Album review: LanaDelRey's 'Normal F---ing Rockwell' finds the singer bringing her sound to early '70s Laurel Canyon
and Quentin Tarantino are often mentioned in the same sentence, because their art is similar in so many ways. Both are that rare phenomenon: the superstar cult figure whose highly individual art exists defiantly outside the mainstream but has an audience big enough — and more importantly, fanatically dedicated enough — to move culture.
Complicating the narrative is the fact that “Rockwell” is an Antonoff Affair — i.e. it’s largely co-written and co-produced by serial collaborator, who’s recently worked with Taylor Swift, Lorde, St. Vincent and Pink — and it arrives precisely seven days after one of the most heavily scrutinized albums of all time: Swift’s “Lover,” which he also largely co-wrote and co-produced.
But no matter who she’s collaborating with — Andrew Watt and longtime collaborator Rick Nowels also have a hand in “Rockwell” — Del Rey always dominates, and like all of her work in this persona, this album is another variation on her theme. She continues to push her troubled, almost comically extreme femme fatale persona even further into outrage while continuing familiar themes and even throwing in some hip-hop-influenced wordplay .
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