Vertimus

It sounds rushed, stripped down, flat, basic. As others have said, where is the instrumentation that made the original seem and feel sincere and of its time and place? 
 
She's singing the lyrics a la the classic John Denver version, but she's not singing it as if she means it or has experienced what she's saying. Where's the sense of loss, the passion, the relief of finally getting back to the place that she feels she belongs? Compare it to Buddy's Rendezvous, for example.  
 
Funny how on OB she says, "the WAYYYY JOHN DENVER SINGSSS" and she's doing the opposite here, no passion. It seems to me that this would drive away potential fans rather than create new ones. 
 
I hope we get the Americana | Classics album and soon, but I hope the rest is a little more fully realized and heartfelt than this. 

The cover and the song give me "home and family". I think the song is just made for a contemplative time in the last month of the year when you're cozy at home in front of the fireplace drinking a warm tea or coffee while it's cold outside.
 

Her voice sounds amazing but Unchained Melody was the big win this week! This one is… not fully committed to a direction? I would either slow it down and make it more Lanacore, really reinterpretating it, or go all-out country like the OG. It feels like something fun she’d do around the piano with friends rather than a single. A sweet bonus track. But Unchained… my god. Deserves professional recording and a big rollout. That was a Lana culture reset right there. 

but instead she chooses to sing Coconut 

I'd love if she covered Don't Forget Me on this

Does anyone else think Lana would sound great singing a Bread song? 

Come on Lana, don't be shy, drop a covers album single every day until Christmas

I’m so serious when I say I would give anything to hear Lana cover Like a G6 lmaooo I love that song

I cannot believe we finally got the lead single from the American Standards Cover Album 
 

My thoughts exactly. It can't be a coincidence or accidental. 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

I'd love a good studio version of The Good Life. Being older than Lana, I when I think of American classics, I tend to think of music from the 1930s-1950s with jazz/blues overtones, like Skylark, My Funny Valentine, Last Night When We Were Young, and Lover Man, and Unchained Melody does come from the late 50s. 
 
I can't see Chelsea Hotel No. 2 fitting in with CRTMH and UM, but it depends what the album is called and what its focus is, especially as it was written by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian, making it not literally Americana. Though some might consider it a standard, but Cohen has so many songs that could be considered standards in the broad sense. I don't consider CHN2 a standard. 
 
It would be wonderful to have a double album of covers, maybe each disc having a different focus, one Americana and the other covers of all kinds. Imagine Lana doing Lilac Wine. 
That would be awesome. Or The Warmth of the Sun. In My Room, like Caroline No, is certainly a post-50s standard. 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

My thoughts exactly. It can't be a coincidence or accidental. 

There's a hilariously bad cover of CRTMH on Youtube purporting to be Lana. I found it very funny. 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

I'd love a good studio version of The Good Life. Being older than Lana, I when I think of American classics, I tend to think of music from the 1930s-1950s with jazz/blues overtones, like Skylark, My Funny Valentine, Last Night When We Were Young, and Lover Man, and Unchained Melody does come from the late 50s. 
 
I can't see Chelsea Hotel No. 2 fitting in with CRTMH and UM, but it depends what the album is called and what its focus is, especially as it was written by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian, making it not literally Americana. Though some might consider it a standard, but Cohen has so many songs that could be considered standards in the broad sense. I don't consider CHN2 a standard. 
 
It would be wonderful to have a double album of covers, maybe each disc having a different focus, one Americana and the other covers of all kinds. Imagine Lana doing Lilac Wine. 
That would be awesome. Or The Warmth of the Sun. In My Room, like Caroline No, is certainly a post-50s standard. 

I'd love a good studio version of The Good Life. Being older than Lana, I when I think of American classics, I tend to think of music from the 1930s-1950s with jazz/blues overtones, like Skylark, My Funny Valentine, Last Night When We Were Young, and Lover Man, and Unchained Melody does come from the late 50s. 
 
I can't see Chelsea Hotel No. 2 fitting in with CRTMH and UM, but it depends what the album is called and what its focus is, especially as it was written by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian, making it not literally Americana. Though some might consider it a standard, but Cohen has so many songs that could be considered standards in the broad sense. I don't consider CHN2 a standard. 
 
It would be wonderful to have a double album of covers, maybe each disc having a different focus, one Americana and the other covers of all kinds. Imagine Lana doing Lilac Wine. 
That would be awesome. Or The Warmth of the Sun. In My Room, like Caroline No, is certainly a post-50s standard. 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

I'd love a good studio version of The Good Life. Being older than Lana, I when I think of American classics, I tend to think of music from the 1930s-1950s with jazz/blues overtones, like Skylark, My Funny Valentine, Last Night When We Were Young, and Lover Man, and Unchained Melody does come from the late 50s. 
 
I can't see Chelsea Hotel No. 2 fitting in with CRTMH and UM, but it depends what the album is called and what its focus is, especially as it was written by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian, making it not literally Americana. Though some might consider it a standard, but Cohen has so many songs that could be considered standards in the broad sense. I don't consider CHN2 a standard. 
 
It would be wonderful to have a double album of covers, maybe each disc having a different focus, one Americana and the other covers of all kinds. Imagine Lana doing Lilac Wine. 
That would be awesome. Or The Warmth of the Sun. In My Room, like Caroline No, is certainly a post-50s standard. 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview. 
 
 

With Unchained Melody last night, another certified American classic, and now Country Roads, it certainly seems feasible that the covers album, with a country or Americana twist, is finally coming, as well as the recent magazine cover and interview.