{"id":34670,"date":"2026-01-20T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=34670"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:39:00","slug":"the-lana-del-rey-song-taylor-swift-said-no-one-could-ever-dislike-i-believe-that-her-entire-catalog-is-the-most-influential-in-pop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=34670","title":{"rendered":"The Lana Del Rey song Taylor Swift said no one could ever dislike: \u201cI believe that her entire catalog is the most influential in pop.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In contemporary pop music, admiration between superstars is often polite, strategic, or fleeting. What makes Taylor Swift<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u2019s praise for Lana Del Rey<\/span><\/span><\/strong> so striking is its consistency\u2014and its depth. Across her record-breaking Eras Tour<\/em> and during one of the most watched moments of the Grammy Awards<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in 2024, Swift made something unmistakably clear: Lana Del Rey is not just influential. She is foundational.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift has gone so far as to say, \u201cI believe that her entire catalog is the most influential in pop.\u201d But when pressed to name the song that embodies this influence\u2014the one she believes no one could ever truly dislike\u2014Swift repeatedly points to Video Games<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Song That Rewired Pop<\/span><\/h2>\n

When \u201cVideo Games\u201d emerged in 2011, it felt radically out of place\u2014and that was precisely its power. At a time when pop music was dominated by EDM drops, maximalist production, and high-energy hooks, Lana Del Rey introduced something quieter, slower, and emotionally devastating. Built on minimal piano and breathy vulnerability, the song felt less like a single and more like a confession.<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift has described this moment as a turning point for the entire industry. \u201cVideo Games\u201d didn\u2019t follow trends\u2014it dismantled them. Its cinematic sadness, vintage aesthetic, and emotional restraint opened the door for a new kind of pop: atmospheric, introspective, and world-building. In Swift\u2019s view, this was the blueprint that countless artists would later follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Cinematic Language No One Else Had<\/span><\/h2>\n

What Swift admires most about Del Rey is her ability to create an entire emotional universe within a single song. She has often said Lana\u2019s music feels like stepping into a film\u2014complete with character, setting, and unspoken history. That quality, Swift believes, is why Del Rey\u2019s music feels almost universally resonant. You don\u2019t need to \u201cget\u201d it intellectually. You feel it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This influence is visible not only in the rise of artists like Billie Eilish and Lorde, but also in Swift\u2019s own evolution. Her pivot toward mood-driven storytelling on albums like folklore<\/em> and evermore<\/em> echoes the atmospheric courage Del Rey normalized a decade earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mutual Respect, Made Concrete<\/span><\/h2>\n

That reverence eventually became collaboration with Snow on the Beach<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, from Swift\u2019s album Midnights<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, produced by Jack Antonoff<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. When fans asked for more of Lana\u2019s presence, Swift responded by releasing a version featuring more of Del Rey\u2019s vocals\u2014an unusually direct act of artistic deference.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the 2024 Grammys, Swift took that respect even further by bringing Lana onstage during her Album of the Year acceptance speech. Rather than centering herself, Swift used the moment to declare that Lana Del Rey is \u201ca legacy artist\u201d who is still \u201cin her prime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The World Others Live In<\/span><\/h2>\n

When Swift says no one could ever dislike Lana Del Rey\u2019s music, she isn\u2019t talking about taste\u2014she\u2019s talking about inevitability. \u201cVideo Games\u201d didn\u2019t just change pop music; it changed how emotion was allowed to sound within it. In Swift\u2019s eyes, while many artists chase trends, Lana Del Rey creates the emotional climate the rest of pop eventually learns to survive in.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In contemporary pop music, admiration between superstars is often polite, strategic, or fleeting. What makes Taylor Swift\u2019s praise for Lana Del Rey so striking is its consistency\u2014and its depth. Across her record-breaking Eras Tour and during one of the most watched moments of the Grammy Awards in 2024, Swift made something unmistakably clear: Lana Del…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}