9/19/2023 0 Comments Who sang lust for life![]() This record has some spots that don't hit as effectively such as "White Mustang." This track stays too on formula, too much of the quintessential Del Rey that toys with nostalgic imagery of car as metaphor with lyrics like "You're revving and revving and revving it up/ And the sound, it was frightening/ And you were getting a part of that/ You're gonna hit me like lightning." Still, to the betterment of the record this is overshadowed by seemingly odd but in actuality true to form collaborations with producers like Boi 1da rappers on "Summer Bummer" and the go-to hitmaker Metro Boomin' produced "God Bless America - And All The Beautiful Women In It." She stretches herself on Lust For Life. Even when Nicks sings, "my heart is soft, my path is rough," it's a matter-of-fact romance of what was (a rough journey) but she doesn't dwell and she doesn't allow Del Rey to dwell either on the track, singing "we gotta try" and "we gotta walk through fire." Her appraisals of the past on her own records and with Fleetwood Mac have been more romantic than sentimental, leaving her hungry for change. Nicks anchors the track in a way that would otherwise leave it flat if Del Rey sang it alone. ![]() And it is! She is beautiful and in a position of privilege and power so few ever attain. On the song, Del Rey's mournful croon almost sounds like a privileged complaint. One of Del Rey's strongest moments on the record is her collaboration with the original West Coast witch Stevie Nicks on "Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems." Del Rey is an iteration of Stevie Nicks for this generation a chanteuse who can sing words so affecting over this era's musical palette, namely hip-hop and pop. Her awakening regarding America's thorny and defiant place in the world, though, is not really the most interesting revelation on Lust For Life. She sees it on "Coachella-Woodstock" and "When The World Was At War We Kept Dancing" when Del Rey poses the questions: "Is it the end of America?/Is it the end of an era?" In an interview last week with Pitchfork, Del Rey even said she'd consider not using the American flag visuals so synonymous with her live shows because it just doesn't seem appropriate now. The fact that America is no longer-in her eyes-as great as it once was is apparent. ![]() Throughout the album, she presents us with her urgent, socially aware view about the world, which is another indicator of a less self-focused pivot.
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