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Wikipedia article
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| artist = Lana Del Rey featuring ASAP Rocky
| album = Lust for Life
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| prev_title = Summer Bummer
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| next_title = God Save Our Young Blood
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"'Groupie Love'" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey featuring American rapper ASAP Rocky featured on her fifth studio album 'Lust for Life'. The song was released for digital download on July 12, 2017, alongside "Summer Bummer" featuring ASAP Rocky and Playboi Carti, as a promotional single with the pre-order of the album. The song was later sent to Italian radio on July 28, 2017 as the album's fourth single. The pop and hip hop song was written by Del Rey, Rick Nowels and Rakim Mayers with the production being handled by Del Rey, Emile Haynie, Rick Nowels, Kieron Menzies, Hector Delgado and Dean Reid.
Critical reception
"Groupie Love" received mixed reviews from critics. Dan Weiss of 'Consequence of Sound' criticized ASAP Rocky's contribution, saying that it "adds nothing" to the track. Ana Gaca of 'Spin' said that "'Groupie Love' relegates Rocky to a pop song's standard third verse rap feature, where any supposed romantic chemistry falls flat. Del Rey's choruses are almost lush enough to sell a vision of vintage backstage hedonism, but she winds up tripping over the clichs she idolizes. The very first lines"You're in the bar / Playing guitar"should have been struck as soon as they were written."
Matt F of 'HotNewHipHop' said that "Groupie Love" "captures a similar, gently warped vibe that her previous music has fostered over the years". Alexa Camp of 'Slant Magazine' said that compared with "Summer Bummer", "Groupie Love" is more a retro-minded pop song featuring Del Rey's signature sonorous, reverb-coated vocals.
Odette Yiu of 'juice.com.sg' described the song as a "soul-folk-trap melange that gets her point across. And from it all beams an effusive self-confidence and surety that is new to her oeuvre. "It's so sweet, / Swingin' to the beat / When I know that you're doing it / All for me," she croons, her voice sultry and seductive, the tone both transfixed and transfixing, and almost tauntingly knowing." Yiu also said that Rocky "plays so much more than second fiddle. He's the match to Lana's gushing oil wells and child-lipped, rose-eyed, ceaseless caresses of affection: The "You and I 'til the day we die" to her "It's like magic, babe, isn't life wonderful?" Gone are the dreary days of her 'Born to Die' sadness.
Track listing
Credits
Credits adapted from Tidal.
'Management'
*Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing (ASCAP)
*Published by A$AP Rocky Music Publishing LLC/Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI)
*Published by R-Rated Music administered by EMI April Music Inc (Global Music Rights)
*A$AP Rocky appears courtesy of A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds Music/RCA Records
'Personnel'
*Lana Del Rey vocals, songwriting, production
*ASAP Rocky vocals, songwriting
*Rick Nowels songwriting, production, Mellotron, piano, synthesizer, synthesizer program, vibraphone
*Hector Delgado production, engineering, keyboard, bass guitar, drums, percussion, synthesizer
*Kieron Menzies production, engineering, keyboard, drums, mixing, percussion, synthesizer
*Dean Reid production, engineering, bass guitar, vocoder, mixing, sound effects
*Trevor Yasuda engineering, keyboards
*Patrick Warren keyboards, piano, strings
*Zac Rae keyboards, electric guitar
*David Levita electric guitar
*Berkay Birecikli percussion
*Mighty Mike sound effects
Charts
Release history
References
Category:2017 songs
Category:Songs about groupies
Category:Lana Del Rey songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Emile Haynie
Category:Song recordings produced by Rick Nowels
Category:Songs written by ASAP Rocky
Category:Songs written by Lana Del Rey
Category:Songs written by Rick Nowels
Category:Polydor Records singles
Category:Interscope Records singles
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