In celebration of the singer’s 38th birthday, we put together a playlist with the greatest hits of her career, according to Rolling Stone US
Lana Del Rey turns 38 this Wednesday, June 21, throughout her career the singer released several hits that conquered her audience, with her romantic and indie style.
To celebrate, we’ve put together the singer’s 50 greatest hits in a playlist. The selection was made in 2023 by Rolling Stone US and already considers the singer’s most recent album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
Check out the playlist below available on Spotify:
Lana Del Rey: the 10 best songs, according to Rolling Stone US
10 – Born to Die
This track brings a lot of the sad aesthetic that Lana Del Rey usually uses in her songs, where she says that we should make the most of life and the time we have because death is inevitable.
9 – Venice Bitch
It talks about a troubled relationship, which involves a lot of fear and attachment, that even a relationship with strong ties can be fragile, but the song is narrated in a summer in California, which brings a young and romantic air.
8 – Brooklyn Baby
Lana tells about the routine of a young woman who lives in Brooklyn, New York, who dates an artist from a band and talks about her passion, poetry and music, along with the rebelliousness of a young woman who lives in the biggest city in the world.
7 – High By The Beach
In this song, Lana talks about running away from a relationship that didn’t do her any good, and to distract herself from her problems, she went to the beach to get high. The track is part of the Honeymoon album that pulls this one more melancholy.
6 – Ride
Ride is like a monologue in which Lana reflects on various subjects, thoughts and feelings “I believe in what America used to be. I believe in the person I want to become, I believe in the freedom of the road. And my motto is the same as always – I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself, I walk around. I just walk around”
5 – Off To The Race
It portrays a romance between a “wild” woman who falls in love and has to deal with her past, to accept that the man next to her likes her the way she is.
4 – Norman Fucking Rockwell
A slower and more subtle spark, in which Lana describes a man as someone childish and emphasizes with the refrain “you are a man, that’s what you do”, as if she thickens other attitudes of the one next to her.
3 – West Coast
Another track in honor of California, which despite not being Lana’s homeland, is one of the singer’s favorite places that she highlights in several songs, this being perhaps one of the most “different” songs in Lana’s repertoire, she tells about the adventures in Los Angeles.
2 – The Greatest
The main track on the Norman Fucking Rockwell album, the singer again makes reference to California but also highlights New York and the lack of semantics of “doing nothing” with all the rush of her career.
1 – Video Games
The biggest single of the singer’s career, this is a typical sad song to listen to in a breakup, it talks about giving yourself completely and never feeling recognized, the melody is slow and as sad as the lyrics.
Source: Rollingstone
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