In several shots, she holds onto a surfboard. Lana Del Rey is up to her elbows in water in the video for "F*** It I Love You," one of the singles that built excitement for Norman F****** Rockwell! (referred to hereafter as NFR!), her fifth album and the one that has cemented her status as a serious artist among critics who may or may not have thought her previous work problematic, or at very least, incomplete. I think she goes to the beach but she spends her time looking at that filthy, shiny sand.
Does she drive past Malibu to El Matador, where the water is the cleanest but the one Porta-Potty often overflows? Down to Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, near the aquarium where schoolkids swarm? In her songs she dwells on Venice and Long Beach, two places where the red signs the city uses to warn of excess sewage in the water show up the most. Reading this, I wonder where she goes and what she does after she unfolds her towel and sets up her umbrella. "I'm mostly at the beach!" Lana Del Rey exclaimed in a recent interview, explaining her cultivated disconnect from the Hollywood pop machine. A few miles up the Pacific Coast Highway, away from the skateboarders and homeless people, WASPs sun themselves at country clubs as employees sweep the sands. Half-melted Icees in Styrofoam cups, one flip-flop, taco foil, condoms, a dead vape pen. This is what people forget about Los Angeles beaches: They're part of the city, inundated with the city's grit. The trash on the Venice boardwalk sparkles like Wet n Wild lip gloss. "In the grunge movement, a lot of the lyrics were extremely abstract, but the melodies and the tone were so intense that you felt like you knew exactly what the singer was thinking," he said.On her new album, Lana Del Rey (shown here in 2018) is at her most instantly compelling, fully committed to the messy alignments upon which her art is built. "I hate it when I hear a song that has a great melody, but I have no idea what it's about," Lana Del Rey told Jack Whiteoff in an interview with Interview Magazine in September 2020. "What I like about this song is that no matter how strange it is, when you get to the end of it, you understand exactly what it's about. Now that she is contemplating her life before success, she wonders if it would have been better today if she had not become famous. The 35-year-old singer refers through the song to the days when she worked as a waitress and did not know the price of fame. Lana Del Rey co-wrote "White Dress" with Jack Antonoff, as did almost the entire album "Chemtrails Over The Country Club". In some scenes, in fact, the singer appears with a splint in her hand, a detail that she had revealed a few months ago, noting that she had an accident while roller-skating. The video for "White Dress" is directed by Constellation Jones and is inspired by the work of director David Lynch, combining some of Lynch's surreal Southern California energy with Lana Del Rey's typical american image.ĭuring "White Dress" Lana Del Rey skates on an empty highway in the desert, sings next to a wooden fence and meets her friends. Lana Del Rey reveals the music video for the amazing song "White Dress", shortly after the release of her new album "Chemtrails Over The Country Club". Lana Del Rey contemplates the "White Dress" the days of her life before she became famous.
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