Lana Del Rey's new album Honeymoon is on its way. Just days after releasing her new single "High by the Beach," the dreamy pop star sat down and talked to Beats 1's Zane Lowe to talk about her constant output of music, creative process and wanting all her unused music destroyed.
Del Rey, who is releasing Honeymoon next month just 15 months after Ultraviolence, admitted that she doesn't feel inspired "all the time" and that she wanted to move off her momentum by keeping to make new material.
"The jumping off point was the end of the last one, just feeling like I wasn't too tired and feeling still inspired like I could keep going. I just wanted to take advantage of it and see where it was going. I didn't think it would turn into an entire record, but as the months went on, I think in about January, I felt like I had eight months to write three-fourths of a new record," she said. "Because, you know, mixing and mastering takes so long - it can take me three months."
Del Rey also talked about her latest single, "High by the Beach" and its "Andrews Sisters meets hip-hop vibe," revealing that she had to layer the track over multiple times to achieve its unique sound.
"It started with the chorus - I was driving by the beach a lot - this was probably one of the last ones on the record. I like that the chorus, harmonies, all of the melodies, kind of had an Andrews Sisters vibe. It was a six-part harmony, but even with the harmonies it sounded kind of monotone. So it had this weird vibe to it, but even with the beat it had this weird trap influence."
And, in the midst of conversation that also covered James Franco's upcoming book about "real and imagined" conversations together and her other interests, Del Rey also admitted that, unlike dead stars like Kurt Cobain, she would not want her unreleased, old material released to the masses after she's gone. If it were up to Del Rey, she would even delete the files permanently, but her producers won't allow it.
"The other ones? I wouldn't be happy. I don't like them," she said.
Del Rey's new album Honeymoon will be released in September.
