Brooklyn Baby

This song overall, in my opinion, is poking fun of/satirizing stereotypical Brooklyn hipsters. This isn't a problem for me, considering that I am not a Brooklyn hipster, or a hipster in general, and it's really not offensive or malicious in it's tone. Some might take offense, but the way I see it, they don't really see that this song is firmly tongue in cheek.

"They say I'm too young to love you they say I don't know what I need They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies"

This set of lyrics could be seen is two ways.

1. She's in love with an older man who thinks she's too young and naive
2. She says she likes a '70's artist and the people from that time tell her that she doesn't understand the music or what that time was like Personally, I think it's the latter, considering the context of the song.

Also, lyrics like: "I sing Lou Reed" "My jazz collections rad" "I get down to beat poetry" "I get high on hydroponic weed" "I'm a Brooklyn Baby" Really drive the point home, to me, that she's singing about being a Brooklyn hipster.

I actually believe this song is satire.

Take every Brooklyn hipster or the cast of say, Girls, and the whole thing is essentially a parody of them/the hipster culture.

aka Hipsters will tell people all about how unique or ironic they are by listening to indie music or oldies they've re-discovered and claimed as 'cool'. The line, 'My boyfriend's pretty cool... But he's not as cool as me', is quentissential hipster talk.

Same with 'if you dont like it then forget it.' Clearly youre not worth the explanation & said hipster is too cool for you.

I tend to think that Lana is aware she fits with the 'hipster' culture, but I don't think she's stupid. For that reason, i don't see the lyrics as an intent to be literal. At all.

Lana showing how cool she is.

This song is probably about her and her relationship with Barrie, who is also featured in this song.

I think this song is about Lana (the girl in the song) falling for a guy who's like a serious singer and the people who hang around him, (his friends) think of Lana as trash because she's not like them. I think during the song she sings about all the things she knows about singing, poetry, so she can prove to them that she is worthy of being with them. Towards the end, I think she becomes bitter with all of them because she starts saying thinks like, "and if you don't like then you can beat up, you never liked the way I said it, if you don't forget it, then i don't have to fucking explain it." She's drifting away from him and his friends and realizing she started becoming someone else just to meet someone else's expectations of her. THe last lines in the song IDK if it's just me but I hear a male voice too so maybe her "boyfriend" was mocking her for what she was saying and no she realized she doesn't need him anymore like she thought.

from my prespective, i see this song as 2 people who love each other but are very different from each other due to the age gap. “They say i’m too young to love you”, indicating her partner is significantly older. “I think we’re like fire and water, i think we’re like the wind and sea, you’re burning up i’m cooling down, you’re up, i’m down, you’re blind i see”, i think this indicates that they are the total opposites of each other because they have a significant age gap but because of that, they compliment each other and make it work because they love each other.

im not sure but i heard she was doing this as like a comeback to her critics, the older ones making fun of her generation: "im talking bout my generation twalking bout that newer nation and if u dont like it you can beat it, beat it baby"

so as you can see shes like flaunting kinda her generation in response to her older critis making fun of her and the youngsters and also when she says talking she says it with a brooklyn accent

i know this is satire its like shes satirically showing off her lifestyle, yeah my boyfriends pretty cool but hes not as cool as me, and portraying stereotypes