One of the things she sings about is wanting glamor. Diamonds are mentioned many of her songs. As much as she sings about glamor, opulence, money, fame, she, in her very Lana Del Rey way, also makes fun of it in a way, in a lot of her songs. Most are subtler, such as in the song National Anthem, she sings about a fling she has with a man who is clearly very wealthy, “he says to be cool, but I don’t know how yet.”



Others examples are more blatant. In the song Cola off the album Paradise she sings, “I wear my diamonds on Skid Row.” Skid Row is an area of downtown LA, famous for being where the poorest live, where you’ll find a lot of crime, drugs, and prostitution. The imagery of someone wearing diamonds but living on “Skid Row” is so wrong it’s almost funny, and an image that I think is brilliantly done by Lana, as is the rest of that song. It is one of her more explicit songs though, so you’ll have to look it up if you wanted to listen to it, as I can’t share it here.