Summer Bummer

Album: Lust For Life (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • This moody song is a collaboration with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti. It finds Lana Del Rey trying to lock a rapper for the summer.

    Hip-hop in the summer (What? What? What?)
    Don't be a bummer, babe (What? What? Yeah?)
    Be my undercover lover, babe, hmm


    She wants a summer fling with someone who bumps hip-hop.
  • Del Rey and her longtime friend A$AP Rocky are frequent collaborators. She previously sung the hook for his unreleased track "Ridin'" and the rapper also appeared in her video for "National Anthem."

    "I've been in touch with him since ["National Anthem."] He travels a lot, but whenever he's in town... I'll come down to the studio and hear what he's working on and just do background vocals on his tracks, Del Rey told Zane Lowe. "I'll just do background vocals on a lot of his tracks. We kinda do them and forget them."

    Del Rey has never collaborated with Playboi Carti before.

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