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Aug 28th 2012!⃝Please Miley, tell me you are joking.
This song is the exact opposite of what you wrote. It is a criticism of consumerism and the empty and shallow way society has become.
She does not compare her love to somebody to her desire for material things or use one as a metaphor for the other. The line
"Money is the anthem
Of success
So before we go out
What's your address?"
shows clearly that the money of the guy, represented by the question which neighborhood he lives in, is a requirement for a relationship for the person whose role she sings.
And we get shown that she (Lana del Ray) does not see this character favorably. Because although the relationship is already in full swing halfway through the song, there is still an emotional void left.
"Dark and lonely,
I need somebody to hold me."
shows that the empty relationship, started only for the money, is not warming and fulfilling. And as if that was not clear enough, there is a summarization that captures it even better:
"It's a love story for the new age,
For the six page,
Want a quick, sick rampage?
Wining and dining, drinking and driving,
Excessive buying, overdosin', dyin',
On our drugs and our love,
And our dreams and our rage."
It's a love story for the new age (The way they all seem to be now), for the six page (Page six in many newspapers is dedicated to gossip and other shallow and ultimately irrelevant stuff). So she says that all the relationships of the new consumerism obsessed generation are shallow and irrelevant.
And the next line sums up how the emptiness and shallowness leaves a thirst that can't be quenched and leads to a quick and self-destructive life. It seems like an escalation with every new item in the list being worse than the one before.
It's depressing how somebody can misunderstand an actually deep and existential song in such a way that he thinks it's a light and pointless love declaration for capitalism. Don't they teach you children anything in school these days?
