The groovy track differs musically from the rest of the album, with hints of Nelly Furtado-style pop, Regina Spector and Lily Allen-like phrasing, and R&B elements. For instance, “Dark But Just A Game” speaks about those who made it, and are now paying the price of fame. In “Wild At Heart”, she sings: “ What would you do if I wouldn’t sing for them no more?”Īnother subject of the album: music careers, making it, fame, and the effect that all of these things give to a person. The album has several country-inspired tracks, another one being “Not All Who Wander Are Lost.” Lana plays with words, reminding her listeners that she is a poet first: “ Not all those who wander are lost // Not all those who wander, all those who wander // All those who wander are lost // It’s just wanderlust.” There are also mentions of being from a small town and thinking of leaving Los Angeles that are common throughout the album, as well as hints on quitting her music career like she did during her Born To Die era. The latter song features Nikki Lane, and tells a story from the point of view of late country singer Tammy Wynette, also known as the “First Lady of Country Music”. Lana speaks on how a relationship can make us powerful in “Yosemite” (“ You make me feel I’m invincible // Just like I wanted”), directly followed by “ I love you only, but it’s makin’ me blue” in “Breaking Up Slowly”, keeping up with the duality in her feelings, as well as in missing the old yet embracing the new. She worships herself and is careless with herself at the same time, and seems to have that polarity with love as well. The familiar bittersweet self-destructive phrases like “ Trade this body for a can of Gin” remind us of her previous work. Lana has always been vocal about her connection with the actress, and in Born To Die’s “Body Electric”, she mentions what Marilyn means to her: “ Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn is my mother.” In the mentioned “Tulsa Jesus Freaks”, we are reminiscing together with Lana, missing something that is yet to happen. In “Tulsa Jesus Freaks” and “Yosemite”, “ No more candle in the wind” is a nod to Elton John’s song about Marilyn Monroe. In the ballad “Let Me Love You Like A Woman”, she references Prince in the phrase “ We could get lost in the purple rain”, referring to an ever-lasting love with it’s magical and exaggerated highs and lows.
Throughout the album, Lana looks to musical geniuses. The theme continues in “Wild At Heart.” Even as an adult, Lana still has the curiosity and attitude of her younger self: “ Like if you heard I was out in the bars drinkin’ Jack and Coke, going crazy for anyone who would listen to my stories, babe.” “ Running from the cops in our black bikini tops” versus “ We’re in our jewels in the swimming pool, me and my sister just playin’ it cool.” We hear more maturity and ease in the lyrics while the tone of the song remains familiar. If we think of the song “This Is What Makes Us Girls”, these tracks sound as if two opposite sides of the same person wrote them. She is running back to her past, looking back at simpler times, “laughing about nothing.” Compared to her escapism in Born to Die, Lana’s actions here are noticeably less reckless. Namesake song “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” is an acoustic track, Lana’s usual mix of low vocals with a high-pitched head voice. Lana elaborates on the feeling throughout the album. She once felt like a god, but finds it unsettling now, questioning if it even was worth it. At 19-years-old, Lana (then – “Lizzi Grant”), released her first EP, not yet knowing the burden fame will bring her. The words are forced into the phrase intentionally as Lana sings them quicker than all other lines – they sound rushed, showing how difficult it was for her, amongst others, to reach the same heights in the business as her male counterparts. Here, Lana sings the line “ Down at the men in music business conference” and is referring to the music industry being male dominated, and how tough it was for her to make it as a woman. She remembers her waitressing days in New York, listening to The White Stripes and Kings of Leon, before she became a popular artist. Opening the 11-track album is a piano intro and Lana’s breathy high vocals in “White Dress.” Right away, Lana sings about her younger self, being in love and feeling seen. Lana Del Rey, born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, gave the world her latest release and seventh studio album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, on March 19 th. Lana Del Rey – ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ Album Review
0 kommentar(er)
