Moreover, her last album, 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell!, topped critical end of year lists ( including in the Guardian) and was hailed as the work of “simply one of the best songwriters in the country” by Bruce Springsteen. An artist given an unfairly rough ride on arrival, she finds herself, a decade on, not merely vastly commercially successful, but hugely influential, the inspiration behind a wave of melancholy bedroom pop that loops disconsolately in the background of TikTok videos. “Respect it.”Ĭlearly, here were rich pickings for connoisseurs of the point where a pop star says something so self-regarding it makes your head hurt, but Del Ray may be forgiven for getting carried away. “I am literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven,” she wrote during a social media exchange about her eighth solo album’s cover art. In October meanwhile, she debuted the first track from Chemtrails Over the Country Club, “ Let Me Love You Like A Woman”.There is boldly talking your new album up, and then there is the approach taken by Lana Del Rey prior to the release of Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Last month, Del Rey also announced plans for an album of “American standards and classics”, in the vein of her recent cover of George Gershwin’s “Summertime”. The upcoming album will include songs like “Tulsa Jesus Freak” and “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”, as well as the EP’s previously revealed single, “ Let Me Love You Like a Woman”, which premiered in October. Nobody gets to tell your story except for you, and that’s what I’m gonna do in the next couple of books,” she said, adding: “So god bless, and, yeah, fuck off if you don’t like the post.”Ĭhemtrails Over the Country Club follows on from Del Rey’s 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, though she’s also released a Jack Antonoff-produced poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, in the meantime. “I’m not the enemy, and I’m definitely not racist, so don’t get it twisted. She later denied that her post was an attack on the artists she named, calling out “flip-flopping headline grabbing critics (who) can’t read and want to make it a race war” and claiming that the singers she mentioned were some of her favourite artists. Now that these artists have “had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating etc”, she wrote, “can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money – or whatever I want – without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorising abuse?” In the original post, Del Rey mentions “ Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé” by name. Last May, Del Rey was criticised for comparing herself to other women (and particularly women of colour) to emphasise her own struggles. Are you out of your mind? They’re not props. “Lana your real friends need to have a real chat with you about white fragility,” read one Instagram comment. “You don’t name drop friends of colour. They also rightfully criticised Del Rey for using the ‘I have a Black friend’ card. Unsurprisingly, many fans pointed out the singer’s problematic conflation of ‘rappers’ with BIack people and people of colour. It’s not clear who made the criticism Del Rey was responding to, or whether the statement was entirely pre-emptive. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. She added: “My best friends are rappers, my boyfriends have been rappers. In 11 years working I have always been extremely inclusive without even trying to.” Del Rey continued by naming four of her friends – “Valerie from Del Rio Mexico, my dearest friend Alex and my gorgeous friend Dakota Rain as well as my sweetheart Tatiana” – adding: “We are all a beautiful mix of everything – some more than others which is visible and celebrated in everything I do.
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