“Cause what about all these children, and all their children’s children,” she sings mournfully. “And why am I even wondering that today?”

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A lot of pop stars right now are clearly trying to figure out how to address our political climate in music. And this has led to a lot of vague protest songs, like Katy Perry’s “Chained to the Rhythm” and Harry Styles’s “Sign of the Times,” which I can only suspect are so insanely non-specific because artists do not want to alienate significant (*cough* Trump-loving *cough*) parts of their fan bases. Asked what he exactly was responding to in “Sign of the Times” in a recent interview, Styles refrained to cite anything other than “just the state of the world at the moment.”

And while “Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind” is a little frivolous (Lana, I love you, but Coachella will never be Woodstock) and far from the genuinely moving “Love,” it doesn’t feel as overwrought as Perry’s and Styles’s attempts at political pop. At least when Lana writes about feeling distracted by America it actually sounds personal. Maybe it’s that special touch of writing in the woods!

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Just remember to ask yourself next time you’re at a major corporate-branded music festival, what about all these children?