CruelWorld

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen/article19123254.ab
 
She puts her cigarette out, just little bit too hard.
– Yes, sometimes I fucking wish I was dead, but I don't glamorize death or people killing themselves.
        Markus Larsson and Lana Del Rey. Lana Del Ray excuses herself, gets up and starts fiddling with the espresso machine in her hotel suite.
– Sorry, I can't do interviews without my coffee. Keep talking. I'm listening.
I've always wondered, why did you create the persona Lana Del Ray?
– Well, it's not a persona. It's a different name. I've always thought that the way you're kind of born into a name, a geographic location, a family makes it hard to choose for yourself who you want to be. By having a different name I felt more free to be exactly who I am. People seem to think sometimes that I am somebody on stage and then you get off and you're another person, but I have a more alternative way of thinking.
I thought it was some kind of art project, like a Ziggy Stardust character?
– Yeah, people think that but actually for me it was just a different name. It has made it easier for me to express a very clear aesthetic that I love.
So what was the inspiration for your aesthetic?
– All things dark and beautiful. Everything I love, everything I've been through, everything I've wanted to do. My history and my songs.
You seem rather interested in the beauty of darkness and despair.
– I've had despair and grief in my life. In the past four years journalists have always asked me about death, icons and my persona. My own depressions and experiences has gotten miscommunicated as this need to be dark. Actually it's not my preferred way of being. I love when things go really well. Anyone who knows me knows this.
But what about the interview in The Guardian…
– I'm not fucking happy about the interview, to start with.
Well, I know that, and you've made that clear on Twitter. But what did you mean when you said ”I wish I was dead already”?
– Well, first of all… the questions… Sometimes I do feel like I wish I was dead. I've been through a lot. And yes, sometimes I feel like I fucking wish I was dead. But The Guardian made it sound like I was obsessed with dying because it's glamourous. Me being depressed sometimes has nothing to do with other people wanting to kill themselves.
It must have been surreal when the daughter of your idol Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, critcised you on Twitter?
– She was saying to me ”don't glamorize death” and I wrote back, and I never write to anyone, but I wrote back and said I didn't glamorize death. I don't even sing about death, except on the title track on ”Born to die”. I sing about relationships. The fact that the headline in The Guardian affected people that way feels unfair. That's the problem with the article.
You're computer got hacked a couple of years ago and 211 songs got stolen among other things.
– Yeah, someone remotely accessed my hard drive when I was staying in a hotel. The songs are one of a thousand things that was stolen.
I would have been devastated.
– Yeah, the fact that someone is watching you. Knowing that you never gonna have the luxury of discretion. These type of crimes won't ever stop.
Isn't there some legal action you can take, sue someone?
– Even if he people that started it got caught, they gave it to 40 other people, so the information is still out there.
Your life is always turned into headlines Like the recent rumours about your recent relationship. It was said you had broken up, but now I heard that your boyfriend Barrien-James O'Neill told TMZ that it's complete bullshit.
– I mean… I… I didn't use to talk publicly about my relationships. Because things change all the time. But after not seeing him for several months and people still asking me about him I just said no we're not together right now. And when he got to Los Angeles today and he ran into TMZ I don't think he knew what to say. Sometimes it's not real until you're faced with a camera and somebody asking you.
Ok, it all seems a bit confused. Well, about the music…
– It's ok. I get it.
Back to the music. So… are you together?
– Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. (Lana basically rolls over laughing out loud)
– Oh my god, that's so funny.
I'm sorry, I'm just joking. Why do you mention The Crystal's controversial song ”He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)” in the title track on your new album?
– I know that people have different opinions about that song. And they're entitled to. I always use autobiographical elements. Mixed with anything I can use as an innuendo instead of saying something super directly. For me the writing comes first. I never felt the need to edit myself.
Hmm. What are you actually saying? That you have been in abusive relationships?
– It's a good question. I have trouble talking about that song, I didn't think I would. I don't know what to say.
Why did you choose to cover ”The other woman”?
– Firstly it's a jazz song, covered by Nina Simone, she's my favourite. I feel like ”Ultraviolence” has a jazzy feel to it, shades of blue, shades of cool. I'm a huge jazz fan. Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, the singers, you know.
What have you stolen from them, as a song writer?
To start with I was just a fan. But I realized early on that I had an inclination to sing songs in a minor key with a touch of a blue note. They are my influences. Alongside The Eagles and The Beach Boys.
Beautiful music with a dark heart.
Yeah, ”Dark heart”. That's the follow up album. (Laughs).
 

listen to the interview here
 

New interview and I already translated it for you.
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TRANSLATION:
 
 
 
 
 
I found two other short "interviews" with dpa. I'm not sure if they belong to the one I already posted but as all of them took place in Berlin and were made by dpa I guess that it's actually one interview and those questions that I've found now are just outtakes or idk.
I translated them for you too but I did it very quickly so there might be some tiny mistakes in it.  (Translation in spoilers)
 
Here's the first one where she talkes about past eras. Source
 
 
 
And the other one (about soccer/ football and a bullfight). Source
 
 

Great pictures and report! I'm fucking JEALOUS you got to the front row.   Would have loved to meet you guys.
 
First time I saw her live. I loved seeing all those people on the street and in concert wearing flower crowns. Ride was my personal highlight. I don't know, it must be the song. I just riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. Or fuck you hard in the pouring rain in Born To Die. And Lana looked amazing in that dress. She sounded great and seemed to enjoy herself on the stage and the crowd.
 
Sadly it was over so soon. Seriously, those 1,5h happened in a flash. Btw what happened with the white balloons? Anyone knows?
 
Check out some more pics I took that evening in the spoiler below.
 
 
 

Listen Here
https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_n7jeh8WIPs1sag8mgo1.mp3

There is no doubt that tonight show will be amazing. Wish good time everyone who wil attend.
 
1,000 balloons saying "Happy Birthday Lana" are prepared for the Berlin show tonight.
 

The show was really AMAZING. Find some pictures I took below in the spoiler.
 
 

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West have tweeted about "Ultraviolence". Get that promo Lana!
 

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West have tweeted about "Ultraviolence". Get that promo Lana!
 

Finally. She looks so beautiful... Pool scenes and street walking ones are really cool. Her dancing is funny, you gotta love her. And I like that strange video effects. And strawberries scenes... It has that summer vibe. Amazing video.

Here's the clip she filmed on her broken screen again
 

 
We're already getting at least four videos for this album, damn girl! Brooklyn Baby deserves one so badly.

It's reliable. Relax and take it easy...

She just confirmed it in new radio interview...
http://m.alt987fm.com/onair/show-blog-54307/audio-menace-interviews-lana-del-rey-12436185/
 
mod note: mention at 13:49.

Lana Del Rey's 'Ultraviolence' music video is directed by Nabil Elderkin (who has worked with Kanye West, Frank Ocean & The Weeknd)

Lana Del Rey's 'Ultraviolence' music video is directed by Nabil Elderkin (who has worked with Kanye West, Frank Ocean & The Weeknd)

Interviewer clearly doesn't like her. That judgment questions are just ridiculous. Glad that she handled it well.

LOL @ her calling 911 in London.

This song is the biggest surprise for me. To be honest, I didn't expect much from it when I first hear sneak peak. Now I can't stop playing it. One of the best songs from album, for sure.
 
My homescreen all day look like this...

She just confirmed it in new radio interview...
http://m.alt987fm.com/onair/show-blog-54307/audio-menace-interviews-lana-del-rey-12436185/
 
mod note: mention at 13:49.

This song is the biggest surprise for me. To be honest, I didn't expect much from it when I first hear sneak peak. Now I can't stop playing it. One of the best songs from album, for sure.
 
My homescreen all day look like this...

This song is the biggest surprise for me. To be honest, I didn't expect much from it when I first hear sneak peak. Now I can't stop playing it. One of the best songs from album, for sure.
 
My homescreen all day look like this...

She just confirmed it in new radio interview...
http://m.alt987fm.com/onair/show-blog-54307/audio-menace-interviews-lana-del-rey-12436185/
 
mod note: mention at 13:49.