Lana Del Rey interview for GLOSS magazine

[Allie 183]

 

 

This is from the August/2012 edition of the brazilian magazine GLOSS, but I couldn't find anything about it here. Not sure if you guys have seen it yet. Lana wasn't the cover, Adele was.

[Your Girl Lana 535]

 

 

This is from the August/2012 edition of the Brazilian magazine GLOSS, but I couldn't find anything about it here. Not sure if you guys have seen it yet. Lana wasn't the cover, Adele was.

didn't saw this before:P Thank you:)

[Allie 183]

Invented beauty

Decadent Hollywood star, ingenue little posh or hoochie from the periphery, all of that fits in the persona Lana Del Rey created for herself. – By Harold Von Kursk

 

One video made with a collage of images on Youtube made her a sensation of the alternative music. And a super critized performance on TV turned her into an overnight pop star. If you think the path that Lana Del Rey, 26 years old, made until she came to the top was a little bit weird, you're very right – her universe is very strange, indeed. In the beginning of 2011, Lana was Lizzy Grant, a singer with bleached blonde hair (and lips way thinner) who circulated around the record labels seeking a contract. Until that, in june of that year she put on internet the ballad Video Games, along with nostalgic images she chose by herself. With her new name, lips and trendy retro look, she caught the attention of bloggers and journalists and her course started to change. Everything almost went down the drain in January, when her performance on the TV show Saturday Night Live, from NBC network, was crushed down by the critic. But the effect was the opposite: 15 days after, her album Born to Die, a collection of glamorous and dark songs, came to the stores and went right to the first place in charts of seven countries. She just released her 6th video from her album, Summertime Sadness (Lana now makes superproduced videos). And she is the face of the new campaign of H&M. Full of tricks or talented? GLOSS saw one of her shows in New York, in June and assures: both things. Fake, fragile, beautiful, bold, modern – she is all of that. Just not a conventional singer.

 

GLOSS: You became a celebrity overnight. How do you see this so immediate success?

LDR: I'm surprised! I didn't expect this, specially after being ignored for 6 years. I couldn't get my songs to be played and I had a lot of difficulty to settle shows. Everybody was complaining that my songs were too long and dark and that it would be impossible to commercialize them. They said that the video of Video Games was weird and scary [laughs]. It's very funny that now I have a contract [with Universal Music] and a team working with me.

 

GLOSS: You moved from Connecticut to New York at age 18 and went to study at Fordham University. How the experience influenced your music?

LDR: Being in New York was a very lonely experience, but also very stimulating in many ways. I met weird people, others wonderful and some not very nice. All of that enriched my music and what I wanted to say. I had to struggle to have my rent's money and to be able to afford others expenses. I know this sounds kinda cliché but that is what happened.

 

GLOSS: Do you still feel alone nowadays?

LDR: No, I feel better. I believe that, when someone finally has a success and people feel touched by your music, the sensation of satisfaction appears. But some of my songs still talk about the disappointment of finding an incredible person and things not working out. Being alone and not feeling deeply connected to no one isn't something easy to deal with.

 

GLOSS: By your lyrics, it seems that you lived some complicated break-ups.

LDR: It's hard to be with someone, waiting for something pretty to be born and then, suddenly, everything going wrong. I was with a person who I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We were clean and sober, and I needed someone who would respect that. But it didn't work out. When I thought I've had found someone who could take care of me and that I could take care too, I saw everything fall apart.

 

GLOSS: Are you shy?

LDR: I'm very introverted. I don't feel easily comfortable with people when I meet them and I get nervous when I start to talk.

 

GLOSS: Is that a problem when you sing live?

LDR: I think my shyness and my nervousness already became visible in some of my performances. I'm still learning how to deal with that. I keep telling myself to relax on stage, try to feel the music and not to think in what is around me.

 

GLOSS: Why do you think that, in a time of Lady Gaga and so many overstyled artists, people are critizing you so much for inventing a certain image for yourself?

LDR: Thanks for the observation! [Laughs.] I don't think I put a big effort on creating an image besides using dresses rather than exotic costumes. Sometimes the clothes are kinda retro, what matches my music and videos. And it's just that. I think my voice and and lyrics are provocative. But I don't get the rage level of some critics about me.

 

GLOSS: The music video for Video Games was the great responsible for the turning point in your career. Did you expect the material would have the impact it did?

LDR: I thought the images would catch attention and help me to have more followers on the internet. And that maybe it would be good when seeking a contract with some record label. I never thought it would be so watched [the video has today more than 60 millions of views]. I dedicated myself a lot to the material and it gave me a great creative satisfaction. So, I'm proud of people liking it so much.

 

GLOSS: Many people invented thousand of theories to interpret what the images of the video are meant to say...

LDR: The truth is that I had no money to make a video, then I started to make experiences with the images. I think it increased the impact of the music, but when I see the music video nowadays I feel like changing a lot of things, specially the images of myself. Now that I have a contract with a record label and money to produce, I'm very happy for not having to make my self videos. I participate in the process, but I love the fact of being able to work with real professionals. I prefer to concentrate in the songs.

 

GLOSS: Why is "Born to Die" the title of the album?

LDR: In childhood, I kind of freaked out when I realized that my mom, my dad and everybody I knew would die someday. I think that, somehow, this philosophical crisis stayed with me and reappeared in the time I had to give a title to the album.

 

GLOSS: In some interviews, you said that music isn't the most important thing in your life. Is that true?

LDR: I like music and composing, it's just that it's not the fundamental point for me. I have interest in many things and I don't see my life only spinning around music, although I'm super-involved with that at the moment. But I'm very happy with my album and even more to know the amount of people that like my songs. I guess I should think about that and don't worry about nothing else. I would like people to think about me as a good person. Maybe it's ingenuity of me saying that, but that's what I am.

 

Building Lana

Where the singer went to find inspiration to create her cool visual

VERONICA LAKE

From the femme fatale from the 40's, Lana took the attitude and the hair

BRIGITTE BARDOT

The thick and slightly open lips are the mark of the french actress

AUDREY HEPBURN

Lana adores eyes well contoured with black eyeliner

PRISCILLA PRESLEY

Every now and then, Lana appears with the hairstyle that Elvis's ex used in the sixties

MORTICIA ADDAMS

One more embellishment of a femme fatale: huge nails!

KANYE WEST

Necklaces, rings and sneakers complete the visual

[Your Girl Lana 535]

The "Patricinha ingênua" part killed me, lol

[Allie 183]

The "Patricinha ingênua" part killed me, lol

 

I know, right? "Piriguete da periferia" was even worse :badbitch:

[Your Girl Lana 535]

I know, right? "Piriguete da periferia" was even worse :badbitch:

hahahahahaah

[Allie 183]

hahahahahaah

You read my thoughts with that emoticon, when I saw that part I totally thought about her self video for National Anthem lol

[Gargoyle 54]

Thanks for the translation!

[TrailerParkDarling 5,675]

this is a nice interview, so tired of the born to die question though

 

"I think my shyness and my nervousness already became visible in some of my performances. I'm still learning how to deal with that. I keep telling myself to relax on stage, try to feel the music and not to think in what is around me."

 

aww

[Allie 183]

Thanks for the translation!

you're welcome, it's a pleasure to share with you guys :yes:

 

this is a nice interview, so tired of the born to die question though

 

"I think my shyness and my nervousness already became visible in some of my performances. I'm still learning how to deal with that. I keep telling myself to relax on stage, try to feel the music and not to think in what is around me."

 

aww

 

so cute! I want her to remember how many people like her actually, whenever she starts to get nervous! just as she said here: "But I'm very happy with my album and even more to know the amount of people that like my songs. I guess I should think about that and don't worry about nothing else."

[TrailerParkDarling 5,675]

 

so cute! I want her to remember how many people like her actually, whenever she starts to get nervous! just as she said here: "But I'm very happy with my album and even more to know the amount of people that like my songs. I guess I should think about that and don't worry about nothing else."

 

I think she gets performance anxiety. I know how nervous I get whenever I make a speech so I can't imagine being an introverted performer. It reminds me of Leonardo Dicaprio. Like everyone always gifs the faces he makes at award shows because they think its his ~anticipation~ for winning an Oscar but he's actually really shy and once said he used to wish he wouldn't win so he wouldn't have to make a speech in front of everyone.

[Allie 183]

I think she gets performance anxiety. I know how nervous I get whenever I make a speech so I can't imagine being an introverted performer. It reminds me of Leonardo Dicaprio. Like everyone always gifs the faces he makes at award shows because they think its his ~anticipation~ for winning an Oscar but he's actually really shy and once said he used to wish he wouldn't win so he wouldn't have to make a speech in front of everyone.

 

Yep, totally. Just like that time she said to the paparazzi "I freak the fuck out" when he asked "how do you mentally prepare for a show?" I remember that interview too, when she said about her first performance ever. Saying that if people laughed at her that time she would never go back to the stage again, like wow. It felt serious. Didn't know that about DiCaprio! It's crazy, because of the fact he's an actor and actors are told all the time to be free of inhibitions and lose their introversion. Proud of him, full of talent and dealing with his own "problems" in a successful way.

[Ruben Silva 8]

Beautiful interview! It is the custom of our Lana. Amazing and fantastic in the beauty, the music , their lyrics and the way she speaks...

 

:love:

 

 

gangstabitch

[Allie 183]

Beautiful interview! It is the custom of our Lana. Amazing and fantastic in the beauty, the music , their lyrics and the way she speaks...

 

:love:

 

 

gangstabitch

 

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[DUKE 2,525]

What a lovely interview! Thank you very much for posting and translating.

[Viva 3,169]

I know, right? "Piriguete da periferia" was even worse :badbitch:

Periguete da periferia = Suelen (da novela Avenida Brasil) Norte Americana

 

 

 

This is from the August/2012 edition of the brazilian magazine GLOSS, but I couldn't find anything about it here. Not sure if you guys have seen it yet. Lana wasn't the cover, Adele was.

where did you found this? I never saw this interview before!! Obrigada por postar!

[Allie 183]

What a lovely interview! Thank you very much for posting and translating.

 

I'm glad you enjoyed! As I said it's a pleasure to share with you guys! :love:

 

Periguete da periferia = Suelen (da novela Avenida Brasil) Norte Americana

 

 

where did you found this? I never saw this interview before!! Obrigada por postar!

 

Oh God, I didn't watch that but I get what you mean! Indeed

It's from the August/2012 edition of the magazine GLOSS, Adele was the cover. Por nada!

[yu16273947 764]

Thank you for the translation

It's a nice interview.

[10milestereo 227]

Great translation! Thanks so much!

[liam 556]

LDR: I'm very introverted. I don't feel easily comfortable with people when I meet them and I get nervous when I start to talk.

 

I can really relate to Lana on this. I'm exactly the same!