“Ultraviolence” is the title track of Lana Del Rey’s third full-length LP and was released as a promotional single. Lana first utilized the term ultraviolent in an unreleased song entitled “Hundred Dollar Bill.”

In a Kulturnews interview, Lana said that “Ultraviolence” was about a cult leader she met as a member of underground group in New York.

I used to be a member of an underground sect which was reigned by a guru. He surrounded himself with young girls. He thought that he had to break people first to build them up again. At the end I quit the sect.
- Interview with CultNoise Magazine

It is speculated that she is talking about Atlantic Group, a part of Alcoholics Anonymous, which she joined in the past. They were notorious for their cult behaviour and poor treatment of older men and young women. The Pacific Group (which AG is a branch of) is partly run by a man named Jim, which is name of the character referenced in the song. The lyric could also reference Jim Jones, an infamous cult leader who led a mass suicide of his followers in 1978.