Lana Del Rey has shared a preview of ‘Looking For America’, a song she wrote in the aftermath of the two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. She quickly became a top search term on something called The Internet.
Hi folks came back early from Montecito with my brother this morning and asked Jack Antonoff to come into town because I had a song on my mind that I wanted to write.
Lana Del Rey has shared a preview of ‘Looking For America’, a song she wrote in the aftermath of the two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.. [9] In the final verse, the narrator is able to speak his true emotions to Kathy, now that she is sleeping and cannot hear or answer. Now, after Dayton and El Paso, dozens of other mass shootings and scenes of people fleeing in panic every time a care backfires on the street, what should be a serene place of innocent fun feels like a potential hunting ground. In 1966, 1-2-3 also performed "Sounds of Silence" from this same tape.[20]. [2], "America" was inspired by a five-day road excursion Simon undertook in September 1964 with his then girlfriend Kathy Chitty. 46 on the U.S. Del Rey wrote a message about the song’s origins in the video caption, explaining that she had come back early from Montecito, California with her brother, “and asked Jack Antonoff to come into town because I had a song on my mind that I wanted to write”. To told Paul Zollo in 1993: "That has a real upright, earnest quality because we both have the identical soul at that moment. "[13], Stephen Holden, in reviewing Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits in 1972, wrote, "'America'...was Simon's next major step forward. [4], I asked Paul Simon if they were still charging the $1,250 we paid them to play and he said they were getting about four times that much then. Harry Styles Shows Off His Shirtless Body in Italy. The song is as spare and simple as a Sixties folk epistle. At least 31 people were killed and dozens more injured in the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend.
Folk singer Bert Sommer, a member of the group the Left Banke, covered the song in the late 1960s, and he also performed the song at Woodstock in 1969.[22]. We come from the identical place in our attitude, and the spine that's holding us up, we are the same person.
Garfunkel is especially fond of the section where they sing, "And walked off to look for America." Paul is deeply confused and unsatisfied, but he doesn't know why. "America" is a song that "creates a cinematic vista that tells of the singer's search for a literal and physical America that seems to have disappeared, along with the country's beauty and ideals. [28] On Black Friday of 2014, First Aid Kit released a 10" single containing the song as the title track. Bob Marley gave the songwriting credit for "No Woman No Cry" to his friend Vincent Ford, who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, the area of Kingston where Marley grew up. See her post and listen to the new song inside, and click here to buy it on iTunes.. Lana Del Rey has released a heartbreaking song to end what has been a uniquely heinous week in the ever-deepening national horror show. [11] The song's entire lyrics are painted on 28 buildings in the city, including railroad tracks and bridge supports.
The song was written as a response to the back-to-back shootings in Dayton and El Paso on August 3, 2019. The new Batwoman has arrived! Its theme of American travel and discovery evokes Simon and Garfunkel, her voice is as plaintively beautiful as Joan Baez’s, and her ability to turn grim news into potent art is on par with the Bob Dylan of “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” or “A Pawn in Their Game.” Those songs were recorded in response to racist violence during the Civil Rights era, chronicling moments of terror amid a rising tide of hope that America was on the verge of historic change and expanding promise.