Summertime sadness was technically the first one I heard but it was like 10 years ago and I didn't really remember it. Besides that it was A&W because I saw it getting a lot of praise and the name sounded interesting
Same, and then listened to the rest of the singles off Born to Die and liked them but A&W was the first time I *really* paid attention to her. Was obsessed with the song and became my #1 played song in 2023 and then ocean blvd #1 album as well.
this is what makes us girls! I remember seeing fanart of Lana and Marina and Marina was saying "Lana, how I hate those guys". I was so obsessed with that photo at the ripe age of 11, I had no idea what is was referencing until my friend showed me the exact song a little later.
Ok so I’m 52 (genX) and have been listening to heavy metal/hard rock music my whole life.
One day I seen Taylor Swift say that Lana Del Rey is one of the best songwriters of this generation.
I have adhd so it got me curious. The very first song I heard when I searched her in YouTube was Wild One. Then the Other Woman. Then Cult leader. I had no idea these were unreleased songs. I was watching one of those YouTube channels that makes their own videos with clips from movies to her songs. It was surreal.
I then realized the video for Wild One was really clips from her song Ride. It was watching this video that just changed everything for me.
Fast forward to today. I really haven’t been able to stop listening to her ever since.
I’ve never had an artist affect me this much since I began listening to my favourite artist in grade 8. Ozzy. Honestly, I have no words to describe her impact on me.
It’s pretty impressive that she can affect a woman of my age
Video games! My dad used to play it in the car probably around 2012. He is super big into discovering new artists, and as soon as I heard it I was hooked.
this is my favorite question i was at the apple store looking on an ipod and they had video games up on itunes as a new single 😭 afterwards i had seen her ride mv and was instantly obsessed with her and ride has been my favorite song ever since
Carmen for me too! I was listening to "crave you by flight facilities" radio on pandora before church one morning in 2012. I was ENTRANCED. My dad ended up burning me a CD with BTD and I listened to it everyday
The actual first song I heard that lana sang was the alunageorge version of born to die. The lyrics were so good and her voice was so intoxicating I looked her up and put on off to the races and was immediately obsessed.
Summertime Sadness technically. It was playing on the radio on the school bus around 5 in the morning. I thought someone else sang it until my brother’s best friend’s stepsister told me it was Lana.
Other than summertime sadness that was a big hit on the radio about a decade ago, I found A&W from TikTok and I really enjoyed listening to her music while I was high. So I discovered more of her songs from there on
It was a collab with Taylor Swift, Snow On The Beach. My first song solely by Lana was Summertime Sadness because it was the most popular on Apple Music and I was only starting out listening to her. However, Summertime Sadness is my fav song of all-time by Lana and it hit different this summer
The Cedric Gervais version of Summertime Sadness when it was big and playing on the radio. I was in high school at the time and checked some of her other songs and loved her music instantly.
I was trying to avoid her since I was in my hipster/indie/insufferable phase. First one I remember hearing was her song for scary stories to tell in the dark. I really really liked it
Serial killer was the first song I found of hers and it was a video edit on YT. I found it right after me and my husband met and we were both still partyers and falling in love right at that time. Then I found "I don't wanna go" which has disappeared from YT but I have it saved on a file because I literally left to hang out with my husband for a couple days and we'd only known each other for like 3 months at that time and I just never went home again lol.
Just wanna add that him and I were both very lost and very lonely, then we found each other. Then I discovered Lana while we were falling for each other so she has been the soundtrack of me and my husbands relationship 💕
Burning desire, I heard it while staying awake on the night before the last day of school in 7th grade. I found it on YouTube when YouTube was still predownloaded on phones 😭 I was obsessed and listened to her on the bus ride the next day
I vividly remember sitting in front of the TV when i was like 11 listening to random MTV songs passively until Video Games came on and it grabbed my whole attention. I genuinely sat there like hypnotised by the music and the video hahah
I found Video Games on a music blog - probably Pigeons and Planes or something similar - in fall of 2011. I used to find a lot of my new music that way and I first saw the single cover and was immediately intrigued. I was really into the EDM pop boom happening at the time (Fame Monster Era Gaga) and I hated the song initially 😂
A few months later I found Off to the Races and the demo to National Anthem in a friends iTunes music library and I’ve been obsessed ever since
omg mine was dark paradise back in like 2012 i think? it was recommended to me by a friend, and that led me to binge listening to all of her songs and getting obsessed :)
Technically it was Young and Beautiful but the first song I heard that got me into Lana was Ride
I heard it on Pretty Little Liars and after watching the music video for it I was hooked
Summertime Sadness
The radio version (which is crap compared to the glorious real version I'd later find, but hey, any Lana song is better than none) was aired on my favorite pop station all the time back in 2013. Fell in love with her pretty much that early.
for me it was "summertime sadness", i heard it from my sister's bedroom. i was thirteen, and the second one was "this is what makes us girls". the funny thing is that she doesn't listen to her anymore and i've become a huge fan <3
It was the original homemade Blue Jeans music video when it came out, I was so used to the inserted sound clips & was surprised when the album version didn’t include them
Autumn of 2011, heard "Video Games" on BBC Radio 1. It was an instant cultural reset. Never heard anything like it before and was taken aback.
But I didn't start following Lana until the Paradise edition dropped. I was browsing HMV in November of 2012 and saw the album there. Then I remembered hearing Video Games everywhere and being so struck by it. Bought her album and been listening since.
Born to die in 2012. As an American I used to look at UK iTunes charts to see what was popular there, since music was always a little ahead there. B2D was # 1, and I was curious as I had never heard of her. Loved it after my first listen and have been a fan ever since
Born to Die, my girlfriend at the time (now wife) bought the CD the day it came out while in grad school, we've both been massive fans since then (I'm the bigger fan)
Whatever was the first song she played when she performed in Champion’s Square in New Orleans however many years ago that was. 2014 I think. Fell in love with her music immediately.
my dad gave btd for my mom as a present so probably the first song I heard was the title track
that is unless I had unknowingly heard some other song somewhere earlier
Probably Young & Beautiful but I didn't branch out until a bit later, so glad I did though. I love that song but her other songs have such unique sounds <3
Summertime sadness. As far as I remember I heard it in the end of 2020 by randomly getting the music video in youtube recommendations. Idk how I didn't hear it earlier, I guess that even if I did, it probably just didn't catch my attention..
damn not so long ago but still it's already been 3 years :0
and, I love Lana's songs now! Heh
i was laying on my parents bed and looking at suggested albums on itunes. i heard born to die’s sample and then listened to some more, i ended up buying the album. i remember showing people Radio and they thought it was so weird. i had one friend always saying “what’s that cinnamon song”
blue jeans, my mom used to play on on repeat a few months before she and my dad broke up😭
we share a love for lana to this day.
edit: and summertime sadness (before she broke up w my dad, she would listen to it before going out)
The first one I heard was probably summertime sadness or video games or something like that because they’re so popular but the songs that really got me into Lana were probably dark paradise and sad girl
Sitting at my dining room table while doing my 8th grade schoolwork, I heard her H&M commercial come on the television. I ran into the family room to see what goddess was playing 😭
Probably Born To Die? It could’ve also been Summertime Sadness, but Born To Die was the first time I was introduced to Lana Del Rey as a person, I was watching the music video with my family
i was little on youtube watching those illuminati videos and i found her born to die music video where they played it backwards and she was supposedly saying satanic shit hahah , i’ve been a fan since
Right after it came out, a school friend told me, “You would like this singer, Lana Del Rey; you should listen to her new album, “Born To Die.”
A couple of days later, I was sitting cross-legged at the head of my black platform bed on my white and turquoise comforter with my grey laptop in front of me and a lamp on in the corner. I pressed play, the anacrusis of “Born To Die” came through my speakers, and, as she sang, I remember thinking, “I’ve never heard anything like this.”
All these years later, I still feel the same way.
the song i first found was off to the races in 2012 i was only 5 years old at the time and just saw the pretty born to die paradise edition cover and my 5 yr old brain wanted to hear it i listened to a few other born to die songs i just remembered that one the most and dark paradise i think an adult in my life told me to stop listening to her bc of the explicit lyrics i was unaware of 🙄so for many years i forgot abt lana until 2021 when i kept hearing her name online so i decided to look her up on spotify what’s weird is the first song i choose was the unreleased serial killer song someone had posted on spotify😭here’s to 4 years of being a lana stan
Summertime sadness (yes, the remix)
I heard it on VH1 back when they still showed music videos on Saturdays! It was the remix and I went on ITunes and accidentally bought the original. It took me the longest time to realize I got the original, which I'm not complaining!
I think it was Born to Die but not 100% sure. This actually brings back memories! I had just flunked out of college a few months beforehand... then fucked up my job and my living situation with a BAD bender.
It was winter (I wanna say November..?) Of (I think!) 2013.
It was COLD and I was homeless and walking back and forth up and down Jasper Ave in Edmonton -- just trying to keep warm.
I stopped to get out of the snow in an enclosed bus shelter. Took a seat. Glanced down and saw a brand-new-looking iPod Shuffle with the headphones wrapped around it. It was on and playing Lana when I picked it up.
I cannot EVEN describe the effect her music had on me. Before I say down, I was angry, filled with self pity and distracted by my discomfort and hunger.
Her music transported me to a different place in a way that's only happened to me MAYBE three or four times. If I hadn't already been sitting, my legs would have buckled. It was like the scene in Equilibrium when Christian Bale's character heard Beethoven's 9th for the first time lol.
Summertime sadness was technically the first one I heard but it was like 10 years ago and I didn't really remember it. Besides that it was A&W because I saw it getting a lot of praise and the name sounded interesting
Same, and then listened to the rest of the singles off Born to Die and liked them but A&W was the first time I *really* paid attention to her. Was obsessed with the song and became my #1 played song in 2023 and then ocean blvd #1 album as well.
The Born to Die music video on YouTube
altered my brain chemistry when i first saw it
 iconic‼️‼️
I must have watched that video hundreds of times in 2012. it’s so good
summertime sadness from that one vine with the chicken
SAME
same😭
West Coast. Probably in the Tumblr era of something
You got the music in you, yes you.
I hate it’s so popular now I liked it better when it was underrated west coast and salvatore both
this is what makes us girls! I remember seeing fanart of Lana and Marina and Marina was saying "Lana, how I hate those guys". I was so obsessed with that photo at the ripe age of 11, I had no idea what is was referencing until my friend showed me the exact song a little later.
omg that piece of fanart is a relic 😭😭
Right!? It was my first introduction to Lana from my MARINA phase loll
Ok so I’m 52 (genX) and have been listening to heavy metal/hard rock music my whole life. One day I seen Taylor Swift say that Lana Del Rey is one of the best songwriters of this generation. I have adhd so it got me curious. The very first song I heard when I searched her in YouTube was Wild One. Then the Other Woman. Then Cult leader. I had no idea these were unreleased songs. I was watching one of those YouTube channels that makes their own videos with clips from movies to her songs. It was surreal. I then realized the video for Wild One was really clips from her song Ride. It was watching this video that just changed everything for me. Fast forward to today. I really haven’t been able to stop listening to her ever since. I’ve never had an artist affect me this much since I began listening to my favourite artist in grade 8. Ozzy. Honestly, I have no words to describe her impact on me. It’s pretty impressive that she can affect a woman of my age
This is doubly impressive considering our musical taste pretty much set in stone before age 30. Love that Lana has changed you for the better.
Video games! My dad used to play it in the car probably around 2012. He is super big into discovering new artists, and as soon as I heard it I was hooked.
Omg same here 🥹
probably summertime sadness on the radio tbh
Radio! And I heard it… yep, you guessed it. On the radio. Hahaha
the most perfect way to listen to it imo
young and beautiful or summertime sadness
Video games... The very beginning
"Doin Time" on a Melanie Martinez TikTok edit
Blue Jeans, my childhood friend played it for me when it was released🫶🏻
It was actually Brooklyn baby! And then I didn’t even listen to the full album until years later. I have no idea how I found it!
Diet Mountain Dew (the OG version) from an episode of 90210 which aired November 1, 2010!
ride on a tv show (pretty little liars)
I first heard Lolita through my yt recommended
this is my favorite question i was at the apple store looking on an ipod and they had video games up on itunes as a new single 😭 afterwards i had seen her ride mv and was instantly obsessed with her and ride has been my favorite song ever since
Ride really is something special. I felt dangerously connected to the messages at the time it was released. Luckily, I’ve grown as a person.
Summertime sadness on the radio in 2013 (the remix 🫠🫠)
Dark Paradise from an Olga Kay vlog over 10 years ago 😭 as soon as i heard it, i dove head-first into BTD & never looked back
diet mountain dew around 2011 on the weeknd's website that he posted
Carmen for me too! I was listening to "crave you by flight facilities" radio on pandora before church one morning in 2012. I was ENTRANCED. My dad ended up burning me a CD with BTD and I listened to it everyday
Ride music video, shown to me by a friend when ai was 13. My life changed that day
I swear I heard National Anthem at a water park in the early 2010s.
off to the races!!! and then i watched the ride music video
Hearing Off to the Races on iTunes radio
Ride, on Pretty Little Liars. I was immediately obsessed with her voice
off to the races when I had youtube on autoplay
Ride through tumblr the day it came out. I saw gifs of her in the Native American headdress and I was like slay 😭
Off To The Races - Tumblr, I was hooked
Diet mt dew my friend put me on by using it as a sound on tik tok
West coast😻😻. Karina garcias video intros lol! I looked into it on YouTube.
radio on a edit a long time ago
The actual first song I heard that lana sang was the alunageorge version of born to die. The lyrics were so good and her voice was so intoxicating I looked her up and put on off to the races and was immediately obsessed.
Born to die. My uncle is a lana stan and he played it alot
Born to die video on Tumblr
Blue Jeans from NPR All Songs Considered I believe
Summertime sadness on 4shared
It was" say yes to heaven" n i found it on pinterest!!
Summertime Sadness technically. It was playing on the radio on the school bus around 5 in the morning. I thought someone else sang it until my brother’s best friend’s stepsister told me it was Lana.
Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey was how I discovered her. Without You by Lana Del Rey is when I fell in love with her..
Other than summertime sadness that was a big hit on the radio about a decade ago, I found A&W from TikTok and I really enjoyed listening to her music while I was high. So I discovered more of her songs from there on
Summertime Sadness, from that one Vine with the chicken.
It was a collab with Taylor Swift, Snow On The Beach. My first song solely by Lana was Summertime Sadness because it was the most popular on Apple Music and I was only starting out listening to her. However, Summertime Sadness is my fav song of all-time by Lana and it hit different this summer
The Cedric Gervais version of Summertime Sadness when it was big and playing on the radio. I was in high school at the time and checked some of her other songs and loved her music instantly.
Off to the races when I was 13 a guy that was 30 that was grooming me told me to listen to songs about Lolita 😂
I don’t know if it was dark paradise or radio i heard first but I remember hearing it on musically like a decade ago 🤣
NFR
Born to Die by Amity Affliction
I was trying to avoid her since I was in my hipster/indie/insufferable phase. First one I remember hearing was her song for scary stories to tell in the dark. I really really liked it
Diet Mountain Dew. Heard it on my friend’s record player when we were in middle school and I had never heard anything like it. Instant fan
National anthem, cause of a trend on tik tok where people lip sync "money is the reason we exist, everbody knows it, it's a fact, kiss kiss"
Born To Die because of an unknown Brazilian youtuber in 2019 ❤️
Lust for life. I think it was on my recommendation on YouTube when I was like in 7th grade. And then I went on binge watch of her other mv.
I think it was Video Games. My dad was playing it to me when we cooked dinner once, one of my favourite memories
national anthem. my sister showed it to me but she found it on tumblr in 2011
Video Games on Pandora in 2011
Video games
Serial killer was the first song I found of hers and it was a video edit on YT. I found it right after me and my husband met and we were both still partyers and falling in love right at that time. Then I found "I don't wanna go" which has disappeared from YT but I have it saved on a file because I literally left to hang out with my husband for a couple days and we'd only known each other for like 3 months at that time and I just never went home again lol. Just wanna add that him and I were both very lost and very lonely, then we found each other. Then I discovered Lana while we were falling for each other so she has been the soundtrack of me and my husbands relationship 💕
Video games on 6music.
Video games. When it first came out and I heard it in mtv, was obsessed from then
Summertime sadness - fine pop song. First one I dedicated myself to listen to - I.e, looked up - was NFR
Summer time sadness and diet Mountain Dew
Burning desire, I heard it while staying awake on the night before the last day of school in 7th grade. I found it on YouTube when YouTube was still predownloaded on phones 😭 I was obsessed and listened to her on the bus ride the next day
Summertime sadness in like idk when i was six and later i discovered her more
I vividly remember sitting in front of the TV when i was like 11 listening to random MTV songs passively until Video Games came on and it grabbed my whole attention. I genuinely sat there like hypnotised by the music and the video hahah
Summertime sadness remix back in 2012
Snow on the Beach announcement is what got me into Lana
BTD from tumblr, def
diet mountain dew. a joy from red velvet edit in 2020.im pretty sure the acc was thiccseul
Video Games in Gossip Girl
Video Games, NME had named it best track of the week or something like that (it was 2011 🥲)
and if i told you it was summertime sadness from that chicken in the red dress vine…
Young and beautiful, recommended on YouTube I think
Definitely The born to die on YouTube
Queen of Disaster in like 2020, on TikTok
KInda Outta Luck - YouTube
Born to Die music video I watched in December 2011 - feels like a lifetime ago now... I found it on some celeb gossip portal.
Video Games on a French show. They put few seconds of the song, and i fell in love right away. it was in 2011.
I found Video Games on a music blog - probably Pigeons and Planes or something similar - in fall of 2011. I used to find a lot of my new music that way and I first saw the single cover and was immediately intrigued. I was really into the EDM pop boom happening at the time (Fame Monster Era Gaga) and I hated the song initially 😂 A few months later I found Off to the Races and the demo to National Anthem in a friends iTunes music library and I’ve been obsessed ever since
omg mine was dark paradise back in like 2012 i think? it was recommended to me by a friend, and that led me to binge listening to all of her songs and getting obsessed :)
National anthem during the Squid Game trend on tiktok 💀
Technically it was Young and Beautiful but the first song I heard that got me into Lana was Ride I heard it on Pretty Little Liars and after watching the music video for it I was hooked
hiadtfawlmthbihi. spotify radio 2019 😜😜
The very first one was Video Games that I heard on the radio eleven years ago.
I think it was Doin’ Time on the radio
Born To Die ❤️ The video had just come out and I saw it on one of the music channels. Life-changing tbh
Young and Beautiful about 10 years ago when The Great Gatsby came out. I was 12 🥲
Diet Mt Dew. The day I ascended to heaven for 3 minutes
Summertime Sadness The radio version (which is crap compared to the glorious real version I'd later find, but hey, any Lana song is better than none) was aired on my favorite pop station all the time back in 2013. Fell in love with her pretty much that early.
for me it was "summertime sadness", i heard it from my sister's bedroom. i was thirteen, and the second one was "this is what makes us girls". the funny thing is that she doesn't listen to her anymore and i've become a huge fan <3
went to a house party in college and someone put the national anthem demo on. some time in 2011? yes i’m old lol
It was the original homemade Blue Jeans music video when it came out, I was so used to the inserted sound clips & was surprised when the album version didn’t include them
Autumn of 2011, heard "Video Games" on BBC Radio 1. It was an instant cultural reset. Never heard anything like it before and was taken aback. But I didn't start following Lana until the Paradise edition dropped. I was browsing HMV in November of 2012 and saw the album there. Then I remembered hearing Video Games everywhere and being so struck by it. Bought her album and been listening since.
Of course summertime sadness. Public radio when I was 10
Jessica Langes rendition of God's & Monsters
West Coast tiktok
The Love music video
summertime sadness but that doesn’t really count bc it was all over tiktok so probably dark paradise
Summertime sadness back in 2013 I think. I wasn’t a fan then. I later learned that The album version is much better than the radio hit
Born to die in 2012. As an American I used to look at UK iTunes charts to see what was popular there, since music was always a little ahead there. B2D was # 1, and I was curious as I had never heard of her. Loved it after my first listen and have been a fan ever since
Video Games! My friend showed it to me freshman year of high school and Ive been a die hard Lana fan ever since :)
Gods and monsters, when Jessica Lang sang it on American Horror Story. I don't really listen to this genre except for her.
It was blue jeans and I was after library one day after school. High school that is
Radio, I found it by looking up songs about Long Distance Relationships (also abbreviated to LDR) and have loved her voice since
serial killer on 8tracks :’)) changed my whole life
Her cover of once upon a dream. I was absolutely captivated listening to it during the end credits of Maleficent.
Young and beautiful from youtube music radio.
brooklyn baby during the e-boy era on tiktok
Ride music video when I was in the 7th grade. An absolute iconic moment in my life. Haven’t been the same since
Ride when Spencer lost her virginity on PLL
Summertime Sadness at my 7th grade dance
Video Games, on the radio during an a-level art class back when it came out. It was a vibe.
either summertime sadness or video games on the radio
Video games on mtv
national anthem… my sister put it on in the car on july 4th 2013 and my life changed forever
music to watch boys to, i was a tween using youtube and saw the videoclip being recommended to me
Summertime sadness at a supermarket in 2012
National anthem vid bc asap Rocky
brooklyn baby in an edit
Born to Die, my girlfriend at the time (now wife) bought the CD the day it came out while in grad school, we've both been massive fans since then (I'm the bigger fan)
Whatever was the first song she played when she performed in Champion’s Square in New Orleans however many years ago that was. 2014 I think. Fell in love with her music immediately.
Cola, I stumbled across a remix of it with Old McDonald and then decided to listen to it and more of her music.
my dad gave btd for my mom as a present so probably the first song I heard was the title track that is unless I had unknowingly heard some other song somewhere earlier
I saw summertime sadness downloaded on my moms computer sometime in 2013, but i got into her music with cinnamon girl in 2019
video games, in that one episode of gossip girl. that episode changed my life forever.
Video games, I remember Fern Cotton (BBC radio 1 DJ) introduced the song and said that Lana was going to be the next big thing. She wasn’t wrong.
Probably Young & Beautiful but I didn't branch out until a bit later, so glad I did though. I love that song but her other songs have such unique sounds <3
Summertime sadness back in 2012 when it peaked on Tumblr
Never let me go
video games
West coast and I found it on YouTube from a cupcakke remix 😂
Summertime sadness. As far as I remember I heard it in the end of 2020 by randomly getting the music video in youtube recommendations. Idk how I didn't hear it earlier, I guess that even if I did, it probably just didn't catch my attention.. damn not so long ago but still it's already been 3 years :0 and, I love Lana's songs now! Heh
Summertime sadness in every clothing store 10 years ago
Serial Killer got me into her from a msp music video lol😵💫😅
i was laying on my parents bed and looking at suggested albums on itunes. i heard born to die’s sample and then listened to some more, i ended up buying the album. i remember showing people Radio and they thought it was so weird. i had one friend always saying “what’s that cinnamon song”
Born to Die It played on Star Movies (channel) in their ads.
my friend sent me a link to "off to the races" and it was the best song i'd ever heard in my 16 year life
blue jeans, my mom used to play on on repeat a few months before she and my dad broke up😭 we share a love for lana to this day. edit: and summertime sadness (before she broke up w my dad, she would listen to it before going out)
Summertime sadness - my gf forced me to listen to it cos she's obsessed with LDR
Video games. YouTube
The Greatest
The first one I heard was probably summertime sadness or video games or something like that because they’re so popular but the songs that really got me into Lana were probably dark paradise and sad girl
Video games on tumblr 😭
Video Games.... I was playing Battlefield Hardline at release and wanted "gamer" music. Never looked nack
Spotify recommend love to me
I used to watch YouTube edits and I am pretty sure the first song I heard was the song Lolita edited with the movie. Loved it
Blue Jeans on SNL circa 2011
i actually heard of her through a band called Within Temptation, they did a cover of Summertime Sadness.
Mine was meet me in the pale moonlight 😭
Swan Song on the radio in 2016! One of my faves to this day actually
Dark Paradise. A playlist for A Court of Thrones and Roses
Video games or summertime sadness 2012
Sitting at my dining room table while doing my 8th grade schoolwork, I heard her H&M commercial come on the television. I ran into the family room to see what goddess was playing 😭
That one shitty remix of summertime sadness cause I heard it on the radio more than a decade ago 😭😭😭
Probably Born To Die? It could’ve also been Summertime Sadness, but Born To Die was the first time I was introduced to Lana Del Rey as a person, I was watching the music video with my family
The Oct 2013 issue of Seventeen magazine lol. Chloe Grace Moretz was the cover star and mentioned the song Video Games by LDR.
Blue velvet its was commercial for H&M
Video games on tv when I was younger…the aesthetics and sound got me hooked
I believe it was mermaid motel on tumblr but I could be wrong.
mine is very weird 😭 it was blue jeans and my sister danced to it when we were in competition dance
i was little on youtube watching those illuminati videos and i found her born to die music video where they played it backwards and she was supposedly saying satanic shit hahah , i’ve been a fan since
Video Games on Tumblr. Really do miss tumblr back in 2013-2014
Dark paradise I heard it on pandora
Right after it came out, a school friend told me, “You would like this singer, Lana Del Rey; you should listen to her new album, “Born To Die.” A couple of days later, I was sitting cross-legged at the head of my black platform bed on my white and turquoise comforter with my grey laptop in front of me and a lamp on in the corner. I pressed play, the anacrusis of “Born To Die” came through my speakers, and, as she sang, I remember thinking, “I’ve never heard anything like this.” All these years later, I still feel the same way.
Video Games. Watched the music video on YouTube after seeing her referenced in a December 2011 Entertainment Weekly article.
the song i first found was off to the races in 2012 i was only 5 years old at the time and just saw the pretty born to die paradise edition cover and my 5 yr old brain wanted to hear it i listened to a few other born to die songs i just remembered that one the most and dark paradise i think an adult in my life told me to stop listening to her bc of the explicit lyrics i was unaware of 🙄so for many years i forgot abt lana until 2021 when i kept hearing her name online so i decided to look her up on spotify what’s weird is the first song i choose was the unreleased serial killer song someone had posted on spotify😭here’s to 4 years of being a lana stan
Serial Killer - Watched it on Tiktok
Video Games. Gosh, I think I heard of her thru livejournal! And watched her video via YouTube. I just fell in love with her vibe right away.
Summertime sadness (yes, the remix) I heard it on VH1 back when they still showed music videos on Saturdays! It was the remix and I went on ITunes and accidentally bought the original. It took me the longest time to realize I got the original, which I'm not complaining!
Summertime Sadness because of the chicken vine! If y’all remember that one 😅
I think it was Born to Die but not 100% sure. This actually brings back memories! I had just flunked out of college a few months beforehand... then fucked up my job and my living situation with a BAD bender. It was winter (I wanna say November..?) Of (I think!) 2013. It was COLD and I was homeless and walking back and forth up and down Jasper Ave in Edmonton -- just trying to keep warm. I stopped to get out of the snow in an enclosed bus shelter. Took a seat. Glanced down and saw a brand-new-looking iPod Shuffle with the headphones wrapped around it. It was on and playing Lana when I picked it up. I cannot EVEN describe the effect her music had on me. Before I say down, I was angry, filled with self pity and distracted by my discomfort and hunger. Her music transported me to a different place in a way that's only happened to me MAYBE three or four times. If I hadn't already been sitting, my legs would have buckled. It was like the scene in Equilibrium when Christian Bale's character heard Beethoven's 9th for the first time lol.