Lust for Life - Lana Del Rey

Released July 21, 2017

I’m listening to this album while I’m drinking a six pack of Michelob Ultras. So far I’m at the song God Bless America - And All the Beautiful Women In It but I just realized I’m not listening to it in order so what the f. It’s fine I guess. This album is such a cannon girl event. Honestly this album should be played once you hit puberty. Literally on that first day. The more I listen to this the more nostalgic I become. Right now - I don't know if that's good or bad. I feel seen but like I could scream? The way she's singing in this album is so beautiful. Which is not surprising, she's always had such an amazing voice, being able to - ugh girl I just got to White Mustang hold on I have to disassociate. She sings the way I imagine a woman's heart would sound if it spoke.

I WAITED FOR YOU IN THE SPOT YOU SAID TO WAIT YEAH I DID I DID WHY DIDNT I KNOW OH GOD WHAT IS THIS SONG AND WHY DIDNT I KNOW ABOUT IT SOONER IM TALKING ABOUT TOMORROW NEVER COMES FT SEAN ONO LENNON

Okay Cherry is one of my favorites, I loved this song forever DARLING DARLING DARLING I FALL TO PIECES WHEN I'M WITH YOU. The amount of times I’ve sat in my car and had breakdowns to this song is too many to count.

I love this album because I forgot it features A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti. Lana and A$AP is a collaboration I would die for. It reminds me of those videos where ballerinas collaborate with hip hop artists and they get down to some trap music in the most elegant way, there's something about that that I just love so much, I'm genuinely giggling as I'm typing and thinking about this right now.

I’m so upset I’m not listening to this in order because I feel like I’m not getting the exact set of the album but its okay its okay I’m too deep in it to go back now. I'm just waiting for my favorite song (as of the whole month of February 2026) Get Free, I have been so obsessed with that song lately.

Yeah if I ever end up having a child, god forbid, and god forbid its a girl but if it is I will play this as soon as she comes out of the womb. If I scream during labor I will be screaming these lyrics because she deserves to know early on. Start em young right? Okay but seriously on a personal level, growing up I never felt like I learned anything about being a woman - a girl. Everything I learned, I learned on my own or from my friends but I was never taught to be in touch with what it means to be a girl. To be honest I never really paid any attention or realized that until I got older and realized how much I still didn't know. Listening to this album feels like the conversations I would've wanted to have had growing up. I feel seen and validated, I don’t know maybe its because I’m on my third beer. Either way, I'm not complaining. But I do have to pee again. BRB

You know I think the reason it took me so long to listen to this album is because it has 16 songs and I can hardly lock into a regular sized album. Are there regular sized albums? I think like six is usually the average right? Or am I wrong… oh wait an average album is 10 to 14 songs??? What? Okay so this is still a pretty large album but I did not know a standard album has at least 10 - or wait - is that the standard for a CD? Okay on a CD the standard is still 9-10 so where did I assume six from? Whatever Get Free is playing I gotta lock in to this beer.

SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE I GOT A WAR IN MY MIND I WANT TO GET OFF BUT I KEEP RIDING THE RIDE I NEVER REALLY NOTICED THAT I HAD TO DECIDE TO PLAY SOMEONES GAME OR LIVE MY OWN LIFE AND NOW I DOOOOO I WANNA MOVEEEEEEE

This is such a good song to end the album on because It perfectly encapsulates the crave that your soul has to move forward after experiencing something so detrimental. After committing yourself to something for so long to the point where you lose a sense of yourself, which any woman could relate to, you have almost an epiphany where you realize you have to move. But not because you have to but because you know you have to. Because you realize the self inflicting wounds are preventable, you find a piece of yourself that was lost. After finding that piece, find more.