
It is also similar to "I like you lots" in " Wild At Heart". Lolita is about a middle-aged literature professor Humbert Humbert and his obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Dolores, whom. The phrase "I like you quite a lot" is similar to "I like you a lot" in " Music to Watch Boys To", " Breaking My Heart", " You Can Be The Boss" and " White Mustang". Lets take a look at Lolita s musical legacy.
The lyrics “Be my baby tonight" is also used in " If I Die Young". Spelling chants are also used in " Come When You Call Me America", " Jealous Girl" and " Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)". Being barefoot is also referenced in " Axl Rose Husband" and the poems " Patent Leather Do-Over" and " Bare Feet on Linoleum".
Off to the races is a slang for getting johns at exclusive clubs. The man with the tarblack soul is her lover and a fatherfigure but ultimatly her pimp. Its a story about a girl getting caught up in a high class prostitution ring.
"Kiss me in the dark" was first used in " Jimmy Gnecco". This song is inspired by Lolita, but its more than that. Cake is also mentioned in " Young and Beautiful". The lyrics "D-A-R-K" could be a reference to "Miss Susie", a popular nursery rhyme. Del Rey has the surname 'Nabokov' tattooed. "Lolita", a 1955 book written by Vladimir Nabokov, is referenced in many of Del Rey's songs including " Off to the Races", " Carmen", " Put Me in a Movie", " Butterflies, Pt. Who else is gonna put up with me this way I need you, I breathe you, Ill never leave you. Like most of her old music videos, it featured clips of Del Rey herself singing along to the song and clips she gathered from miscellaneous films and videos. My old man is a bad man but I can't deny the way he holds my hand And he grabs me, he has me by my heart He doesn't run to heaven Lost faith, guest pass He doesn't mind to have a L.The song samples a spoken line from a live performance of "Mary Jane" by Rick James, also heard in " Dark Paradise", " National Anthem", " Blue Jeans" and " Without You".ĭel Rey performed the song live several times in 2012 and in 2016 she included it as part of the setlist for her Festival Tour, starting on Jat the Orange Warsaw Festival making that her first live performance of "Lolita" since 2012.īefore the release of Born to Die, Del Rey created two homemade music videos for one of the demos of the song in 2010.