Lana Del Rey will release ā€˜Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grassā€™, a previously announced album of spoken word poetry, on July 28. The 14-track album will see Del Reyā€™s poetry set to the music of Jack Antonoff.

Antonoff and Del Rey previously teamed up on her sixth studio album, ā€˜Norman Fucking Rockwell!ā€™, co-writing the bulk of the albumā€™s songs together.

Alongside the album, Del Rey plans to release the poems as a hardback book later this year. The 112-page book will hit shelves on September 29.

Per a press statement, Del Rey says that ā€œsome [poems] came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem.ā€

ā€œThey are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason Iā€™m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.ā€

Poems featured on the album include “LA Who Am I to Love You?”, “The Land of 1,000 Fires”, “Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving”, “Never to Heaven”, “Tessa DiPietro”, ā€œHappy” and the titular poem.

In addition to her album and book of poetry, Del Rey will release her seventh studio album, ā€˜Chemtrails over the Country Clubā€™ on September 5.







Lana Del Rey received social media backlash earlier this year after publishing a post which fans claimed glamorised abuse and was racist.

In an Instagram post, Del Rey name-checked several women of colour who she said ā€œhave had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating, etcā€.

ā€œcan I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money ā€“ or whatever i want ā€“ without being crucified or saying that Iā€™m glamorising abuse???????ā€

Several high profile figures, including Doja Cat, called Lana Del Rey out for her comments.
In June, Del Rey once again caused a stir online after uploading footage from a Los Angeles Black Lives Matter protest to social media. In a since-deleted video, Del Rey allegedly zoomed in on protesters, revealing their identities.

Social media users and artists, including Tinashe and Kehlani, urged Del Rey to take down the video.

ā€œDO NOT endanger people with your very massive platform,ā€ Kehlani wrote.

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