- 2019-12-21
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MUSIC
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Lana Del Rey Drops New Music Video For Three Songs Off “Norman Fucking Rockwell”
American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has drops a new music video for three songs of her sixth studio album “Norman Fucking Rockwell”, directed by Chuck Grant and edited by Lana Del Rey herself.
The 14-minute clip features the album’s title track, “Bartender” and “Happiness is a butterfly”.
In the video, Lana explains that she, “wanted to pay homage to the country that I love so much by doing my own reparation, I guess I would say.”
“Norman Fucking Rockwell” is the first tune of the album. It was co-written by Jack Antonoff. She said of the song, “It was weird how that actual title came to me. I was riffing over a couple of chords that Jack was playing for the title track, which ended up being called “Norman Fucking Rockwell.” It was kind of an exclamation mark: so this is the American dream, right now. This is where we’re at—Norman fucking Rockwell. We’re going to go to Mars, and Trump is president, all right. Me and Jack, we just joke around constantly about all the random headlines we might see that week, so it’s a slight cultural reference. But it’s not a cynical thing, really. To me, it’s hopeful, to see everything as a little bit funnier. The chaos of the culture is interesting, and I’m hopeful that there’s room for there to be some movement and excitement within it.”- “Bartender” is 12th track, co-written by Bradley Nowell. “Happiness is a butterfly” is 13th track and is inspired by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who said “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
The album was released back in August. It reached No. 3 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the UK Albums chart. -
- source : Idolator
