“Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” is as rich, challenging and singular as anything Del Rey has released yet, and given that its run time is a daunting hour and 17 minutes, it’s going to require a little time to sink in. On “The Grants,” the album’s stirring, gospel-tinged opening number, she interprets the words of a pastor by likening them not to, say, a particular Bible verse, but to “‘ Rocky Mountain High,’ the way John Denver sings.”
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Leonard Cohen’s famous lyric “there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” echoes throughout “Ocean Blvd” like a cherished mantra. Del Rey’s homage speaks the language of digital-era listening (“his voice breaks at 2:05”), but her emotional connection to Nilsson is so deeply felt, it seems to transcend time and turn him into a peer.Įlsewhere on the album, the much-covered, centuries-old folk standard “Froggy Went a Courtin’” makes Del Rey feel connected to her ancestors when she hears it at a funeral. People listening to Harry Nilsson’s “Don’t Forget Me” when it first came out - on “Pussy Cats” from 1974, the notorious chronicle of his “Lost Weekend” with John Lennon - were just as likely to be moved by that wrenching part when his voice breaks, but they probably wouldn’t have known its precise time stamp.
She writes like a devoted but conversational fan of music history - talking back to the modern songbook and to many of her favorite artists, guided by popular song to her own personal epiphanies.ĭel Rey’s old-soul reverence collapses the distance between generations, too. Harry Nilsson has a song, his voice breaks at 2:05 Something about the way he says “Don’t forget me” Makes me feel like I just wish I had a friend like him Someone to get me byĭel Rey’s music is both vividly intimate and highly referential.
I love these lyrics from the title track of Lana Del Rey’s sprawling ninth album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” which comes out today:
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