[4][5][6] In a September 2020 interview with Interview magazine, Del Rey stated she chose "Chemtrails over the Country Club" as the title track of the album because the lyrics pertain to her "stunning girlfriends" and "beautiful siblings" ("who so much of the album is about"), also mentioning "wanting so much to be normal and realizing that when you have an overactive, eccentric mind, a record like Chemtrails is just what you're going to get.

sounded like a dying bugle call for the American Dream, 'Chemtrails over the Country Club' feels like Del Rey now wants to desperately clutch on to that forgotten world of innocence, suburbia, and naivety".

[18] In a review of Chemtrails over the Country Club for Pitchfork, assigning the album a rating of 7.5 out of 10, Mina Takavoli described the song as "a ballad drawn directly from the Lana Del Rey vein, all honey sun, moneyed smiles, the pleasure of living lavishly."

[21][22] In a review of Chemtrails over the Country Club for Pitchfork, Mina Takavoli described the music video as "Lana in a diamanté mesh mask, looking a little like Hedy Lamarr in low fidelity, glancing sweetly from the driver’s seat of a mid-century Mercedes-Benz Cabriolet", while "chemtrails dart overhead in crosshatch as Lana stares up with widened eyes.

"[19] The music video, which utilizes a visual style and setting reminiscent of 1960s Americana, begins, as Claire Shaffer of Rolling Stone describes, as "a stereotypical Lana Del Rey video", cutting between scenes of Del Rey driving a red 1930s Mercedes-Benz 500K convertible (actually a replica made by Heritage Motors in 1990),[23] lounging with friends at a country club pool with "chemtrails" in the sky above them, putting on jewelry.

[24] The song begins to fade back in, as the video cuts between scenes of Del Rey in the shower, taking off her jewelry and washing blood off of herself, while a dead bird lies near her foot.