"Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind" is a trap song written by American songwriters
Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Lana Del Rey discography, Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of Glamour (presentation), glamor and Romanc ...
and
Rick Nowels
Richard Wright Nowels Jr. (born March 16, 1954) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artists,Lust for Life''. It was released on May 15, 2017 as a promotional single from the album.
Del Rey wrote the song after attending the Coachella Valley Music Festival in April 2017. The song was written out of guilt of the enjoyment of the festival, during a time tension between the United States and North Korea which began in 2017.
Background and writing
The song was first announced on the Arabic streaming service
Anghami
Anghami ( , "melodic"/"my melodies") is the first legal music streaming platform and digital distribution company in the Arab world. It launched in November 2012 in Lebanon, providing unlimited Arabic and international music to stream and downlo ...
on May 13, 2017. The song was then released as a promotional single from ''Lust for Life'' on May 15, 2017.
Del Rey wrote the song and posted a video of herself on
Instagram
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singing a short snippet of it on April 17, 2017. She recorded the video after attending the 2017
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Coachella (officially called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and sometimes known as Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colora ...
in
Indio, California
Indio (Spanish language, Spanish for "Indian") is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. Indio is approximately east of Los Angeles, east of Palm Springs, ...
, and she captioned the video saying:
Composition
"Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind" has been described by ''
The Guardian
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ballad
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that ''
Exclaim!
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'' has described as "an
electronic
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spin on Lana's classic torch-song style". The song's
chorus
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Music
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* Chorus effect, the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound
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Stairway to Heaven
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" by
Led Zeppelin
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.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
* Lana Del Rey – vocals, production, composition
*
Rick Nowels
Richard Wright Nowels Jr. (born March 16, 1954) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has co-written and co-produced over 90 hit singles with multiple artists,List of anti-war songs
Some anti-war movement, anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that ...