“It kind of didn’t go anywhere but we had a good time.' Then she casually slips into conversation that the group, which also included Kane, made a whole album together. 'We had a little rock band on the side,” she explains. On September 6, 2019, in an interview for NME magazine, Del Rey spoke about how ' California' was written and produced, mentioning that she and the group created a whole album during this process, with 'California' being part of it, but later reused for Norman Fucking Rockwell!.