Lana Del Rey kept things light and whimsical in the music video for her latest single, “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter.” The clip has the feel of home video footage as it follows the artist from different rooms around the house, primarily a cluttered garage, and a yard littered with flurries from a snow machine.
The garage is where Del Rey keeps the green John Deere mower she mentions in the opening verse of the song, where she sings about how her husband likes to push her around on it. He makes a cameo in the video, too. In that same room, she cooks up a meal on one of the two stoves she keeps in there. Del Rey also deploys some vintage cartoon footage in the video, including clips of Koko the Clown in the 1933 animation Betty Boop in Snow-White.
Del Rey first revealed the lengthy song title on Feb. 10 via her Instagram story. She said at the time that it was her “favorite song” from her upcoming album, Stove. “This is the one I’ve been waiting for,” she said. It was co-produced by Drew Erickson and Jack Antonoff, and co-written with her husband, Jeremy Dufrene, her brother-in-law, and her sister, Caroline “Chuck” Grant.
“Hi there, video coming out wanted to say thank you, Conner and Dillon and Anna and Jeremy for filming us, I couldn’t stop laughing,” Del Rey wrote on an Instagram Story ahead of the video premiere. “Grateful that Jack and Laura came out here and helped me finish this up, and for my sister for rooting me on every time I used to chant this song for fun. And for JASON constantly trying to find me the second part of the verse, Jeremy for always dancing when I would pull his little hawk tail hair and say it was getting so long.”
She added, “Drew, you nailed it throughout the top and middle of these songs, lining them with a little Glen Campbell and Disney. The craftsmanship is unmatched Laura, Dean and Michael and everyone else who helped edit this song and all these songs, you are the true sculptors in all these little jeweled bracelets we put out. Of course, not to mention everybody else we worked with on this album, including Zach Dawz, the Secret Sisters, Laci and oh my goodness Luke Robert, but I’ll have to save all that for another time.”
As for when that time might come, there still isn’t a concrete release date for Stove. “Honestly, soon. ‘Cause vinyl takes three months, so three months plus two weeks,” Del Rey said when sharing the single. “It could be, give or take, a bit less than that.”
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