New Lana Del Rey song responds to mass shootings

NEW YORK: Lana Del Rey is teasing a new song entitled “Looking For America,” which the pop artist said she penned in response to the recent spate of deadly mass shootings.

“I’m still looking for my own version of America / One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly / No bombs in the sky / Only fireworks when you and I collide / It’s just a dream I had in mind,” she sings as producer Jack Antonoff strums a guitar, in a clip Del Rey posted on Instagram.

“Now I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion- but in light of all of the mass shootings and the back to back shootings in the last couple of days which really affected me on a cellular level I just wanted to post this video that our engineer Laura took 20 minutes ago,” the 34-year-old American singer wrote in her post’s caption.

 

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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. Now I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion- but in light of all of the mass shootings and the back to back shootings in the last couple of days which really affected me on a cellular level I just wanted to post this video that our engineer Laura took 20 minutes ago. I hope you like it. I’m singing love to the choruses I recorded this morning. I’m going to call it ‘Looking for America ‘ @jackantonoff @sharp_stick

A post shared by Lana Del Rey (@lanadelrey) on Aug 5, 2019 at 4:03pm PDT

Horrific shootings over the weekend saw 22 people gunned down at a Walmart frequented by large numbers of Hispanic people in El Paso, Texas, and nine killed in a massacre carried out by a second gunman in Dayton, Ohio.