2012Released
3:29

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Interesting facts and trivia about Blue Jeans. By Songfacts®.

This sleazy, gangsta track finds Del Rey singing of her love for her blue-jeaned James Dean-lookalike boyfriend. "You fit me better than my favorite sweater," she sings. Lana's heart is crushed when he walks out on her. She stays up, "waitin', anticipatin' and pacin' but he was, chasing paper, 'Caught up in the game.'" Like many of the songs on Born To Die, this was inspired by an actual relationship that went sour for the singer. She told The Daily Telegraph: "It's not my fault that love went bad. I met this person I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We were both clean and sober. We lived together and then he started getting into trouble, and he had to leave. There's a lot of facets to my life, they don't all seem like they would come together. It's been a strange ride."

The cowgirl anthem was produced by hip-hop veteran Emile Haynie (Lil Wayne, Eminem) and finds Del Rey slotting in hip-hop slang ("You so fresh to death") into the lyrics. "I brought Emile in because the beats were still raw and hard to get... sort of the danger I wanted to incorporate," said the singer to Billboard magazine.

Del Rey sung this along with "Video Games" on Saturday Night Live. Her performance was much derided with many critics deciding that she had bombed.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Blue Jeans.
D♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
118BPM

Album

The album Blue Jeans is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Blue Jeans.
Polydor Records
© 2012 Lana Del Rey, under exclusive licence to Polydor Ltd. (UK). Under exclusive licence to Interscope Records in the USA
℗ 2012 Lana Del Rey, under exclusive licence to Polydor Ltd. (UK). Under exclusive licence to Interscope Records in the USA

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