Continuing my track-by-track appreciation of Lana Del Rey’s newest album, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd…
Track 4: ‘A&W’
Four and a half songs into the album, people looking for a musical change of pace will find it in the bracing second part of this fascinating track.
First, Del Rey delivers a brilliant, brooding song driven by acoustic guitar, piano and her aching falsetto. Special praise must be paid to producer Jack Antonoff, who plays all the instruments here.
Continuing my track-by-track appreciation of Lana Del Rey’s newest album, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd…
Track 3: ‘Sweet’
Three tracks into this album, it seems clear we’re in for a predominantly strings-and-piano soundscape, which I could see turning off some casual fans while exciting diehards like me.
Some Lana Del Rey fans have spent the 11 years since Born to Die came out waiting for her to recreate the trip-hop smorgasbord of that album. A few tracks aside, I think it’s clear she has little interest in doing that.
Buckle in for a track-by-track appreciation of Lana Del Rey’s newest album, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. The album contains 16 tracks, including “interludes” by Judah Smith and Jon Batiste (the former is Del Rey’s pastor, so that should be interesting), and I’ll write a post about each of them.
The one exception is the title track, which I’ve already included on the blog, but I’ll cover that one in today’s post.
This is the first Big Time Rush song featured on the blog in more than a decade. The previous entry also came on a Random Weekend.
At the time I praised the Nickelodeon TV show, which was a big hit with my kids (then 10 and 7). The show lasted only a few years but my now 20 and 17 year old daughters are still suckers for the band in a sweetly nostalgic way.
‘Baby Seat’ is a track from Barenaked Ladies’ 2000 album Maroon, their fifth record and the last to go platinum. The band had a pretty rapid decline following five straight hits between ’92 and ’00. They were a 90s act, through and through.
‘Baby Seat’ has an interesting lyric. The first verse and chorus seem to be about a woman who abandoned her child and hoped to sail through life without taking responsibility. Pretty straightforward.
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