Lana Del Rey, Rolling Stone’s global cover girl, has overcome decade of tension and discouragement as she approaches status as the greatest working songwriter
Lana Del Rey is the global cover of Rolling Stone! In an interview given to hannah ewensfrom the Rolling Stone UKthe singer opened up about a complicated decade, of discouragement and difficulties, motivated by the harsh criticism she received since her debut with the album born to die(2012).
The winds have changed, and since 2019 Lana seems to have gained a new perspective in music journalism. However, it is only now that the singer seems ready to start a new phase in her career, with nothing to prove to the industry.
Check out highlights from the interview by Lana Del Rey The Rolling Stone UK:
Lana reminisces Born To Die
I thought, ‘This sounds a lot different now. The ballads were like pop hits.’ So instead of being evaluated as a reason-based, everyday artist, I was evaluated on a standard level, which was challenging. Dealing with such harsh criticism makes moving forward happily difficult.
Lana Del Rey on Ultraviolence
It was about surviving, trying to add a little glamor and explanations about how I wanted to face some of the things I sang about.
The importance of external validation
I think if you’re a singer and people’s opinion of your work changes so often, you end up realizing: Okay, there’s something to learn from what we hear. At the same time, I’m definitely not the person most concerned with external validation.
Tune
It was important to me not to have any influence from outside culture other than what resonated with me. I always knew I would do other things besides singing. To connect more with this new path, I needed to tune in to myself.
Jack Antonoff and the culture
Jack Antonoff and I are very similar in terms of how much we know about what’s going on culturally, I just don’t know how. We definitely don’t read or hear much about it, but we always identify the key shifts in the culture.
the supernatural
find someone like that [médiuns] it helps validate you, because it shows that there really is so much more going on.
Philosophy
I have tried to answer as many questions as possible over these four years. [da graduação]. And then I learned that philosophy is a study in questions, not answers. There were no answers, which made it worse.
Lana for boys… or girls?
I thought it would be for the boys! But then again, funny how it turned out to be the opposite. What an incredible lesson to take to girls. definitely wrote born to die for the boys.
toxic relationships
One thing I never got rid of is these normal but contentious relationships. It’s not like when you become a singer people start being nice to you. It never happens. People are still themselves. I think that’s why some find my work polarizing, because either you’ve been in a controversial dynamic in family and interpersonal relationships, or you haven’t.
Lana Del Rey on finding herself
Some people meet through work, travel. I think my way of finding myself, learning more about myself, is being with other people.
Check out the full interview with Lana Del Rey.
Credits: Photography by Chuck Grant. Syling by Joseph Kocharian. Hair by Sheridan Ward. Makeup by Etienne Ortega. Produced by Brendan Garrett. Digi tech by Michael Cardiello. Lighting by Thomas Pat. Lighting assistance by Per Thomas. Fashion assisted by Aaron Pandher.
Source: Rollingstone
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