Lana covers Rolling Stone UK - April/May 2023 [INTERVIEW]

[wildflowerwildfire 4,437]

i wasn't going to buy the b&w version but as a collector i couldn't resist 

[Fireffie 1,366]

Anybody knows when these will start to ship? I ordered from the official UK site as soon as it dropped and still no updates

[PARADIXO 23,800]

On 3/10/2023 at 6:34 AM, wildflowerwildfire said:

i wasn't going to buy the b&w version but as a collector i couldn't resist 

 

omg I love your pfp

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39 minutes ago, PARADIXO said:

 

omg I love your pfp

me too 

[Elle 89,538]

Lana Del Rey behind the scenes of her Rolling Stone UK cover shoot

I mean, what can I say? There's poetry in everything. Everyone's a poet. Everyone's an artist.

Hi, I'm (laughs)

We're going to do this eleven times, you ready?

Hey, I'm Lana! (laughs) We're gonna use all of these.

Hey, I'm Lana Del Rey and we are on the set of my Rolling Stone UK cover shoot.

 

Lana Del Rey on Kintsugi

Kintsugi I started writing naturally when my sister and my dad and I were at my great uncle Dick's hospice in Manhattan Beach with all 50 of the Grant members. Kintsugi is the art of filling broken pottery with liquid gold in the hopes of making it even more beautiful than it was before. I almost don't even need to explain that metaphor, the idea of falling apart and rebuilding one's life back up even more beautifully, but I wasn't really going for a metaphor when I wrote it. I was actually talking about my uncle because he's a poet of 9 books, and inventor, and a very interesting self-described anarchist. Because he had been in my garden two years before, he passed with my grandmother who was in my garden with him two years before she passed at 92 as well. He had been reading this poem that we have filmed called "Holding Back the Night," so to go from "Holding Back the Night" in my backyard to being around his bed with all 16 of my family members singing in 14-part harmonies, I just thought to myself, "Oh my god, like, I always thought I sang just to get out of my small town" and then I realised that has nothing to do with it, and then somehow I went from talking about family to, you know, people I'm dating, to talking to my dad like that I miss them, and then I think it ends with the line "let the light shine in." I think I say that a few times in the record. 

 

Lana Del Rey on the most important lesson she's learnt through her work

Sometimes there is no lesson. In the stories, like, in the things that we go through, I'm always looking for what's the lesson. Sometimes it's nothing. Other than, I would say to not repeat that mistake again, but I generally do, and for that reason I'm like there's still not a lesson. I would say there is a lesson in saying no and staying vigilant about keeping the wrong things out as opposed to being too open.

 

Lana Del Rey on the minutia of everyday life

I think everything that I write comes out of the minutia. I can't remember the last time I wrote something from like a Birdseye view perspective. Why I think it's important to sort of stay vigilant about like keeping the peace around my own heart is because every time I come to a stoplight at like a different corner of where I'm living or staying, I want to feel present in that moment and like be present enough to look around and think about like how beautiful that building is or whatever. When I'm distracted by like, you know, things I've let affect me, I don't notice anything. It would be like being here and being excited that I'm here but not, you know, being able to like actually know that it's not even, it's about the shoot but it's also bigger than that. It's like about being together, and I really think that's also what is making the music good if it's good in any capacity. It's like the idea that it's nothing in the music is really about me. It's always all about the people around me, and I think the funny thing is like you learn the most about somebody through seeing them interact with other people.

 

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Elle said:

Lana Del Rey behind the scenes of her Rolling Stone UK cover shoot

I mean, what can I say? There's poetry in everything. Everyone's a poet. Everyone's an artist.

Hi, I'm (laughs)

We're going to do this eleven times, you ready?

Hey, I'm Lana! (laughs) We're gonna use all of these.

Hey, I'm Lana Del Rey and we are on the set of my Rolling Stone UK cover shoot.

 

Lana Del Rey on Kintsugi

Kintsugi I started writing naturally when my sister and my dad and I were at my great uncle Dick's hospice in Manhattan Beach with all 50 of the Grant members. Kintsugi is the art of filling broken pottery with liquid gold in the hopes of making it even more beautiful than it was before. I almost don't even need to explain that metaphor, the idea of falling apart and rebuilding one's life back up even more beautifully, but I wasn't really going for a metaphor when I wrote it. I was actually talking about my uncle because he's a poet of 9 books, and inventor, and a very interesting self-described anarchist. Because he had been in my garden two years before, he passed with my grandmother who was in my garden with him two years before she passed at 92 as well. He had been reading this poem that we have filmed called "Holding Back the Night," so to go from "Holding Back the Night" in my backyard to being around his bed with all 16 of my family members singing in 14-part harmonies, I just thought to myself, "Oh my god, like, I always thought I sang just to get out of my small town" and then I realised that has nothing to do with it, and then somehow I went from talking about family to, you know, people I'm dating, to talking to my dad like that I miss them, and then I think it ends with the line "let the light shine in." I think I say that a few times in the record. 

 

Lana Del Rey on the most important lesson she's learnt through her work

Sometimes there is no lesson. In the stories, like, in the things that we go through, I'm always looking for what's the lesson. Sometimes it's nothing. Other than, I would say to not repeat that mistake again, but I generally do, and for that reason I'm like there's still not a lesson. I would say there is a lesson in saying no and staying vigilant about keeping the wrong things out as opposed to being too open/

 

Lana Del Rey on the minutia of everyday life

I think everything that I write comes out of the minutia. I can't remember the last time I wrote something from like a Birdseye view perspective. Why I think it's important to sort of stay vigilant about like keeping the peace around my own heart is because every time I come to a stoplight at like a different corner of where I'm living or staying, I want to feel present in that moment and like be present enough to look around and think about like how beautiful that building is or whatever. When I'm distracted by like, you know, things I've let affect me, I don't notice anything. It would be like being here and being excited that I'm here but not, you know, being able to like actually know that it's not even, it's about the shoot but it's also bigger than that. It's like about being together, and I really think that's also what is making the music good if it's good in any capacity. It's like the idea that it's nothing in the music is really about me. It's always all about the people around me, and I think the funny thing is like you learn the most about somebody through seeing them interact with other people.

a creative genius and a well-spoken queen — the rolling stones interview was one of her best interviews imo!

Edited Friday at 08:09 PM by lanita
added some words

[Olympia 263]

17 hours ago, Fireffie said:

Anybody knows when these will start to ship? I ordered from the official UK site as soon as it dropped and still no updates

 

I think they shipped them already a few days after I bought it, but there is no tracking number, so I guess the magazines are still making their way through the Brexit chaos. 

 

Did anyone from UK (or somewhere else) get their B&W variant already? So far I saw only photos if the colored version. I am wondering if only the cover differs.