Doin' Time

And the Gershwin estate came back and said, "If you change..." Oh, sorry.

Important fact is Brad sang, sang "Doin' time, and the livin's easy." So the Gershwin estate came back and said, "If you change it to summertime and the livin's easy, we will let you use the song." But Brad had already passed s- and that they wanted to put the song out, so that is why they re-recorded it, so that they, it was, they were just not gonna put it on the album.

They did it, like, last minute.

I forget the exact timing, but it was very close to the album coming out that they re-recorded and, and put it on there.

I'm just doing.

Just doing.

So here's the last chorus of Lana Del Rey's Doin' Time.

Summertime, and the livin's easy.

massive hit.

It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200, certified diamond, and did produce singles, What I Got, fantastic song, Wrong Way, also a fantastic song, Doing Time, I like that one, and of course, Santeria.

And after his death, which is a little important from 97 to like, about like 2009, I would say, they Let me rephrase that.

After Bradley's death, Sublime's songs just blew up.

Summer's up, bang bang, kiss kiss.

Track five is Del Rey's cover of "Doin' Time." Originally performed by Sublime, and itself a re-imagining of George Gershwin's "Summertime," the track is already steeped in American musical lineage.

But when Del Rey takes the mic, she reshapes it entirely in her own image, sun-soaked, slow burning, and dangerously seductive At first glance, Doin' Time seems like a playful inclusion, a breezy reggae-influenced break in the album's emotional intensity.

But Del Rey's decision to include it on a record so deeply concerned with failed relationships and the myth of American romance reveals its thematic weight.

Her version turns Sublime's ska-pop angst into a noirish lament.

Who's evil really? The tension builds with, "I'd like to hold her head underwater," a line that in this telling is haunting rather than explosive.

It reads not just as jealousy, but as a metaphor for emotional suffocation and the darkness beneath idyllic surfaces.

All in all, Doin' Time distills the album's coastal aesthetics and internal chaos into a recognizable cultural touchstone, and then it flips it.