Lana Del Rey previews new song 'Life Is Beautiful'

May appear on her forthcoming album, Honeymoon

Andy Morris
09:31 22nd April 2015

Lana Del Rey has previewed new track 'Life Is Beautiful' for the soundtrack for new film, The Age of Adaline. Watch the trailer below.

Starring Blake Lively and Harrison Ford, the film focuses on a young woman who stops ageing following a car accident on her 30th birthday. Seemingly pitched as "Benjamin Button goes Gossip Girl", critics have already praised Lively's "melancholy spaciness", which would suggest that Del Rey is the perfect choice for the soundtrack.

The song itself would suggest that Del Rey's new album Honeymoon is going to be a stunning affair: 'Life Is Beautiful' has got Del Rey's trademark sense of delicate mournfulness, with her lyrics of hope and escapism laced on top.

Hear the new Lana Del Rey track 'Life Is Beautiful' in The Age Of Adaline trailer below

Del Rey recently announced that she's been working with producer, chart-topper, songwriter and 'Uptown Funk' extraordinaire Mark Ronson. In an piece with Interview Magazine. "I'm going to do some recording with Lana Del Rey today and tomorrow," he said. "I found this cool old studio out here [in Los Angeles]". The musician/producer added: "She has some songs and I said I had some demo ideas, and if they are any good, then maybe she'll like them and we'll go from there."

Speaking to Billboard about the record, Del Rey said the tracks are more similar in tone to her breakthrough Born To Die than the gloomy seduction of Ultraviolence.

"It's very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise" she explains. "It's growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good."

Del Rey also said that she has covered Nina Simone’s 'Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood' for the album explaining “I like summarising the record with a jazz song. I’m having fun with my interpretation.”

The singer also recently told the LA Times about how her work on the soundtrack for Tim Burton's Big Eyes had helped inspire the new album. "I'm working on a new record now, and I have this one song, 'Music to Watch Boys To'. The title lends itself to a visual of shadows of men passing by, this girl's eyes, her face. I can definitely see things".

Lana Del Rey is set to play a number of dates in the US with Courtney Love but has announced no UK dates so far.

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