The height of Lana Del Rey in Stepford-Wife-as-pop-star mode, National Anthem pitches her blank vocal delivering satirical sex-and-materialism lyrics – “Money is the reason we exist, everybody knows it” – against jarring musical euphoria: a skyscraping chorus, a string arrangement with a hint of Bitter Sweet Symphony about it.
But it’s hard to be cynical while it’s playing – just a piano and voice, it’s the model of elegant simplicity.
Hope is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – But I Have It (2019)Ī cynic might suggest that, from its title to its lyrics (“24/7 Sylvia Plath”, “spilling my guts with the Bowery bums is the only love I’ve ever known”), this is a song that teeters on the verge of self-parody. Like Dory Previn’s Mary C Brown and the Hollywood Sign, Lust for Life is haunted by the 1932 suicide of failed actor Peg Entwhistle: like the relentless pulsing synthesiser in the background, the allusions to it add a dark undertow to what initially sound like bullish assertions of strength from Del Rey and Abel Tesfaye: “We’re masters of our own fate.” 13. It’s jazzy in the sense that a torch song is jazzy, but – beyond the parched, reverb-heavy guitars that recall Mazzy Star – the most obvious influence is John Barry’s Theme From Midnight Cowboy, echoed in the lovely descending vocal melody. Lana Del Rey’s favourite song from Honeymoon, apparently because it was “jazzy”. Even by her more recent standards, the music here is minimal, which only adds to the song’s mood of creeping disquiet. There was a time when Lana Del Rey singing about riding a tractor in Oklahoma would have seemed no more likely than Lana Del Rey doing a cover of the Hokey Cokey, but here we are. It perfectly fits the song’s mood of weariness, an early sign of its author’s wariness about her celebrity: “I can’t survive if this is all that’s real.” 18. High By the Beach sounds superb: shimmering organ, exhausted-sounding washes of synth, a trap rhythm that seems to have been sapped of all its swaggering machismo.
Despite this, it was a time that she truly valued.Apparently inspired by the suicide of a friend and remixed by Cedric Gervais into that rarest of things – a party-starting Lana Del Rey banger – Summertime Sadness was a hook-laden highlight of her second album Born to Die, later becoming a key text in the #prettywhenyoucry “sad girl” aesthetic Del Rey inadvertently spawned. One example of this is in her song "Video Games" - she describes a relationship where her partner quite literally played video games a lot of the time. Bringing her talent around the world on her tours, it's clear that Lana doesn't just stick to the "West Coast." Often singing about relationships and how deep her love for her partners is, it's hard not to feel the deep emotion she conveys.
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Lana may have sung, "I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name," but now she is a household name. If you're a fan of her music, then you're sure to be able to sing a few of her lyrics! When it comes to her delivery and writing, you'll always know Lana when you hear her soft voice. She's released six albums, filled with hits that have touched people all around the world. Lana Del Rey's music speaks for her and allows her to tell stories in her own way.
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