{"id":1020296,"date":"2026-08-24T04:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T04:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:06:22","slug":"the-band-lana-del-rey-said-will-never-be-as-cool-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020296\/","title":{"rendered":"The band Lana Del Rey said will “never be as cool as”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mon 24 August 2026 2:00, UK <\/p>\n

The one band that ornate pop sensation Lana Del Ray<\/a> thought trumped her in street cred may surprise even her most ardent fans.<\/p>\n

As has stood as a hallmark of her over 20-year career, Del Ray has held a fascination with Americana\u2019s cultural yesteryear and its phantasmic intersection with the contemporary world. If her songbook were to present itself as a landscape, Hollywood glamour, vintage cars, and cinema\u2019s golden age all poetically tower in her lyrical and aesthetic universe, propping up the suitable soundstages to her vintage pop fancies, from Born to Die\u2019s jump into Wall of Sound drama<\/a> to Ultraviolence\u2019s dreamy psych-twang.<\/p>\n

Naturally, such a look back to American culture\u2019s classic echo has seen Del Ray tackle some of the 20th-century giants\u2019 biggest hits, the likes of Nina Simone, Elvis Presley, and George Gershwin, all enjoying renditions on her records or performed on stage. You\u2019d think that such immortal names would stand as the premier bar for enduring cool, but it turns out that one recent group of the 1990s had made even the \u2018Video Games\u2019 singer hold her hands up in never matching their impeccable vibe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I\u2019ll never be as cool as Sublime,\u201d Del Ray quipped at her 2019 Grammy Museum interview.<\/p>\n

Sublime? The Long Beach ska-punk outfit that proffers in dudebro frat reggae beloved by surfers and earnest bring-their-acoustic-to-the-party types? Perhaps unfair, but the Californian skank rappers\u2019 backyard BBQ soundtracks seem a million miles away from Del Ray\u2019s taste for all things baroque and high-class. Still, among the lauded heights of Bob Dylan<\/a>, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, Sublime also count themselves featured in Del Ray\u2019s covers repertoire.<\/p>\n

The final song from 1996\u2019s eponymous third album, \u2018Doin\u2019 Time\u2019, cut another exemplary slice of Sublime\u2019s languid hip-hop shuffle, borrowing a sample of Herbie Mann\u2019s \u2018Summertime\u2019 and scoring frontman Bradley Nowell\u2019s lyrics comparing his time with a cheating, no-good ex-girlfriend akin to a spell behind bars in the big house.<\/p>\n

It did alright, floating to 87 on the singles charts, but such cod-reggae fodder would enjoy a grander platform when Del Ray sought to reimagine the minor Sublime hit for her own song canon.<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jump to May 2019, and Del Ray teased fans with hints of a new song and video, part of the marathon single campaign that preceded Norman Fucking Rockwell! that August. The timing was wry: Del Ray\u2019s grapple of \u2018Doin\u2019 Time\u2019 out on May 17th, the same time as the Sublime feature documentary was set to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, but critics and pop pickers alike were wowed by Del Ray\u2019s wield of trip-hop languor and heavy, hypnagogic, hazy shroud.<\/p>\n

Topped off with an Attack of the 50 Foot Woman-style video, Del Ray\u2019s \u2018Doin\u2019 Time\u2019 didn\u2019t actually set the charts alight either, climbing to an anaemic 59 on the Billboard Hot 100,<\/a> but its inclusion in the US top ten Norman Fucking Rockwell! breathed new life into the Sublime hit far beyond what Nowell could have anticipated, who died in 1996 before the original single was even released.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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