you don't have to hold back. A lot of the shit u say in real life people hate you for u put it in song and people relate. This world is a weird ass place
Anyone I've told about Nabokov's novel cringed at first (best case scenario). You actually have to read the book to realise what's going on and what was the artist thinking when writing the lyrics for the song.
I don't know if it's intended but the way she sings those lyrics feels like she's being sarcastic, like" this is what you want me to tell you, right?" Yet she feels quite dominant unlike the lyrics. I like that 😁
i do definitely think that's the intention - to give the older guy (and possible abuser in this situation) the illusion of control, when in reality she's using fake innocence to get what she wants. you can tell in the way she talks _about_ the guy vs. how she talks _to_ him. i love this song
I love the different tones of Lana's voice, the melody of the song, the changes in the rhythm, and just this song all together should be played for hours on a loop.
After a few more listens I have come to the realisation that this is one of Lana's best songs and the best one on the album. This is the kind of song a good vocalist/performer would LOVE to perform with all the cinematic and theatric elements, the voice acting and all.
+polly jagger I think honeymoon was one of her more chill albums. The born to die era was and always will be my favorite but I think Lana is testing different sounds with her music I think she'll go back to songs like this though
+Nni Loveless in off to the races she sings starlet scarlet and at the end she sings starlet harlet its confusing because when you n look at the lyrics it says scarlet scarlet Lana Del Rey either way still an outstanding peice of music
I know people believe this is Harley Quinn but this song as well as others are based on "Lolita". This songs chorus is (light of my life, fire of my loins) is the opening for the book. In fact the whole album is based on lolita.
I don't think this song is ONLY about Lolita, there are various things in here that Lolita actually could never do; there's references of the girl in this song using alcohol, partying, running around town, being chased by 'something', and obviously her 'old man' does/dabbles with drugs from the 'cocaine heart' thing, not to mention being a 'thief', or a bad man that she says in a way that doesn't just stop at him liking little girls. I think this is Lana's song for herself, with a Lolita fantasy to it. I'm not saying Lana was ever a 'Lolita', I don't know about that, but Lana has already told of her fixation on older men, many of her past boyfriends got in trouble with the law and did drugs, went to jail; I can't remember if she said she's ever been at odds with the law herself, but she did reference being a troubled/alcoholic teen, and that may have had her cross paths with authorities. That line with the 'cause he know I'm wasted' doesn't really fit the fictional Lolita, but it does fit Lana's teenage self; plus the 'Face'n time again on Rikers Island' indicate a past record with jail time; I don't know if Lana's been arrested before, but that's just more evidence that she's talking about (possibly a fictional version of)herself, and not Lolita. Let's not mention the many modern/Californian things in Lana's songs that the characters of Lolita wouldn't/didn't have access to. Yes, the book did influence this song and many others, it's her favorite book, I guess, but I think Lana has written her own little Lolita 'book' with these songs, and not just singing about the actual published story; I believe Lana's Lolita story is a dramatization of herself staring as Lolita and ex(es) staring as Humbert/'Old Man'.
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Never have I ever heard a song even remotely similar to this.
Same here! It is SO good!!!!
This is true XD
Lana is one of a kind. Lol
Melanie Martinez / Marina / Maty Noyes
@@jujushook5487 none of them come close to this sound
No one will ever convince me that this is not one of her best songs. The background vocals during the verses alone are incredible. I hope she uses hard-hitting drums like in the pre-chorus again in the future.
Alot of people Say ultravio is her best work, but this right here is the Real shit, the incredible dark lyrics, the pure genius production, and of course those majestic violons.
@@justchilling177 I agree I like this one more than ultraviolence
Yes, right! This is one of most powerfull Lana's songs ❤
@Julio RaydenDont fall for this guys
Still my favorite song of hers after all the other work she's released.
Me when the guy I'm dating is 1 month older than me.
Fuzzy123
r/wooosh
@Fuzzy123 she joke 😅
Fuzzy123 wooooooooooooooosh
@Fuzzy123 even tho there are references to Lolita it doesn't mean the whole song is about it
Fuzzy123 lol and a kitty cat
nobody:
me: SWIMMINGPOOLGLIMMERINGDARLINGWHITEBIKINIOFFWITHMYREDNAILPOLISHWATCHMEINTHESWIMMINGPOOLBRIGHTBLUERIPPLESYOUSITTINGSIPPINGONYOURBLACKCRYSTAAAALYEAH
SO RELATABLE
LOL
LMAO SAME
The Born to Die era was so epic. This song is like a goddamn movie.
Lolita is the movie
exactly
Like suicide squad 😑
I love how discordant her harmonies are. They're not traditional angelic, they're a demented kind of angelic. The sound is addicting.
This is the best description of her I've heard. Her music sounds like a jumbled, twisted lullaby
+Isabelle wilkinson Exactly. It's one of the many things that sets her on a different level than other singers.
Exactly! I would love to know lana personally, she seems very interesting.
Truly unique. So gorgeous.
That's because she's definitely a demented angel. She used her body and looks to ride to the top and now she's singing about it, it's beautifully eerie.
My dad is a 50 year old man, he is the leader of a biker gang and always dresses in black with chains, has a lot of tattoos and is very into metal and hard rock. Oh, and also he is the biggest Lana del Rey fan I've ever met
why am l not surprised in the least? ;) oh, am l supposed to be??
I love how you could have posted that comment on any of her songs, but you chose this one.
@DystopianUtopia
Lmao right??
You need a step mo-
It's simple, because she hits those places, real, gritty, sexy, no BS and not afraid frankly to curse and be real. Metal above everything in my world, but yes, addicted to her music and has little to do with her looks. Music that affects comes from many places.
Something about the chorus is so addicting.
IKR I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME
and the bridge
I love where she says "Sorry bout' it"
omgggg i was thinking the same thing!!!
yep/God bf🤔😇😍😍😍😋😂😂😙😙😙😙🙋☝💪❤❤❤💋💋💋💋👀👍DMt Cape cod
C h q l i s She is Real 2/Human2 THO she all God's speed n 2x ALREADY
Raising hell all over town
Sorry bout it 💋
Which minute
It's so interesting how young and innocent she sounds while singing "I'm your little scarlet, starlet..." But then the rest of the song it sounds very mature. I love that contrast.
yeah because of the contrast of the girl in Lolita , how she's innocent but mature at the same time.
I don't know what it says about me but her obsession with Lolita is so hot
Mm…not that she is innocent but mature at the same time..its more like…she is very mature and smart. She's seen quite a bit throughout her lifetime, so she knows how to get her way and all that. BUT she has the qualities of an innocent girl (Alt. sweet voice, beautiful, soft looks) and thats good to have. She can get what she wants with that "innocent" side. Its like a cover up for the "bad girl"
It actually comes in handy if you ask me ;*
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The way she says "says it feels like heaven to him" sounds like a line from an old school horror movie
Feoelbideo
SAME BUT WHAT MOVIE
Venus Galaxy lolita i think
"The lover "
ok but I'm not getting why its a horror movie, like thats great but whats the line make u think horror for. it sounds like a romantic line hm
I love that she uses her two different singing voices in this. Her deep voice gives me goose bumps
Lana Del Rey's voice is absolutely amazing. She can go from a really deep woman's voice to almost a sweet little girl's voice. Just. Amazing.
"Sweet" lol
ikkkk, thats my favorite part.
i love lana's new stuff but i r e a l l y need more of these songs again
Amanda B : do you know other songs or singers that sounds the same "angelic" way? Please~
@@Jeireme "Put me in a movie" and some other unreleased stuff by Lana
Right, she can never make a song like this again 😭
Jérémie if you haven't already, listen to Girl that got away. It has a similar vibe 😊.
She's happier nowadays which would explain why
People have probably pointed this out before, but the noise in the background sounds like a playground/kids playing. In lolita, it ends with him hearing these kids playing and he realises he stole Dolores childhood so she never got to have that. I always thought that was a really cool reference
I think all girls have their childhood taken at a certain age oversexualization, comments on our bodies everyday, fear of living.
@@wapwothefetty2569 Damn.
i love the quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, “light of my life, fire of my lions.” The protagonist refers to Lolita this way often throughout the book. Basically the whole song is a Lolita aesthetic and theme anyway, but I still adore that she uses an actual line from the novel Lolita to match with it.
That ending with the violin is just beautiful 😍
It is! I love it!!
it's so powerful
+David Koslin You are my one true love~ That was so beautifull :'v
it's even better live
+David Koslin It gives me goosebumps everytime. I hope that part gets put in a movie trailer one day.
This song feels so much longer than it is. But like, in the best way
Nancy Spungen it feels like there's different songs mashed together, in a great way
Yaaaaaaas, it's not the song... it's her emotions in her voice! They drag it out! In a good way (btw I know this made no sense lol)
it feels like you go on a story journey throughout the song, i love it
Doctor:you got only 4 minutes to live.
Me:puts on this song.
Doctor :but its 4 minutes and 57 seconds.
God: it's OK.
If you only make it to 4 mins, that means the last words you'll hear are "You are my one true love"
But if you make it to 4:57 the last words you'll hear are also "you are my one true love"
@@ambearmerp9574 no it would be you are
lose yourself in fantasy world that u cant get even if u lived 4 more years maybe..
Me listening to this : oh my god I’m into older men.
Older guy looks at me: ew creepy pervert
Rand Saad deadass! 😂😂 ahaha
Yess, exactly 😅
Lmao it's like pedophiles but the other way around-
Because they're usually not attractive ill pass on a a bald guy with glasses.
@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz6375 don't they call it teleiophile or something?
I love the fact that when she says "...fumes, says it feels like heaven to him," she sounds kinda like she's disgusted. It sounds like she's rolling her eyes and spitting the words back. I love the way it sounds so fucking much.
Lana makes a lot of references to Lolita...
she loves Lolita
I´ve finished that movie literally 5 minutes ago and the first thing I did was listen to this fantastic song XD I was like man this line sound really familiar to me XD and it was a Lana songs XD (sorry 4 my english)
Belén Bayas that's so weird I just watched that movie for the first time, and finished it 5 minutes ago
MB_Blue_Panda Its good right?
MB_Blue_Panda what's it about?
I love that each of her songs could be used as inspiration for a movie plot and as part of the soundtrack
Her vocal range is literally so insane and amazing like woah
Her vocal range is insane
the lolita references in this tho
ikr!!!!!!
this song is basically the movie
Lolita was such an awful movie oof I love Lana but she romanticizes it too much
it's literally so fucking obvious you need to read the first paragraph of the book to get it
a book first lads
‘I’m sorry that I’m misbehaving’ really hit me
*Fun fact:* This song has 500 words in it
fr? ong?
@@edwarth42 yep it does 😭🤚 that's why it's one of her hardest songs to sing
Did you count?
@@imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 look for one of those lyrics sites and copy-paste it in a text edit app, the sort that keeps word counting
Damn 😲
Favorite things about this song:
1. The way the tone of her voice changes along with the story
2. The way she sounds confident, yet fearful at the same time
3. The way she says "Scarlet, starlet" and "Harlot, Scarlet"
4. "Says it feels like heaven to him"
5. "sorry 'bout it"
7. "You never looked as beautiful as you do now with my man"
6. the last "You are my one true love"
chalicey aoki the way she says because im crazyyy babyyyy thats perfect
YES
"Says it feels like heaven to him" OH MY LOOOOORD
chalicey aoki I love the sorry bout it and yeah she's confident the song gets a 10 from me
Same!! Her voice looks unique and pretty when she sings those lines ~ the whole song is amazing
With every beat of his cocaine heart.
With every beat of his cannabis heart
With every beat of his college hard
Brilliant
With every beat of his nonexistent heart
I really wish she'd make stuff like this again, this album was her magnum opus
The way the song progresses from her just wanting to have a sugar daddy and the chic-ness and diva-ness to her falling in love and realising that he is all that she has left and loving him is absolutely genius(feels like heaven to me ;)
Anyone else think this is maybe her best song lyrically? It takes the same sort of thing she went for with songs like Video Games and Blue Jeans, as in the dependent dysfunctional relationship idea, but here she just expands it until it feels like a full story.
Oh and she manages to chuck in a handful of Lolita references as usual.
alexf02071999 tv
Its hard to say but it is without a doubt one of her best, i personally think this, Ride, and Shades of Cool is somewhere in her top 10 best
I think this is one of her best lyrically. Her other songs have great rifts but are a little repetitive and vague
Listen to florida kilos. Strong lyrically
lana is the kind of artist that makes me want to break out some old records and smoke some cigarettes
this is the perfect way to describe it
Ikrr
While sitting on a sugar daddy’s lap secretly stealing his credit cards
Ikr
Get a little burbon in ya too.
1:45 Lana could sing the entire periodic table and I wouldn't mind
The shouting at the background (I could barely make out some but some sounds like "up here!") adds such an interesting layer. It confuses me if it's her desperately looking for help or giddily inviting someone. Either way it feels like there are demented undertones which fits perfectly with a demented love song and that's one of many reasons I think Lana is an incomparable brilliant artist.
at first i hated it... then it grew on me.... then it *really* grew on me
So true omg
Same
+Peter Eli she hated this?!?
LoL Damn True :D
Peter Eli yup I found the vocals damn right annoying.... but then as I said it really grew on me and now I really over listen to it
The more times I read these lyrics the more I see the vast amount of inspiration from Nabokov's 'Lolita'. Amazing.
Oh yes. Big time. See tiger4164's comment below, that one nails it.
Kris R. Best book
Ikr
this is one of the most difficult songs I ever had to sing because she goes from a deep voice at the start then to the highest pitched voice ever at the end
Nobody could ever recreate this song
Is it possible that Lana is my favourite singer, just because I can't hate or even "don't like" any of her songs? The lyrics, the rithme and her voice are always so well together! WOW
...I'm just glad I found her
+Pedro Ribeiro okay open your mouth *mwah*
lol the lyrics.. “light of my life fire of my loins” “kiss me on my open mouth” i hope ur not traumatized by that as i am 💀
Never heard anything better.
Different as fuck and I dig it hard!
for real!
Keep me forever
Tell me you own me⭐️
the violins on this song are insane OMG they are so beautiful it makes me emotional and the whole part in the end is a fucking masterpiece
This song's outro literally takes me to heaven. I love those majestic violins. The whole thing is heavenly
I really thought that the higher voice was another person...wow she has a great range
Yasssssss
Yeeeees one reason why she is LIFE!
"Light of my life, fire of my loins" is a line from Lolita :) (the movie/book)
I KNEW IT
Len Kagamine idk about other people but I cannot stand the word "loins" xD it makes me cringe.
Len Kagamine love love love the 1997. even though i liked the portrayal of quilty in the 1962 better the 1997 had better cinematography
Would you rather people say "Crotch"
Duke .Nukem lmao
This is one of the best songs ever and I mean ever
It shines. The story, the persona. Pure Americana. Film noire, 50s LA. That an individual could have created this vision of a woman's life is beyond me. An x-ray of the soul in all earnestness, and yet, it's capricious, spurious, mischievous. The lost woman as hero. And a triumphant Lana as songwriter and queen. The live version is polished, brilliant and captivating. When will she star in a David Lynch film? They must both humble themselves.
Wow. I just realized exactly how many Lolita references are in Lana's songs.
Can't blame her though, it's a hella good book.
It sounds really messed up, awkward and full of pedophilia. Idk I probably couldn't bring myself to read it. I'm sure its really good though.
Smells_like_teen_ idles It's a good book, stunningly written. it's just been romanticised, Nobakov would probably turn over in his grave if he knew haha
Smells_like_teen_ idles at first, I was very doubtful about reading the book but then I abolutely fell in love with it and there was only like one sentence that made me feel a bit disgusted but it was totally worth reading, it's one of my most favourite books
She portrays his ex lover as an old man; that doesnt mean her ex was an old daddie, its just a metaphor. And she just keep embracing that idea (from Born to Die concept) in her latest album (Ultraviolence - Shades of Cool, for example).
Natalie Di ah :') okay
the first time i heard this song, i thought it was about a young woman infatuated of an older man, and asking him to take her out to have fun. but then i realised that in fact is about a young woman who is about to be imprisoned, and this is a desperate call for help directed to an older fellow criminal (probably a dealer) who is the one infatuated of her, and she is using her charme to convince him to help her flee town. she is trying to manipulate him, when she is talking ABOUT the man, she uses her mature voice, but when she is talking TO the man she uses her childish voice, to make him think she is a little girl in trouble, but yet she tells him what to do (do what i want/gimme the gold/pay us), and eventually they do leave town. i love her story telling.
Damn, I never got that
Patrick Fazeli it kind of is, because she is using him, but he is getting something is return, which is her company. both parties are using each other, but she has to pretend not being aware of this as a part of her manipulation. she leads him to think he is in charge, when in reality she is in charge. she is facing jail time, there is nothing left to lose for her, so he is taking the entire risk.
Peter Eli This, I didn't even think of. Brilliant!
Digmer "Light of my life, fire of my loins" is a direct quote from Lolita, so you are correct it's almost exactly what you said.
CoffeeAndCosmetics the Lolita complex does wonders
every time she sings "they would rue the day" i think of nevel from icarly
Haha, me too.
HAHSHSUUS SAME
Omgosh Yasss I'm crying 😂😂
ME TOO HAHA
the bridge is literally heaven. actually the whole song is
Does she write her own lyrics? they're outrageously creative i can't get enough
+ApocZak of course
+Colton Streek are you sure? I heard she gets help writing songs
Okay so I did some research she does write her own songs or co-writes, like all artists they will colab together to create something but her songs are self written or co written,
ApocZak yeah i was confused lol looks like you found the answer to your question. thanks
+ApocZak she has a man to write down her songs my sister told me
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-Lee-ta: tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
you guys are making me feel sick now, thanks
What is this ?
@@Liza33650 Quotes of the novel Lolita.
I might just throw up
This girl is a unique rare talent
"How did you know I have daddy issues?!"
Their favorite song:
I like to rub this song in anyone's face who tries to say she can't sing or has no vocal abilities.
***** That's the only good part of the song
Give them any of her songs, performances etc. No one can argue with them..
Nobody says that. Got your likes though
@@xeraza exactly. I'm like, who tf ever said that?
This is the first Lana Del Rey song I heard. The feels are still here
Same here!!! Well, I heard Summertime Sadness and Young & Beautiful, but I didn't truly acknowledge her until I heard this song :)
Cali's Not Cool Me too. It's been 2013 since I heard this song. And the feelings I feel are still here.
Lana's by far the one of the best female artists out there-her lyrics are genius
Madeline Stevenson One of the best artists in general :)
Cali's Not Cool Same.
"queen of cooney island"
pyrrhichos I saw that too 😂
It's Coney, not Cooney.
Bitch I hope you meant something else.....
pyrrhichos Hi
Lisa Angela lmao guys she's referring to how wrong the lyrics are
Lana deserved more success. She's a musical genius.
Love this part!
"Likes to watch me in the glass room, bathroom, Chateau Marmont
Slippin' on my red dress, puttin' on my makeup
Glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac
Fumes, says it feels like heaven to him"
Queen Lana
Yes my favorite part
sameee
Maybe she was Anna delvey all along
The way she says "says it feels like heaven to him"
I will never be bored of singing this song
This whole song (and arguably Lana's entire early career) is one gigantic reference to Lolita and I'm here for it
I love how unapologetic she is about her Lolita complex
cdmnumber3fan 😏🙄😍🤗😃☝=GOD 9
Hmm right
Deborah r u ok
agreed
deborah u good?
My old man is a Batman...
true..
dredeth 😉😐True #: bow with God -~ LOVE YOU "> I PROLLY Die
Stoppppaahhhh
🤣
Robert Pattinson?
Almost 5 years later and it still hits like the first time I heard it
0:36 Song remind me I miss the Lana that sang with her nose. Like a little kid pouting. She used to add it in many songs early on. She no longer uses it.
"Light of my life, Fire of my loins." did she make a reference to Lolita?
yes!!
@104252952212958453931 Lolita (or Dolores Haze) it's a character from Vladimir Navokov novel "Lolita", She's a 12-year-old nymphet and basically the song it's about that.
Yes. She's obsessed with Lolita. It's kinda hot
cdmnumber3fan haha i know, that gives a beautiful story to the lyrics
yup :3
"My old man is a batman"
Literally can't unhear it, even after the lyrics video :p
oh god-
Not a fan of Lana Del Rey, but musically, vocally, structurally and production-wise it's one of the most interesting, unique and unusual songs I've heard
She’s never said anything about being a borderline but I really relate to all her songs and it helps me accept being a borderline.
This comment is a few years old but you’re the only other person I’ve seen who has said this. Definitely not diagnosing her but I felt major BPD vibes from her in so much of her music and personality, especially in the music video of Ride. She always seems to lose herself in other people.
She needs to make songs like this for for 5th album! Don't get me wrong I LOVE Ultraviolence & Honeymoon vibes but I agree with a lot of the fans I want BTD vibes again...
same!!!
+xyzangeel Have you tried listening to Summer Wine?
sameeee
She said her new album will have a New York vibe, what means that it will sound more like Born To Die
+Arwen Undomiel omg seriously I can't wait for it to come out I've been waiting for a new LDR album and more songs 😍😍😀😁😀
Give this woman an oscar
The "scarlet scarlet" part was so good!!
Once you read the book Lolita virtually every Lana song gives you major feels and they all make a lil more sense.
Rozie yes !!!! Finally I was like understanding connections between different songs after I read it
her vocal tone, the structure of it is perfect. perfect sound for this music its amazing
***** i agree
One of the Greatest Songs Period. The structure, production, Story Telling…It Just transports you into it! The greatest songs of all time do just that, and I think this is one of them 😎❤️
Thank god im living while lana is living
Such a godess !
after watching/reading Lolita this makes me think a lot from Dolores pov
Yes! "Give me them gold coins" is my favorite reference because without reading or watching the movie you would never get that!
which movie is better to watch the old one or the 90s one ? because I read the book but I dunno which movie to watch :/
+Alueta Milk Ross I would watch both but my favorite was the recent one because the filming style was so kind
+nancy gates okay I'll watch both, thank you :}
+Alueta Milk Ross no problem! I hope you enjoy them💖
this song will forever bring tears to my eyes. from her amazing voice, to the sick beat, the beautiful orchestra (which is my favorite) the lyrics make me imagine an amazing rich gangster love story, i can imagine all the places she sings about I LOVE LANA
“Because I’m crazy, baby I need you to come here and save me” 🙌🙌🙌
Lana can never top her born to die era
I finished watching Lolita and this song reminds me of it
Yolanda Rosuero specially lolita the fucking song thats he fav book a lana fan must now that now you know
Amy Rose great
yea the book is weird
Amy Rose
its my favorite book actually and i liked the movie too. I agree it is weird and the story sometimes makes you want to throw up but the writting is excellent.
it is the writing is better than 50 shades lol
This song seems so screwed, but I love art cuz it's unapologetic you don't have to hold back. A lot of the shit u say in real life people hate you for u put it in song and people relate. This world is a weird ass place
True
Anyone I've told about Nabokov's novel cringed at first (best case scenario). You actually have to read the book to realise what's going on and what was the artist thinking when writing the lyrics for the song.
I have been addicted to this song for 4 years now.
Calling it a masterpiece would be an understatement.
I don't know if it's intended but the way she sings those lyrics feels like she's being sarcastic, like" this is what you want me to tell you, right?" Yet she feels quite dominant unlike the lyrics.
I like that 😁
Or just her being a complete psycho which I like as well! 😆
@@kippumm facts haha
i do definitely think that's the intention - to give the older guy (and possible abuser in this situation) the illusion of control, when in reality she's using fake innocence to get what she wants. you can tell in the way she talks _about_ the guy vs. how she talks _to_ him. i love this song
the lolita references in this album are lovely
I love the different tones of Lana's voice, the melody of the song, the changes in the rhythm, and just this song all together should be played for hours on a loop.
After a few more listens I have come to the realisation that this is one of Lana's best songs and the best one on the album. This is the kind of song a good vocalist/performer would LOVE to perform with all the cinematic and theatric elements, the voice acting and all.
Her voice in this one just hit different
does anyone else love the way she says scarlet at 1:10
I love honeymoons so much but i wish there was a song as energetic and upbeat like this one. I mean talk about passionate!
+polly jagger i wanted a song like this one instead high by the beach, at least another "off to the races" in honeymoon :c
+polly jagger nahh i kinda prefer Honeymoon over Born To Die because it is able to relax me better
+polly jagger I think honeymoon was one of her more chill albums. The born to die era was and always will be my favorite but I think Lana is testing different sounds with her music I think she'll go back to songs like this though
+polly jagger I'm glad at least Honeymoon is upbeat than Ultraviolence, although I respect people who like her more chill songs.
god, i wish there was a video for this. my imagination is too wild.
i need this lana back
this era was so special
💖"I'm your little scarlet scarlet singing in the garden, kiss me on the open mouth" 💖
+CRYBABY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD it's actually scarlet starlet
You both are right.
Most of the verses say "Scarlet scarlet" and a verse at the end says "harlot scarlet" :)
+Nni Loveless in off to the races she sings starlet scarlet and at the end she sings starlet harlet its confusing because when you n look at the lyrics it says scarlet scarlet Lana Del Rey either way still an outstanding peice of music
~"Because im crazy, baby i need you to come here and save me."~
I know people believe this is Harley Quinn but this song as well as others are based on "Lolita". This songs chorus is (light of my life, fire of my loins) is the opening for the book. In fact the whole album is based on lolita.
the way she says " honey it is time to spin" omfg at 3:52
Scammys... This needs 6000 Grammys
I don't think this song is ONLY about Lolita, there are various things in here that Lolita actually could never do; there's references of the girl in this song using alcohol, partying, running around town, being chased by 'something', and obviously her 'old man' does/dabbles with drugs from the 'cocaine heart' thing, not to mention being a 'thief', or a bad man that she says in a way that doesn't just stop at him liking little girls.
I think this is Lana's song for herself, with a Lolita fantasy to it.
I'm not saying Lana was ever a 'Lolita', I don't know about that, but Lana has already told of her fixation on older men, many of her past boyfriends got in trouble with the law and did drugs, went to jail; I can't remember if she said she's ever been at odds with the law herself, but she did reference being a troubled/alcoholic teen, and that may have had her cross paths with authorities. That line with the 'cause he know I'm wasted' doesn't really fit the fictional Lolita, but it does fit Lana's teenage self; plus the 'Face'n time again on Rikers Island' indicate a past record with jail time; I don't know if Lana's been arrested before, but that's just more evidence that she's talking about (possibly a fictional version of)herself, and not Lolita. Let's not mention the many modern/Californian things in Lana's songs that the characters of Lolita wouldn't/didn't have access to.
Yes, the book did influence this song and many others, it's her favorite book, I guess, but I think Lana has written her own little Lolita 'book' with these songs, and not just singing about the actual published story; I believe Lana's Lolita story is a dramatization of herself staring as Lolita and ex(es) staring as Humbert/'Old Man'.