Lana & Joan Baez cover The New York Times Magazine April 2023 Issue [INTERVIEW]

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53 minutes ago, Coney Island King said:

This is the shoot? Holding a chicken with her Grandma in some backyard. 

 

Keep it.

And a hula hoop LMFAO

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Pleaseeeeee

 

She looks incredible in the chicken pic though

[Sportscruiser 10,653]

I love the lighting and the color palettes but the rest…

 

Also, that interview makes Joan Baez look like a total asshole. Not her acting like she’s Simon Cowell and people have to audition for her 

 

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chickens running barefeet theres a baby on the waaaay

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7 minutes ago, Sportscruiser said:

I love the lighting and the color palettes but the rest…

 

Also, that interview makes Joan Baez look like a total asshole. Not her acting like she’s Simon Cowell and people have to audition for her 

 

 

I mean as she should it's Joan Baez, she's an icon  do some research and you'll see how untrue that is, especially her activism during the Civil Rights movement. 

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1 minute ago, Three White Butterflies said:

 

I mean as she should it's Joan Baez, she's an icon  do some research and you'll see how untrue that is, especially her activism during the Civil Rights movement. 

 

Oh I’m very much aware of her activism and importance in the music industry but I still think making other people audition for you is a bit too much; I have a big problem with diva-ish celebrities not named Mariah Carey.

[GeminiLanaFan 45,710]

Ok this is underwhelming. Both interview and chicken pic or hula hoop one. Yeah, she looks cute and all, but I’ve seen rando family pictures better than this. Plus we already know that story?!? 

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Ok so anyways

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how do you people not see lana doing a photoshoot with a chicken as iconic????

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That’s one lucky chicken!! 

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2 hours ago, rightofjupiter said:

 

Joan Baez: In 2019, Lana, whom I’d heard about from my granddaughter, Jasmine, invited me to sing with her in Berkeley. I said, “Why? Your audience could be my great-grandchildren.” And she said, “They don’t deserve you.” Lana and I are sort of opposites. When I was starting out, I wouldn’t let anyone else onstage. I had two microphones — one for me, one for my guitar — and I stood barefoot, singing sad folk songs. I didn’t even write for the first 10 years, and she’s a songwriter.

 

I stopped singing three years ago; it was time to move on. After 60 years as a musician, I started painting. An artist friend said I need to loosen up and make mistakes so, if a painting isn’t working out, I dunk it twice in the swimming pool to see if it becomes something interesting. A hose will also do. If people want to learn from me, I tell them to look beyond the music to my engagement with human and civil rights. My voice was what it was, but the real gift was using it. A documentary has just been made about me [“Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” 2023]. There’s footage of me marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Grenada, Miss., in 1966. At another point in the film, I mention in a letter to my parents that I want to save the world. Lana doesn’t make such grand political statements — at Berkeley, she brought me out to do it for her. And yet, amid the colorful chaos and glitter of her show, she was at one point, I believe, barefoot.

 

Lana Del Rey: I was having a show at Berkeley three years ago and wanted Joan to sing “Diamonds & Rust” (1975) with me. She told me she lived an hour south of San Francisco, and that if I could not only find her but also sing the song’s high harmonies on the spot, she’d do it. I was given a vague map to get to a house distinguishable only by its color and the chickens running in the yard. At one point during my audition, she stopped me with a steely look to let me know I didn’t get it right. By the end, she said, “OK, that’s good. I’ll sing with you.”

 

Midway through the performance, I said to the audience, “I have someone coming onstage who is the most generous-of-spirit singer I know, and the most important female singer of the ’60s and ’70s, and we’re gonna do ‘Diamonds & Rust’ together.” After the show, we went to an Afro-Caribbean two-step club, and she told me not to stop dancing until she did. That’s what my song “Dance Till We Die” (2021) is about. I think the secret to real success is to make sure you’re always emotionally intact. I learned that from Joan. I recently said to her, “I just want you to know that I’m keenly aware that, in this lifetime or any other, I have no right to be standing shoulder to shoulder with you.” And she replied, “Oh, shut up.”

This is the whole interview?!

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You all just envy the chicken because she got to take a pic with Lana. 

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23 minutes ago, Roll With me said:

This is the whole interview?!

 

yup– the whole issue is these tiny short "interviews" w women artists and their mentors

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I said, “Why? Your audience could be my great-grandchildren.” And she said, “They don’t deserve you.”

omg lana don't be mean to us 

[clementines 9,658]

The photo shoot is cute and so is the interview just wish there was more on both ends.

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4 hours ago, George Parasol said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/lana-del-rey-joan-baez.html

A cute little clip here too https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/20/t-magazine/women-artists-culture-mentors.html

 

Joan looks stunning. Beautiful photos. 

[Elle 113,533]

Updated the OP with the interview & created a gallery thread for the shoot here  x

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2 hours ago, Sportscruiser said:

I love the lighting and the color palettes but the rest…

 

Also, that interview makes Joan Baez look like a total asshole. Not her acting like she’s Simon Cowell and people have to audition for her 

 

I thought the same. 

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they are such a cute duo