The 'Drink Water' singer also praised Del Rey's narrative powers in an exclusive interview with The A.V. Club
to talk about the two artists’ incredibly fruitful collaboration, which has already produced two tracks on Del Rey’s latest album, and a third, “Life Lesson,” the closer to Batiste’s“Her songwriting process is really… it’s beast. It’s great. Amazing,” Batiste gushed toThe two work so well together, he said, because they employ a parallel creative technique.
it’s stream of consciousness,” he said. “[Lana] is like that in terms of narrative threads. Even if it’s abstract narrative threads, she’ll have an idea of a world, or a time and a place, or a person whose singing to another person, and she’ll spin out a song from that.”“Now the way that we worked together is I would take her cue from that side of things, from the narrative side,” he explained.
“It wasn’t something that we planned,” Batiste continued. “She was finishing her record and I was starting my record. She came into the studio and then all of a sudden we started making a bunch of stuff. It was happening in real-timeThis was good for Batiste, who also says the artists matched in both their hunger and drive to create. “It’s cool when you find somebody who creatively keeps pace and is complimentary,” he concluded.
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