{"id":2447353,"date":"2019-08-09T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=869625"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T08:22:08","slug":"hear-lana-del-reys-season-of-the-witch-looking-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-lana-del-reys-season-of-the-witch-looking-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u2018Season of the Witch,\u2019 \u2018Looking for America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shutterstock_10020225oi.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After teasing two tracks earlier this week, <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> has shared the full versions of her new track \u201cLooking for America\u201d and her cover of Donovan\u2019s \u201cSeason of the Witch.\u201d Produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jack-antonoff\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jack-antonoff\" data-tag=\"jack-antonoff\">Jack Antonoff<\/a>, \u201cLooking for America\u201d is an emotional song Del Rey penned in response to the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing a live clip of herself performing the song in the studio on Instagram, Del Rey wrote, \u201cNow I know I\u2019m not a politician and I\u2019m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion\u2060\u2014but in light of all of the mass shootings and the back to back shootings in the last couple of days which really affected me on a cellular level.\u201d On the track she sings, \u201cI\u2019m still looking for my own version of America\/ One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly\/ No bombs in the sky\/ Only fireworks when you and I collide\/ It\u2019s just a dream I had in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f05T-DDQ6uQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSeason of the Witch\u201d cover was recorded for new horror film <em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark<\/em>, produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/guillermo-del-toro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guillermo-del-toro\" data-tag=\"guillermo-del-toro\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a>. Del Rey previously revealed a snippet of the song in a trailer for the film, in theaters 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&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>Del Rey helped honor del Toro when the director received his Hollywood Walk of Fame star earlier this month in a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Del Rey will release her sixth album,&nbsp;<em>Norman Fucking Rockwell<\/em>, on August 30th. She&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-release-date-track-list-865743\/\">recently revealed<\/a>&nbsp;the tracklist, but it\u2019s unclear if she will add \u201cLooking For America\u201d into the mix. Del Rey will tour in support of the album on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-norman-f-cking-rockwell-tour-866062\/\">The Norman Fucking Rockwell Tour!<\/a>, which kicks off September 21st at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-season-of-the-witch-looking-for-america-869625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After teasing two tracks earlier this week, Lana Del Rey has shared the full versions of her new track \u201cLooking for America\u201d and her cover of Donovan\u2019s \u201cSeason of the Witch.\u201d Produced by Jack Antonoff, \u201cLooking for America\u201d is an emotional song Del Rey penned in response to the recent mass shootings in Texas and [&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-2447353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 01:09:46","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\/2447353","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=2447353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}