“I love her so bad, but she treats me like shit.” Sublime’s Bradley Nowell was a little too cute to actually sing the word shit in the original, perhaps assuming, rightly, that the song would get a ton of radio play. “Me and my girl, we got this relationship,” sings Del Rey. “I’d like to hold her head underwater.” No pronouns or gender roles or murder fantasies were reversed in the course of reclaiming “Doin’ Time,” one of roughly 10 billion alternative-rock songs from the ’90s in which a dude complains bitterly about a lady. “The tension it’s getting hotter,” sings Lana Del Rey, belting it out just a little now, a blithe soprano swoop both ethereal and lethal. ![]() ![]() Lana Del Rey Is the Benevolent Spirit Guide of Our Times The Best Songs of 2019 The Best Albums of 2019
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