Lana Del Rey talks altering attitudes in direction of home violence and feminine freedom in music
Lana Del Rey celebrated feminine expression in music and altering attitudes in direction of home violence in her Ivor Novellos acceptance speech this week.
The singer was talking from the stage of the Ivor Novello Awards in London on Might 23, the place she picked up the Particular Worldwide Award.
She took the prospect to handle how perceptions of artists like her have modified since she emerged within the early 2010s.
“After I began, I feel a variety of issues had been written about how the songs had been type of naval-gazing nearly my expertise with difficult relationships,” she stated.
“Now, what we’ve seen is that these songs weren’t written a couple of small microcosm of individuals and ladies; we’re seeing an acute quantity of issues written about tough relationships. Even when COVID started, the second epidemic in america was interpersonal relationship violence – it elevated by 300 per cent.
“I feel it’s wonderful that feminine singer-songwriters have the liberty to write down about completely no matter they need,” she continued. “It was at all times type of nerve-wracking to suppose that writing about relationships could be seen as one thing self-gratuitous or feigning vulnerability. It’s a really susceptible factor – not only for girls, however for males.”
On the identical ceremony, Del Rey additionally revealed she had as soon as wrote a track for a James Bond movie’, solely to have it turned down by the franchise’s producers. The observe – ‘24’ – ultimately ended up on her fourth album ‘Honeymoon’, however had been written with the Bond movie Spectre in thoughts.
Lana additionally spoke to NME on the Ivor Novellos this week. After having simply introduced her first ever stadium present – and after a packed 12 months that noticed her headline Coachella and London’s Hyde Park off the again of her critically-acclaimed ninth album ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd’ – NME requested her if she now felt vindicated towards her detractors.
“No, perhaps three years in the past there would have been a way of vindication, however now it simply feels playful. I don’t know why,” she replied. “If you happen to grasp in lengthy sufficient, it simply feels simple. There’s no vindication, no nothing – I’m simply type of pleased to be right here. It’s easy-going in that method.”
She additionally spoke about her upcoming country-inspired album ‘Lasso’, which she introduced in January and is presently schedule for a September launch.
Talking about embracing the nation sound, she stated: “Oh geez, what can I say now? After I gave Jack Antonoff his award for Finest Producer Of The 12 months [at the 2024 Grammys], I stated, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville as a result of the music enterprise has gone, gone nation. And it went silent; 5000 individuals, lifeless silent. Then the subsequent week, we had three main artists announce huge nation albums.
“So the place’s ‘Lasso’ going? I actually do not know now!”
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