![]() "I wanted to take the electricity and absorb it so it would make me feel alive and electric again. I would sit under the telephone wires and listen to them sizzle in the warm air while he went to work. "I was staying in Santa Monica, California with my composer and best friend, Daniel Heath. "I wrote exactly what I felt, and put a melody to it that was perfect for the words," she revealed. ![]() Lana told SuperSuper that she loved the track because she didn't compromise on it. She writes the kind of music I want to listen to." When we wrote it, I realized that she was a brilliant songwriter and a magical artist. "I had heard some of her songs on YouTube and I loved what she was doing. "I met Lana in summer 2011," Nowels told Billboard. 'Summertime Sadness' got given a second lease of lifeĬo-written with Rick Nowels and co-produced by Emile Haynie, 'Summertime Sadness' was a surprise hit. I could build a sonic world towards the way the name fell off my lips.Ģ. And once you have a name, you expect certain things from it, so it was like something to aim towards. "Lana Del Rey just sounded good coming out of my mouth – it was exotic sounding, and I like exotic places and I like really gorgeous things," she said to Dazed. That was the way that I wished it was – the melody sounds so compelling and heavenly because I wanted it to be that way."ĭespite the cool press, Lana captured the public's imagination anyway, and in the UK 'Video Games' landed at number nine and has since sold over 600,000 copies. But then the chorus, 'Heaven is a place on earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do' wasn't like that. Referencing the song's lyrics, 'Swinging in the backyard, pull up in your fast car, whistling my name', Lana said that it was actually based on a real experience. It was a time in my life when I had let go of my own personal career ambitions and just enjoyed being with him at home."Įxplaining how her partner at the time would come home from work and play video games (more specifically the popular massively multi-player online role-playing game World of Warcraft), Del Rey said that she was "reflecting on the sweetness of it but also something else I was longing for at the same time". "It's a song about letting go of my musical ambitions and settling down into a simple life with a person I loved," she told The Sun.Įxpanding on the song's meaning to NME, she said: "I was writing about this guy I'd been seeing and the way our relationship was at the time. Indeed, she got stuck in a bad recording contract, and had all but given up on a career in music. It's myself in song form."īefore finding success as Lana Del Rey, the singer tried her hand under the moniker Lizzy Grant. It's like a lot of things that have happened in my life during the last seven years, another personal milestone. "I played it for a lot of people (in the industry) when I first wrote it and no one responded. "I know that it's a beautiful song and I sing it really low, which might set it apart," Del Rey told Q. While sites like Pitchfork initially praised Del Rey's throwback and subdued sound, when it emerged that "Lana Del Rey" was the construct of wannabe singer Elizabeth Grant and that major labels and managers were possibly involved in creating her perceived image (they weren't), they were quick to lambast the singer.Ĭo-written with songwriter Justin Parker, 'Video Games' tapped into a pop-music scene overcome with EDM bangers and dance music. Last month, Lana Del Rey teased a new track called “Tulsa Jesus Freak.” Revisit that here and watch her dispatch from set below.Seeming to come out of nowhere, 'Video Games' immediately caused contention. So be safe, god bless, I love you, and I’m looking forward to finishing this up for you. ![]() And I know it’s been a super challenging time and I just want to let you know my prayers, my meditations are on all of us. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is coming out this month. ![]() But in the meantime the album’s coming out soon. And before you even see this, you’ll hear another song called “Let Me Love You Like A Woman.” And I just want to let you know that I love the record and I love you guys and I can’t wait to see you soon. I am on the very contained set of my first music video for the title track of my album Chemtrails Over The Country Club. DID A NEW LANA DEL REY SONG COME OUT YESTERDAY UPDATEBut Lana has taken to social media to offer an update from the “very contained” set of the music video for the title track, promising that a new song called “Let Me Love You Like A Woman” is on the way: ![]() It doesn’t seem like that’s still happening. Lana Del Rey’s new album Chemtrails Over The Country Club was supposed to come out on Friday. ![]()
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