After a video confirming an announcement, a photo within the studio from producer Jack Antonoff, and a modern logo update, Lana Del Rey has formally introduced the brand new album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd, out March 10, 2023, and launched the LP’s title observe.
“Fuck me to demise,” she sings on the observe’s refrain, co-written with Mike Hermosa. “Love me till I like myself/There’s a tunnel below Ocean Boulevard.” The track clocks in at practically 5 minutes and options her sultry vocals seamlessly floating throughout dense instrumentation.
Shortly after the album’s announcement, Del Rey shared a typewritten letter the place she thanked her buddies who helped make the album, together with Father John Misty and Antonoff.
“What can I say! I’m so grateful to be current and feeling effervescent at the moment,” Del Rey wrote in a typewritten letter on her personal @Honeymoon Instagram. “With a thoughts filled with violets and a brow warmed by the solar as I pray within the backyard.”
She added, “All of it begun for enjoyable, enjoying on lazy Sunday afternoons that changed into tunes [with] huge orchestras and easy melodies that matched every second we had been in.”
The album cowl — which was accompanied with three further variants on vinyl — teased collaborations with Jon Batiste, Antonoff’s Bleachers, Father John Misty, Judah Smith, Tommy Genesis, and SYML. All of her collaborators had been thanked individually in her notice.
To Antonoff, Del Rey wrote, “And naturally, for Jack for sitting down every now and then to jot down easy ballads that appear to return out totally intact as if they had been all the time there. And placing the icing on this cake. And for being such a stunning good friend, and in addition for giving me Margaret.”
Del Rey ended her notice by thanking her photographer Neil Krug “for these photos that say 1,000 phrases.” Krug had beforehand labored with the singer in 2014 for the standout imagery accompanying her album Ultraviolence.
“The music is for enjoyable and for you and for me and never all the time free until you’re streaming ha – however spirited with one of the best of intentions!” Del Rey wrote.
Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd follows Del Rey’s contribution to Taylor Swift’s “Snow on the Seashore” on her latest album, Midnights.
“I’m such an enormous fan,” Swift stated of the Del Rey, including that the hazy Midnights observe is about “falling in love with somebody similtaneously they’re falling in love with you, kind of on this kind of cataclysmic, fated second the place you understand somebody feels precisely the identical manner that you simply really feel.”
Del Rey’s final two information had been each launched in 2021: Blue Banisters and Chemtrails Over the Nation Membership. This yr, she lined Father John Misty’s “Buddy’s Rendezvous” and launched the one “Watercolor Eyes” for Season Two of Euphoria.
This story was up to date on Dec. 7 at 1:25 pm to incorporate Lana Del Rey’s Instagram notice.