“My girlfriends come from all over the world, they have children from all different types of people,” she explained.
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Speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac for the premiere of the title track, she addressed alleged criticisms of the cover photo regarding inclusivity. Update, January 11, 6 p.m.: Lana Del Rey is now defending her defense of her new album cover for Chemtrails Over the Country Club.
“The fact that they want to turn my post, my advocacy for fragility into a race war,” Del Rey said in a subsequent video attempting to clarify her statement. Respect it.”īack in May, the singer defended herself against criticism that her comments comparing her perceived reception to that of female artists of color like Beyoncé, Doja Cat, and fka twigs came across as tone-deaf and racially insensitive. 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, my putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. “My best friends are rappers, my boyfriends have been rappers. “In 11 years working I have always been extremely inclusive without trying to,” continued Del Rey. We are all a beautiful mix of everything - some more than others, which is visible and celebrated in everything I do.” My beautiful friend Valerie from Del Rio Mexico, my dearest friend Alex and my gorgeous friend Dakota Rain as well as my sweetheart Tatiana. “As it happens when it comes to my amazing friends and this cover, yes, there are people of color on this record’s picture and that’s all I’ll say about that. And damn!,” the singer wrote in the since-deleted comment, captured here by Stereogum. Respect it.” Phew!Ī post shared by Lana Del Rey also want to say that with everything going on this year! And no this was not intended-these are my best friends, since you are asking today. In fact, Del Rey goes wide enough to conclude with the lines: “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. In an interesting nod to the plot of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, the singer also penned an Instagram comment in which she attempts to reverse the flow of the internet’s entropy and defend Chemtrails’ cover art against any and all future criticisms that could be leveled at it, including, seemingly, that her inclusion of women of color could be seen as an attempt to counteract her bad press from this spring. On Sunday, Lana Del Rey dropped the cover art and track list for her highly anticipated upcoming album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, which 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 this past fall. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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