“Diet Mountain Dew” is the fifth track off Lana’s debut album Born to Die. The song was written back in 2008 in collaboration with Mike Daly who produced the first two demos of the song, titled “Diet Mtn Dew” and “Diet Mt. Dew Baby” respectively. She uploaded a different cut of the song produced by The Flight to her Youtube Channel on June 13th, 2011; that was later reworked and produced by friend Emile Haynie in order for it to be cohesive with the record.

Just like the soft drink title, the song is a slow sexy jam loaded with youthful and summer-related pop culture references. In the track Del Rey goes back and forth contemplating her desire to live in this not so good relationship with her lover and society standards.

Lana created two homemade music videos for the song similar to the style of her other music videos, featuring shots of herself and clips she gathered from miscellaneous films and videos.