This is the tune that revealed Lizzy Grant was truly something else, a soft-voiced subversive imp who wanted to appear in thrall to the canonical male gaze only to stab it in the throat once it convinced her to split a motel bed. But her unchallenging tunes deserve a reputation as remarkable as the headline-grabbing stuff.
It’s one of her catchiest songs, not that Lana Del Rey ever had much interest in being radio-friendly.
Her exceedingly young-sounding inflection on this rapped-accordion-reggae joint (!) to her grandma is a good framing for her Liz Phair-echoing boast that she’s been “crazy-ass since I was 3” and we wish those who mocked her studied self-seriousness in early media appearances could hear her hiccupping “I wanna be the whole world’s girl, grandma!” in a post- Lily Allen bit of amateur MySpace mic-rocking.
