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she's so beautiful!  

A few hours ago, Lana Del Rey stopped to pose with a fan in Los Angeles, California.
The pair discussed her new poetry book 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass,' which was released earlier this week on Tuesday.
For those concerned, the fan has stated that both he and Lana were wearing masks during their meet, but removed them for the photo.
 

Throwback to her 2012 interview with Vogue AU where it was revealed that "she eats spaghetti and chocolate cake every day."
Looks like much hasn't changed in 8 years. I too eat pasta nearly every day. I wish that was a lie. I just had a delightful linguine pomodoro dish about an hour ago xx

The artist reflects on her new poetry collection 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass'
 
When Lana Del Rey first began writing poetry, her words would come to her suddenly. Oftentimes a poem would reveal itself in its entirety, ready for Del Rey to dictate it onto the page. “I would drop everything if any sort of poem started to come to mind,” she tells Bustle. “It’s something I’ve experienced before with songwriting but less and less in the last few years.” While the singer-songwriter has sprinkled her music with homages to poets throughout her career in lyrics like “I've been tearing around in my f*cking nightgown, 24/7 Sylvia Plath,” Del Rey only began writing poetry in 2017, when she was experiencing writer’s block while crafting her album Norman F*cking Rockwell. The result of that creative exercise is Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, a sprawling collection of 13 longform poems and a selection of shorter works.
 
Violet’s poems tap into Del Rey’s signature gauzy, glamorous style. She muses about 1960s Hollywood, heartbreak, vaping, and summertime while assuming different personas — from Del Rey to a woman named Tessa DiPietro, to even Elizabeth Grant, her given name. Paired with personal photographs, the collection is a melancholy meditation on Los Angeles. But Del Rey says her inspirations extended beyond California.
“My perfect muse is probably wherever I am. When I was in New York the city was definitely defining for my attitude. I’m slightly aqueous and malleable in that way,” she explains. “When I was in the Midwest I felt very much called to be there. I felt like I was catching a little bit of lightning in a bottle by having so much space in the air to work. It gave me that electric feeling in my stomach that I get right before I create something great.”
 
Ahead of Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass’ release, Bustle spoke with Del Rey about reading books on midwifery, her next poetry collection entitled Behind the Iron Gates — Insights From an Institution, and why spaghetti is a great writing snack.
 
On what she’s reading now:
At the moment I’m mostly interested in reading about midwifery and herbalism and I’m re-watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
 
On wanting to go back to school:
I always go about sharpening my craft in a roundabout way. For instance, my writing got better when I stopped practicing other things. I think for me the biggest tool has been just allowing myself enough space to let my innermost thoughts reveal themselves to me.
At this point I’ve done that enough and I am actually ready to get more seriously into the craft of writing — or the idea of taking more classes in school. I’ve said it before but I often wondered how much different my life would be if I wasn’t worried about being completely humiliated by endeavoring on certain projects or revealing more of my home life. But I think I’ve actually done that in Violet and I certainly have in the second book I’m working on Behind the Iron Gates — Insights From an Institution.
 
On reality TV and YouTube as self-care:
I love reality TV. I’m sure I’ve written 100 songs from cues to those shows. Self-care for me is kind of different every day. Sometimes I allow myself to stay in bed late in the morning and just daydream. I love to sit around and talk shit with my closest friends, watch long Target hauls on YouTube. I also like to sit around and read things that I’m interested in, books that involve magic or old books of poems I’ve collected. I have a lot of animals so taking care of them one by one I’m sort of pouring that nurturing spirit out into anything I can.
 
On licking her wounds after a bad day of writing:
I just try and stay super still. I try not to overextend myself and just do little things that keep me inspired, like staying a little bit too long in the parking lot of the Walmart reading a magazine that I just bought, or going a little bit too far out of town to an eccentric book store, or buying a coffee in a town I’ve never been.
 
On celebratory dressing:
I don’t do anything or wear anything to get into the creative process but I find if I’ve written something beautiful, I like to take some time to put on something beautiful for the rest of the day. I always take a hot shower and putting on a dab of perfume and lipstick feels kind of rewarding to me and in line with the process of creating something ethereal.
 
On the snacks that fuel her creativity:
Kombucha, slurpees, spaghetti every night. Coffee in the evening with an old movie playing on one phone in the car and dictating poems with the other phone.
 
 
 
 
By Samantha Leach
Source: Bustle

i love how much lana singles out those sort of mundane moments of pleasure– reading a magazine in a walmart parking lot– as inspirational to her

https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/lana-del-rey-on-her-poetry-collection-reality-tv-slurpees

Never was there ever a girl so pretty 

Born To Die VHS

Blue Jeans VHS

I havent but i can make one if you want
 
National Anthem VHS

Kill Kill VHS

 
Honeymoon

I’m pretty sure she meant not to get her autograph tattoo’d 
 
there’s multiple videos of people either saying they were going to get her signature tattoo’d or showing her they did get her signature tattoo’d and that’s what seemed to be the issue for her 
 
I don’t recall her ever saying anything negative about her tattoos 

Whoaaa  thank you so much!! Literally one of the sweetest messages I've received, reading this really made my day 
 
But seriously thank you for the sweet words, I've also seen your album art concepts/edits on here (and reposted around) and you're incredibly talented yourself!! Your eye for design is pure insanity <3333 

These are absolutely amazing! You have such a raw talent, it’s unreal!
 
I could totally see these hanging in someone’s house as portraits ornate in frames or in a gallery walk at the art museum! The one of Lana on set of the COTCC video with the wine-red background I think would be perfect for a wine cellar or a kitchen - but also literally anywhere! <3
 

Amazing work, so beautiful, I cannot even begin to think how someone could evaluate art like that  please keep it up and know that you have a gift!

Never was there ever a girl so pretty 

These are absolutely amazing! You have such a raw talent, it’s unreal!
 
I could totally see these hanging in someone’s house as portraits ornate in frames or in a gallery walk at the art museum! The one of Lana on set of the COTCC video with the wine-red background I think would be perfect for a wine cellar or a kitchen - but also literally anywhere! <3
 

Amazing work, so beautiful, I cannot even begin to think how someone could evaluate art like that  please keep it up and know that you have a gift!

if i ever met her in real life i'd probably try to say something funny to make her remember me and slip a copy of pink friday into her purse

These are absolutely amazing! You have such a raw talent, it’s unreal!
 
I could totally see these hanging in someone’s house as portraits ornate in frames or in a gallery walk at the art museum! The one of Lana on set of the COTCC video with the wine-red background I think would be perfect for a wine cellar or a kitchen - but also literally anywhere! <3
 

Amazing work, so beautiful, I cannot even begin to think how someone could evaluate art like that  please keep it up and know that you have a gift!

my copy arrived today! it's beautiful. i think it was such a lovely idea to include the reader to write their own poetry at the end there as well, i think i may write a few things when the time is right. it just makes the book that much more personal, to have your own thoughts upon the same pages as the author. i will cherish this book forever. <3

nicki follows her on ig and liked a couple posts around l4l era
 
and like ten years ago lana posted about black friday on her facebook page before she was famous 

1. Chemtrails Over the Country Club
2. Hollywood
3. Bird World
4. White Hot Forever
5. Marie Antionette (feat. Nicki Minaj)
6. Dealer
7. Grenadine Quarantine (Interlude)
8. Secret Gardens
9. Waitress/ White Dress
10. Let Me Love You Like A Woman
11. Tulsa Jesus Freak
12. If This Is the End...I Want A Boyfriend

It took me so long to figure out how to upload photos onto here... embarrassing 
Anyways... I've been drawing Lana a lot more frequently ( album hype) these days -- So I decided that fellow ldr fans might enjoy my stuff! 
 
But as a fine artist once said: "I love when my picture turns out like how I pictured"  xx

 

 
(this one is a work in progress I'm not sure that'll ever finish lol}

for sure– one of her moodiest, most evocative songs, it just transports me every single time i hear it. lana is so good at conjuring rich emotional textures in general, but this song is one of the best examples of how fully she can conjure a world through sound. wish she'd perform it live more often– i love the way the string arrangement get translated through the guitar.

The title track of Honeymoon!
 
I feel like people don’t really talk about it that much nowadays and when it came out I remember people dismissed it as “boring” because it was “slow” and “sparse”  but I think it’s a song where her vocals shine and her extra-layered harmonies in the chorus paired with the sweeping strings and plucked guitar chords are so atmospheric! Musical heaven and masterful lyricism at its finest. I think it’s definitely one of her top 5 best songs of all time and that whole record is a career highlight! 

Here’s mine:
 
1. Bird World
2. Chemtrails Over the Country Club
3. Let Me Love You Like a Woman
4. Tulsa Jesus Freak
5. White Hot Forever 
6. Woodworker’s Hands 
7. Grenadine Quarantine (Interlude)
8. Diana
9. Last Call - To Be Clean and Serene
10. If This is the End...I Want a Boyfriend 
11. White Dress/Waitress
12. Dealer
13. Garden Party (Ricky Nelson cover)