Follows her reverently reserved cover of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" last month, Lana Del Rey has gone all vintage on us, this time, the 26-year-old singer has teamed up with her boyfriend, Scottish alt-folk band Kassidy frontman Barrie-James O'Neill for another cover of Nancy Sinatra's 1960s hit, "Summer Wine." And like last cover, this one is pretty damn faithful to the original. Saturated in sex, sepia, and her patented smoky voice, Del Rey never disappoints with those vintage-style visuals that she's become synonymous with, and her latest clip is absolutely marvelous!
Lyrically, "Summer Wine" describes a man, who meets a woman, Sinatra, who notices his silver spurs and invites him to have wine with her. After heavy drinking, the man awakens hungover to find his spurs and money have been stolen by the mysterious woman; the subtext of which being they experienced intercourse and as repayment she misappropriated his "silver spurs a dollar and a dime." He then declares a longing for more of her "wine." Another interpretation, often cited, is that the song is an allegorical description of drug use and that the lyric "she reassured me with an unfamiliar line" specifically refers to cocaine.
Del Rey has never downplayed her affection for Sinatra, you might remember she once called herself a “self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra” back in the “Video Games” days. Now, out of nowhere, she's covering a song Sinatra made famous and duet with songwriter Lee Hazelwood in 1967. "It's a little more stripped down but still cinematic and dark," Del Rey, has taken an old-school sound as of late, recently said of her new material. "I've been working on it really slowly but I love everything I've done." And yet, O'Neill in true Sonny & Cher fashion, steps in alongside the Paradise chanteuse, and together the two breezily remake the song with handheld footage of crashing Santa Monica waves and canoodling.
The accompanying music video itself is filmed on a Super 8, and like everything else in the visual world today, sees vintage-filtered home video footage of the pair performing the track in their garden, mostly composed of shots of Del Rey vamping it up on the gorgeous sandy beaches of Los Angeles, prances around flower fields and the twosome cuddling as they serenade each other and sparkle in "Summer Wine" for a very '60s effect. Typical Del Rey, being all perfect and whatnot. There's a reason they call her the gangster Nancy Sinatra, after all!
Lyrically, "Summer Wine" describes a man, who meets a woman, Sinatra, who notices his silver spurs and invites him to have wine with her. After heavy drinking, the man awakens hungover to find his spurs and money have been stolen by the mysterious woman; the subtext of which being they experienced intercourse and as repayment she misappropriated his "silver spurs a dollar and a dime." He then declares a longing for more of her "wine." Another interpretation, often cited, is that the song is an allegorical description of drug use and that the lyric "she reassured me with an unfamiliar line" specifically refers to cocaine.
Del Rey has never downplayed her affection for Sinatra, you might remember she once called herself a “self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra” back in the “Video Games” days. Now, out of nowhere, she's covering a song Sinatra made famous and duet with songwriter Lee Hazelwood in 1967. "It's a little more stripped down but still cinematic and dark," Del Rey, has taken an old-school sound as of late, recently said of her new material. "I've been working on it really slowly but I love everything I've done." And yet, O'Neill in true Sonny & Cher fashion, steps in alongside the Paradise chanteuse, and together the two breezily remake the song with handheld footage of crashing Santa Monica waves and canoodling.
The accompanying music video itself is filmed on a Super 8, and like everything else in the visual world today, sees vintage-filtered home video footage of the pair performing the track in their garden, mostly composed of shots of Del Rey vamping it up on the gorgeous sandy beaches of Los Angeles, prances around flower fields and the twosome cuddling as they serenade each other and sparkle in "Summer Wine" for a very '60s effect. Typical Del Rey, being all perfect and whatnot. There's a reason they call her the gangster Nancy Sinatra, after all!
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