Lana Del Rey drops another new song titled The Greatest. Available for download and streaming, the singer already released Fuck It I love You from Norman Fucking Rockwell. Both were produced with Jack Antonoff.
Del Rey reflects on the state of pop (“The culture is lit/And if this is it/Then I had a ball/I guess that I’m burned out after all”) as well as the state of the world (“L.A. is in flames/It’s getting hot”), with references to Bowie and Kanye West thrown in for good measure. Del Rey also wanders around the Long Beach harbor yard, and we see close-up shots of the karaoke dive bar’s jukebox, which includes basically every musician Del Rey has been influenced by: Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, even Bon Iver and The National.
In a new interview with Billboard, Lana Del Rey also spoke about her initial meeting with Antonoff, and how there’s some other things she’d really rather do in life than write. “I feel very much that writing is not my thing: I’m writing’s thing,” she said. “When the writing has got me, I’m on its schedule. But when it leaves me alone, I’m just at Starbucks, talking shit all day.”
I miss Long Beach and I miss you, babe
I miss dancing with you the most of all
I miss the bar where the Beach Boys would go
Dennis’s last stop before Kokomo
– Lana
Peep the visuals below.
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