Mariners Apartment Complex
| Mariners Apartment Complex | |
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| Lana Del Rey | |
| publication | September 12, 2018 |
| length | 4:06 |
| Genre (s) | Alternative rock , psychedelic rock |
| Author (s) |
Jack Antonoff , Lana Del Rey |
| album | Norman Fucking Rockwell |
Mariners Apartment Complex ( English for " Mariners Apartment Complex ") is a song by the American pop singer Lana Del Rey . The track is the first single from her sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell .
Creation and artwork
Was written the song by Lana Del Rey, US American in collaboration with the guitarist of the indie pop - band fun. , Jack Antonoff. The instrumentalization (mellotron, piano, synthesizer and twelve-string guitar) as well as the production was done by Antonoff, while Del Rey was at his side as co-producer. The technical support during the production took place under the direction of Laura Sisk. The single was released under the music labels Interscope Records and Polydor , published by Ducky Donath Music, EMI Music Publishing and Sony / ATV Songs , and distributed by Universal Music Publishing .
The cover of the maxi single shows Del Rey's upper body, against the background of conifers . She is looking straight ahead at the camera and is wearing a white T-shirt. On the shirt - in black and white - you can see a woman with a transparent negligee . Her face and stomach are covered with the help of two black bars that contain the inscriptions "Venice" and "Bitch".
Publication and promotion
The first publication of Mariners Apartment Complex was carried out as a single download on September 12, 2018. Its premiere the piece in the celebrated BBC Radio 1 -Show Hottest Record in the World . Del Rey first advertised the single five days before its release on September 7, 2018 on social networks .
background information
In an interview on BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record in the World , Del Rey revealed how the piece came about:
"The song is about this time I took a walk late at night with a guy I was seeing, and we stopped in front his friend's apartment complex, and he put his hand around my shoulder, and he said," I think we are together because we're both similar, like we're both really messed up, ”and I thought it was the saddest thing I'd ever heard. And I said, "I'm not sad, I didn't know that's why you thought you were relating to me on that level, I'm actually doing pretty good." And he was upset, and that's when I wrote the song. I thought, I had to do [that] so many times, where I had to sort of step on that role where I was showing the way and I was sort of being the brighter light. But that's why it's so cool that you're playing it. 'Cause I thought that I'd just put it out and it would be one of those things that I'd put out just to have there for myself, but it's cool being able to share it with people too.
(The song is about that time late at night when I was walking a man I saw. We stopped in front of his friend's apartment building. He put his arms over my shoulder and said, "I think we are together because we are We're both very screwed up. "I thought that was the saddest thing I've ever heard. I replied," I'm not sad. I wasn't aware that you were referring to me. I'm actually fine pretty good. "He was upset and that's why I wrote the song. I had so often the thought of having to do that, to refute the old picture and to show that I am not a happy person too. But that's why it's so cool for you to play the song. I thought I was just putting out Mariners Apartment Complex and it would be one of the pieces that I wrote just for myself. It's cool to be able to share it with people. "
content
The Mariners Apartment Complex lyrics are in English. Literally translated into German, the title means something like “Mariners Housing Estate”. The music and the text were written or composed jointly by Jack Antonoff and Lana Del Rey. Musically, the song moves in the field of alternative rock and psychedelic rock . The tempo is 76 beats per minute . Del Rey's voice ranges between the keys of E3 – G # 4. The piano plays in the key of A major . The song is built on two verses, a chorus and an outro . It starts with the first verse, followed by a pre-chorus and finally the actual chorus . The same process is repeated with the second stanza, the second pre-chorus not being the same as the first. After the second chorus, an outro follows at the end of the song. The outro takes up the line “Catch a wave and take in the sweetness” from the second verse and ends with the repeating question “Are you ready for it?” ( English for “ Are you ready for it ?”).
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Music video
The black and white music video for Mariners Apartment Complex was filmed on July 13, 2018 in Los Angeles (United States) and premiered on YouTube on September 12, 2018 . At the beginning of the video you can see a long scene of a swell . Then you see Del Rey with her two band members Alexandria Kaye and Ashley Rodriguez, who play with a butterfly. In between there are also scenes in which Del Rey moves alone and sings the song. You can see them in front of a highway or a substation . In the middle of the video there is another long swell scene before Del Rey and her two band members can be seen again. The video ends with another longer scene of the swell. Del Rey's scenes are reminiscent of a Super 8 film . The total length of the video is 4:18 minutes. Directed by Del Rey's younger sister, Caroline “Chuck” Grant. To date, the music video has over 13.9 million views on YouTube (as of February 2019).
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reception
Reviews
Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos says the song feels like a "spiritual sequel" to Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel No. 2 feel. At the end of the year Rolling Stone placed the song in sixth position in their "50 Best Songs of 2018".
Lindsay Teske from the US online magazine Consequence of Sound described Mariners Apartment Complex as a "delicate and poetic act of rebellion". At the end of the year, the online magazine placed the song in 29th position in its “50 Best Songs of 2018”.
Charts and chart placements
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Mariners Apartment Complex reached position 89 in the single charts in Switzerland and stayed in the charts for a week. In the United Kingdom, the single also reached position 79 on the charts in a chart week . The single missed an official chart entry in Germany, but Mariners Apartment Complex was able to place itself in the German iTunes daily evaluations for several days and reached its highest chart listing on September 13, 2018 at position 42. In its home country, the United States, the single also missed the official list Single charts , but Mariners Apartment Complex placed in some genre charts. The single reached position seven in the Billboard Alternative Digital Song Sales , position 13 in the Billboard Pop Digital Song Sales and position 42 in the Billboard Digital Song Sales .
For Del Rey as a performer, Mariners Apartment Complex is already the 20th chart success in the United Kingdom and the 16th in Switzerland. As a writer, it is her 19th chart success in the British charts and her 15th in Switzerland. For Antonoff, in his role as an author or producer, it is the 13th chart success in the United Kingdom and the tenth on the Swiss charts.
Trivia
The words "Venice" and "Bitch" are on the cover picture for the single. The term "Venice Bitch" can be found on the one hand in the lyrics of the first bridge and on the other hand, six days after the release of Mariners Apartment Complex, a single entitled Venice Bitch was released on September 18, 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Lana Del Rey: Lana Del Rey. twitter.com, September 7, 2018, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Ryan Reed: Lana Del Rey Recruits Jack Antonoff for New Song 'Mariners Apartment Complex'. rollingstone.com, September 12, 2018, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Mariners Apartment Complex by Lana Del Rey. musicnotes.com, accessed February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ BPM for 'Mariners Apartment Complex' by 'Lana Del Rey'. songbpm.com, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Lana Del Rey: Lana Del Rey. twitter.com, July 13, 2018, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Sam Moore: Lana Del Rey previews 'Norman Fucking Rockwell' with teaser clip of 'Happiness is a Butterfly'. nme.com, January 11, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Steven Gottlieb: Lana Del Rey “Mariners Apartment Complex” (Chuck Grant, dir.). videostatic.com, September 17, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Brittany Spanos: Song You Need to Know: Lana Del Rey, 'Mariners Apartment Complex'. rollingstone.com, September 19, 2018, accessed February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Brittany Spanos, Rob Sheffield, Will Hermes, Maura Johnston, Suzy Exposito, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Elias Leight, Charles Holmes, Mosi Reeves, Jonathan Bernstein, Christian Hoard, Jon Dolan: 50 Best Songs of 2018. rollingstone.com, 14 December 2018, accessed February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ CoS Staff: These are the songs that punctuated our most meaningful moments of 2018. consequenceofsound.net, December 11, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Lana Del Rey. officialcharts.com, accessed February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Lana Del Rey - 'Mariners Apartment Complex' German iTunes Chart Performance. itunescharts.net, September 13, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Search results. billboard.com, accessed February 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Venice Bitch by Lana Del Rey (Single, Dream Pop). rateyourmusic.com, accessed February 13, 2019 .