This Is What Makes Us Girls Lyrics

Lyric discussion by moveslikemickswagger 

I believe this song is making a statement about just girls in general. Lana takes you back to her youth and her high school experience, in my opinion.

The statement about girls she is making is saying that girls will do anything for love. They all look for love and put it first before anything, it's an overwhelming need in so many girls. She even hints at the fact that girls put their boyfriends/love before their friends by saying "we don't stick together 'cause we put our love first"

It also takes you back to the more fun times of being in high school. She reminisces.. "Sweet sixteen and we had arrived Baby's table dancin' at the local dive Cheerin our names in the pink spotlight Drinkin' cherry schnapps in the velvet night"

My personal favorite part is when she mysteriously whispers..

"The prettiest in crowd that you had ever seen Ribbons in our hair and our eyes gleamed mean A freshmen generation of degenerate beauty queens And you know something?"

They were the bad bitches in high school, but they were girls in high school. That says it all, really. Catty, vicious, sneaky, and of course, put love interests first before anything.

Lana is telling you to not cry about it.. Listen to her! Just go out and have fun, and put your friends first before your boyfriends! And same for you guys! Put your friends first (:

My Interpretation

I agree... But I think she' also talking about all the stuff they did that was "wrong" (I had to put quotation marks because I don't think anything of that stuff is wrong), like drinking, smoking, having sex with different boys and men, breaking the law... Just lack of love for themselves.

I still think all about Lana Del Rey is highly sexist, but I don't think she actually knows, because she was fucking raised in it. She's just a a troubled girl that seeks love in older men for some reason. And know that she grew up,...