Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Rustin’ Song “Road To Freedom” Is “A Call To Action”; The Story Behind ‘Let Love Rule’ & “Surprises” On New Album ‘Blue Electric Light’
deadline.comLenny Kravitz usually waits for music to come to him, like the way he wrote his iconic 1991 song, “It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over”. “[I was] in the hotel room after my breakup with Zoe’s mom, which was extremely emotional and painful, and I was just staying at this hotel in LA with the curtains drawn, very sad, depressed,” he says. “All I had was a Fender Rhodes, which is an electric piano.
And just sat down one day and just started playing these chords.” Kravitz’s creativity functions “like an antenna” he explains.
He had a similar process writing “Let Love Rule”: “I’d written [the words] ‘let love rule’ on the wall outside of my apartment, next to the elevator.
And I kept passing this thing for months, in and out of the apartment, in the elevator, in New York. And then, one day, I walked in the apartment after looking at it on the wall for the 500th time, and picked up a guitar, and just wrote the song.
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