Lana del rey love review ew năm 2024

Lana Del Rey's new album 'Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd' was released on Mar. 24, 2023. (Screenshot via YouTube)

I hadn’t thought about a Lana Del Rey album in years. Once her indie sad-girl Tumblr era died, I couldn’t bring myself to listen to her new music.

The Jack Antonoff piano ballads and monotonous singing didn’t pull me in the way classic 2012 songs like “Ride” and “Summertime Sadness” had. The persona of flower crown Southern California Lana Del Rey seemed as good as dead.

This was how I felt at least until the February release of the song “A&W.” By its seven-minute mark, the single turns into an 808 drum-filled pop song that belongs in Born to Die. I couldn’t believe it — was the old Lana coming back?

With the Friday release of her new album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, this wasn’t the case, but her refusal to return to the past is what makes this one of her strongest albums.The album is less a collection of songs and more a reading of diary entries to a backing piano. It’s Lana at her most authentic and personal, allowing her fans a look into her inner thoughts as Elizabeth Grant.

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The opening track “The Grants” is a church sermon piano ballad ode to her family reminiscent of the work on her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell. With lyrics like “I’m gonna take mine of you with me,” she takes us back to the golden days with her loved ones, choosing to preserve the joy she felt with them in her memories.

This sentiment is shared in similar ballads like “Kintsugi,” a bittersweet reflection on mortality and the time she’s lost with family members who’ve died. In “Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he’s deep-sea fishing” — it’s not a Lana project unless you can’t read the entire title on your phone — she seems to plead for guidance from the men in her life.

Her introspectiveness continues with her relationship with love. On “Sweet,” another ballad with a similar progression to the opening verse of “Ride,” Lana asks her lover if they will commit to an average life with her: “Do you want children / Do you wanna marry me? / Do you wanna run marathons in Long Beach by the sea?” However, she contradicts this theme in the titular track — “love me until I love myself,” she sings, struggling to find her true feelings in both songs.

Alongside my favorite track “A&W,” the slow synth of “Fishtail” stands out. It’s a reprieve from the lineup of ballads, and on it, she calls out fans like myself for our attachment to her early “sad girl” persona. She sings, “Don’t you dare say that you’ll braid my hair, babe / If you don’t really care / You wanted me sadder.” It’s a stern message on her refusal to return to the past.

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The album’s vulnerability and honesty wouldn’t have had a place in her old works. Even with her evident maturity, there are still some parts of her diary she should’ve kept to herself.

Her stream-of-consciousness writing drones on in moments, like when she’s telling her listener in “Taco Truck x VB” about being so sick she needed to hit her vape after meeting her boyfriend at a taco truck. And there’s the unexpected “Judah Smith Interlude” that throws fans into a preacher’s sermon about the dangers of lust backed by Antonoff on piano, creating an eerie, unsettling experience.

But a few of these random “Lanita” moments in “Taco Truck x VB” paid off, such as with the catchy opener of

Del Rey retains her signature sound of smoky-soft retro inspired vocals paired with contemporary beats. Yet “Love” is strictly for the fans —her muses— and is her latest music since her EP Honeymoon (2015). “I made my first four albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed,” Del Rey stated in a press release. Perhaps focusing on her fans is Del Rey’s way of announcing her progressive artistic evolution?

Watch: “Love” – Lana Del Rey

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The track was penned by Emile Haynie, Rick Nowels, Benny Blanco, and Del Rey herself. Nowels and Haynie have collaborated with Del Rey in the past on “Young And Beautiful,” and “Summertime Sadness,” respectively, while Blanco has a resume of his own too, finessing many of today’s pop hits from Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, and more.

“Love” serves as a dynamic lead for Del Rey’s upcoming —currently— untitled album. It combines her prowess trance-like contralto touching those low notes that listeners recognize her for alongside perpetual guitar strumming, orchestra instrumentals, and a passive electronic thump. Her repertoire usually evokes anguish or frail-sadness –almost to the extent of depression— like“Love,” a ubiquitous humane emotion, yet “Love” is distinct because it’s delicate, dramatic, and even optimistic in nature.

Look at you kids with your vintage music Comin’ through satellites while cruisin’ You’re part of the past, but now you’re the future Signals crossing can get confusing

The delayed vocal builds tension, as Del Rey opens referring to her fans as “kids,” because many of them are millennials while she feels more experienced at 31-years-old. She then dissects time into a relatable cynical manner: remembering past mistakes, and worrying about the unforeseen future. This verse is almost as if she’s offering seasoned advice to her fans assuring them it’s okay that their paths going forward “can get confusing.”

Though it’s enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy I know, it’s enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy

In the pre-chorus, Del Rey gets philosophical singing in a frazzled state that she “knows” life is uncontrollably messy.

But you get ready, you get all dressed up To go nowhere in particular Back to work or the coffee shop It don’t matter because it’s enough To be young and in love (ah, ah) To be young and in love (ah, ah)

Del Rey is practicing empathy for her adoring fans envisioning their world. She imagines them fussing over outfits to look unnecessarily flashy when they go out. She sees them continuing their mundane lives of working the 9am-5pm grind or sipping morning coffee.

She croons, “to be young and in love” twice; Del Rey believes that in one’s youth being in love is all you need. She’s putting an emphasis on the last line too in the resonating chorus by ad-libbing the subtle dreamy “ah.”

Look at you kids, you know you’re the coolest The world is yours and you can’t refuse it Seen so much, you could get the blues But that don’t mean that you should abuse it

Del Rey reiterates the idea of being human to her fans and urging that they accept the idea of imperfection. She ranks them in a high regard distinguishing them “cool kids.” She’s advising them that they can do whatever they want with their lives yet cautioning succumbing to endured hardships by popping excessive amounts of “blue” pills. Del Rey is rephrasing the idea of “two wrongs don’t make a right” but in this instance, the wrong is “abusing” drugs.

Hmm (ah, ah), hmm (ah, ah) Hmm… Don’t worry, baby Hmm (ah, ah), hmm (ah, ah) Hmm… Don’t worry, baby

The bridge/outro adds alternative flair missing in 2017. Del Rey’s sultry-mesmerizing vocals do not disappoint trilling emotive ad-libs complementing the electronic backdrop. She makes singing “hmm” sound like a trance alluring listeners into a deep sway. She’s also paying homage to the Beach Boy’s classic “Don’t Worry Baby” by looping that phrase in her unique timbre.

I get ready, I get all dressed up To go nowhere in particular It doesn’t matter if I’m not enough For the future or the things to come ‘Cause I’m young and in love (ah, ah) I’m young and in love (ah, ah)

In the final chorus verse, Del Rey sonically waltzes with the slow-rhythmic beat crooning in the first person. It’s the climax of “Love” where Del Rey expresses sharing ordinary experiences tied to her youthful fans: She too gets “all dressed up” when going “nowhere in particular.”

Del Rey ignites by becoming more personal suggesting —she only wants to satisfy herself— that she’s now apathetic to how others judge her. Del Rey is essentially measuring success in her book contrary to how others define success or “enough.” She still considers herself young or perhaps it’s a veiled meaning: you’re as young or old as you feel rather than an age attribution. Overall she urges her fandom to practice love —probably in light of the world— preaching it’s all you need to thrive.

Del Rey has remained dormant for nearly 16 months —aside from her guest vocal spot on The Weeknd’s “Stargirl Interlude”— but a day after the rush release of “Love,” it flooded social media toppling Billboard’s Twitter Trending 140 Chart while garnering over a million Spotify streams. This hopeful ballad offers fans solace in knowing that Del Rey cherishes them enough to compose music inspired solely by them.

Del Rey’s intensely dark yet realistic somber lyrics hit-a-homerun in “Love” as it elicits emotions for listeners whom pay attention to the textured words rather than just the harmony. It’s a philosophical feat that a dreary down-tempo sixties infused melody with bluesy vocals could gracefully convey the humane ideas of “imperfection” and generic “youthful love” together into mainstream pop. Del Rey hasn’t announced when her untitled fourth album will drop, but if the tracklist resembles “Love” she may hold a future Grammy in her hands.

Is Lana Del Rey vaping?

In 2021, Del Rey's longtime producer Jack Antonoff revealed that her love of vaping has seeped into her studio work as well. Her song "White Dress" was recorded with lots of improv, with Antonoff playing piano and Del Rey singing and vaping. "We were f---ing around and you can feel it," Antonoff told Rolling Stone.

Is Lana Del Rey Religion?

Del Rey has been vocal about her religious beliefs, previously opening up in interviews about her belief in God. “My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences... because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too,” she told The Quietus in 2011.

Does Lana Del Rey have a child?

The 38-year-old singer and famed Waffle House “employee” told The Sunday Times she doesn't have kids because there is “more to explore” in her life. “That's why God didn't give me children yet,” she said.

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