page_title: Art Deco (song)
section_title: Background and composition
hierarchical_section_title: Art Deco (song) / Background and composition
caption_attribution_description: English: Azealia Banks performs at the 2012 NME Awards at the Brixton Academy in London.
context_page_description: "Art Deco" is a song by American recording artist Lana Del Rey for her fourth studio album, Honeymoon. The song was written by Del Rey and Rick Nowels, and produced by Del Rey, Nowels, and Kieron Menzies. Lyrically, "Art Deco" describes a "queen of the party scene". Some online media outlets notably speculated the song's lyrics to be about rapper Azealia Banks, though Del Rey has since declared this false.
  Musically, "Art Deco" employs a trap beat, and varying influences of jazz, trip hop, and hip hop. According to Lucas Villa of AXS, the song also features a noir aesthetic, as well as a "lady-sings-the-blues" aesthetic. Instrumentally, the song features synths, a saxophone, and percussion. Music critics generally gave "Art Deco" mixed reviews, with particular praise being directed at the song's diverse production, but criticism being placed on the song's lyrics.
context_section_description: "Art Deco" is four minutes and fifty-five seconds long. The song features a trap beat that has been described as "skeletal" by The Guardian's Kitty Empire, and "lazy" by Consequence of Sound's Nina Corcoran. Billboard believed the song to showcase Del Rey's "fervor for "1920s American culture". Nick Levine of Time Out noted a "dash of jazz" present on "Art Deco". According to Lucas Villa of AXS, "Art Deco" synthesizes the jazz influence and noir aesthetic present on Honeymoon with various influences, such as Del Rey's "trap queen side" present on "High by the Beach", a "lady-sings-the-blues" aesthetic shown on "Honeymoon" and "Terrence Loves You", and Born to Die's "trip hop sounds". Villa described the song's instrumentation as including "[t]olling trip hop synths" in the song's intro, a saxophone section, and heavy percussion, which is present throughout the song. Lyrically, Villa believed the song to feature Del Rey telling a story about a "queen of the party scene". Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly called the song "syrup-screwed" and said that it has a "hip-hop edge". Harley Brown of Spin believed Del Rey's vocal delivery on "Art Deco" to be "the most inviting it has ever been".
  "Art Deco" has been rumored, by online media outlets such as Billboard and Inquisitr, to be about rapper Azealia Banks, despite the apparent camaraderie between the two recording artists around the time of Honeymoon's release. In an interview with NME, Del Rey dismissed the rumors, saying: "Definitely not. I have no idea where people got that from. I just don't know what the correlation is. That song is actually about a group of teenagers who go out every night."
caption: Some media outlets believed the song to be about rapper Azealia Banks.
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