3.87 avg rating — 944,268 ratings

"Lolita and Nabokov references are rampant in Lana Del Rey's music.
Songs where Lolita and/or Nabakov are referenced are as follows:
Off to the Races
Lolita
Carmen
Diet Mountain Dew
Cola
This is What Makes Us Girls
Queen of the Gas Station (unreleased)
Off to the Races"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768,707 ratings

"The term "ultraviolence" was coined by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange which is the name of the title song in Del Rey's 2014 album. "

4.11 avg rating — 116,585 ratings

"In the chorus of "Body Electric" she quotes Whitman by singing, "I sing the body electric" which can be found in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" collection."

3.79 avg rating — 493,350 ratings

"In "Money, Power, Glory" Del Rey sings, "the sun also rises on those who fail to call" which is a direct reference to this Hemingway classic."

3.98 avg rating — 334,303 ratings

"In "Carmen", Del Rey sings, "relying on the kindness of strangers" which is in reference to character, Blanche DuBois in Williams' play. "

4.46 avg rating — 276 ratings

"Del Rey reads a portion of Burnt Norton as an interlude to her Honeymoon album. "

3.61 avg rating — 447,758 ratings

"In "Brooklyn Baby", Del Rey mentions that she "get(s) down to beat poetry. It's only fitting to add one of the fathers of such a movement, Jack Kerouac. "

3.95 avg rating — 2,590 ratings

"The famous line, "life imitates art" from Wilde's poem is quoted in Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters"."

4.10 avg rating — 1,923 ratings

"In, "Coachella- Woodstock On My Mind", Del Rey said in an interview, she wrote this song on her way to Coachella and was thinking about Woodstock. It's rumored that she had read this book. "

3.65 avg rating — 77,972 ratings

"In the song, "Tomorrow Never Came", the line "on this side of paradise in the Tropic of Cancer" is a literary reference to Tropic of Cancer and This Side of Paradise"

3.63 avg rating — 79,999 ratings

"In the song, "Tomorrow Never Came", the line "on this side of paradise in the Tropic of Cancer" is a literary reference to Tropic of Cancer and This Side of Paradise"

4.06 avg rating — 378,030 ratings

""Is This Happiness", an unreleased song by Del Rey, she sings, "you think you're Hunter S. Thompson". "

4.48 avg rating — 782 ratings

"In "Love", she quotes this poem singing, "we're the masters of our own fate, we're the captains of our own soul". "

4.27 avg rating — 3,661 ratings

"In "Music to Watch Boys To", Del Rey sings, "...nothing gold can stay" which is in direct reference to an early poem by Robert Frost with the same title. This poem also has corelations to Eden and The Fall of Adam and Eve which she references in her short film, Tropico. "

4.13 avg rating — 119,172 ratings

"Del Rey recites this poem after "Gods & Monsters" in her short film, "Tropico". "

3.82 avg rating — 353,299 ratings

"Del Rey quotes Ernest Hemingway once more in the chorus of "Religion"by singing, "you're my religion" which comes from Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms". "

3.90 avg rating — 2,043,538 ratings

"In Wuthering Heights, character Catherine says in reference to Heathcliff, "Who came out and fell to questioning him of what he had been doing and how he had been living", is quite similar to a part of Del Rey's "Ride" monologue.
Del Rey's monologue is as follows:
"when the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how i had been living, they asked why.""

3.86 avg rating — 182,375 ratings

"A portion of "Paradise Lost" is recited in Del Rey's short film, Tropico"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 298,138 ratings

"Song title on Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" album. "

4.06 avg rating — 153,971 ratings

4.05 avg rating — 1,217,555 ratings