“Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”
Lana del Rey promotes a new album – but only in her ex-boyfriend’s place of residence
Lana del Rey recently announced her ninth album – on her ex-boyfriend’s birthday
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Singer Lana del Rey will release her ninth album in March. There is only one advertising poster for the record. And that is just in the place where her ex-boyfriend lives.
For her upcoming album “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” the singer Lana del Rey only had a single advertising poster placed. And this hangs neither in New York nor in Los Angeles, but in Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma, where her ex-boyfriend lives. The 37-year-old shared the unusual marketing campaign on her private Instagram account. Under the photo of the advertising banner, she wrote the ambiguous sentence “There is only one”, in German “There is only one” – or “There is only one”. The picture is available for everyone to see on a fan account that shares the recording from Lana del Rey’s private account on a public channel.
According to media reports, what is meant is her former partner, the police officer Sean Larki, who also starred in the popular TV series “Live PD”. The singer met him in 2019. As the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungreported that over the next six months, the couple commuted between their homes in Los Angeles and Tulsa.
Lana del Rey has ‘no place for color’
They have appeared together on the red carpet on a number of occasions, including at the 62nd Grammy Awards in 2020. The surprising separation followed in the same year. The reason was the “full schedule”, quotes the “Los Angeles Times” the singer’s statement at the time.
It is also striking that Lana del Rey released her new single, the first track from the album of the same name, on December 7th, the birthday of her ex-boyfriend. The song is described by the Los Angeles Times as “a slow-rolling piano ballad” that also pays homage to a long-forgotten pedestrian tunnel. The Art Deco-style structure is located under Ocean Boulevard on Pine Avenue in Long Beach, California. The album is to follow on March 10th. It is Lana del Rey’s ninth album after releasing two works in 2021 with “Chemtrails over the Countryclub” and “Blue Banisters”.
There is “no place for color” on her new record, she revealed a few months ago in an interview with “W Magazine“It’s going to be a very wordy album, the songs are very talkative. “It’s more like this: I’m angry,” said the 37-year-old. “I just sing everything that comes to mind into my voice notes app . It’s obviously not perfect,” she says of the creative process behind her new songs.
Sources: “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“, “Los Angeles Times” (I), “Los Angeles Times” (II), “Rolling Stone“, “W Magazine“