In 2021, Lana Del Rey said her dream collaboration would be Migos. “I think they kicked off a new super fun, super autobiographical, completely different style of rap,” she told Variety during a red carpet scrum. “I love them.” Lana's fascination with hip-hop stretches back over a decade, but the timing seemed odd: her albums from that year, Chemtrails over the Country Club and Blue Banisters, were folksier singer-songwriter affairs, softer and stripped down.
But where March’s Chemtrails leaned acoustic and traditional, a niche within the niche of Lana's sound, October’s Banisters refracted the wider expanse of Del Rey's agglomerated Americana into something more amorphous: here, a burst of Ennio Morricone turned trap, there, outtakes from 2014's psych rock foray Ultraviolence.
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