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Lana Del Rey opens her sixth LP by walking us through her formative memories. Over an ambiguous piano melody, she sings, quiet and airy, “Thinking of a simpler time…”
“White Dress” feels like a stream of air, a current pulling you back into the past. Jack Antonoff plays every instrument — piano, guitar, brushes on drums — with a flowing, impressionistic touch, as if channeling Miles Davis’ band onAs the song builds to a climax, Lana confesses, “It made me feel, made me feel like a god/ It kinda makes me feel, like maybe I was better off…” She can’t exactly explain that spark of inspiration — only that there was magic in the ordinary that night.
, she’ll never stop questioning that core impulse — yet every version she’s written of this narrative is the same. She never changes her mind.“You took my sadness out of context/ At the Mariners Apartment Complex/ I ain’t no candle in the wind…” Her voice quavers as she looks back on her life, who she’s become, and what she stands for.