Lana Del Rey Money Power Glory Review

The song was born out of Lana's frustration with the press during her early career. After being accused of being "inauthentic" or a "calculated industry plant," she decided to lean into the villainous caricature the media created.

By using quasi-religious language—"Hallelujah, I wanna take you for all that you got"—she frames the pursuit of success as a spiritual, albeit dark, devotion. Lana Del Rey Money Power Glory

Lana moves from a grounded, almost bored tone in the verses to soaring, desperate high notes in the chorus, mimicking the "insatiable" nature of the greed she’s singing about. The song was born out of Lana's frustration