The national anthems of Lana Del Rey
with popular political music from the past four years and how it did, or did not, reflect this moment. Can you hear the moment in Childish Gambino’s twisted, anxious party on “This Is America?” Is it A Tribe Called Quest’s explicit dig at Donald Trump on “We the People...
by Del Rey. “Now I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be, so excuse me for having an opinion,”of the song. “But in light of all of the mass shootings and the back to back shootings in the last couple of days which really affected me on a cellular level.” “I’m still looking for my own version of America,” she sings, over little more than acoustic guitar and’s successfully sparse production. “One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly.
The way Lana Del Rey sings that line, “It’s just a dream I had in mind,” as if it’s such a silly dream to suggest, a wish of Disney fairytale proportions, feels heartbreaking in itself. Across her career, Del Rey has established herself as a songwriter with a critical eye pointed toward America, but not the kind that sloganizes issues into hashtags fit for a t-shirt.
Sometimes political unrest, the trauma of living on a dying earth, can’t be embodied in a single song. I wouldn’t want anyone to try to. For Del Rey, it is a constant presence brooding in the margins of her lyrics, flickering in and out of her life enough to remind her she’s running out of time.
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