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Lana Del Rey releases new North Korea-inspired song
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 16 May 2017
Lana Del Rey has released a new track, ‘Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind’, which is the one she wrote a few weeks ago about dancing at a festival while also being aware of alarming world events.
As previously reported, the musician posted a video of herself on Instagram singing a portion of the new song a cappella last month, saying at the time: “I’m not gonna lie, I had complex feelings about spending the weekend dancing whilst watching tensions with North Korea mount. I find it’s a tightrope between being vigilantly observant of everything going on in the world and also having enough space and time to appreciate God’s good earth the way it was intended to be appreciated”.
“On my way home I found myself compelled to visit an old favourite place of mine at the rim of the world highway where I took a moment to sit down by the sequoia grove and write a little song”, she continued. “I just wanted to share this in hopes that one individual’s hope and prayer for peace might contribute to the possibility of it in the long run”.
Unveiling the finished recording of the song yesterday, she said: “What a blessing it is to make music in general. And to have the freedom to put songs out about things that move me in real time. I wrote this one last month on the way back from Coachella. Thanks to my producer and engineers for turning it around so quickly”.
It’s not clear if this song will appear on Del Rey’s new album, ‘Lust For Life’, which is due out on 26 May. Either way, here it is:
