Dopo una lunga attesa per il sesto album in studio ormai imminente, arriva l’annunciato il doppio video di Lana Del Rey per Fuck It I Love You & The Greatest, un’unica clip – scelta decisamente inusuale – per presentare due tracce dell’imminente disco di inediti in uscita il 30 agosto.
In un cortometraggio della durata di 9 minuti, la Del Rey appare mentre canta le sue canzoni durante una malinconica vacanza sulle coste californiane: a dare continuità ai due brani è il fatto che la cantante li esegua su un piccolo palco di un club retrò, con la musica diffusa da un juke box. La regia del doppio video è di Rich Lee, con cui la cantautrice aveva già collaborato per i videoclip dei precedenti singoli Love, Lust For Life e White Mustang.
Il video è un’antipasto chiamato ad alimentare l’attenzione sul progetto ad una settimana dall’esordio negli store fisici e digitali e sulle piattaforme streaming dell’atteso Norman Fucking Rockwell!, le cui tracce sono già trapelate illecitamente online e circolano ormai da giorni tra i fandom dell’artista, circostanza che potrebbe danneggiare non poco i numeri del debutto ufficiale del disco.
Normam Fucking Rockwell! è stato prodotto da Jack Antonoff: quasi tutti i testi sono stati scritti dalla Del Rey insieme al produttore (altri collaboratori al progetto sono Rick Rubin, Rick Nowels, Andrew Watt e Happy Perez). Già in pre-order sugli store digitali, l’album ha avuto una lunga gestazione: annunciato nel settembre del 2018, atteso inizialmente nella primavera 2019, esce di fatto un anno dopo l’ufficializzazione del progetto da parte della popstar e cantautrice. E in una coincidenza temporale che probabilmente non lo favorirà, visto che è preceduto di una settimana dal nuovo album di Taylor Swift, Lover, rilasciato il 23 agosto, peraltro dalla stessa etichetta, la Universal Music.
Ecco il video di Fuck It I Love You & The Greatest e i testi delle due canzoni.
Fuck it I love you
I like to see everything in neon
Drink lime green, stay up ‘til dawn
Maybe the way that I’m living is killing me
I like to light up the stage with a song
Do shit to keep me turned on
But one day I woke up like
“Maybe I’ll do it differently”
So I moved to California‚ but it’s just a state of mind
It turns out everywhere you go‚ you take yourself‚ that’s not a lie
Wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine
It’s killing me slowly
Dream a little dream of me
Make me into something sweet
Turn the radio on, dancing to a pop song
Fuck it, I love you
Fuck it‚ I love you
Fuck it, I love you
I really do
I used to shoot up my veins in neon
And shit’s even brighter; you’re gone
So many things I would say to you
I want you
You moved to California, but it’s just a state of mind
And you know everyone adores you
You can’t feel it and you’re tired
Baby‚ wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine
But it’s killing me slowly
Dream a little dream of me
Turn this into something sweet
Turn the radio on, dancing to a pop song
Fuck it, I love you
Fuck it, I love you
Fuck it, I love you
I really do
It turns out California’s more than just a state of mind
I met you on the boulevard, wind through my hair, you blew my mind
And if I wasn’t so fucked up, I think I’d fuck you all the time
(I really do)
It’s killing me slowly
Fuck it, I love you (I moved to California, but it’s just a state of mind)
Fuck it, I love you (It turns out everywhere you go you take yourself, that’s not a lie)
Fuck it, I love you (Wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine)
I really do (It’s killing me slowly)
(Fuck it, I love you)
California dreamin’, I got my money on my mind
(Fuck it, I love you)
Drugs is in my vein, running out of time
(Fuck it, I love you)
California dreamin’, I got my money on my mind
(I really do)
Drugs is in my vein, running out of time
(Fuck it, I love you)
California dreamin’, I got my money on my mind
(Fuck it, I love you)
Drugs is in my vein, running out of time
(Fuck it, I love you)
California dreamin’, I got my money on my mind
(I really do)
Drugs is in my vein, running out of time
The Greatest
I miss Long Beach and I miss you, babe
I miss dancing with you the most of all
I miss the bar where the Beach Boys would go
Dennis’s last stop before Kokomo
Those nights were on fire
We couldn’t get higher
We didn’t know that we had it all
But nobody warns you before the fall
And I pray that you stay
Don’t leave‚ I just need a wake-up call
I’m facing the greatest
The greatest loss of them all
The culture is lit and I had a ball
I guess I’m signing off after all
I miss New York and I miss the music
Me and my friends‚ we miss rock ‘n’ roll
I want shit to feel just like it used to
And‚ baby, I was doing nothing the most of all
The culture is lit and if this is it, I had a ball
I guess that I’m burned out after all
Oh I pray that you stay
Don’t leave‚ I just need a wake-up call
I’m facing the greatest
The greatest loss of them all
The culture is lit and I had a ball
I guess that I’m burned out after all
If this is it, I’m signing off
Miss doing nothing, the most of all
Hawaii just missed a fireball
L.A. is in flames‚ it’s getting hot
Kanye West is blond and gone
“Life on Mars” ain’t just a song
Oh, the livestream’s almost on