It’s the end of the world, as Lana Del Rey knows it. Though the lead single of the singer’s fourth major-label release would’ve had you thinking otherwise.
When Love was released earlier in the year, the luxurious torch song saw the former Lizzy Grant channelling uncharacteristic optimism. It’s an atypical message from Del Rey (“It’s enough to be young and in love”), who over the course of her past three albums, has been singing about love as a subject of two extremes – a hopeless addiction and a perverse masochism tool.