“It’s personal,” writes Lana Del Rey mysteriously in an Instagram post of herself and a large billboard announcing her latest album, “There’s only one and it’s in Tulsa,” the hometown of her most recent ex-boyfriend, TV cop Sean Larkin.

The album, “Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard,” dropped March 24, and to the surprise of audiences expecting a breakup record — she hardly mentions him. Take that, Tulsa cop.

Del Rey dropped three singles before the release, the title track — a swooning and personal ballad of not wanting to be forgotten, and wishing for the right time to love and feel loved. Next, “A&W,” the trappy, psychedelic breakup song that many thought may embody the full record. Finally, just days before the release, Del Rey dropped “The Grants,” the records opening track about her family, which meshes gospel and poetry. 

From the jump, it is clear this album is deeply personal and about family, death, loss and the sanguine moments in life. 

Hailed widely by reviewers as her most personal album yet, the 16-track record allows listeners to “skinny dip” in her mind, to steal a line from track 14, “Fishtail.”

The first half of the album is melancholic and reminiscent, she remembers her late Uncle Dave and grandmother in “Kintsugi” by saying “When you see someone dyin’ / You see all your days flash in front of you / And you think about who would be with you.”

“Fingertips” is the standout track of the album to fans and critics alike for its disorganization and stream-of-consciousness style. Del Rey’s fear of death and her run-ins with it color the lyrics of this song, which sounds like spoken word set to piano.

She sings of learning about her Uncle’s death while on tour, “I couldn’t handle it, I was in Monaco / I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone / I had to sing for the prince in two hours / Sat in the shower / Gave myself two seconds to cry / It’s a shame that we die.”

Parallel to this narrative of lamenting her family’s deaths and fearing the same fate, Del Rey also narrates her own feelings of depression — including an anecdote of being dragged out of a lake by her neighbors after a suicide attempt at 15-years-old.

Motifs of suicide and an apparent want for death have followed the singer around since her debut album “Born to Die.” Perhaps most famously, Del Rey told a journalist at The Guardian, “I wish I was dead already.”

Del Rey later said the journalist used leading questions to squeeze the response from her, but the sentiment has been hard to shake for the singer. Del Rey seems distrustful of the media.

In the final track of the album, she seems to reference the coverage she has received over her career saying, “Print it to black and white pages don’t faze me / Before you talk, let me stop what you’re saying / I know, I know, I know that you hate me.”

The entire tone of the album shifts in track 12, “Let The Light In,” opening the door to more upbeat and experimental tracks such as “Peppers” with rapper Tommy Genesis. 

This track finds Del Rey at her most playful in modern on the record, “I was on the stairs / Ella Fitzgerald in the air / Feelin’ hella rare.” She delivers the lines in a way that is almost rap, but not quite — although Tommy Genesis picks up the slack with her referential and fun bars about the video game Tomb Raider.

The album’s final track “Taco Truck x VB” is a medley of a new song and “Venice B*tch” from her critically acclaimed 2018 album “Norman F*cking Rockwell.”

She sings tongue-in-cheek, “Met my boyfriend down at the taco truck / Pass me my vape, I’m feeling sick, I need to take a puff.” This line, among many others, is so real it’s almost oversharing. These lines are a breath of fresh air after delving so deeply into her psyche’s thoughts about death earlier in the record. 

“Venice B*tch” plays the record out, with a lovable scream from Del Rey in the background vocals “Never die … not tonight, Lake Placid,” a shoutout to her hometown in New York.

Having entered the tunnel under Ocean Blvd and exited to let the light in, Del Rey is clearly stating she will not succumb to the darkness of her upbringing, and instead chooses her sunny and familial life in Venice, California. 

“Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” is available for streaming on all major platforms. Del Rey’s website, lanadelrey.com, offers the record in vinyl, CD, cassette and digital forms.