Lana Del Rey premiered the glamorous grayscale music video for “Sweet Necklace” that includes Jon Batiste on Wednesday (Could 10).
Nonetheless, fairly than sharing a typical visible, the alt-pop chanteuse makes use of the practically 11-minute clip to take her followers behind-the scenes proper within the midst of the motion. Simply as she’s escorted right into a moody L.A. property by the legendary John Waters, the digital camera cuts to the director explaining, “So Lana? All that was cool. We’re gonna go and reset for a shot on John, his reveal.”
The atmospheric music by no means stops; as an alternative it attracts the observe off Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd out to double its size, as Del Rey sings, “You’ve been actin’ fairly reckless/ Dancin’ just like the younger and stressed/ And I’m obsessive about this/ All his sweet necklaces” as Batiste accompanies her on the piano.
Later, manufacturing captures the “A&W” singer explaining all the idea of the video, saying, “Why it was all speculated to be behind the scenes was as a result of all these ladies who, like, modified their title, modified their hair, like me and stuff. It’s like all of them fell into these completely different snakeholes. So the entire level is like, how do you study from that and never fall into your personal factor?”
Del Rey’s newest album bowed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 upon its launch final March and in addition incorporates singles just like the title observe, “A&W” and “The Grants” in addition to extra collabs with SYML (“Paris, Texas”), Father John Misty (“Let the Mild In”), Bleachers (“Margaret”) and extra.
Watch Del Rey and Batiste within the brooding video for “Sweet Necklace” under.