Applauding Del Rey's rising stardom, The Daily Record celebrated the EP's commentary on the 2010s zeitgeist. Secondary copies sent out will be opened and inspected before being re-shipped to guarantee a non defective replacement. Music videos for "Ride", "Blue Velvet", and "Bel Air" were posted to VEVO and YouTube to help promote the EP. To further promote the single and album, an EP was released containing remixes of "Ride" by artists including Sohn, MJ Cole, Eli Escobar, 14th, Wes James and James Lavelle. Billboard wrote: "Ride' is a long, dreamy ballad that swells into full view during the chorus, when the singer declares, 'Been trying' hard not to get into trouble/But I, I've got a war in my mind… so I just ride.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. Paradise's lead single is "Ride," a downtempo pop ballad produced by Rick Rubin and co-written by "Video Games" author Justin Parker. I am struggling to comprehend how someone so young can dig so deep into the human condition and conjure such reflections. NME said that the most significant lyric in "Ride" read, "I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy".

Charting across Europe, the EP became a top 10 hit in Flanders and Poland, charting within the top 20 in Wallonia and the Netherlands. Of the production itself, it was said that "Ride" was more accomplished than Del Rey's previous endeavors, with the strengths of the track outshining the flaws. In the song, Del Rey sings, "Roses, Bel Air, take me there/ I’ve been waiting to meet you/ Palm trees, in the light, I can see, late at night/ Darling I’m willing to greet you/ Come to me, baby.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the EP has received an average score of 64, based on 9 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews". Her ninth studio album, “Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” was released on all platforms March 24th 2023. Billboard praised the album's allusions to David Lynch, adding, "her vintage 60s charm just might kill you. Was I the only one who thought that the track listing on the back implies that there are 3LPs inside? my friend has just kindly gifted me born to die paradise edition for my birthday however the only vinyl in there is paradise.This is not a selling of the complete album but only the Paradise album, it should not even be labeled as a Born to die edition as it is only the album Paradise. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. To promote the album, two promotional singles were also released, a cover version of "Blue Velvet" and "Burning Desire". Born To Die" the album is a collection of tracks about which Lana says "The songs I've written are an homage to true love and a tribute to living life on the wild side.

She treads close to being kooky for the sake of kooky on "Yayo", but when she gets it right in the case of "Bel Air" - a snowy, Tim Burton-inspired ballad - Lana proves there's plenty more to be excited for on album two.Current single "Ride" finds her wearing The Boss's influence on her sleeve most plainly with its galloping verses and sweeping melody, albeit delivered with Lana's '50s-styled Hollywood demeanour.