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https://www.vogue.it/article/lana-del-rey-intervista-foto-vogue-italia Lana Del Rey and the Vogue Italia interview “ I felt like a car crash, with people who couldn't help but stop to spy on what had happened” After a series of perfectly successful albums and a career that has consecrated her as an icon of these years, Lana Del Rey is ready to enter a new era. She talks about it in this interview, between an upcoming album, the mystical winds of the West Coast and love as a symbol of hope. Lana Del Rey opens up about herself in an interview with Vogue Italia: “People used to think my lyrics were a problem, but now all singers “peel” their hearts like they were an apple” At a certain point in her youth, Elizabeth Grant watched the lights of Lake Placid in Essex County flicker and fade through shimmering streamers for the last time. She would see them again, after moving to New York and then London, before returning to become known to everyone as Lana Del Rey. “I have this old video of a boyfriend talking to me in the car, from a long time ago. He was just pretending I’m doing an interview after I’ve become famous. I remember I was very myself in that moment, not defensive. He asks me what I would have done if I hadn’t become a singer. This is the way I’d ever open a movie about my life.” But in recent years, she’s been hoping no one would ever get the idea to make it. “There are so many reasons why. I feel like those movies are made for people that want they’re made. And there’s so much people don’t know, because there’s so much of my life I don’t want to say. Maybe I’ll make it on my own”. I’m talking to Elizabeth – Lizzy to her father, Lana to the world that worships her like a saint – while she’s at LAX in a gray tank top, her hair blonde from the August sun and salt air, though she’s thinking of going “back to dark” again by the end of the year. “I just caught up with Charlie (her brother, Charles) and his wife. It’s a good time for me, he’s good, and my sister’s good too. It’s easier to be positive when the family's doing well”. A few days later, Lana would fly out to Paris and the Reading & Leeds Festival in England, delivering one of the most intense performances of the new tour, including the part when her mic cut out and she stayed on stage, quietly watching the fireworks. Celebrated artist, icon, cinnamon girl, sad girl, Alessandro Michele’s muse for Gucci, trailblazer of alternative pop, and creator of a distinct “Old Hollywood” aesthetic that has surrounded her since her debut in 2012 at the age of 27 with Born to Die. Lana Del Rey has grown up with stories that have become our stories because, in a sense, she’s shaped them for us. By putting herself at the heart of her own experiences, she found the inspiration to turn them into harmony, becoming the voice of a generation. She’s aiming to do it again with Lasso, her new album born from the time she spent between Mississippi and Arkansas, although, as we speak, it’s still in the making and might even end up with a different name. “It had too much ‘American storytelling flair’. I put it on hold because I didn’t recognize myself in it. Originally, me and the label were excited because the energy of the music of the album was meant to reflect my new life. Now, I’m not so sure, but I’m usually pretty good with my own timing. I might turn it into something more ‘Southern gothic,’ like it was meant to be from the start, and less country.” Recently, when she listens to singles like Ride and Video Games, tracks that gave her fans enough to build entire personalities around, she feels a certain disconnect. “I’m entering a new era. It happened also with Chemtrails Ovet the Country Club and Blue Banisters, I made these albums by myself. It has a lot to do with living in Oklahoma and feeling different. My eyes have seen so many open spaces, I’ve felt the wind, and that’s the kind of energy I want to talk about now.” “Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life.” That was the tagline for The Virgin Suicides, released in 1999 by Sofia Coppola, one of Del Rey’s favorite films. She seems to have always shared the same lens through which Coppola portrays young women trying to stay alive. “We met one summer through Gia Coppola, her cousin. Gia’s good friends with my friends, they all have kids who play together. Sofia asked me to write a couple of songs for a film she was directing, Priscilla. I was thrilled, but like always, when I’ve got a deadline, I waited until the last minute.” She couldn’t make the deadline, but watching the film about Mrs. Presley, who has been a source of inspiration for Del Rey since the beginning – her hair and makeup at the 2013 Echo Music Awards, her languid and dreamy approach to life – she saw a parallel with her own work. “I think of my songs as if they were films. Flashbacks, cuts, memories, with a monologue that’s running. Cinema was always a family thing. I think back to childhood, all these people with giant cameras filming me, my sister and my brother. They captured all my every single Christmas. And my sister became a talented photographer. She’s the one behind most of the images you see of me.” The images in this spread, though, were shot by Steven Meisel in New York and inspired by a shoot he did with Sofia Coppola for Vogue Italia in 2014. It’s safe to say this represents a personal milestone for Del Rey, because ever since she was a teenager, she’d find any way to get to the biggest city beyond Lake Placid just to buy a copy of our magazine: “My friends and I used to call it Vogue Italy, and we’d pin the photos up on our bedroom walls. I remember thinking: if something happened and I ever became somebody, I’d want to be photographed by Meisel, because he follows his intuition like I do, when he’s ready you need to be ready too. And I waited, and waited and waited. On set, we listened to Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack for Paul Schrader’s Cat People.” This is her second Vogue cover, following her first shot by Steven Klein in 2019. “Back then, I wondered if those photos would have been approved by Franca Sozzani and Francesco (Carrozzini, whom she dated from 2014 to 2015, ed.).” She smiles. In the car, when that guy asked her in that short video she still keeps, she replied that she couldn’t imagine doing anything other than singing. “I was the leader of my church choir from the time I was 12. I lived in this tiny town with 700 people. We moved there when I was a year old, and I went to school with the same people. At 15, I had the craziest and most wonderful time. It was the first time I was allowed to go out alone, to make mistakes, to dream. I started taking on those jobs you do when you’re still a kid, waitressing, hostessing. I was so excited that I could even see my whole life in Lake Placid. But I wanted a life as a singer.” Then she ended up at a new private school in Duluth, Minnesota, “the coldest city in America”. Elizabeth Grant didn’t know anyone, and it was the worst time of her life. So she escaped to New York, where the indie rock of Phosphorescent and Edward Sharpe, The Strokes, and Tv on the Radio ruled the club scene that she was also performing in, without anyone paying attention. From age 19 to 25, she lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn, “one of my darkest periods”, until, after a series of managers – “two more young and two more famous and old” – she met Ben Mawson and moved to London. “My aesthetic, my desider, nothing of that had changed from the years in New York. I was still calling myself Lizzy Grant, but I could feel something different was happening.” Because Lana Del Rey wasn’t born as a defense mechanism against the world. She emerged instead from a love of the atmospheres of New Orleans and the West Coast, where she now drives for hours, surrendering to the same Western skies captured by Wim Wenders, singing about her body like it’s a map of the Sierra Madre (Arcadia, 2021). “When I was a kid, I didn’t know much about music, but I knew a lot about actresses. And I wanted the name of an actress.” Ergo, Lana, as in Lana Turner. And Del Rey, as in Delray Beach, Florida. “It was as if the ocean were already built into my name.” After nine incredible albums, a poetry collection, and a definitive consecration on TikTok by a new generation of fans who have devoured her latest release (Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd), at 39 Lana Del Rey no longer feels any pressure. She speaks in a calm, assured voice, fully aware that everything that has led her this far has led her back to herself. “People used to think my lyrics were problematic, but now every singer is spilling away their hearts. I think that’s a good thing. Maybe if I’d started now instead of 12 years ago, I’d be a real poet of pain and wouldn’t have suffered so much.” There’s always been an air of mystery around her and, in others, a dark need to dig for its source. “It’s awful when someone wants to see in your shadows trying to find something. Most people must know I’m connecting with my shadows, and it’s ok, but for some people it’s almost like an obsession. And I got caught up in it. A bit like Ophelia or Juliet. It’s like a car crash that people couldn’t help but stop and stare at. Maybe it was Freud who said that 30 percent of what you think about yourself is really just what you’ve heard others say about you. That’s why I’ve been very careful, and mindful especially in recent years. I didn’t want to end up like that car. I didn’t want to become Ophelia. All I ever wanted from her were the flowers.” Lana Del Rey, Elizabeth Grant, has changed day by day, shedding parts of herself like petals. The same ones her fans bring to concerts and then scatter on the streets outside the arenas and suburban venues like spells of enchantment. It’s a phenomenon of extreme devotion and magic, much like what happened with artists like Stevie Nicks, for those who sought a mystical experience through them. “The spelling of a word, breaking it down into letters, comes from the same root as ‘spell’.” She tells me she thinks about it often. “It’s like casting a spell, instilling a sort of magic in others. I want my whole life, and everything I sing, to be the positive result of something. I believe in magic because, to me, it means being optimistic, having hope, and being able to share it.” Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have, but I Have It, says one of her most famous song titles. “Hope is power. Anyone who’s ever been religious has done what we now call ‘manifesting’ because they had faith. They saw heaven where there was none.” That’s what love is, like the scene from Cat People in which the actress says something like it’s just you and me, and as long as we’re here, there’s hope. “Most of the people I met wanted Hollywood to be the third part in our relationship. When I get married, it’ll be to someone who, like me, believes that love is enough. I’ll be enough for him, and he’ll be enough for me. Someone to have children with if that happens, or just friends. I want it to be simple, I need to be with someone who wants to plan to stay home with me. Love is to be saved and that’s magic.” One month after this conversation, Lana Del Rey married nature guide Jeremy Dufrene. It took place on a quiet Thursday in September, on the banks of a Louisiana swamp, with only a few close friends present. On social media, we saw the footage, stolen from yet another camera, and read the comments from her fans: “Lana has always been this. She’s so real.” Lana Del Rey and her interview for Vogue Italia can be found in the November issue on newsstands from October 31st.

Blake Lee has a LENGTHY interview and in one small part (30 minute mark) he speaks about his time working on Ultraviolence and his first time meeting Lana! Blake says he first met Lana and he was simply himself, no expectations. Byron helped him get the audition. He says the First show they played together was secret and under an alias name in NYC. He says working with Lana is "spontaneous, electric, thrilling" and he remembered looking up Video Games for the first time and his mother overheard and they both fell in love with the sound of the song and the video. and he knew he wanted to be part of her band. Blake says he is blown away with how fast she writes songs and it is unlike anyone else he has worked with. He says he has no idea how many songs she has written BUT Ultraviolence was originally a double album (40 songs were written for Ultraviolence that he remembers and said they were all worthy of being on the album. He said a few of the interludes that didn't make the album have been worked into some of the live shows they do) Blake says he respects her so much and calls her "the real deal" and admires her ethos of "not trying hard or pretending to be something, and just saying NO when you don't want to do something or if something does not feel right knowing to say no, and then eventually the right thing will come along " says it was Lana's idea to get Chriss Isaak to perform at the Hollywood Bowl, Spoke about Sean Lennon and how magical it was https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/the-keep-slack-album-club/episodes/the-keep-slack-album-club-blake-lee-no-sound-in-space his new album is a dreamy, cinematic, avant-garde album and quite mesmerizing.

ULTRAVIOLENCE DOUBLE ALBUM

Tonight, Lana Del Rey attended the InStyle Imagemaker Awards in Los Angeles, CA. She attended the event with her stylist Molly Dickson, who is being honoured with The Most Powerful Stylist award.

Lana Del Rey Has Songs Ready for Country Album but Doesn't Want It to Be 'Half-Cooked': 'We'll Get There' Lana Del Rey wants fans to know she isn't rushing perfection when it comes to releasing her hotly-anticipated country album, Lasso. Speaking with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly at the 2024 Instyle Imagemaker Awards held in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 24, the singer, 39, offered a brief glimpse into where her head's at as she inches closer to the release of her next body of work. "I think all the songs have been Americana and I want to wait to see what the musical atmosphere feels like," she says of Lasso. "'Cause I don't usually feel like I need a pause in the creation process, but if there's a literal energetic pause that almost feels like physical, then I have to wait and I don't know why." The "Born to Die" performer adds, "I'll have to see if it's because of something someone's done or because it's going to take a turn." Although Del Rey can't put a specific release date on the project just yet, she teases that "we'll see. But the songs I have, I love, so I don't want to turn it into something that's half cooked, even if it's super stripped back. I want it to be what it was supposed to be." As for fans patiently awaiting the album's release, all she has to say is, "They can be excited for all the other good stuff going on. We’ll get there. First things first!" Those who want a glimpse of a Americana-twanged Del Rey need to look no further than her most recent collaborative single: "Tough," which features Quavo. Backed by an emotional, country-influenced guitar riff that carries vocals discussing everything from "the scuff on a pair of old leather boots" to "blue-collar, red-dirt attitude," the music video flashes scenes of country roads, farm homes and other elements of Americana. Del Rey previously told NME earlier this year that Lasso will contain songs that have “maybe less to say in terms of any self-revealing things like on Tunnel or Blue Banisters or Chemtrails over the Country Club," describing her new songwriting as "more melodic. Maybe more American Songbook style?” Ultimately, the "Summertime Sadness" singer is aware of country music's power in the industry today. "When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for best producer of the year, I said, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville because the music business has gone, gone country.' And it went silent; 5000 people, dead silent," she told the outlet. "Then the next week, we had three major artists announce big country albums." Source

Am I the only one who is not getting “secret project” from what she said? The “other good stuff going on” sounds like go listen to other artists until it’s ready. I’m really starting to believe those tough remixes were the other 2 singles.

Wait so they confirmed a (not so secret anymore) project? It's either a covers album or an unreleased collection The album stuff is so confusing... basically what I get is that she has some songs but doesn't know if she wants to give them country production or just stick to a folky acoustic sound

LESS COUNTRY AND MORE SOUTHERN GOTHIC STYLE... LANALLAH I LOVE YOU SHE HEARD MY PRAYERS YES SHE DID

Again, I don’t mean to sanitize, but just to give a bit of ray of sunshine here: - Most of Trump’s policies will not be implemented. Tariffs are just a negotiating tactic, and we all know they will not actually replace income tax - On that note, just like 2016, the biggest Trump legacy will be his tax cuts. I see him further reducing income tax on the top 3 brackets by 5-10% and on the lowest 3 by 3-5%. - He’s not gonna do jack shit about the border, because his replacement will need the issue to run on in 4 years. - Mass deportations will not occur, namely because ICE is understaffed and the Trump deficit doesn’t give much room for more govt. spending. Also, the fact of the matter is that most illegal immigrants live in Blue States, and they won’t be helping Trump. - Gender affirming healthcare (and healthcare in general) will take the biggest hit 😭💔. It’ll now be a state issue, like abortion. - Abortion had a relatively decent night. The majority of Trump voters also voted to protect or expand abortion rights (except for Florida's “super majority” requirement) and Montana. Trump’s legacy thus far has been one of ineffectiveness. That trend will continue. It’s just uniquely horrible that he will be able to cement a 6-3 Supreme Court conservative lean, which will have long term effects, but not immediate quality of life implications yet. The media will prey on your outrage for clicks, do not let Trump take over your life. This is certainly a sad day for many, and I am not saying we are not allowed to grieve and mourn, but this is the path forward, and no amount of tears will change that. There was no justice last night, but there can be mercy, because we can give that to each other 🙃 Signing off for work xx Mer.

AND AFTER ALL THIS TIME... WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS...

Sorry but Trump is not some quirky old man wanting to win a board game and then bring peace for his grandkids. He is an evil, egomaniacal moron and could not care less about the destruction he causes. He's unhinged and surrounded by repugnant people who will work together to cause harm to the underprivileged and line their own pockets with money and power. Whether or not they will be successful, time will tell, but some people really need to wake up to the reality of the situation. When people tell you exactly who they are, believe them. Trump is without a doubt a vile piece of shit, and he is not afraid to show it. The fact that half the country chose this person to lead them is so beyond bleak and depressing, and America will be judged by the world for decades to come because of it.

the face card-

the way this year would’ve been perfect for her to drop a B-Side version of UV. (10yr anniversary) and we could’ve been feeding off of that until LASSO comes next year.

I love how she doesn’t clarify at all what she means

I find it so interesting how open and transparent she’s been this era about not being satisfied with where her music is. Tropico/UV went through major changes, LFL went through major changes, RCS/BB went through major changes but she never talked about it, she’s been so open and transparent this time around about not being completely happy with what she’s created

She heard Addison Rae’s new song and knew it was over for her and fast if she didn’t get back to the spotlight

as much as i be hating on Taylor, her fans have it really good lmao like getting vault tracks officially released is every fan’s dream

if she’s really about to scrap the country idea and nikki lane and turn it into sumn more lana-esque, southern gothic and dark then I’m definitely willing to wait

southern gothic is alive and breathing

Lana just liked and commented on this post of a couple dressing up as her and Jeremy for Halloween!

Ultraviolence: The Lanathology when

What a horrible day for America. This is a loss for the community, the climate, the culture, and literally everyone else except maybe Elon M*sk. I can’t believe people are this fucking STUPID but here we are. I’m so sorry for all my American lipsters. I’m Canadian, so I can’t imagine how you guys must feel right now. To me, this is like a sadistic murderer moving in next door, but you guys have to live with this monster. Thank you to everyone that voted for Kamala, you did what you could. I was so excited to have a woman in charge, however I fear I may not see that in my lifetime. I’m blaming Moo Deng, Jeremy Dufresne and Azealia Banks for this. I sincerely believe BOB would make a better president. Here’s to hoping Trump gets stuck in The Black Lodge before his inauguration.

Hate the fact that I'm not even american but I have to worry about US elections because I know it'll have repercussions everywhere, unfortunately.

Lana commenting on her lateness like it's nothing is sending me. This is the level of unbotheredness I aspire to.

Great interview and pictures. I have renewed hope for this new album. She put the brakes on because she wasn’t feeling it and will change directions and make another masterpiece. And I love what she said about getting married.

it’s best if we collectively accept that she married this man with her free will. Acceptance is an important step in healing and this fanbase seriously needs one.

Are the other good stuff going on in the room with us, miss del rey?

Abel asking the real question, the current pop scene is majorly influenced by Lana

We were ROBBED wtf

If this album ever does come it better be extremely polished from beginning to end A full photoshoot and album booklet with photos of Lana herself in different outfits (NOT random pics). Custom typography. Dolby Atmos mixes. Signed editions. At least a mini press tour. Magazines. A music video on release day.

"I wear my diamonds on skid row"

The vagueness makes her a true enigma…it would not be on brand to give a direct statement.

Lana has released a limited amount of BTD:TPE Boxsets on her store. https://lanadelreyukstore.com/products/born-to-die-the-paradise-edition?ls=GOanDbK9icxHWHxgCP4KJ

THIS WAS SO CUTE and can i just say, lana is fucking hilarious. i love how humble and effortlessly cool she is, she calls herself a “hot mess” but she is always so cool and herself. also, how cute is the jeremy cameo when her head is on his lap in the park!! i love her so much, this was super super intimate and i so badly want this to keep coming, like i wouldn’t mind if we got just a regular lana “day in the life” from time to time. she is arguably the most interesting and cool celeb there is, i’m so captivated by her presence even in the mundane as showcased in this tour diary. chuck is amazing and WE LOVE YOU CHUCK, so glad that she shared this little slice of life in lana world. i’m enamoured by her and i could keep going forever but tl:dr i’m obsessed and i need more

I feel like she's giving Far From Heaven kinda

'Lasso' is half-finished, according to Lana Del Rey. She felt she needed to take a break from production to get the sound she wanted. "I think all the songs are Americana and I want to wait and see what the musical atmosphere is like" https://x.com/LDRaddic/status/1849851959039107549 Before Lasso we will have a secret project that Lana Del Rey did not want to give more information about "They (fans) can be excited about all the other good things that are happening. We'll get there." https://x.com/LDRaddic/status/1849852283875622964 Lana Del Rey has already said that she has many songs she loves for her next album and doesn't want to finish the album just any old way: "The songs I have, I love, so I don't want to turn them into something half-baked, even if it's super stripped down. I want it to be what it's supposed to be." https://x.com/LDRaddic/status/1849852681919381828

she's perfect

and you guys were acting like her career was practically over and that we would never see her again just because she got married

Last Thursday, Lana Del Rey met some fans while at a Texas Roadhouse in Harvey, Louisiana.

If she doesn't want her music to sound half cooked, mayhaps I suggest she'd work with someone other than the half-cooked-music man himself. Ultimately this album isn't coming out anytime soon.

No, I don't think so. She's wearing Valentino, and in 2021 they announced they would no longer be using real fur in their collections x

okay im gonna need my ultrabaddies to lock tf in and get their clits in gear we are getting this double feature @Veinsineon get on the dark web and find _ultraviolence_hidden_track_club_mix.mp3 @That Venice Bitch you and @Elle are to infiltrate the tap management team and find evidence of the double album tracklist @venice biotch i need you to draw a rat to ease the tension all systems go ladies

More than half the American population voting for a rapist over a woman btw.

Unfortunately, Laila has passed away... may her soul rest in peace, and may we remember her as the sweet angel she was... Sending lots of love to her family during this hard time 🖤