I don't think this album needs some kind of a creative process discussion but I know for sure the tracklist kept changing many times and went through many stages and forms, so this thread is just a tracker of such drafts and whenever next tracklist appears I will write it down here. So far we have these drafts:
Tracklist order at one point of 2011
Born to Die
Blue Jeans
Off to the Races
Video Games
Radio
Diet Mountain Dew
National Anthe
i revisited that thread and actually if to read more carefully boz made it clear that there has always been plans for re issue of btd, but when btd came out she shortly after started recording stuff (which are starry eyed, i don’t wanna go, jfk, hollywood, american and body electric demos), and because of she couldn’t wait to put it out, the re issue got merged with new sessions and that’s why paradise was an album some time, then she just continued recording, and we don’t know reasons why she s