Throughout her career, Lana has had a complicated relationship with the word 'feminist'.īy 2017, Lana told Pitchfork her thoughts on feminism had changed 'because things have shifted culturally'. Throughout this time, she's released a dozen albums and a poetry collection, been nominated for six Grammys and been praised as one of the best songwriters in the US by none other than Bruce Springsteen.īut with success, comes controversy. Lana, whose career took off in 2011 after uploading self-made music videos for her songs 'Video Games' and 'Blue Jeans' to YouTube, has spent a decade in the spotlight. Just to take a moment to say that what I was describing w the bbc was that Trump is so significantly impaired that he may not know what he was doing due to his significant lack of empathy and the wider ranging problem is the issue of sociopathy and narcissism in America.- Lana Del Rey January 12, 2021 She explained her comments further on Twitter: We really needed a reflection of our world's greatest problem, which is not climate change, but sociopathy and narcissism. 'The madness of Trump, as bad as it was, it really needed to happen. It's just weird, you know?'Īnd she then found herself in more hot water, over comments about Donald Trump. It's a black-and-white image, so zoom in, you know. But I just feel like if that’s really what people are gonna say, I have an answer for them, which is that if you look closer, you will see people of colour. 'I wasn't being preemptive, I was definitely responding. 'So when they actually started saying things, I responded and I just said, 'I got a lot of issues but inclusivity ain't one of them.' It just isn't. 'Before I even put the album cover up, I knew what people were going to say,' she said.

She followed up with a BBC One radio interview where she discussed the controversy, that she herself started. The comment seemed to be Lana's attempt to quash any criticism before it began, but it backfired. '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,' she wrote. Then she linked it to Donald Trump supporters storming the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

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