{"id":2447177,"date":"2019-08-05T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=867670"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:00:39","slug":"hear-lana-del-rey-cover-donovans-season-of-the-witch-in-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-lana-del-rey-cover-donovans-season-of-the-witch-in-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Lana Del Rey Cover Donovan\u2019s \u2018Season of the Witch\u2019 in \u2018Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark\u2019 Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Lanadelrey.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/em>, the upcoming film produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/guillermo-del-toro\/\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a>, will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lana-del-rey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lana-del-rey\" data-tag=\"lana-del-rey\">Lana Del Rey<\/a>\u2019s new cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donovan\/\">Donovan\u2019s<\/a> 1966 folk-rock hit \u201cSeason of the Witch.\u201d A snippet of the cover can be heard in the latest trailer for the film, while the song\u2019s full debut will coincide with the movie\u2019s theatrical release this Friday, August 9th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have admired Lana\u2019s music for a while now and felt in my gut that she would run with \u2018Season of the Witch\u2019 \u2014 that she would use her alchemy to transform it,\u201d said del Toro (<em>Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em>, <em>The Shape of Water<\/em>)&nbsp;in a statement. \u201cShe is a great artist and has been an amazing partner with us in this adventure. It is an honor for me to have met her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/em> is based on the series of the same name by Alvin Schwartz. It\u2019s directed by Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal from a screenplay by Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman, and a screen story by del Toro, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. The film is set in 1968, two years after Donovan released \u201cSeason of the Witch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, August 6th, Del Rey will help honor del Toro at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. She\u2019s currently promoting her forthcoming album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-track-list-865743\/\"><em>Norman Fucking Rockwell<\/em><\/a>, and recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-norman-f-cking-rockwell-tour-866062\/\">the first leg of her North American tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-season-of-the-witch-scary-stories-trailer-867670\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the upcoming film produced by Guillermo del Toro, will feature Lana Del Rey\u2019s new cover of Donovan\u2019s 1966 folk-rock hit \u201cSeason of the Witch.\u201d A snippet of the cover can be heard in the latest trailer for the film, while the song\u2019s full debut will coincide with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 19:05:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}