Is there a time when Lana Del Rey is telling the truth? Nobody can be sure… she is now attacking the Guardian’s journalist who interviewed her a few weeks ago. Using Twitter, but deleting her tweets afterwards (as people who wants the attention usually do) she expressed her great disappointment with the UK publication saying that the interviewer’s ‘leading questions about death and persona were calculated’, that he ‘was hiding sinister ambitions and angles’, because may be ‘he’s the boring one looking for something interesting to write about’. ‘I regret trusting The Guardian’ she also wrote, ‘I didn’t want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. Alexis was masked as a fan’.
I had read the article, which was entitled ‘I wish I was dead already’, and was half-amused by her ability to blur her video fantasy life with her real life, trying very hard to build the Lana Del Rey myth. Of course the author Tim Jonze has responded to Lana in this new Guardian article, posting her tweets and revealing that ‘an army of enraged Lana Del Rey fans’ bombarded his Twitter feed and Instagram page with menacing threats – the ‘I will fly to England and hurt you’ charming kind.
Beside noticing she couldn’t even remember whom interviewed her, as Jonze wrote the article while critic Alexis Petridis reviewed her ‘Ultraviolence’ album for the Guardian, he writes that Lana was ‘delightful company for the 70 minutes they spent talking’, even continuing to talk when they were interrupted by the PR, noting that nothing let him thought she didn’t want to do the interview as she says. He denies being a ‘masked fan’ and found her refreshingly open and eager to answer the most difficult questions.
Jonze added, ‘It’s not pleasant asking a pop star if she thinks the idea of dying young herself is attractive – it’s a dark question, but it’s not a leading one. She has every opportunity to say no. And she can hardly complain about the subject matter: she’d been talking about her icons all dying young, she named her debut album Born to Die and had spent much of the 50 minutes previous to this point telling me how miserable she was.’
What’s her problem? Is she craving for that much attention, is she bipolar or something? The guy didn’t make up quotes, and to prove it, he posted on Soundcloud, the snippet of the interview when she says she wishes she was dead already. Jonze did nothing wrong, I mean anyone would have used this sentence too if it had come up during an interview. She was the one saying it after talking about artists she admires (Cobain, Winehouse) who died young.
The problem is that I don’t buy a word that comes from her mouth, her false depression, her false drama, her false Lana, but she has managed to make people talk a bit longer about her, one more article about Lana in the Guardian, Rolling Stone and other blogs, she won. Look at this interview published by the New York Times a week ago, she basically said the same thing:
‘I love the idea that it’ll all be over. It’s just a relief, really. I’m scared to die, but I want to die.’ And she didn’t even attack the journalist!
My understanding is that people really depressed don’t push it in every single interview, on the contrary they try very hard to sound ‘normal’. Lana Del Rey is someone too normal who is pushing very hard her ‘depression’ at everyone’s face. If her music were that good, she wouldn’t need to make up so much stuff around it.