(On “The Next Best American Record,” she sings, “We were so obsessed with writing the next best American record/’Cause we were just that good/It was just that good.”) Whether she’s wistfully nostalgic or jaded and detached is up for interpretation-really, everything is. This paradox becomes a theme on Rockwell, a canvas upon which she paints with sincerity and satire and challenges you to spot the difference. They just go on and on about themselves and I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah.' But there’s merit to it also-they are so good.” "So often I end up with these creative types. "It's about this guy who is such a genius artist, but he thinks he’s the shit and he knows it,” she said. Their partnership-as seen on the title track, a study of inflated egos-allowed her to take her subjects less seriously. In a 2018 interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Del Rey said working with songwriter Jack Antonoff (who produced the album along with Rick Nowels and Andrew Watt) put her in a lighter mood: “He was so funny,” she said. Winking and vivid, Norman F*****g Rockwell! is a conceptual riff on the rules that govern integrity and authenticity from an artist who has made a career out of breaking them. Here, on her sixth album, she fixes her gaze on another place primed for exploration: the art world. Tucked inside her dreamscapes about Hollywood and the Hamptons are reminders-and celebrations-of just how empty these places can be. While the exact release date for the follow up to ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ is yet unknown, the album is set to be available for pre-order today (January 11) alongside the release of the video for the album’s title track.Part of the fun of listening to Lana Del Rey’s ethereal lullabies is the sly sense of humor that brings them back down to earth. Of ‘Let Me Love You Like A Woman’, NME‘s Rhian Daly wrote that the song could be “a classic between-albums palette cleanser that, in the context of the new record, will continue her journey to ever more distant plains.” Find it below: The ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ track list is: The tracklist for ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ is 11 songs long, featuring the previously released lead single ‘Let Me Love You Like A Woman’. So god bless, and, yeah, fuck off if you don’t like the post,” she said. Nobody gets to tell your story except for you, and that’s what I’m gonna do in the next couple of books. “I’m not the enemy, and I’m definitely not racist, so don’t get it twisted. She also posted a video message, in which she discussed “the need for fragility in the feminist movement” and further addressed claims that her post was racist. She later denied that her post was an attack on the artists she named, most of whom are women of colour, calling out “flip-flopping headline grabbing critics can’t read and want to make it a race war” and claiming that the singers she mentioned were some of her favourite artists. She added, “With all of the topics women are finally allowed to explore I just want to say over the last ten years I think it’s pathetic that my minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes submissive or passive roles in my relationships has often made people say I’ve set women back hundreds of years.” In her post, she named a number of female artists in pop and hip-hop – including Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Kehlani, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé – whom, she wrote, “have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating, etc”. ![]() Last May, Del Rey drew criticism for an Instagram post she made in which she hit back at claims she was “glamorising abuse” with her music. ![]() Part 2 of Lana Del Rey’s comment of ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club”s album art. ![]() Part 1 of Lana Del Rey’s comment of ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club”s album art. ![]() Read Del Rey’s comment on the cover art in full below: It is not clear who made the criticism Del Rey was responding to, or whether the statement was entirely pre-emptive.
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