Ironically, the city of Long Beach, which is referenced in both in “Doin’ Time” and later, on “The Greatest,” does not make an appearance. in gladiator sandals and a breezy dress, stepping over freeways, sipping from downtown water tanks, and splashing in the ocean. “They epitomized the SoCal vibe and made a genre and sound totally their own.” In the video for the track, a larger-than-life Lana traverses the landscape of L.A. “Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song,” announced Del Rey when she first released her cover of the Long Beach band’s “Doin’ Time” in May. “ I miss Long Beach and I miss you, babe / I miss dancing with you the most of all” -The Greatest “ All the people in the dance will agree / That we’re well-qualified to represent the L.B.C.” -Doin’ Time Venice Beach’s urban-meets-nature aesthetic provides the perfect backdrop for this nine-plus-minute-long sad girl summer anthem, which is rife with nostalgic references to lighting fires in the yard, eating ice cream, and golden things “fading away.” Venice also happens to be home to a 50-foot-tall mural of the singer, which we’re sure will serve as inspo for many “Venice bitch” Insta posts moving forward. “ Oh God, miss you on my lips / It’s me, your little Venice bitch” – Venice Bitch And I said, “I’m not sad, I didn’t know that’s why you thought you were relating to me on that level, I’m actually doing pretty good.” And he was upset, and that’s when I wrote the song.” 3. In an interview with BBC Radio 1 following the release of the single, the singer described the incident that inspired her to write it: “The song is about this time I took a walk late at night with a guy I was seeing, and we stopped in front his friend’s apartment complex, and he put his hand around my shoulder, and he said, “I think we are together because we’re both similar, like we’re both really messed up,” and I thought it was the saddest thing I’d ever heard. On the cover for the single version of this song, Del Rey appears to be standing in front of the Mariners Village Apartment Homes in Marina Del Rey. “ You took my sadness out of context / At the Mariners Apartment Complex” – Mariners Apartment Complex She posted an Instagram of herself listening Mitchell’s music in March of the same year. In a 2017 Dazed interview, Del Rey said she “fantasized about Laurel Canyon” when she was living in New York and longing to start a band. Later, in “Bartender,” Del Rey name drops Mitchell’s record “Ladies of the Canyon,” as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash, who were part of the same scene. In NFR!‘s title track, Del Rey cites the canyon as the residence of an immature “man-child” that she seems to have a romantic (or at least sexual) involvement with, and croons about how he colors her “blue, blue, blue”-perhaps a reference to Mitchell’s most famous album. The neighborhood of Laurel Canyon is a recurring motif on the album, as is the work of Joni Mitchell, who was involved in in the legendary music scene that blossomed there in the ’60s and ’70s.

“All the ladies of the canyon / Wearing black to their house parties / Crosby, Stills and Nash is playing / Wine is flowing with Bacardi” –Bartender “ Self-loathing poet / resident Laurel Canyon know-it-all” – Norman fucking Rockwell references, it’d be easy for even the biggest Lana stan to miss a few, so we went ahead and mapped them all out for your convenience. Not only do the record’s melancholic, piano-and-guitar driven ballads take their musical cues from the pop and folk music of Los Angeles in the ’60s and ’70s, but their lyrics serve as a guide to its landscape, name dropping neighborhoods, nightclubs, and intersections from across the city. New York-born Lana Del Rey has always been enamored of the mythology of Los Angeles and California, but her most recent album- Norman Fucking Rockwell!-is perhaps the singer’s most profound ode to West Coast life and culture yet.

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