Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence has gone straight in the album charts at the top. Ultraviolence has been ultrasuccessful, but her interviews leading up o the release of her album have been ultracontroversial. Firstly, she declared feminism “not an interesting concept” in an interview with The Fader. What does intrigue Lana? The death of young musicians. This is something she has romanticized. Recent comments made to The Guardian have the singers name trending across the Internet. In the piece , Del Ray was quoted as saying that she saw glamor in an early death.
“I wish I was dead already,” she told Tim Jonze of The Guardian. Her morbid perspective on mortality seemed to be influenced by the mentions of Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, whom she cites as her heroes. Lana continued to explain how she did, in fact, mean exactly what she had said, “I do! I don’t want to have to keep doing this. But I am.”
Well, Lana, early death may not be better than fame, just ask Frances. Yesterday, Kurt Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, confronted Lana for romanticizing death during her interview with The Guardian. “I’ll never know my father because he died young and it becomes a desirable feat because people like you think it’s ‘cool,’” Bean wrote on Twitter. “Well, it’s fucking not. Embrace life, because you only get one life.”
Del Rey has responded to the backlash. She further explained herself, claiming her “I wish I was dead already” quote was taken out of context. She has formally responded to Bean, via Twitter: “He was asking me a lot about your dad I said I liked him because he was talented not because he died young- the other half of what I said wasn’t really related to the people he mentioned/ I don’t find that part of music glam either.”