Lana Del Rey released one of the albums of the year in Norman Fucking Rockwell, and now she's released a 14-minute video bringing together the title track, Bartender and Happiness is a Butterfly.
The video is edited by Lana herself, and directed by her sister Chuck Grant, and feels like a dream. The video looks like it could be a series of home videos, with the visuals showcasing suburban California. It looks like a fun time - then Bambi-looking animated animals show up.
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Check out the video below - it really, really makes us want to travel to the US.
Lana also announced she'll be releasing a spoken-world album of "freestyle poetry" on January 4th next year, with half of the album's proceeds going to benefit Native American organisations.
“I had a thought for a while about how I wanted the album to be around a dollar because I just love the idea that thoughts are meant to be shared and that they were priceless in some way, and there was a second part that I’d been thinking of before releasing it which was that I wanted half of what the spoken word is going for to benefit Native American organizations around the country, whether it was for preserving their rights or trying to help keep their land intact,” Lana said on Instagram.
“I had wanted to do it because in doing my own work in connecting to my family lineage, I was encouraged to also try and connect with the country’s lineage—this was a while ago—and it kind of informed the next album that I’ve been working on. And I just really wanted to sort of pay homage to this country that I love so much by doing my own reparation, I guess I would say, my own reparative act. I know it’s an unusual choice, and I have no reasoning for it other than it just feels right to me, so as long as my spoken word album is distributed, half of it will be going to Native American organizations across North America.”
