Lana Del Rey's 'Venice Bitch' Is A Shredding Psychedelic Journey Through The Soul

Last week, Lana Del Rey unveiled the initial look at a new era through the "Mariners Apartment Complex," a moody meditation paired with a black-and-white video of swirling ocean. And Tuesday (September 18), on Beats 1 Radio, Lana revealed that song will be featured on a upcoming new album called Norman Fucking Rockwell, which is a hilarious along with really incredible title for a Lana Del Rey album.


She also premiered another new track called "Venice Bitch" that pans out over nearly 10 minutes and wraps the summer up with tiny melodic flourishes and subtle miniature orchestrations before turning into a vat of melting psychedelia. It's cool.


"End of summer, some people just hope to drive around for 10 minutes, get lost in some electric guitar," she mentioned before the song played.





"Venice Beach" comes from her teamwork with Jack Antonoff, who produced the album and worked with Lana while in 2018. She described joint writing sessions where Antonoff would "play chords for hours" on the piano. "He would play me five chords in a row that would just be becoming a new song each time," she mentioned in the interview. "I would legitimately ask him, 'Are you sure I'm allowed to have this?' ... He was like, 'No, I have been dying to meet you and give you this.'"


Soon after several minutes, "Venice Bitch" twists and turns itself into something like the sort of rainy, mystic, blissed-out days you could have under docks in case you skipped school. It's a different sort of sensory experience from Lana, whose last album, 2017's Lust for Life, was about as rhythmic and downbeat as she's ever been. Right now, with "Venice Bitch" name-dropping "Crimson and Clover" and "Mariners Apartment Detailed channeling "Wicked Game," it sounds like we're all in on some serious smoked-out, top-down L.A. Ennui. Welcome to autumn.


You can listen to the "Venice Bitch" interview and hear more about the songwriting process right here.