The singer poignantly reflects on aging and recent deaths in her family on her latest album.
Lana Del Rey at the Billboard Women in Music event held at YouTube Theater on March 1, 2023, in Los AngelesDid You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean BlvdAt 77 minutes, the album can be long-winded. If you let it wash over you, without giving it complete attention, it can seem gauzy and impenetrable. None of these tracks are really meant to be hits.
But if you have the time to crack the album open — like if you listen to it closely on a long solo walk at night — its moments of transcendent beauty are devastating. Processing death amid the tumult of regular life, Del Rey distills the chaos of grief into succinct and thrilling verses that make the album worth a listen.
Of course, Del Rey has always written about death. In the early years of her career, sultry depression chic was central to her appeal. On her debut album, 2012’s, death is the looming force urging her to party harder: “High heels off / I’m feeling alive,” she sings on “Summertime Sadness.” In a later verse, she laughs, “I know if I go / I’ll die happy tonight.” , she rarely says the words “death” or “die.
If you have the time to crack the album open — like if you listen to it closely on a long solo walk at night — its moments of transcendent beauty are devastating. Beneath her newly mature musings, the old Lana still exists. The best and worst of her musical career and persona beat from every song. Lana the seductor, self-obsessed and dramatic, flares up in scattered, biting lines: “If you want some basic bitch / Go to the Beverly Center and find her,” she scoffs on “Sweet.
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