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Norman Fucking Rockwell
Studio album by
Lana Del Rey
ReleasedAugust 30, 2019
Recorded2016 – June 2019
Studio
  • Conway (Los Angeles, CA)
  • House of Breaking Glass (Seattle, WA)
  • Westlake (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Henson (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Electric Lady (New York, NY)
  • Gold Tooth (Los Angeles, CA)
  • SARN (London, England)
  • Rough Customer (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Valentine (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Hampstead (London, England)
  • Sunset Banana Split (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre
Length67:38
Label
Producer
Lana Del Rey chronology
Lust for Life
(2017) 		Norman Fucking Rockwell
(2019) 		White Hot Forever[1]
(2020)
Alternative cover
File:Norman Fucking Rockwell Vinyl Cover.jpg
Urban Outfitters exclusive cover
Singles from Norman Fucking Rockwell
  1. "Mariners Apartment Complex"
    Released: September 12, 2018
  2. "Venice Bitch"
    Released: September 18, 2018
  3. "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It"
    Released: January 9, 2019
  4. "Doin' Time"
    Released: May 17, 2019
  5. "Fuck It, I Love You"
    Released: August 22, 2019
  6. "The Greatest"
    Released: August 22, 2019

Norman Fucking Rockwell[a] is the sixth studio album and fifth major-label record by American singer Lana Del Rey, released on August 30, 2019.[4][5] The first singles from the album, "Mariners Apartment Complex" and "Venice Bitch", were released in September 2018,[6] followed by "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It" and "Doin' Time" in 2019.[7] The album title was announced in an interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 in September 2018.[8] The album was primarily produced by Del Rey and Jack Antonoff, with additional contributions from Zach Dawes, Andrew Watt and longtime Del Rey collaborator Rick Nowels.[9][10] Musically Norman Fucking Rockwell is a psychedelic rock[11][12] and trip hop[13] record, with desert rock[14] and classic rock[15] influences.

Background and release

Del Rey first mentioned follow up material to 2017's Lust for Life during an interview with Pitchfork in January 2018, at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. She said, "I’ve got a couple of other tracks. I’ve got this weird track called ‘Bartender’ that doesn’t belong to a record yet."[16]

The album's title was announced by Del Rey in September 2018, upon the premiere of the single "Venice Bitch" on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show World Record.[17] In her interview with Lowe, Del Rey revealed that the album was nearly complete, and that she had recorded eleven tracks for it.[18]

Throughout 2018, Del Rey shared snippets via social media of several songs intended for the album, including "Happiness Is a Butterfly",[19] "How to Disappear",[20] and "Cinnamon Girl".[21] She performed "How to Disappear" on October 29 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, debuting the full song for the first time.[22]

In a June 2019 concert in Ireland, Del Rey announced that the album would be released in August.[23]

The album's cover art, release date, and track listing were revealed by Del Rey on July 31, 2019.[24] The cover art features Del Rey and Duke Nicholson—actor Jack Nicholson's grandson—posing on a sailboat, with the album title and Del Rey's initials written in a comic-inspired style.[25] The photo was taken by Del Rey's sister, photographer Chuck Grant.[26] The following day, Del Rey released an album trailer.[27]

On August 2, 2019, Urban Outfitters announced an exclusive vinyl of the album featuring an alternative album artwork.[28] The alternative cover was also shot by Chuck Grant.[29]

Promotion

Singles

"Mariners Apartment Complex" was released as the album's first single on September 12, 2018.[30] The following week, on September 18, Del Rey released the second single "Venice Bitch" and revealed the album title.[31] "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It" followed as the third single on January 9, 2019.[32] Del Rey released a cover of Sublime's "Doin' Time" on May 17, 2019 for a documentary about the band.[33] It also served as the fourth single from the album. On August 22, 2019 the singles "Fuck It, I Love You" and "The Greatest" were released with a double music video. The music video runs at 9:19 minutes long, with the same shoot as the album trailer.

Tour

Main article: The Norman Fucking Rockwell Tour

On August 1, 2019, Del Rey announced two legs of a tour in promotion of Norman Fucking Rockwell. The first leg is set to take place in North America in the fall of 2019,[34] and the second in Europe in early 2020.[35]

Album trailer

A trailer for the album was released on August 1, 2019. It features three of the album's singles—"Doin' Time", "Mariners Apartment Complex", and "Venice Bitch"—as well as the title track.[36]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.0/10[37]
Metacritic86/100[38]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[15]
Clash[39]
Entertainment WeeklyB[40]
The Guardian[41]
The Independent[14]
Los Angeles Times[42]
NME[43]
Now[44]
Rolling Stone[45]
Slant Magazine[12]

Norman Fucking Rockwell was met with widespread critical acclaim upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 86, based on 12 reviews.[46]

In his review for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield gave the album four-and-a-half stars out of five and wrote that "the long-awaited Norman Fucking Rockwell is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, going deep cover in all our nation’s most twisted fantasies of glamour and danger."[45] He concluded that "[Lana] has finally made her pop classic."[45] In a perfect five-star review for NME, Rhian Daly called the album "nothing short of stunning."[43] Kristel Jax of NOW wrote that "Del Rey has shifted her kitschy patriotic fixation, dropping her flag-draped persona and making peace with a more complex, dystopian reality", also giving the album a five-star review.[44] In a positive review for Slant Magazine, Sal Cinquemani described the album as being "a heady collection of psych-rock and piano dirges that pour into each other and rarely shift tempo from track to track" as well as "frank assessments of the psychic effects of a world spiraling into chaos."[12] Also writing positively, Alexandra Pollard of The Independent wrote that "The album is sultry and soporific, sitting somewhere between the minimalist trip-hop of Del Rey’s early days, and the scuzzy desert rock she has toyed with over the years," and concluded that "This is Del Rey at her most assertive."[14] In their 'premature evaluation', Stereogum wrote that the album is "a beautiful opus for a new dark age — a fond look back at the world we just wrecked", and calling it "yoga music for the apocalypse."[47]

Alex Petridis of The Guardian wrote a more mixed review, writing that "It’s hard not to wish that she would broaden her perspective, adopt a different persona, shake things up a little."[48]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Norman Fucking Rockwell"
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
4:08
2."Mariners Apartment Complex"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
4:06
3."Venice Bitch"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
9:38
4."Fuck It, I Love You"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
3:38
5."Doin' Time"
3:17
6."Love Song"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
3:49
7."Cinnamon Girl"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
5:00
8."How to Disappear"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
3:48
9."California"
  • Dawes
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
5:05
10."The Next Best American Record"
  • Nowels
  • Kieron Menzies
  • Dean Reid
  • Mighty Mike[a]
5:49
11."The Greatest"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
5:00
12."Bartender"
  • Del Rey
  • Nowels
  • Del Rey
  • Nowels
4:23
13."Happiness Is a Butterfly"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Nowels
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
  • Nowels[a]
4:32
14."Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It"
  • Del Rey
  • Antonoff
  • Antonoff
  • Del Rey
5:24
Total length:67:38

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • All track titles are stylized in sentence case, except "Cinnamon Girl" and "The Next Best American Record" in title case, and "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It" in all lowercase.[49]

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ The title is stylized with an exclamation mark; the uncensored title reads Norman Fucking Rockwell!, while the censored title reads Norman F*****g Rockwell! or just NFR![2][3]

References

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  3. ^ "Lana Del Rey - NFR! - Tape". Rough Trade. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
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  10. ^ Spanos, Brittany; Spanos, Brittany (July 31, 2019). "Lana Del Rey Announces 'Norman F-cking Rockwell' Release Date, Track List". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
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  13. ^ Clara Mazzoleni (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey è arrivata fino a qui" (in Italian). Rivista Studio. Dei 14 brani del disco, che ondeggiano tra il trip hop e il rock (molto più rock del solito), quasi la metà erano già usciti nei mesi scorsi
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  15. ^ a b Fred Thomas. NFR! – Lana Del Rey at AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
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  20. ^ Renshaw, David (October 5, 2018). "Lana Del Rey previews new song 'How To Disappear'". The FADER. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  21. ^ Maicki, Salvatore (October 12, 2018). "Lana Del Rey teases new song 'Cinnamon'". The FADER. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
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  25. ^ Schneider, Alexandre (July 31, 2019). "Lana Del Rey's New Album Norman F*cking Rockwell Gets a Release Date, Tracklist and Retro Album Art". Paste Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  26. ^ Kushwaha, Brooke (July 31, 2019). "Lana Del Rey Reveals Album Art, Release Date, and Track List for Norman Fucking Rockwell". L'Officiel USA. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
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  29. ^ @LanaDelRey (August 2, 2019). "I love this cover so much, Laurel Canyon to the max and my favorite girls shot by my favorite sister" (Tweet). Retrieved August 2, 2019 – via Twitter.
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  33. ^ Torres, Eric (May 17, 2019). "'Doin' Time' by Lana Del Rey Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
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  37. ^ "Norman Fucking Norwell by Lana Del Rey reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  38. ^ "Reviews and Tracks for Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey". Metacritic. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  39. ^ name= "Clash">Lowe, Nick (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey - Norman F*cking Rockwell". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  40. ^ name="Entertainment Weekly">Johnston, Maura (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey cuts through the gloom on Norman F—ing Rockwell". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  41. ^ name= "the guardian">Petridis, Alex (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! review – an artist you can depend on". Retrieved August 30, 2019. {{cite web}}: More than one of |author= and |last1= specified (help)
  42. ^ Wood, Mikael (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey yearns as L.A. burns on her dazzling new album". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  43. ^ a b Dhaly, Rhian (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey – 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' review". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  44. ^ a b Jax, Kristel (August 30, 2019). "Review: Lana Del Rey stares deep into the soul of America on Norman Fucking Rockwell". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  45. ^ a b c Sheffield, Rob (August 30, 2019). "Lana Del Rey Builds Her Most Elaborate Fantasies Yet on 'Norman F-cking Rockwell'". Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  46. ^ "Critic Reviews for Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey". Metacritic. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
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  48. ^ Cite error: The named reference the guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  49. ^ Lana Del Rey (July 31, 2019). "NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL out August 30th Made with @jackantonoff #ricknowels #zachdawes Photo by @yourgirlchuck w #dukenicholson". Twitter. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
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