The pop ballad was released on June 22, by Interscope Records as the fourth single of the album. That chart is where Del Rey's song became a modest hit and marked her first foray into the chart. In the summer of , a remixed version of the track by Cedric Gervais was released to American contemporary hit radio and helped the single become a sleeper hit , [3] debuting it at 72 on the Billboard Hot and becoming the highest charting single of her career in that country with a peak of 6. Switzerland and Austria gave "Summertime Sadness" a gold certification ; it reached platinum status in Germany and became a top forty year-end hit. The record also reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. The song's accompanying music video depicts Del Rey and actress Jaime King as a couple. As the storyline progresses, both characters commit suicide by jumping from perilous heights.

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Parents wondered why he sounded like that; a certain kind of depressed, literate adolescent saw him as a prophet. The song, like much of this record, is about returning home and assessing the damage: The aching chasm of what is now missing, and the strange, unexpected spoils of what still remains. In his earlier music, Oberst wrote about fractured fairy-tale characters to match the heightened emotions of his singing: a mysterious but doomed lover named Arienette; a baby brother named Padraic who drowned in a bathtub. As he matured as a songwriter, though, he began to rely less on macabre invention and more on gimlet-eyed observation. What allowed him to grow into an artistic adulthood more successfully than most of his perpetual-adolescent emo peers was the way he continuously widened his aperture beyond just heartbreak and teen angst to interrogate the bigger picture of why, exactly, he was so sad. Oberst evolved into a W. But Oberst has just as much catastrophe to explore on a more intimate scale.
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