That makes “Chemtrails” more interesting than the middle-of-the-road lead single “Let Me Love You Like a Woman,” but doesn’t mean it’s any more substantive. Producer Jack Antonoff, who helms the new album, as he did her last, seems to have taken a few notes from his folklore and evermore collaborator Aaron Dessner the track sounds as crisp as one of the musical “sketches” Dessner contributed to Taylor Swift’s projects. She sways and lilts through the delicate rhythm, eventually finding her way toward a glitchy bridge that takes over the entire song. “We laugh about nothing as the summer gets cool,” Del Rey sings, encapsulating the space the song itself occupies. The titular chemtrails only color the scene - really, there’s nothing to escape, not the elementary-school obligations or the fine jewelry.
It’s one of her classic dreamy love songs, set amid the high-class decadence she frequents with an added layer of suburban duty. On “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” the song, Del Rey doesn’t have much profound to say. (She’d also used that logic to lash out at the media before, when she targeted NPR music critic Ann Powers for a review of her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell!)
“Whoever wrote this is a genuine piece of shit.” It was the same defense as before, in a slightly different package: that her critics didn’t understand what she had to say because they just weren’t listening to all of it. You know I’m real,” she added in another. “Thanks for the cool soundbite taken out of context,” she wrote in one tweet. She also opined on the recent insurrection at the Capitol, saying that President Donald Trump “doesn’t know that he’s inciting a riot … because he’s got delusions of grandeur.” But when the Black-aimed culture publication Complex wrote in a headline, “Lana Del Rey Doesn’t Believe Donald Trump Purposely Incited Capitol Riot,” she singled them out on Twitter.
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The next day, she explained her comments to host Annie Mac when debuting the title track on BBC Radio 1. “Yes, there are people of color on this record’s picture and that’s all I’ll say about that,” she wrote, going on to name individual friends. Almost immediately after debuting the cover art, featuring a vintage-styled photograph of her and her friends, Del Rey defended herself against alleged criticisms that the group pictured wasn’t racially diverse. In the middle of that defense video, she revealed the title: Chemtrails Over the Country Club.Īfter a delay (which she attributed to the global slowdown in vinyl production), the album is now set to come out March 19, but it doesn’t feel like much else has changed. Her initial comments preceded the announcement of two book projects, including a spoken-word poetry collection Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, and an album, then set for September 2020. “Even if that means it’s kind of messy, like this, along the way.” The video was one of her multiple long-winded defenses after calling out a largely Black group of pop stars for expressing their sexuality in their music. “So I just want to say, nobody gets to tell your story except for you,” Lana Del Rey said in a May 2020 Instagram video. “Chemtrails” comes across as gilded as the insular world in which Lana Del Rey resides.
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