![]() US Rock Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) Ĭomposed in the key of E-flat major at a midtempo 100 beats per minute, Idolator characterized "Lust for Life" as a "witchy dream pop" song, as well as describing it as a breathtakingly ambitious track with "throwback to the wall of sound production of the '60s with the lush, beautiful harmonies associated with acts like The Shangri-Las". The track also peaked at #3 on the Worldwide iTunes Song Charts.Ĭanadian Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) Ĭzech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100) The song quickly went to #1 on the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart, becoming her second consecutive single from Lust for Life to do so, and in less than 24 hours the official audio gained over 4.7 million views on YouTube. Upon release, "Lust for Life" was a success for Del Rey commercially. Nowels called the original version of the song "a beautiful art song, it’s quite touching". He "rewrote a little bit of it," but she still felt like it was missing something, so she "went back for a fourth time and layered it up with harmonies", and felt that she was finally happy with the song. When Del Rey had returned to her main producer Rick Nowels, she felt like she really wanted The Weeknd sing the chorus, whom she is very close with and has worked with before. Throughout the making of the album she kept talking about Blade Runner being an inspiration.” It also added to the future-retro thing that Lana is so fond of. Engineer Kieron Menzies gave more insight about the song's composition by saying that “The first version was more ominous, but the spoken words and Motown/Phil Spector beat in the verses gave it more of a Shangri-Las vibe and a walking-in-the-sand feeling. Producer and engineer Dean Reid added "The original song was a long ballad with pads and vocals, and then Max’s crew rearranged it into more of a pop structure with beats, and then Lana wanted to do more of a ’50s doo-wop style spoken-word thing in the verses". In the end there were two versions of the song, with the new version ending up on the album”. There was a lot of energy in the room around making a hit single, so we rewrote it and made that the chorus of the song. the ‘Take off your clothes’ part, which originally was a verse. During the process of making the record Lana had a meeting with Max Martin and he said: ‘That verse could be a chorus!’ - i.e. According to Rick Nowels: “It was one of the first songs written for the album, and we completed the first version, and it was a beautiful piece of art. She loved the song but felt "it wasn't right", so while in process of finishing the song, Del Rey flew to Sweden to meet with Max Martin, who advised her to turn what had previously been a verse into the song's chorus. ![]() In an interview with Courtney Love for Dazed magazine, Del Rey opened up about writing "Lust for Life" and stated that it was the first song she wrote for the album. It is also rumored to have 323 different mixes. Lana reportedly recorded the demo for the song before Honeymoon was released. The instrumental of this demo leaked on October 3, 2020. A second snippet of this demo leaked two days later, with the full demo leaking hours afterward. On June 11, 2020, a snippet of a supposed second demo leaked online. Two demos of the song, the "blade runner" version and the 3rd demo, produced by Max Martin, leaked in full on October 15, 2020. At least two more demos are rumored to exist, one described as a "blade runner" version, and the other similar to the album version sans The Weeknd's contribution. This version was written solely with Rick Nowels, before Max Martin's rework. On January 29, 2020, a demo lasting 6 minutes was leaked on a Russian site. On August 31, 2017, the full instrumental leaked. On August 25, 2017, two official remixes of the song, one produced by BloodPop® and one by The Avener were officially released alongside remixes for " Summer Bummer". "Lust for Life" was the first track Del Rey released that features another artist. The song serves as the fourth collaboration between Del Rey and The Weeknd, the first three being his tracks, " Prisoner", " Party Monster", and " Stargirl Interlude". The song was officially released worldwide on April 19, 2017, shortly after being premiered worldwide on BBC Radio 1. After the song was registered, Del Rey teased the collaboration on March 26, when she tweeted The Weeknd's signature 'XO' logo, and she also teased it when she included the same 'XO' logo in the Lust for Life album trailer. ![]() The song was registered at ASCAP Ace Repertory under Del Rey's name during March 2017, with The Weeknd credited as a co-writer under his real name Abel Tesfaye. 11.2 Lust for Life CD by Polydor in France.11.1 Lust for Life CD by Polydor in France.9.4 Demo version 3 (produced by Max Martin).9.1 Album version & "BladeRunner" demo version.
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