Lana Del Rey has announced a new album ‘Rock Candy Sweet’.
The announcement comes mere days after the release of her seventh studio album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ last Friday (March 19).
The singer announced ‘Rock Candy Sweet’ in a post on Instagram. It will be released June 1. See it below:
Del Rey further confirmed ‘Rock Candy Sweet’ was a new album in a post to her Instagram stories, in which she responded to a January op-ed in Harper’s Bazaar titled “Lana Del Rey can’t qualify her way out of being held accountable.”
Over a screenshot of the article, Del Rey wrote in red text: “Just want to thank you again for the kind articles like this one and for reminding me that my career was built on cultural appropriation and glamorizing domestic abuse. I will continue to challenge those thoughts on my next record on June 1 titled ‘Rock Candy Sweet’.”
In a second post to her Instagram stories, with a screenshot of a paragraph from the article, Del Rey highlighted lines from the Harper’s Bazaar op-ed that referred to comments she had made in January about the cover art of ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, in which she said “there are people of color on this records picture”.
She later elaborated on her comments about the cover art, saying, “I knew what people were going to say. 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. You can’t just make it my problem.”
The Harper’s Bazaar op-ed also referred to comments Del Rey made about former US President Donald Trump and the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters. In an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac, she said she didn’t think he knew he was inciting a riot, saying Trump had “delusions of grandeur”.
Del Rey later clarified her comments, which she said publications had taken out of context, saying, “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.”
“The defensive note was unnecessary, as nobody had significantly criticized Del Rey for ‘including’ people of color in her upcoming album,” the Harper’s Bazaar op-ed read, “and her need to disassociate herself from the Nazi-led riot on Capitol Hill was also curious given Del Rey’s longterm public opposition to former president Donald Trump.”
In red text, Del Rey wrote, “You’re right it would have been unnecessary if no one had significantly criticized everything about the album to begin with. But you did. And I want revenge.”
See Del Rey’s Instagram stories below.
Last Friday, Del Rey released ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’. In a five-star review, NME’s Rhian Daly wrote that “Lana Del Rey is at the peak of her game – just don’t expect her to come down anytime soon.”
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