Album Reaction: ULTRAVIOLENCE - Lana Del Rey 

I felt like the romanticsm in ultraviolence was such a powerful depiction of how blinded you can be to abuse and dysfunction when your so desperate for love and affection.

the way you guys stopped at the very best moment of west coast is criminal😭😭😭😭

here’s ur lovely time stamps: 🌎 cruel world: 2:46 👊 ultraviolence: 9:31 💙 shades of cool: 15:46 🗽 Brooklyn baby: 23:15 🌊 west coast: 32:35 🙍‍♀️ sad girl: 37:34 💧 pretty when you cry: 41:33 💰 money power glory: 46:30 📈 f****d my way up to the top: 51:03 💲 old money: 56:54 🚺 the other woman: 1:02:28 🖤 black beauty: 1:05:33 🌹 guns and roses: 1:11:36 🍹 florida kilos: 1:15:15 love u x

i clicked so fast

I just know they’re going to be absolutely SHOOK when they listen to honeymoon, it’s one of her most underrated albums in my opinion. It’s what heaven sounds like!🤩

The line in Ultraviolence "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" is a reference to the song by the 60's group The Crystals "He hit me (it felt like a kiss)" and it will always reminds me of that interview with Amy Winehouse where she says "The Crystals had a song called 'He hit me and it felt like a kiss', like thats messed up, theres only a certain percentage of people that would understand what thats about, most people would be like... 'How dare you promote domestic violence'... but to me I'm like - I know what you mean, I knew exactly what you mean". and Lana actually commented on a post on Instagram that reposted this interview saying "I know exactly what you mean, I knew exactly what you mean". I think its also a big reason to why this song is be seen as controversial, but of course it is, because only a small number of people who have gone through that would understand what that feeling is like.

The skip of the bridge to sad girl😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

TRUE BLUE AT THE BEGINNING 😭 SLAYYY

We need HONEYMOON too 😭🤍🤍🤍

If you want more bridges, listen to Honeymoon, every bridge on there is a literal masterpiece

“The power of youth is on my mind. Sunset, small town, I’m out of time” gives me chills every time

"We just haven't had time! Taylor Swift keeps doing things!" FELT THIS IN MY BONES SO MUCH 😭yall are troopers, and we thank you both for your service

In this album Lana often uses New York accent, expecially in Brooklyn Baby thats why she says 'TWALKING' 😂. She grew up in NY and this album is heavily aesthetically inspired by the city

them stopping that one moment in west coast felt criminal T-T

Guys when lorde was popping off in the industry and getting fame she marked herself as someone different, cooler than other artists. she did a bunch of controversial tweets, shes the one who twitted that lana is promoting abuse and toxic relationships, making girls feel bad about themselves and teaching a bad way of thinking. with the lady gaga beef, she (lana) did another song that dissed her completely (unreleased), so that song was mostly about Lorde, also she released it pretty quickly after the tweet. not even a year later.

the best part of this album is so many lyrics sound like other things on purpose like how she says "I can hear the violins, violins" sounds like violence, violence and "bonnie on the side" is obviously made to resemble bonnie and clyde

Bonnies bangs are lowkey giving Honeymoon era✨✨✨

Ultraviolence is heavy on guitar while honeymoon is heavy on strings😭

also in ultravoilence she says that he reminds her of when we kids which kind of means that since she was abused in her childhood but told that it was love, she feels that again with jim and it gives her comfort. and that is why she has turned a blind eye ro his voilence and just felt it as love

despite all controversies, this album is “problematic” due to the talks of addiction, abuse and etc. the public doesn’t know anything about lana hence why they were (still are) holding her accountable for “romanticizing” abuse but the way lana copes is through her singing as she is a victim of domestic abuse, addiction, use of drugs especially at a young age, and etc.

I had just turned 15 when Ultraviolence came out, and I will be 25 on June 7th. It’s been almost a decade since this album debuted and I can still remember how it changed my brain chemistry, how it touched my very soul. It’s hard to believe I’m not still the same young girl whenever I listen to this album. It immediately takes me back to the first time I heard it, flying through the streets, windows down, hot summer air rushing past, drunk and sweet and sad in the way only a fifteen year old can be. I was so fucking miserable back then but somehow I miss it so much it makes me ache. Not a single skip, this album truly has no misses. So glad you girls are finally reacting to it

I DROPPED EVERYTHING NOW TO WATCH THIS, ahh finally!!!!

lana has talked about the lyrics of ultraviolence many times. she says that thats how she felt and many other women are also "blinded" by their partners and cant see whats actually happening in the relationship and how the partner is damaging their lives, what she couldnt see back then, but can finally recognize nowadays

time stamps!! ---౨ৎ--- 2:26 - cruel world 9:31 - ultraviolence 15:46 - Shades of cool 23:14 - brooklyn baby 32:35 - west coast 37:35 - sad girl 41:34 - pretty when you cry 46:27 - Money Power Glory 50:48 - fucked my way up to the top 56:52 - Old money 1:02:28 - The other woman 1:05:33 - Black beauty 1:11:36 - guns and roses 1:15:15 - florida kilos

lana is a bridge girly!! especially on honeymoon, her bridges are always immaculate

Fun fact: Florida Kilos was co-written by Harmony Korine, the director of 2012’s Spring Breakers and the song was supposedly made for that movie.

I’ve always though that the title is Pretty When You Cry because that’s what her lover tells her. “You Are Pretty When You Cry”. And throughout the song she’s just repeating it to herself to make her feel better about him treating her like crap.

I have loved this album for years now and never fathomed she was talking about addiction in cruel world

Lorde has not only said a bunch of things about Lana but supposedly the lyrics on Royals “tigers on a gold leash” are about Lana’s born to die music video

"maybe for drugs you guys are using the metrics system, love that for you" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

I always found that this album was inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", as it seems to take you from the East Coast to the West Coast of America. Jack Kerouac (the writer of "On the Road"), was one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation. She continuously mentions the Beat Generation and Beat poetry throughout the album, in particular in Brooklyn Baby ("I get down to Beat poetry"). The Beat Generation brought about a new style of writing that attempted to challenge social norms and standards, to push boundaries, and to be bold and experimental. Even the lyrical content of this album is very reminiscent of Beat writing. The lyric that sells this idea for me in particular is: "I'm talking about my generation, talking about that newer nation, and if you don't like it, you can beat it, beat it, baby".

The LORDE rumoured feud started because Lorde said: She’s great, but I listened to that Lana Del Rey record and the whole time I was just thinking it’s so unhealthy for young girls to be listening to, you know: "I’m nothing without you." This sort of shirt-tugging, desperate, don’t leave me stuff. That’s not a good thing for young girls, even young people, to hear." “When I wrote Royals, I was listening to a lot of rap, but also a lot of Lana Del Rey, because she’s obviously really hip-hop influenced, but all those references to expensive alcohol, beautiful clothes and beautiful cars - I was thinking, ‘This is so opulent, but it’s also bullshit.'” I suppose people didn’t like the fact she criticised lana but then became wealthy herself and I suppose her aesthetic has been similar in some ways to lana in the early days of both their careers.

Pause while the West Coast chorus is transitioning is a CRIME. 😭😭😭

55:10 the whole beef started when Lorde said in an interview that Lana Del Rey sets a bad example for young girls, with her lyrics that are not so “progressive”, citing that the song “Without You” was a “toxic” way to think in a relationship. And she also said that she wrote “Royals” as a rebuttal to Lana’s “National Anthem”, because according to her that type of glorification of luxuriousness was just “unrelatable”. I think that in the verse “Lay me down tonight in my diamonds and pearls” she’s kinda making fun of herself in a sarcastic way because of what Lorde said. And the whole copying her style thing, I think she’s referring to Lorde saying that her music isn’t relatable but doing the “same” tumblr girl thing like her (“I'm a dragon, you're a whore. Don't even know what you're good for. Mimicking me's a fucking bore to me”)

Loved the reaction! I believe Fucked My Way Up To The Top is about Lorde, bc back then (if i remember correctly) Lorde, when asked in an interview, said that Lana's lyricism (on Born To Die) was bullshit or something. Aka, she threw shade. But then people started seeing similarities in music style between them and when this song came out it was linked to Lorde.

This album is so nostalgic to me now 🥹 It literally changed my brain chemistry when it first came out and became my entire personality when i was 16, I can't belive its 10 years old this month 😭 Cruel world, ultraviolence, shades of cool, west coast, sad girl, pretty when you cry, old money, the other woman and black beauty are all my faves 😭

Oh my f***ing god is my first reaction when i saw this. I’M LOCKED!

omg it's 6am here in Argentina but you BEST BELIEVE I'm gonna eat this reaction up as my BREAKFAST, thank u girls, love ya, bye💋💕

10 years later and this cult classic is still being discovered. Whew! Also FMWUTTT could truly be about either Lorde or Gaga. Lana and Gaga had a similar manager/person who discovered them in NYC for the briefest moment in time, and Lana felt slighted by Gaga enough to write an unreleased diss track “So Legit”. Lana also was upset by Lorde dissing her a few times in interviews saying Lana’s music was bad for young girls. Also people did constantly say Lorde was Lana’s artistic child. We’ll probably never truly know.

i love how yall do the motioning of the songs beats with your hands it’s so real when it comes to listening to music

1:17:28 - there are 2 groups of people in the US who use the metric system more than the general population - 1) scientists and engineers and 2) drug dealers and their customers. Drugs are packaged and sold in a mish-mash of metric and imperial units. In general, small amounts of drugs are sold by the gram. The next step up is usually an ‘eighth’ (used when dealing in cannabis or psilocybin mushrooms) or an ‘8-ball’ (used when dealing in powdered drugs - often times just referred to as a ‘ball’, with the 8 being implied) - both terms refer to 1/8 of an ounce, which is equivalent to 3.5 g (using the approximate conversion of 1 oz = 28 g). A side note about heroin - for whatever reason, often times, heroin does not get packaged by the ounce, but rather in 24 or 25 g batches called a ‘piece’ which is then treated as an equivalent to an ounce. So a ball of heroin ends up being 3 g (1/8 of a piece), a quarter is 6 g (1/4 of a piece), and a half is 12 g (1/2 of a piece). Moving up, we have the ‘quarter’ and ‘half’ for 1/4 oz (7 g) and 1/2 oz (14 g) and then a full oz (28 g), which goes by several different slang terms - ‘o’ and ‘zip’ being 2 of the most common. Next up, is the 1/4 pound (4 oz), 1/2 pound (8 oz), and pound (16 oz). Anything larger than a pound, gets measured by the kilogram, which is generally an insanely large amount of drugs, so it is only used by the manufacturers, traffickers, and high level dealers.

FINALLYY!!! A NEW LANA ALBUM!!

a super interesting fact about brooklyn baby is that lou reed was actually supposed to feature on the song as the male backing vocals but the same day that lana flew out to him for them to record together, he passed away :(

Old Money is so underrated!!! Such a gem 🥹

I suddenly seen this video… then my life stopped for an hour. Thank you for it! LOVE THIS ALBUM AND YOUR REACTION!!! ❤

WE ARE SO BLESSED

really needed a distraction today and Y’ALL CAME THROUGH! AND with one of my favorite albums of all time at that! so excited for this 🤍

Really love you reacting to Lana. Such a joy to find this today

OH YES ABSOLUTELY!!! Your reaction to Old Money was SUPERIOR (that’s one of my favorite songs from her ever and I’ve been waiting to see it from you guys 😭❤️)

OH MY GOD MY FAVOURITE CHANNEL REACTING TO MY FAVOURITE ARTIST!!! THANK YOU

Florida Kilos was a soundtrack song for Spring Breakers film but they didn't end up using it in end. She wrote it with the director of the movie. That's why it's different and more poppy than the rest of the album. You need to do Honeymoon asap cause from what I know of your taste I think you'll love it, maybe even more than this one.

lmfao you guys humming blue at the start is me all day every day. im SO EXCITED to see your reactionsssssssss to this iconic album...

Love this album! I realize it's not for everyone, but I wish she would make another "rock" album with her current lyricism

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! AHHH I LUV IT WHEN YALL REACT TO LANA 🩷🩷 THIS ALBUM IS TO DIE FOR

IM BEYONDDDD EXCITED

FINALLYYY! I’ve been waiting for this video for YEARS.

“It’s giving Rhysand” was not something I ever thought I’d hear in your videos!😂❤

yes i’ve been waiting 4 this!!!

Oh my god!!!! Love thisss!!! Plus I'm soooo impatiently waiting for TTOD breakdown to beginnn just can't wait!!!!

I love your guys’ outfit coordination resembling the album covers it’s so good

OMG FINALLYYY!!! I really enjoyed your reaction😍😍 and Ultraviolence is my faourite album of Lana I get emotional, because it's been around 10 years since it was released and I still remember my first listen in my living room and how it seald my love for her. About the "Jim" in Ultraviolence song, I feel like listeners too often think of "man" while listening to Lana's songs, while she frequently writes about her RELATIONSHIP with addiction or fame or city (or it can be both, haing a double meaning). So Jim is probably the alcohol and her addiction (Jim Beam) I heard some interpretations that also points to cult leader Jim Jones who lived around 50s - 60s, since it suits the period Ultraviolence sound seems inspired by and since Lana said that about her being in a cult. Also, this album is JUST NOW getting it's deserved reviews and it makes me want to cry because FINALLYYY - like, for me it was a love from the first listen, but also FINALLY because it means our society is changing, it is ok to depict the point o view of a victim, to BE a victim and talk about it, it's the abuser who should be ashamed. I remember at the time it was released the songs that were called feminist had to be empowering, but it almost screams toxic positivity to me and it narrows down the feminism, it excludes those who are still struggling, it erases the trauma and the process of healing. ALSO! I haven't seen anyone saying this in the comments yet, but during the time of releasing this album there was a drama with label: "Auerbach openly criticized her label's role on the creative output of the record. He stated the label threatened with not extending the recording session for Ultraviolence any longer unless they heard something from the record.[7] After they sent them [the label] the rough mix of what they had at the moment they were unhappy about the results. They even threatened Lana the record wasn't going to be out unless she worked with "the Adele producer", who most fans speculate to be Paul Epworth, long time producer on Adele records, who also reworked previously leaked demo of "Black Beauty" to fit in more with the sound of the record. According to Auerbach, after Epworth listened to the same rough mix he loved it and stated the album was amazing and that he wouldn't do anything to change it. His words may have influenced the label's own opinions as they changed their mind suddenly and let Lana release the record" Plus in Rolling Stone interview Auerbach emphasized that "she sang live with a seven-piece band. That's the whole record - a seven-piece band with her singing live. It was crazy"

honeymoon has always been the stand out album for me, my fav sound shes come out with, ahhh can't wait for you to hear those songs!!

Ive been missing these two like crazy!!!! ❤❤❤ cheers from Argentina 🇦🇷

My favorite content creators even when it’s not my favorite music. Love what you do, like music, you’re just good for the soul ❤❤ I will always watch you two!!

You have NO IDEA how happy I am that you are reacting to Lana again!! Can't wait for the rest of albums! ❤

I’m sure you girls know Paradise the extended version of Born to Die since Honeymoon is the last album you said you haven’t heard…? Which I’m so excited for btw!! Loved this so much🤍

thank u for posting this today! so excited to see ur reaction to this one

I love how the songs together all lined up and they're all my favourites ❤❤❤

THANK YOU IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ❤❤

So excited for this!

She worked on this album in NASHVILLE and at Electric Lady with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and a some of the songs on the album (like Cruel World) are just impromptu streams of consciousness which is soooo iconic. The majority of the album was recorded with a live band. She's never done that again. This album is farrrrr too special wowowowow

Omgeeee! I've been waiting for this for so longggg!!!! ❤❤❤

Old money is literally my favourite Lana song of all time so seeing use fathom and love it just as much has made my 2024 ❤

OMG I CAN'T WATCH THIS UNTIL SUNDAY BECAUSE I HAVE TO STUDY FOR 2 HUGE EXAMS ON MY WAY😭😭😭 I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS ILLEGAL SUPERIOR ALBUM!!! CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH

I’ve been waiting for this!!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤

I'm 2 minutes into the video and I just couldn't wait to say that i'm so happy that you guys have finally reacted to this iconic album. It came out when I was 15 and has since been one of my favorite albums of all time. I also correlated to when times felt simpler (tumblr, being an adolescent, growing up, talking to boys, etc) so it does hold a massive amount of nostalgia for me.

So excited to watch thisssssss!!!

In a clockwork orange, this idea of ultraviolence basically referred to extreme violence that existed especially inside young men and was caused by the effects of Television, video games, modern culture (of the time)...

Rediscovering this album with you has been a joyyyy. Officially re-entering my Lana era

Stop the world, I need to watch this

OMG YESSSSSSSS!!!! THERE ARE TWO MORE SONGS IS THIS HAPPINESS AND FLIPSIDE WHICH AREN'T ON SPOTIFY BUT THERE ARE IN THE ALBUM, YOU CAN FIND IT ON RU-vid AND THEY ARE SO GOOD. YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY LISTEN TO THEM!!

My absolute favourite album from my favourite artist, literally changed my brain chemistry at 16. Can't imagine my life without it, this gets me so f'ed up everytime I hear it ❤

my jaw DROPPED when i saw this. i love you both

One of Lana's best works. This is included on my top 3 Lana albums 💯

In Florida there’s a string of islands called the Florida Keys. Keys is also a colloquial term for kilograms, commonly used when speaking about drugs (usually cocaine)

I'm glad you picked up on the repeat lyrics between Ultraviolence and FMYUTTT. It's proof you actually pay attention to the lyrics as well as vibing where other reactors tend to just vibe.

I Literally Scrolled Pass This And Was Thinking About When Are You Guys Gonna Drop This Vid, So Exited And Love You Guys Freaking Much❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

you guys are so in sync!!!! love your friendship

MY FAVE ALBUMMMMM OF HERS! LET'S GOOOO

oh my god i’m so glad you guys loved it, this makes me beyond excited for preachers daughter by ethel cain

I’ve never heard this album before so I’ll be reacting with y’all!!! Also the hair is looking gorgeous Emily ❤❤

10 years after the year of release and I watched the video as if it were the first time listening to the songs

The way i clicked soo fast, it was almost faster than Taylor releases masterpieces:))So, halsey announced her new album and i think she is a part of tscu and she makes masterpieces all the time. I think you guys can react to that and even her older albums cause like i said they're incredible-thematically, musically and lyrically just superior!! I also enjoy with every content you make, thank you so much for that. Lana, Taylor, now we're gonna have sabrina and gracie too. Just wow!!! What a year for music really

"It's giving Rhysand"😍😂!!!

Yayy so excited for this 🥺🖤

I’ve been waiting for this reaction for so long ❤

“cruel world” is called like that because it touches on her life growing up and how the alcohol has impacted her, like if she's talking to her past self, who had struggled with the addiction

omg best ldr album must i say 🤭

I WAS COMING BACK TO REWATCH A VIDEO AND THIS WAS THE BEST PRESENT EVER

WOOOOO!!! Straight here. I know what I’m going to be watching whilst I have my lunch 🤌🏼