I mean, working with Jack I was in a little bit of a lighter mood ‘cause he’s so funny, so the title track and it are kind of about this guy who like, he is such a genius artist but he thinks he’s the shit and he knows it, and like he won’t shut talking about it.

Lana has said hope is dangerous because of her own experience, because in Hollywood she “ knows so much. Her ache is from empathy: for our crumbling world, for the down and out, for lovers at war with their minds. In July 2019, Del Rey performed at the FIB Benicàssim Festival, where she revealed that the album would be released the following month. And in this slow, glowering procession, she points more directly to her own personal history than ever—“spilling my guts with the Bowery bums” as a volunteer, FaceTiming her father “from beyond the grave”—and soberly she sings: “Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past.

At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Album of the Year, while the title track received a nomination for Song of the Year. At first, I listened to what I knew most (pop) and got to explore a lot of releases I wasn’t aware of up to that time, I remember seeing the album cover and recognizing if from one of those songs I arrived to randomly in 2019 (Doin’ Time) and remembered how much I loved Lana’s music back in 2012.

Sometimes Jack Antonoff productions seem to fly because they have been given a trampoline or a children’s bouncing castle. Included in Rolling Stone's "The 50 Best Albums of 2019" -- "A lush soft-rock album in the style of 1970s Laurel Canyon, filled with characters whose dreams have long gone up in wildfire smoke and who are just waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. The album was primarily produced by Del Rey and Jack Antonoff, with additional contributions from Zach Dawes, Andrew Watt, and longtime Del Rey collaborator Rick Nowels.

debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 104,000 album-equivalent units (including 66,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week, [90] becoming Del Rey's sixth US top ten album on the chart. On her fifth major-label studio album, she absorbs all elements of psychedelic pop, rock and folk-country and piano to create a dream-like experience which embodies her signature sound and aesthetic. She later confirmed the title of the record in a conversation with Zane Lowe after the premiere of her second single “Venice Bitch,” on September 18th. is less to do with camp, and more to do with real life; less to do with scripting the incandescent character of Lana Del Rey and more to do with human complexity; less about aesthetics than being.