{"id":24845,"date":"2026-03-02T21:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkafterdarkonline.com\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:49:29","slug":"monday-night-mojo-top-10-music-mojo-funk-special-mention-mojo-2-lana-del-rey-summertime-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkafterdarkonline.com\/?p=24845","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Mojo – Top 10 Music (Mojo & Funk): Special Mention (Mojo) (2) Lana Del Rey – Summertime Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(2) MOJO: LANA DEL REY –
\nSUMMERTIME SADNESS (2012)
\nB-side: Blue Jeans (2012)<\/p>\n

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“I got that summertime, summertime sadness”<\/p>\n

You and me both, Lana del Rey, you retro pop queen – “self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra” and “L0lita lost in the hood”.<\/p>\n

The music of Lana del Rey – or Elizabeth Woolridge Grant – has been noted “for its stylized cinematic quality; its preoccupation with themes of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia; and its references to pop culture” Also – Hollywood sadcore, baroque pop, dream pop and “about music as a time warp, with her languorous croons over molasses-like arrangements meant to make clock hands seem to move so slowly that it feels possible, at times, they might go backwards”<\/p>\n

And somehow all of this seems infused in her 2012 trip hop ballad hit, “Summertime Sadness” – so melancholy!<\/p>\n

Also something of a crush of mine, although perhaps more as an idea<\/p>\n

And as for my B-side, I’ll go with her characteristically mournful love song, Blue Jeans.<\/p>\n

Love, like life, is the long lost last look back…<\/p>\n

“I will love you till the end of time
\nI would wait a million years
\nPromise you’ll remember that you’re mine
\nBaby can you see through the tears?”<\/p>\n

As for the balance of my Top 10 Lana Del Rey songs:<\/p>\n

(3) Ultraviolence (2014)
\n(4) Video Games (2011)
\n(5) Born to Die (2011)<\/p>\n

(6) Ride (2012)
\n(7) National Anthem (2012)
\n( 8 ) West Coast (2014)
\n(9) Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2022)
\n(10) A & W (2023)<\/p>\n

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RATING: 4 STARS****
\nA-TIER (TOP-TIER)<\/p>\n

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