“Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Rey

"Summertime Sadness" is a pop and trip-hop ballad from Born to Die, Lana Del Rey's 2012 album, sent out by Interscope that June as the record's fourth single. Del Rey wrote it with Rick Nowels, who co-produced alongside Emile Haynie; Haynie also plays drums and keyboards, Patrick Warren adds guitar, keys and strings with Nowels, Daniel Heath plays flute, and Dan Grech-Marguerat mixed.

The song had a long second act. Trap and house remixes carried it onto the US dance charts, and a Cedric Gervais remix turned it into a sleeper hit on American pop radio in the summer of 2013, peaking at 6 on the Hot 100, her best solo showing in the US; that remix won a Grammy. Rolling Stone later placed it at 456 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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