Mini-critique N°227

Paroles :

Not even they can stop me now

Boy, I'll be flying overhead

Their heavy words can't bring me down

Boy, I've been raised from the dead

No one even knows how hard life was

I don't even think about it now because

I finally found you

Oh, sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin

'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh yeah

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

'Merican dreams came true somehow

I swore I'd chase until I was dead

I heard the streets were paved with gold

That's what my father said

No one even knows what life was like

Now I'm in LA and it's paradise

I finally found you

Oh, sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin

'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh yeah

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

I've finally found you

(Oh, sing it to me)

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin

'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh yeah

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Oh, sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Like a fucking dream I'm living in

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin

'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh yeah

Baby, love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio

(How do you like me now?)

Critique :

Selon Internet, le 4 août 2011, Del Rey a donné un avant-goût de la chanson en publiant une partie de ses paroles sur sa page Facebook.

Une démo produite par Justin Parker a fuité le 7 juin 2012, ainsi que plusieurs autres démos de Born to Die. Le fichier original a fuité le 23 décembre 2023.

La chanson est devenue virale sur TikTok en 2023, ce qui lui a valu une forte augmentation des streams et une entrée dans les classements pour la première fois de son histoire ; elle est apparue dans au moins dix classements internationaux. Ce retour en force de ''Radio'' plus de dix ans après sa sortie a également permis à la chanson d'obtenir de nombreuses accréditations sur divers marchés.