Diet Mountain Dew

obviously this song is about diet mountain dew and how bad it is for lana. don't y'all know diet sodas have aspartame which can cause cancer and shit? lana is just warning all of y'all not to drink anything diet, even if it is delicious, sweet, green, luscious diet mountain dew.

To me, this song is about a relationship which the singer (lana) knows is going to be short yet is still in the relationship. This song is also about the girl knowing that the boy is not good for her, "your no good for me" but she still wants him (and loves him) "but baby i want you" lana says "maybe i like this roller-coaster" to show that she likes that the guy is crazy and bad. I think the name of the song is brilliant. The way i think of it, mountain dew is unhealthy. I think that lana is comparing the relationship to the drink and saying diet mountain dew to show that no matter how much a girl tries to change a bad boy, he can never be changed.

There's so many things this song could mean. It could literally be about Lana riding around with a guy in New York city, wearing heart-shaped sunglasses and drinking Diet Mountain Dew. I serverly doubt it's that literal though.

Let's break it down:

"You're no good for me Baby you're no good for me You're no good for me But baby I want you, I want you"

-Obviously this guy is no good for her, but she wants him.

"Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City Never was there ever a girl so pretty Do you think we'll be in love forever? Do you think we'll be in love"

-She compares this guy to Diet Mountain Dew, because on the surface he looks good for her, but in reality, he's actually terrible for her just like the beverage itself. -She also says "Never was there ever a girl so pretty" She could be talking about New York itself or the Statue of Liberty or it could be talking about herself. -She also questions their love for one another, doubting it.

"Baby put on heart shaped sunglasses 'Cause we gonna take a ride I'm not gonna listen to what the past says I've been waiting up all night"

-By telling him to put on "heart-shaped sunglasses" I think she's asking him to at least pretend to be in-love with her, even though they're not. -She's not going to "listen to what the past says" perhaps because he's treated her poorly or he has a bad boy reputation.

"Take another drag turn me to ashes Ready for another lie? Says he's gonna teach me just what fast is Say it's gonna be all right"

-She's comparing herself to a cigarette. By turing her to ashes, he's using her and he's lying to her to get what he wants, perhaps, or vice-versa. Either way, she doesn't care. -The second part might be talking about how she's not that experienced, whether it be sex or something else. Whatever it is, he's going to teach her.

"Let's take Jesus off the dashboard Got enough on his mind We both know just what we're here for Saved too many times

-She's talking about throwing her morals out the window and not caring about what other people think. -She knows what they're there for, which most likely is sex.

"Maybe I like this rollercoaster Maybe it keeps me high Maybe this weed it brings me closer I could sparkle up your eye"

-She's talking about how this is an unhealthy realtionship, but she likes it.

Overall, I think the song is about a sexual realationship thats clearly unhealthy for her because she knows this is going no where, but she doesn't care. It looks good, even though it's terrible for her, just like Diet Mountain Dew.

This comes after the first chorus:

Hit me, my darling, tonight I don't know why but I like it Got to get back to the wild Give it up, give it up Live it up, live it up

First of all, people always say that diet sodas are "healthy" or better for them, when in reality they are just as bad with added artificial sugars and such. I think this relates with the unhealthy relationship she has with a man--the one in which Lana ignores the bad, maybe even embraces it, because she loves him so much. She knows he is no good for her, but she wants him anyway. "Turn me to ashes" also shows she knows he's bad for her. She doesn't care what people think/say of her or "what the past says". They will take Jesus off the dashboard, even, so that truly no one can judge them. She loves him because he gives her a rush--the roller coaster, the speed, the high--and he will teach her "just what fast is," which is the feeling we know from her interviews she craves: feeling alive, young, wild, and free. That's why she loves the men that mostof us find terrible! She keeps asking "Do you think we'll be in love forever?", which to me is the first time on the album she shares the same doubts we as the listeners may have for their relationship (though, she surely is positive of her feelings/love for him)

I think the song is about a rushing relationship of which she knows won't last long. So, firstly New York is a very hectic city, everyone is always in a hurry and is in a rush and Diet Mountain Dew is a beverage from which you will get a sugar rush, getting in high spirits but when the rush is gone you will end up very tired. She asks herself if they would be in love forever, but then she just asks if they actually would be in love, leaving out the 'forever'

"Baby put on heart shaped sunglasses, cause we're gonna take a ride I'm not gonna listen to what the past says, I've been waiting up all night"

-i don't know if this saying exits in english, but we german say "durch eine Rosarote Brille sehen" which means something like "seeing trough a pink glasses", so when someome is in love they see trough these glasses and ignore all the problems, which come with love, Lana could mean something like that by saying that she puts on her 'heart shaped sunglasses', which is quite similar. She just sees the good things, trying to ignore the bad because they 'gonna take a right' (starting this superficial relationship) She also says that she's been trough bad times, maybe her boyfriend suddenly ended up the relationship and for a long time she's been waiting for him to come back to her, which never happend

Take another drag turn me to ashes, Ready for another lie? Says he's gonna teach me just what fast is, Say it's gonna be all right

-she sees herself as a cigarette, which is used selfishly by men and after he takes a drag (have sex), she is left behind like the ashes of a cigarette; Also the compares love to a 'lie', so love doesn't really exist in this relationship ans she knows that he is just playing with her feelings to get sex with her. With 'fast' she may states again the 'quick' relationship and she has almost no hopes anymore that this relationship would be different to the other loveless relationships she's been through

Let's take Jesus off the dashboard, Got enough on his mind We both know just what we're here for, Saved too many times

-knowing that this kind of relationship isn't really religious, she forgets about jesus by the reason that they both know what they got: a loveless relationship, only existing for the sex

Maybe I like this rollercoaster, Maybe it keeps me high Maybe this weed it brings me closer, I could sparkle up your eye

-here love is compared with a ride on a rollercoaster, which is speedful and shows the up and down of this relationship (isn't it 'speed' instead of 'weed'?") the speed of this exciting ride brings her closer to the feeling that she's actually in love with this guy and forgot about the other, and now she has the hope that he could be in love with her too.

So, in the end she knows that this would be just another 'meaningless' relationship, which is as fast and as fading as a big city like NY or a sip of Mountain Dew. The both seem like they would bring happiness, but then ending up in a dejection.

These are severely out of order.

These are the right lyrics, it's just for the slightly revised album version. The whole song is a bit different.

I think that it's about a girl who knows the relationship isn't going to last but doesn't care.

Knowing Lana's songs, I was wondering, is it love for a man or about drugs. He can teach me what fast is certainly could be about coke. The love for drugs is usually an unhealthy relationship.