Candy Necklace


"Candy Necklace" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey featuring American singer and songwriter Jon Batiste from her ninth studio album, Did [You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd]. It was released as a limited-edition picture disc on October 6, 2023. On November 10, 2023, the song was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.
The accompanying music video directed by Rich Lee received general favorable reviews by critics, being nominated at the Art Directors Guild and winning the MTV [Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video].

Release and reception

On August 23, 2022, Lana Del Rey posted a snippet of the song onto her Instagram account. The song was officially released on streaming platforms on March 24, 2023, along with a visualizer on YouTube teasing the then upcoming music video.
Robin Murray of Clash felt the track "meanders through some familiar Lana themes, depicting Gatsby esque visions of high society." Noah Ciubotaru of Exclaim! described "Candy Necklace" as "a song suffused with lust and imagery of tainted innocence". While reviewing every track from the record, Billboard opined it "doesn't resonate quite as strongly following the blistering first quarter of the album, although it's worth sticking around for the swirling outro, where Jon Batiste's murmur joins Del Rey's own."

Music video

The official music video, directed by Rich Lee, has a duration of eleven minutes and was shot in Los Angeles. At the end of the video, Del Rey explains the meaning of the visual: "Why it was all supposed to be behind the scenes was because all these women who, like, changed their name, changed their hair, like me and stuff. It’s like they all fell into these different snakeholes. So the whole point is like, how do you learn from that and not fall into your own thing?".

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