The world of the Lanatics changed overnight. Our queen in love has finally found her forever. Love comes at the most unlikely times and often from the most unlikely places. And for Lana Del Rey, it came in the form of Louisiana-bred alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene. This comes after barely a month of them expressing their romance in public.

For the die-hard Lana fans who have sobbed and screamed along to her blissfully blue but captivating discography, it truly feels like the end of an era. On the other hand, we’re not really surprised. Although she sings tirelessly about holding on to the painfully fragile house of cards that love can feel like, Lana’s aesthetic has always carried a steady undercurrent of hope over the years, even though almost every one of her songs rightly crowns her the Queen of Melancholy. With that in mind, let’s take a look back at the instances where Lana used her brilliant vision to transform her wife’s life into her reality.

National anthem

Have you ever tried to find out what it feels like to be the First Lady? Lana does. The national anthem music video is very, VERY Kennedy-coded and lasts almost 8 minutes. It shows a perfectly positioned Lana living out her dream girl life on the Pinterest board in the film. Not only that, the music video is chock-full of Easter eggs for anyone even remotely up-to-date with US Prez stories.

Young and beautiful

‘Dear Lord, when I go to heaven / Please let me bring my husband / When he comes, tell me you’ll let him in / Father, tell me if you can / All this grace, this whole body / Everything that This face makes me want to celebrate / He is my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds‘ – that’s all we have to say about this song. One of her best and the perfect manifesto track if you’re interested in falling irretrievably in love!

West Coast

West CoastPart of the Ultraviolence The album, released in 2014, is a double dedication, not only to Lana’s Californian hometown, but also to the dilemma between life as a woman in love and the pursuit of one’s dreams. The emotions are actually captured quite nicely in the chorus, which says, among other things: “I can see my baby rocking / His parliament is burning and his hands are up / On the balcony and I’m singing / Ooh, baby, ooh, baby, I’m in love‘. Doesn’t it scream “forever” to you?

Ultraviolence

Ultraviolencealso a 2014 release, is essentially about the tendency some have to romanticize abusive relationships. However, this is the only time Lana literally stars as a bride. Cut to 2024, when she has actually found eternal love with a man much gentler than Jim.

Other than that: ‘He hit me and it felt like a kiss‘ should never be the mood.

Chemtrails over the country club

A jazzed-up take on the entire Hamptons Wives routine, the star track from Lana’s 2021 album of the same name. Chemtrails over the country club screams marital bliss, complete with the usual potholes of everyday life. Between ‘Baby, what’s your sign? / My Moon is in Leo, my Cancer is the Sun / You don’t play, you’re no fun’ and ‘Let’s meet for coffee at primary school / We laugh at nothing as the summer gets chilly / It’s beautiful, like this Deep normality reigns calm over me / I’m not bored or unhappy, I’m still so strange and wild‘, this track manages to hit all the right notes.

We wish Lana and Jeremy a happy married life!