For isn’t womanhood itself, she appears to ask, steeped in anachronism?īoth Lana Del Rey and Courtney Love write about irresistible institutions – Hollywood, mainstream acceptance and powerful men. It’s a study, too, of femininity in general. While Del Rey often insists that she’s lost in reverie, obsessed by the past, her music is a poignant reflection of a generation that continues to resist expectations. That song perfectly crystallised a mood and a moment, splicing an at-home aesthetic heretofore only found in webcam vlogs with imagery of a 1950s red carpet, an iPod billboard, and Paz de la Huerta falling in front of paparazzi. Lust for Life could be called the next chapter in a long-running investigation into era-non-specific youth qualifiers that started with the self-directed video for her breakout single, “ Video Games”. A month earlier, though, Del Rey pre-empted criticism by Instagramming the Nina Simone quote, “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.” It’s a message that could easily be mistaken for nihilism. Lines like “the world is yours and you can’t refuse it” slip under a ringing chorus that proclaims, “You get ready, you get all dressed up to go nowhere in particular.” The video rockets a group of teenagers, current-day devices in hand, to a vintage-rendered outer space. An anti-anthem of sorts, “Love” takes into account turbulent times, offering commiseration as opposed to call-to-action. ![]() Although Del Rey’s last record, Honeymoon, was released only a year and a half ago, that particular span has felt like forever. She’s calling Love from her home in California a few weeks after releasing “Love”, the booming, lounge-y first single off her upcoming fifth studio album, Lust for Life. ![]() ![]() It’s been a while since any of us has heard from Del Rey. You can buy a copy of our latest issue here. Taken from the spring/summer issue of Dazed:Ĭourtney Love’s gravelly voice is unmistakable on the line next to Lana Del Rey’s syrupy sing-song: “Is this the one and only Courtney Love?”
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