Lana Del Rey promotes album with billboard in ex’s hometown

Lana Del Rey is all about high quality not amount in the case of focused adverts. And, apparently, vengeance.

The L.A.-based singer-songwriter is utilizing one strategically positioned billboard to advertise her forthcoming album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” and it’s in her ex-boyfriend’s hometown of Tulsa, Okla.

“There’s just one and it’s in Tulsa,” the “Summertime Unhappiness” singer wrote earlier this week, captioning a photograph she took with the billboard on her supposedly non-public Instagram account. (A screenshot of it has been immortalized across social media.)

“It’s. Private,” she added.

The 37-year-old took purpose at ex Sean “Sticks” Larkin, whom she dated for six months earlier than they broke up in 2020 because of their “busy schedules.” Larkin, a retired police sergeant, can also be a actuality TV star who has appeared on A&E’s actuality present “Stay PD” and co-hosts the podcast “Coptales and Cocktails.”

Sean Larkin, left, and Lana Del Rey arrive on the Grammy Awards in L.A. in 2020.

(Jordan Strauss / Invision / Related Press)

The 2 famously attended the 62nd Grammy Awards in 2020, posing collectively on the crimson carpet.

Del Rey’s ninth studio album is due March 10. She launched its title monitor on Dec. 7, which seems to be Larkin’s birthday, her followers famous. Coupled along with her focused billboard, followers applauded the musician for unlocking a brand new stage of pettiness.

“lana del rey placing up only one billboard for her album in her ex boyfriends metropolis after which posting about it’s so lana del rey,” tweeted one fan.

“Lana Del Rey inserting the one billboard to advertise her album in Tulsa, Oklahoma (her ex’s hometown) is the extent of shady I aspire to be. Taylor Swift taught her nicely,” wrote one other, referencing the singer’s latest collab on Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” album.

“Lana Del Rey placing up 1 billboard to advertise her new album, in Tulsa Oklahoma, the place her ex lives, is the kind of petty that I LIVE for, “ tweeted one other.

“we love a petty queen,” added one other.

“Actually… slay,” tweeted one other.

In a Could interview with W magazine, the Grammy-nominated singer described her new music as “offended” and “conversational.”

“I’ve been training meditative automated singing, the place I don’t filter something. I’ll simply sing no matter involves thoughts into my Voice Notes app. It’s not good, clearly,” she mentioned. “There are pauses, and I stumble. However I’ve been sending these actually raw-sounding information to a composer, Drew Erickson, and he’ll add an orchestra beneath the phrases, matching every syllable with music and including reverb to my voice.

“Once I’m automated singing, I don’t have the time and leisure to consider issues by way of colours. It’s very cerebral. In ‘Honeymoon,’ there have been so many shade references … ,” she added.

“For this new music, there’s none of that in any respect. It’s extra similar to: I’m offended. The songs are very conversational. For the primary music, I pressed file and sang, ‘Once I look again, tracing fingertips over plastic luggage, I feel I want I might extrapolate some small intention or perhaps get your consideration for a minute or two.’ It’s a really wordy album. So there’s no room for shade. It’s nearly like I’m typing in my thoughts.”

Del Rey’s newest album follows her pair of 2021 LPs, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” and “Blue Banisters,” and can arrive nearly 4 years after 2019’s critically adored “Norman F—ing Rockwell,” which was thick with L.A. iconography associated to Laurel Canyon, Lengthy Seashore, the Venice boardwalk and a bar the place the Seashore Boys used to go.

The title monitor on “Did You Know …” is a slow-rolling piano ballad that additionally pays homage to an Artwork Deco pedestrian tunnel that lies beneath Ocean Boulevard at Pine Avenue in Lengthy Seashore.

In accordance with a 1992 story in The Times, the tunnel — which has a vaulted ceiling and runs 181 toes in size — was in-built 1927 “in order that beach-goers might keep away from traffic-clogged streets.”

Instances workers author Mikael Wooden contributed to this report.