Songfacts®:

• Lana Del Rey wrote this celestial ballad about her husband, Jeremy Dufrene, whom she married a year earlier in 2024.
  
  "Jeremy is the most impactful person in my life," she told W magazine. "He's quiet in public, but around me he talks all the time. It's strange: Jeremy and I have what we call 'parking-lot time.' We spend so much time in parking lots, just reading or talking in the car. Sometimes, in life, you think you're the only one in the world who loves a particular thing, like sitting in an empty Macy's or Home Depot parking lot. You might be really weird to some people, but then you find another soul who feels the same way."
• Del Rey performed "Stars Fell On Alabama" live before it was released, debuting it at the Stagecoach festival on April 25, 2025. It was the first song in her set that night, and she continued using it as the opener on her tour.
• Del Rey isn't from Alabama, and neither is her husband (he's from Louisiana; they met when Lana took one of his bayou boat tours). The title is borrowed from a 1934 standard (recorded by Frank Sinatra, among others) that was inspired by an 1833 meteor shower in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Both songs evoke a passionate romance in bucolic setting.
• Celebrities often marry other celebrities, but Lana Del Rey's husband is a swamp boat operator who is comfortable around alligators. She brings this up in the lyrics:
  
  Down by the bayou by you
  Where the baby alligators play
  
  A lot of the song seems to deal with how he'll handle the media intrusion that comes with being married to a star like Lana. She's assuring him that it won't come between them. Her husband, for his part, has made it clear that he can handle it - he works with alligators, after all.
• This is the second Lana Del Rey song where she mentions Clementine ("Clementine, horses run") in the lyric. The first was in "Dance Till We Die" from 2021, where she sings:
  
  Clementine's not just a fruit
  It's my daughter's chosen name