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How Come Lana Del Rey Is Almost Absent from Her Snow On the Beach Collab with Taylor Swift?

written by Caleb Olson
How Come Lana Del Rey Is Almost Absent from Her Snow On the Beach Collab with Taylor Swift?
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Apparently, the track was too good to change anything in it.

Summary

  • Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is in full swing, promoting her Midnights album.
  • The album debuted a year ago.
  • One of the tracks features Lana Del Rey, who's next to inaudible in the recording.
  • The singer liked the song the way it turned out and didn't want to alter anything.

As Taylor Swift keeps rocking the world with her Eras Tour, we seem to have grown accustomed to her making headlines from time to time. For example, it was recently announced that the movie version of the concert has grossed a whopping $250 million worldwide. With that in mind, it is no wonder that the anniversary of the singer's tenth studio album, Midnights, has been largely overlooked.

Released on 21 October 2022, Midnights broke a number of Guinness World Records, including the Most Streamed Album on Spotify in 24 Hours, and is expected to win several Grammys at the 2024 ceremony. Interestingly, another celebrated artist, Lana Del Rey, collaborated with Taylor Swift on Snow On the Beach from the album. However, Del Rey seems to be almost absent from the track they recorded together. The singer recently shed some light on how this happened.

An Instance of Mimicry

According to Lana Del Rey, there were several versions of the song. However, none of them would suggest that the singer was in it for any particular reason. Del Rey's ability to mimic other singers' voices and singing styles made her own inaudible when combined with Taylor Swift's.

'Okay, so what happened with Snow On the Beach was… That was actually the song Taylor wanted me to sing on. If I think somebody's song is perfect, I will act as a producer in it. I can mimic almost anyone, so I am all over the first version of Snow On the Beach, but I layer and match her vocals perfectly, so you would never even know that I was completely all over that first song,' Lana said in a recent interview.

Ultimately, they could have re-recorded it to give way to Del Rey's singing, but they didn't. And here's why.

The Rule of Perfection

With her immense talent and expertise in music production, Lana Del Rey understood that Snow On the Beach sounded perfect the way it was. For this reason she refused to re-record it.

'She [Taylor Swift] wanted me to sing the whole thing, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it,' the artist shared her creative wisdom.

Indeed, Snow On the Beach turned out perfect with Lana Del Rey's vocals reduced to several lines of the chorus and the second verse. It seems that quantity isn't quality after all.

Source: YouTube.