Test your knowledge of Lana Del Rey's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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Her breakthroughs give themselves away first: the strings of 'Video Games', the pulse of the 'Summertime Sadness' remix, the sweep of 'Born to Die'. You place these before the atmosphere even settles.
There's real history behind the mood: a breakout that spread as an online video before radio, a remix that outran the original single, and a Grammy-nominated album made with Jack Antonoff.
A Lana Del Rey quiz sorts into layers: the breakout singles casual fans nail, the mood-alike tracks with no hook to grab, the eras hiding in the same haze, and the album cuts superfans catch. The haze is the trap.
These are the fast points: 'Video Games', the ballad that made her a talking point in 2011, the Cedric Gervais remix of 'Summertime Sadness', the title track 'Born to Die', and 'Young and Beautiful'. Most players place these before the first line arrives.
This is the trap that defines the quiz. There is rarely a shout-along chorus, so you read the voice and the atmosphere instead. 'Blue Jeans', 'Ride' and 'West Coast' all open on the same smoky, slow-burn mood, and telling them apart on feel alone is the real skill.
Superfans separate records that outsiders hear as one sound. The trip-hop glamour of Born to Die, the guitar grit of Ultraviolence with Dan Auerbach, and the spacious Jack Antonoff productions of Norman Fucking Rockwell! each have their own texture. Match a clip to its era and you gain ground.
The dedicated pull ahead on non-singles and placements: the nine-minute 'Venice Bitch', the stark 'A&W', her cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time', and 'Young and Beautiful' from The Great Gatsby. Naming one of these from a short clip is a top-tier score.
Play the quiz and find out. You hear a short clip and name the track, from 'Video Games' to 'Summertime Sadness', across her Born to Die and Norman Fucking Rockwell! eras. Because everything shares one mood, scoring 8 out of 10 here means you really know her catalog.
Her songs rarely lean on a big shout-along chorus. They share the same slow, cinematic haze, so you often have to name a track from the voice and the atmosphere rather than a hook.
Expect the breakouts 'Video Games', 'Summertime Sadness', 'Born to Die' and 'Young and Beautiful', with album cuts like 'Venice Bitch' and 'A&W' mixed in to separate the fans.
Only if you go past the singles. Telling the Ultraviolence era from the Norman Fucking Rockwell! years and naming deep cuts from a short clip is what turns a good score into a perfect one.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. She was born in New York City in 1985 and took the stage name Lana Del Rey before her 2011 breakthrough with 'Video Games'.
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