(Is “Date Rape” the most capital-P Problematic song ever made? It’s at least top 10.) But the ultimate Sublime songs - “Santeria,” “40oz. Granted, there’s also a great deal of dorm room bong hit nonsense as to be expected, alongside some stuff that would’ve gotten Nowell and his bandmates insta-canceled had it come out in 2019 and not 1991. I’ve been listening to a lot of Sublime since Del Rey’s cover came out, and have been pleasantly surprised at how well their best songs hold up. I challenge anyone to read the following lyrics and say with certainty whether they were written by Del Rey or Nowell: “Oh, take this veil from my eyes / My burning sun will someday rise.” All of which is to say that the little Venice bitch appears additionally well qualified to represent the LBC I might even suggest that her version of “Doin’ Time” improves upon the original, with its slinkier arrangement and fluttering bridge, but I’ve always been more of a “Wrong Way” loyalist myself. The song’s devoted to the quintessential LDR theme of being hopelessly devoted to your significant other who treats you like shit but you kind of like it. Go look up the lyrics and tell me I’m wrong.) The George Gershwin sample gone trip-hop is straight out of Lana’s wheelhouse, like something she might’ve done on Born To Die that could have soundtracked a long-lost Mad Men episode where Don gets robbed by a seductive tweaker he meets in a Long Beach dive bar.
to Freedom” are parallel descriptions of the same date, twenty years removed. (Although now that I think about it, it’s entirely possible that “Summertime Sadness” and “40oz. Naturally, of all the Sublime cuts, Del Rey would go with “Doin’ Time”: it’s essentially the “Summertime Sadness” of the Sublime discography, in which the living’s supposedly easy but the frontman’s been dead for two months. The last time I reviewed a Lana Del Rey album, I literally described it as “sublime,” though apparently the band didn’t know what the word meant when Nowell’s girlfriend picked it randomly from a dictionary. Both load their songs with references on references, be they to Walt Whitman and Elvis or KRS-One and Bob Marley. (That, obviously, is Justin Bieber.) But the more you think about it, the affinity makes total sense: Sublime’s songs, like LDR’s songs, are set in the shadowy corners of California, teeming with star-crossed lovers, transcendental depravity, and A-1 storytelling that never really gets its due credit. At first this registered as kind of a mind-blowing statement - of all the celebrities I picture rocking out to some third-wave ska on the daily, Lana is not exactly the first to come to mind. Most recently, Lana released “Mariners Apartment Complex”, “Venice Bitch”, and “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it” to widespread praise.“Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song,” Del Rey announced along with the track’s release.
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The track is available now to stream and download on all partners via Polydor/Interscope/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company.
The documentary, produced by two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag ( Twin Towers, You Don’t Have to Die), premiered this past April during New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. What an honor to have her talent compliment the Sublime legacy.” - Troy Dendekker (Bradley Nowell’s Widow) “Lana’s cover of “Doin’ Time” is magical and haunting. The smoky, sexy, and iconic sound of her voice breathes new life into one of our favorite singles.” - Bud Gaugh of Sublime “We are so excited to be collaborating with Lana on this. They epitomized the SoCal vibe and made a genre and sound totally their own.” - Lana Del Rey “Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song. The song was produced by Andrew Watt and Happy Perez and will be featured in the upcoming documentary “Sublime” that outlines the history of the iconic California band.
(TORONTO, ON) - Today, Lana Del Rey released a cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time”. THE SONG WILL BE FEATURED IN THE UPCOMING “SUBLIME” DOCUMENTARY
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