Carmen is a song that featured as Track 9 on the Born to Die album. One demo version has surfaced online, and an instrumental and acapella can also be found.
Carmen was released as a promotional single in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in January 2012. In April that year, she released a music video online to accompany it. She directed it the video and even features in it herself. The video ends with the song “Gymnopédie No.1.” by Erik Satie.
he song’s 17-year-old protagonist suffers from substance abuse. Del Rey admitted in 2012 that she had a problem with alcohol when she was a teenager, but hasn’t drunk for a number of years.
The setting of the song takes place in Coney Island, America’s original “Sin City”.
As far as what Lana Del Rey had to say about the song…“Carmen is a song I can’t say too much about because it’s so close to my heart. It’s the song on the record I relate to most closely. It’s set partly in Coney Island, a place that’s been important to me throughout my New York City career.”
Carmen was released as a promotional single in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in January 2012. In April that year, she released a music video online to accompany it. She directed it the video and even features in it herself. The video ends with the song “Gymnopédie No.1.” by Erik Satie.
he song’s 17-year-old protagonist suffers from substance abuse. Del Rey admitted in 2012 that she had a problem with alcohol when she was a teenager, but hasn’t drunk for a number of years.
The setting of the song takes place in Coney Island, America’s original “Sin City”.
As far as what Lana Del Rey had to say about the song…“Carmen is a song I can’t say too much about because it’s so close to my heart. It’s the song on the record I relate to most closely. It’s set partly in Coney Island, a place that’s been important to me throughout my New York City career.”