LANA DEL REY BURNING A BIBLE FOR FREE
The song describes a famous musician encountering a clarinet player on the street, whom is, of course, playing for free and, the narrator feels, is more pure for it, perhaps more true to the soul of art. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Official Music Video) Maybe here these flaws are the trappings of Hollywood itself, or even the ills of capitalism, which she laments on her cover of Joni Mitchell's "For Free." Take the phrase "chemtrails over the country club," which both glorifies the country club lifestyle while hinting at its eerie flaws. From mesh masks to ill-advised notes-app revelations that criticized a slate of mostly women of color for being overly sexual, her media mishaps indicate the kind of subconscious racism that plagues most white Americans, even those who try to be anti-racist.īut in her music, she's general and personal enough to circumvent the issues with her public persona as she slides into her usual dream world of desire and layered, mythologized observations on the world around her. This has been a year of high-profile media mistakes alongside intense critical acclaim for Del Rey, who has always provoked loathing and horror from her audience alongside cultish worship. One would imagine she's also singing about the group of women she featured on the album's cover (along with a much-maligned, since-deleted comment praising herself for their diversity). Moments of contentment are also found with her girlfriends, real and imagined, whom she shouts out on "Dance Till We Die" - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love are all guests at her imagined dance party on some distant ranch. "When I was young till eternity / I'll do it for the right reasons / Withstanding all the time, changes and seasons." It's hard to know whether she's just comforting herself or if she's actually finally found some peace in the California woods but here, at last, there are whispers of peace in the wildness.
Lana Del Rey - Yosemite (Official Audio) "We did it for the right reasons / We did it for fun, we did it for free," she sings, referencing the song's final track. "Yosemite" is one of the track's folkier, more psychedelic offerings, and it also finds Del Rey unusually content with herself and her approach to fame. She finds escape in dreaming of alcohol, in pink MDMA pills, and in other vistas. Del Rey, as far as we know, doesn't actually drink, but she does sing about drinking a lot. Here, she identifies her escape route as what seems to be a quieter, drunker existence on a ranch. The desire to escape - to run away from fame and Hollywood - reigns supreme here, as it always has for Del Rey. She longs for old-timey domesticity with a man whom she has to persuade to come back to her and who, in all likelihood, is long gone. Here, she blends romanticized Americana with the darkness and desire for annihilation that lurks underneath it. But maybe it's better to say that the album is simply, lyrically American, filled with almost Jungian archetypes of what white suburban America is imagined to be.ĭel Rey has always been a chronicler of the subconscious, bringing taboo desires from the deeps straight to the surface of her songs. One could make the argument that the song contains flickers of what might be called the cliched stereotypes of Trump's America - ranches, Bibles, beer and gin, a desire to return to bygone eras. She's playing the part, mixing Jesus worship for the love of her beer-swinging man. Lana Del Rey - Tulsa Jesus Freak (Official Audio) Del Rey doesn't live in Arkansas, for all we know, but it doesn't matter.
On the slightly unnerving "Tulsa Jesus Freak," she begs: "You should stay real close to Jesus / Keep that bottle at your hand, my man / Find your way back to my bed again / Sing me like a Bible hymn / We should go back to Arkansas." Things get more fictional and blurry as she moves away from the past and towards an imagined suburban future in the middle of the country. But the message is clear - even though she's actualized her dreams, life hasn't been what she thought it would be, and she longs for simpler times. Lana Del Rey - White Dress (Official Music Video) Her voice is so breathy that it splinters into itself at times, and it's sometimes painful to listen to.
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