Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. – 2LP Vinyl Album

Comes on 2LP vinyl album.

Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter and record producer Lana Del Rey.

Early in Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey highlights a sermon from megachurch pastor-to-the-stars Judah Smith. In the most Del Rey fashion, it was clearly recorded on her phone during a service — you can hear her and a friend’s giggles bump up in the foreground, above Smith’s projecting voice and a piano instrumental that keeps it moving. Smith proselytizes about love and lust, reading from the Book of Psalms. His presence feels strikingly superfluous in the context of Del Rey’s quite heavy ninth album (especially when you think too hard on the ickiness of his former views on abortion and homosexuality). But the way he fits into her vision becomes clearer in his final two lines:

“I used to think my preaching was mostly about you,” he says in a conspiratorial tone to what is likely a room of hundreds, if not thousands, of congregants. ”And you’re not gonna like this, but I’m gonna tell you the truth: I’ve discovered my preaching is mostly about me.” (source rolling stone.com)