One commenter said the real issue is that Del Rey equated ‘rapper’ to ‘person of color.’ Another user reiterated this point saying it was “unbelievable tone deaf.”Ī commenter said they understand her intentions, but don’t understand how she can get away with making problematic comments. Respect it.”ĭel Rey saw backlash from commenters regarding the problematic nature of her language. “My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. “My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers,” she wrote. We are all a beautiful mix of everything- some more than others which is visible and celebrated in everything I do.”ĭel Rey said she has been inclusive throughout her career. “My beautiful friend Valerie from Del Rio Mexico, my dearest friend Alex and my gorgeous friend Dakota Rain as well as my sweetheart Tatiana,” wrote Del Rey. Del Rey explained that the group was made up of a mix of races. “There’s always turmoil and upheaval and in the midst of it- there’s always beautiful music too introducing my new album chemtrails over the country club,” wrote Del Rey in the caption of her post.ĭel Rey added a comment to the post clarifying that the women in the photo are her best friends. GET DEALS ON TICKETS TO SEE LANA DEL REY AT COACHELLA HERE! It features Del Rey and ten other women gathered around a table. Del Rey posted the cover photo on her Instagram on Sunday. Maybe these folk and country leanings are connected to the album White Hot Forever she teased the day that Norman F*cking Rockwell was released? Guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but a Lana country record seems like a good step toward getting past her recent downturn.Lana Del Rey got backlash from fans over the album cover for her new album C hemtrails Over the Country Club.
I’m not going to have pedal steel guitar on every single thing, but it is easy for me to write.” “Maybe the way “Video Games” got remastered, they’re pop - but there’s something Americana about it for sure. “I went back and listened to “Ride” and “Video Games” and thought, you know they’re kind of country,” she said.
Additionally, she pointed out an Americana tone in some of her older music, one that is carrying through into what she’s writing now, a collection of “other folk songs.”
She’s still readying that album for release next month, but as NME points out, in a recent print issue of Mojo magazine, Lana said she’s already recorded an entire album of country covers. Recent comments by the singer of the last year or so comparing her victimized pop songs to the empowered work of female artists who were predominantly women of color led to a deserved backlash of epic proportions, and then Del Rey doubled down on tone deaf commentary when it was time to announce the cover art for her forthcoming album, Chemtrails Over The Country Club. Lana Del Rey has been having a rough time of it lately.
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