Two New Lana Del Rey Songs Appear in Tim Burton Movie Big Eyes

Photo by Kirstie Shanley

Lana Del Rey has written two songs for Big Eyes, the forthcoming Tim Burton movie about Margaret Keane, the American artist whose iconic 1950s and ’60s paintings of big-eyed children were falsely credited to her then-husband, Walter. She co-wrote and sang the title track and “I Can Fly”, as The Hollywood Reporter points out. 

The title track appears halfway through the movie, while “I Can Fly” is used over the credits. “Lana’s song expresses what Margaret is feeling so perfectly, it’s like a soliloquy of her inner thoughts,” producer and co-screenwriter Larry Karaszewski said of the title track. Del Rey co-wrote “Big Eyes” with Daniel Heath and “I Can Fly” with Rick Nowels. The former contains the refrain “big eyes / big lies,” while the latter contains the line, “I had a dream that I was fine / I wasn’t crazy, I was divine.”

The Hollywood Reporter reports that it seems likely that one of the songs will be pushed for an Oscar nomination. That should make up for last year’s “Young and Beautiful” from The Great Gatsby, which was literally the target of a propaganda campaign meant to keep it from the nominations. #JusticeForLana

Big Eyes is out on Christmas.

Read our recent Ordinary Machines column on Lana Del Rey, “Pretty When You Cry”, and watch the video for “Ultraviolence”:

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