Lana Del Rey graces the cover of ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine for the first time and opens up about her earlier ‘I wish I was dead” comment and public perceptions of her. She also reveals how she feels about people listening to her music even as she continues to emerge as a major pop music artist whose searing lyrics have provoked much discussion and analysis.
The 28-year-old Lana Del Rey’s Rolling Stone cover celebrates the release of her latest album, ‘Ultraviolence,’ which became her first Billboard No. 1 debut.
But “celebrate” is perhaps not the word she herself would choose. As Rolling Stone reports, she was on the verge of wanting the cover story and the cover cancelled. Hard to imagine as music artists dream of the honor. But RS quotes her as saying she wasn’t sure “if they should run this story.” She went on to explain, “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.”
But for Lana Del Rey, publicity has come at a price, and it is understandable why she feels this way. It must surely be disconcerting to have social media and news outlets alike dissecting your remarks and trying to determine your state of mind. But that’s what happened when, she was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “I wish I were dead already.”
Now on the other side of the unwanted focus on her mental and emotional state, she said, “Well, I feel f–king crazy, and went on to day say, “But I don’t think I am. People make me feel crazy.” Continuing, she said, “I find that most people I meet figure I kind of want to kill myself anyway. So, it comes up every time.”
She also addressed a related subject, namely the dark subject matter of her song lyrics. Yet another topic that a creative artist can find irritating, as the probing and searching for autobiography seems to be endless. Lana Del Rey said of her music — understandably — “I just don’t want them to hear it at all.” she says. “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 the delicate, if not impossible balance, of being emotionally vulnerable in one’s art while the public becomes a collective onlooker. But thankfully, Lana Del Rey has shared her music, and the new album, long awaited — which she, at times hinted she might not ever complete and/or release — did finally arrive, to critical acclaim, even as it is winning her new fans.
More excerpts along with the Rolling Stone cover here.
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