14 DAY TRIAL // Since she emerged on the scene, Lana Del Rey has been projecting this very artistic, somewhat morose image of herself. For her new album, “Ultraviolence,” she’s gone even darker, starting with that interview in which she claimed she wished she were dead already.
She eventually took those words back when she was called out on glamorizing an early death but she’s not yet done discussing the topic. Neither is she quite done yet with depressing you – and will probably continue to do so until you give in and just buy her album already.
Lana sat down for a very extensive interview with Madame Figaro: for a woman who claims she’s absolutely sickened by being famous, and for an artist who always talks about how much she’d like people to just stop paying any attention to her, she certainly does do a lot of interviews.
Maybe this is why many consider Lana a fake, a poser. Yes, she puts out great music but, when it comes to promoting it, she’s just the worst because she’s lying to the same public she’s trying to cater to, all in the hope that she will manage to convince them that she’s exactly in real-life as she sounds on her music.
In this new interview, the singer describes herself as a warrior; you see, she wants to continue making music but, at the same time, the process feels like a fight to her because she also has to play the fame game, which she hates.
Lana Del Rey is not happy, in her own words. She suffers from a kind of “malaise” that makes her always expect something and feel frustrated whenever an experience is over, like the present moment is never enough because what came before it and will come afterwards is so much better.
Seriously, Lana should have been born in a totally different time with all this gloom she’s projecting.
And on the topic of death, she’s not done speaking yet.
“I’ve always looked for signs in everything. I think ceaselessly of death, the concept of mortality is a vagueness that is constantly threatening. I find it to be heavy, crushing, really. What is the purpose? And what if there’s nothing after? I believe in a power bigger than us, who can guide us and help us to find the answers. But it is difficult to perceive it when you are constantly in movement,” she says.
So far, reviews for the “Ultraviolence” album have been mixed, but the fans have embraced it wholeheartedly. In the end, that’s all that matters but, really, if Lana feels so strongly about having to be a celebrity (which goes hand in hand with being a singer these days), she should just try to keep a lower profile.