Lana del Rey bien pudiera ser la representación musical del sueño americano. Con cierta adicción al alcohol a los 14 años y su ingreso en un internado privado a los 15 marcó su momento más bajo; de ahí en adelante llegó el caos, la huída hacia adelante, la música...
Comenzó componiendo canciones acompañándose de una guitarra por el mero placer de hacerlo, las interpretaba después en clubs de Nueva York para solventar su subsistencia en sus tiempo de estudios y, porque esas cosas a veces ocurren, una discográfica le ofreció un contrato. Y de ahí al éxito.
Un éxito que vino acompañado de un tema para el cine, Young and Beautiful, compuesto junto con Rick Nowels, y perteneciente a la banda sonora de la última versión cinematográfica de El Gran Gatsby.
I've seen the world
Done it all, had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now
Hot summer nights mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, the city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now
Channeling angels in, the new age now
Hot summer days, rock and roll
The way you'd play for me at your show
And all the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
Dear lord when I get to heaven
Please let me bring my man
When he comes tell me that you'll let me
Father tell me if you can
Oh that grace, oh that body
Oh that face makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful
Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful
Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful