Lana Del Rey covers this week’s issue of Rolling Stone with a kitty cat. She’s not nearly as likable as Macklemore with a cat. Lana’s not really posing with that cat. She’s using the grey color of his fur as a contrast to highlight her eggshell-blue fingernail polish. It’s all smoke and mirrors with Lana, but I shouldn’t pick on her too much. Most pop stars possess carefully crafted images, but Lizzie Grant’s amazing transformation into moody torch singer happened a little quicker than most evolutions.
Rolling Stone’s cover labels Lana as “the saddest, baddest diva in rock.” Yes, rock music. Lana’s new attitude towards the press is that of a “warrior” who “thinks ceaselessly of death.” She’s the reluctant pop star who is tired of doing this. She basically tells Rolling Stone that they should leave her alone and go find someone else to interview for the cover story. Are you buying what she’s selling here?
She tries to cancel mid-interview:“I’m not sure if they should run this story. I feel like maybe we should wait until there’s something good to talk about. You know? I just wish you could write about something else. There has to be someone else to be the cover story. Like, there has to be. Anybody.”
On her state of mind: “Well, I feel f—ing crazy. But I don’t think I am. People make me feel crazy.” She blames her much-publicized “I wish I were dead” quotes on leading questions, but adds, “I find that most people I meet figure I kind of want to kill myself anyway. So, it comes up every time.”
On how she wants people to hear lyrics like “he hurt me and it felt like true love”: “I just don’t want them to hear it at all. I’m very selfish. I make everything for me, kind of. I mean, every little thing, down to the guitar and the drums. It’s just for me… I don’t want them to hear it and think about it. It’s none of their business!”
The impact of her SNL disaster: “It wasn’t dynamic, but it was true to form. Everyone I knew suddenly wasn’t so sure about me. hey were like, ‘Maybe I don’t want to be associated with her – not a great reputation.'”
[From Rolling Stone]
Lana did get really upset at the Guardian journalist who quoted her as saying, “I wish I was dead already.” Now she says that leading questions are what led to those quotes. For real? Lana actually said those words. No one tricked her into doing it.
Anyway, I was really starting to believe that Lana is very depressed until this RS interview. Now I’m not so sure. Lana makes music and sells it for a living. She knows that people are going to listen to it and hopefully buy it. She also makes music with every intention of performing live, but now she’s saying that she never wants anyone to hear her music. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about, right?
Here are some photos of Lana performing tunes that nobody should hear at Glastonbury last month.
Photos courtesy of Rolling Stone & WENN
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