![]() ![]() ![]() I felt like I was in a more casual space. Well, the Honeymoon cover I thought was more just casual. This is the first one where you’re smiling. Your first three covers are all fairly serious, sort of oscillating between kind of almost sad and maybe a little bit aloof on the Honeymoon one. I thought to myself, I think I gotta move somewhere. I was like, Wait, is this real life? Honestly from then on one of those guys I had seen that day was just always there. I looked behind me, the guy had got a ticket too, and he was waiting too. I went down and got my ticket, swiped it, waited for the train. Yeah, and I was answering and I sounded crazy. I don’t even know if I had ever seen that before ‘cause it’s someone with a VHS following you around. It was the first time I had seen a paparazzi, but he wasn’t taking pictures, he was just filming. I remember I was working somewhere else and I was on my way back from there and I was getting on the 6 train, and TMZ was behind me the whole time. ![]() You were living in New York when you put out Born to Die and I know that you went from being like normal New Yorker who rides the subway to Lana del Rey who's on Page Six and is the subject of long thinkpieces in the Times. Photography by Timoth Saccenti, Earrings by DJULA, Ring by Lynn Ban, Dress by Maria Lucia Hohan The questions of authenticity and agency that greeted her upon arrival are irrelevant. At 32, her career is no longer "guesswork," the way it was when she first began. Lightness is, in some ways, the operating principle for Lana Del Rey right now. "I was ready to have some of my friends jump on the record," she says," they were all naturally a little bit lighter than me." Hopeful and questioning, the album engages with the tumultuous and oftentimes terrifying politics of 2017 on songs like "God Bless America-And All the Beautiful Women in It" and "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing." Elsewhere, this more expansive worldview means features from artists like Stevie Nicks, Playboi Carti, Sean Ono Lennon, and ASAP Rocky. Lust for Life is her most ambitious album yet, and as Lana explains in her third Complex cover appearance, it emerged from a period of self-examination that, when it ended, left her "looking at everything else" the world has to offer. The mild, smoky voice, the judicious use of rap production, the juxtaposition of classic American images and sounds with hyper-contemporary, crass language, from these elements Lana makes music that feels at once familiar and strange. For six years now Lana Del Rey has attracted and foiled critics with pop music that does not sound like any of her peers. ![]()
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