For the April 20th issue of Dazed, Courtney Love conducted an interview with former tourmate Lana Del Rey. As the two discussed Lana’s upcoming album, Lust for Life, Lana revealed another surprise collaborator on the album to be none other than Sean Ono Lennon on a song called “Tomorrow Never Came.”
“I didn’t want him to think I was asking him because I was name-checking them,” Lana explained to Love. “Actually, I had listened to his records over the years and I did think it was his vibe, so I played it for him and he liked it.”
She also elaborated more about her song with the Weeknd, the album’s title track “Lust For Life” stating, “Maybe that’s kind of weird to have a feature on the title track, but I really love that song and we had said for a while that we were gonna do something; I did stuff on his last two records.” For Lana it seems like having a lust for life is important after posting a video of herself singing in the woods following a weekend partying at the Music and Arts festival: Coachella.
“I’m not gonna lie — I had complex feelings about spending the weekend dancing whilst watching tensions w North Korea mount,” she wrote on Instagram. “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 favorite 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. 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.”
photo by Sharon Alagna
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