Chemtrails feels like another breakdown on top of Norman, but what’s interesting is that it breaks down into different directions.ĭEL REY: The one thing that makes me upset is that if I hadn’t been so distracted with my personal life and my poetry, I could’ve broken it down in a more delicate, precise way. Earrings (worn throughout), Diamond Necklace, Serpenti Necklace, Serpenti Ring, and Diva’s Dream Ring by Bvlgari.ĪNTONOFF: I feel like you’re on this very long path to breaking down everything until it’s at its most authentic. Nowadays, you get a beautiful melody but you don’t really know what the person is talking about, or if it’s even important to them.Ĭoat by Gucci. In the grunge movement, a lot of the lyrics were super abstract, but the melodies and the tonality were such a vibe that you felt like you knew exactly what the singer was thinking. I hate when I hear a song that has a great melody, but I have no idea what they’re talking about. What I like about that song is that for all of its weirdness, when you get to the end of it, you understand exactly what it’s about. We were at Jim Henson’s studio.ĪNTONOFF: Being watched over by a giant Kermit.ĭEL REY: Oh my god, I know. But with Chemtrails, it was like, “Is this new folk? Oh, god, are we going country?” Now that it’s done I feel really good about it, and I think a defining moment for this album will be “White Dress/Waitress.”ĪNTONOFF: What’s the story behind that song?ĭEL REY: We did that early on, and it started with you just playing the piano. I’ve been really stressed about this album. It was like getting a dispatch from another universe.ĭEL REY: It kind of felt that way writing them.ĪNTONOFF: Do you feel like there was a loosenes to making Chemtrails Over the Country Club ?ĭEL REY: Not really. Maybe I’d get one and be on a plane, or in a car, or walking down the street. Having to stop and channel a 12-minute poem with its rhymes intact, it’s like, “Huh, okay, I don’t know if it’s good.”ĪNTONOFF: When you would send me them, they would always stop me dead in my tracks. Diamond Necklace by Bvlgari.ĭEL REY: Totally, but it’s also different because the poems come to me fully formed. Just when you think you know what you’re doing, something else pops up.ĪNTONOFF: Does writing poetry remind you of when you were younger and you said, “Okay, I’m a singer, I’m a songwriter”? Is it at all like reliving that first time when you took a stand and actually did the thing? ĭEL REY: I was thinking about how different it’s been making this one because of how much I’ve been distracted by poetry this year. We have to finish this album.ĪNTONOFF: Don’t you feel like this album kind of demanded to be made? It happened so quickly after Norman. It’s been a long drive back from Oklahoma.ĪNTONOFF: I’m in New York and I’m going to work on music. LANA DEL REY: I’m on the I-40 with 8 hours and 50 minutes left to get back to L.A. All of it has been in collaboration with the tireless super-producer Jack Antonoff, who, as evidenced in the following conversation, knows exactly who Lana Del Rey is. Just one year after her last studio release, she has come out with a new poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, and her sixth album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, is out this month. And she is, above all else, the songwriter who last year released Norman Fucking Rockwell!, her most clear-eyed artistic statement to date.Īt 35, Del Rey has tapped a new creative vein. She is the outspoken lightning rod, who, whether or not you agree with the things she says, says them anyway. She is the pop star who hasn’t had-or needed, really-her own top-40 hit since 2014, operating as she does on the outskirts of the mainstream. She is the self-described underdog, an oft-misunderstood purveyor of glamorous and tragic Americana, apocalypse and utopia, breathless romance, and devastating isolation-often crashing into one another.
She is the scrappy singer who uploaded two homemade videos to the internet, only to watch her career explode in the aftermath. Lana del Rey is Elizabeth Grant, the New York City-born musician who got her start playing Brooklyn’s underground club circuit. Diamond Earrings, Serpenti Ring, and Fiorever Necklace by Bvlgari.
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