![]() “Doin’ Time” is primarily about being trapped in love with another person long after the relationship has gone bad. This juxtaposition represents a longing for a better life that couldn’t be obtained. By the end, Porgy is a murderer and Bess has run off with another man, and nothing is truly resolved. In terms of the opera, it is a constant positive, or, at least, an attempt to seek what is positive when the story becomes darker and darker. ![]() The first verse of the song, “Summertime, an’ the livin’ is easy” is repeated throughout, weaving its way through a positive description of nature and life provided as a way to sooth a child. Porgy is a man who has nothing going for him yet still longs to be with Bess, a woman caught up in an abusive relationship. Composed by Gershwin with lyrics by DuBos Heyward, the song is rooted in African-American spirituals that is repeated throughout a story that tells the highs and the lows of life for African Americans in South Carolina, especially between those who are caught up in the mad pursuit of passion. “Summertime” is the jewel of Gershwin’s American opera, Porgy and Bess. Although she did little to transform the base material, she captured a unique spirit by blending her haunting, wispy vocals with the reggae influence to move the song closer to the George Gershwin’s “Summertime” from which the “Doin’ Time” uses as a pseudo-refrain. Because in Del Rey's world, even a pared back look calls for a little glamour.Recently, Lana Del Rey released a cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time,” a 1997 ska classic that combines a boast regarding the band’s credentials with a story of love gone wrong. But with Sublime's laid-back disposition infiltrating her imagination, and the humidity-laden days of summer just around the bend, it's a fitting time for Del Rey to eschew her careful hair routine and let her mane run wild-albeit with the aid of a curling iron and a surplus of hairspray. ![]() ![]() While Del Rey is by all means a beauty chameleon, more often than not her look is anchored by immaculately-coiffed S-waves, not a hair out of place. ![]() "They epitomized the SoCal vibe and made a genre and sound totally their own." And just as she puts a sultry spin on the spurned lover's anthem, Del Rey is embodying their Californian free-spiritedness with a new thick tumble of curls for the single's cover art. "Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song," Del Rey said in a statement. And instantaneously, a whole new generation was introduced to the evocative lyric from George Gershwin's 1934 song "Summertime," a ballad that's been immortalized by many artists over the decades, including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Janis Joplin.Īnd now, as part of the new documentary Sublime, which examines the ska trio's significant influence and long-lasting legacy, Lana Del Rey is crooning the evocative line in a cover of the band's 1996 single "Doin' Time," a loose riff on the original jazz standard. In 1996, Sublime's late lead singer Bradley Nowell first sang: Summertime and the living's easy. ![]()
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