Timestamps:

2:11 Born To Die
8:09 Off To The Races
15:21 Blue Jeans
20:42 Video Games
26:21 Diet Mountain Dew
31:49 National Anthem
36:58 Dark Paradise
41:58 Radio
46:34 Carmen
51:45 Million Dollar Man

this album has not aged a day

Lana is the OG. Billie Eilish's music is her offspring. Don't get it twisted.

she instructed her producers to create the sound of this album. she instructed them to do hiphop beats under an orchestra to most of her songs in this album.

I’m 64 and just started listening to her recently. She’s been my 23 year old  daughter’s favorite music artist since she was 12 and I finally decided to give her a listen after she saw her at lollapalooza this summer. I’m obsessed! I have no idea how I missed all this. So much more than I ever imagined. Love this album (paradise edition even better), love Norman F-ing Rockwell, Ultraviolence, Honeymoon and even songs from newer albums. Enjoyed your reaction and hope you do more!

Born to Die was a monumental album. it is still on the billboards! it has greatly influenced all the female pop artists who came after. Taylor, billie, Halsey and others have openly stated how pivotal this album was. It changed the trajectory of pop music. it is rated by RS, pitchfork and other publications as the best album of that decade

In Dark Paradise she sings about her ex that passed away and for summer time sadness she sings about her friend that passed away

None of the girls today would exist without lana del rey

Billie credits Lana as a massive influence on her.

Off to the Races quotes the first line from Lolita (Light of my life, Fire of my loins). Nabakov is one of Alana’s favourite writers and she has his name as a tattoo next to Whitman - who is one of her other favourite writers and inspires a song on the Paradise EP

i've been a fan since 2011! she was actually an indie artist for around a decade before this album under her real name "lizzy grant" and played in bars around NYC and would make these homemade music videos she would edit herself, and she even released an album under that name but she was never really popular, i think her music was ahead of it's time tbh. she was blending genres and singing about toxic codependent relationships and stuff at a time when it wasn't popular and most female artists were singing about girl power and not needing a man, so there was a bad reaction to her music with critics calling it strange and anti-feminist, etc. this album was panned by critics, but it was super influential and she helped pave the way for other female artists (like billie, who says lana is one of her biggest inspirations) and a lot of those critics have admitted they were wrong about her. interesting fact is that the weeknd actually helped boost her popularity because he saw one of her homemade videos and liked it so much he helped promo it.

Also btw this album is one of the longest running albums on the billboard 200 (one of only 20 to ever be on the chart that long), it celebrated 500 consecutive weeks back in sep and it’s still 48th on the chart currently as I type this

you should listen to the born to die paradise edition and then ultraviolence and all her discography cause every album as its atmosphere and vibe and i know you’ll love ultraviolence !!

22:47 so cute ! 😭🥰

she was sooooo criticized for this album back in the day its unreal lol it was different from everything. so she had to keep proving that she was authentic and talented album after album. the funny thing is that the next album, "ultraviolence", is basically her saying "fuck yall!" and taking everything they criticized and multiplying it for 1000x. it was even more polemic and sadder but also ironic and satirical, in response to the critics.

The switch from this record to her 2nd full length album Ultraviolence is insane

You should react to Ultraviolence. IMO her best album ever.

Lana is the greatest living artist in my opinion. No one comes close.

This album is a longest charting female album, its still charting today! Its crazy!

some background, Lana writes all her music (apart from covers obvs) video games dropped on youtube and myspace and blew up and a radio host found it in the uk  and played it, and it became popular, this album was popular but also very criticised because there was nothing like this sound back then weirdly well it wasn’t mainstream

Lana really is the blueprint for so many of the new school sad pop girls and they are very vocal about it. Lana is a huge fan and is very supportive of newer artists like Billie Eilish, Madison beer etc. it’s great to see such a positive relationship between old and new school artist in the same genre unlike feuds we have seen in the past like Madonna and Gaga or current feuds like Nicki and most of the rap girlies.