She has, assuredly, scored some huge hits such as Video Games (1,047,511 sales, according to OCC data) and Born To Die (612,930), likewise she has superstar collaborations with Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande (Don’t Call Me Angel – 301,131) and The Weeknd (Lust For Life – 217,025). People may get caught up now and then in the fact that I have a strong look or presentation, but at the end of the day what’s important to me is the fact that I’ve been able to tell my life’s stories, dreams and encounters for over a decade, and that in itself is a triumph.” “I know for myself it took years of walking into the same labels I’m signed to now to have a chance to be understood as a person telling a story rather than a trend,” said Lana. “I fought very hard for that and I’m so glad I did. It is a position, Lana stresses, that has been hard won. “Coming off Norman Fucking Rockwell!, she’s in the best place she’s been in almost from the beginning of her career,” Polydor’s Tom March told Music Week. ![]() We have each other laughing a lot.”Īlso in the feature, Lana Del Rey, Tap Music’s Ben Mawson and Ed Millett and Polydor co-president Tom March look back at her career to date. “On top of everything, he’s just genuinely hilarious which is really important. “Jack’s technical skill is off the charts musically, his chords are fantastic if you’re ever stuck for inspiration,” she continued. That’s what the sentiment is about, being brought back to a time when things felt the purest.” ![]() It just brings me back to that good ol’ fashioned feeling of getting lucky and being able to express myself without really having a second thought about needing to edit it. “That only happens once in a while, and it also started off as kind of a joke me not really knowing what I was saying or singing about. “I just stepped up to the microphone and started ad-libbing an entire song, which was only somewhat modified with layered vocals,” she recalls. Part of the discussion, of course, includes reuniting with super-producer Jack Antonoff, with Lana detailing how one of Chemtrails’ finest moments, White Dress, came about as a surprise when she heard him “noodling” around on the piano. Arriving hot on the heels of 2019’s acclaimed Norman Fucking Rockwell! and 2020’s Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass poetry book and spoken-word LP, it is one of the most highly-anticipated records of the year. “ In the n ew edition of Music Week, Lana Del Rey and her team talk us through the making of her incredible new album Chemtrails Over The Country Club. This once-in-a-generation artist releasing another masterful and stunning album to the world: It was an album that quite rightly garnered a lot of positivity, curiosity and discussion. This article from News Week gave us an insight and preview of detailed discussion of Chemtrails Over the Country Club. I want to bring in a couple of different interviews. I will do a deeper dive into her albums and career soon enough. After her truncated set at Glastonbury last month – where she performed one of the best sets of the festival -, she is very much in my mind again. An artist who never stands still and brings something new to each album, I would urge everyone to check out this album. ![]() ![]() Looking at her family and friendships, that is blended with tales of love, escape and, as you would expect, a healthy dose of nostalgia! All the brilliant and reliable Lana Del Rey hallmarks are there, but this was a definitely evolution and move forward. For Lana Del Rey’s seventh studio album, she enlisted producer Jack Antonoff – whom she had worked with Norman Fucking Rockwell! The album mixes Country-Folk and Del Rey’s traditional Americana. and one in the U.K., Chemtrails Over the Country Club was a massive commercial and critical success. I wanted to get to a couple (of the many) positive reviews for it. Chemtrails Over the Country Club is one of my favourite Del Rey albums. The contrasting covers were quite striking. After 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! scored her the biggest reviews of her career so far, the follow-up was equally brilliant yet different. One of the finest songwriters of her generation, Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club came out on 19th March, 2021. This time out, I was keen to highlight a terrific album from one of the world’s greatest artists. Into Revisiting… will be an album from the past five years that is underrated or overlooked. IN THIS PHOTO: Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff produced Chemtrails Over the Country Club (alongside Rick Nowels)/ PHOTO CREDIT: Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
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