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Lana Del Rey Reveals Why She Has Shyed Away From Doing Interviews

Lana Del Rey Reveals Why She Has Shyed Away From Doing Interviews

Lana Del Rey is on the cover of Flaunt magazine’s The Cadence Issue, photographed by David LaChapelle!

Here’s what the 31-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag:

On the election: “I feel like this election jolted almost everyone who was floating around, feeling weird, whatever… right into the current moment,” Del Rey says. “I know several people that had a sort of drifter mentality that are now in the thick of it, considering things, and considering their own contributions, and what matters. I’ve known what matters to me for a long time, so I was already kind of there, but I didn’t really see it going this negatively. I feel like we’re in a bit of a Hitchcockian experience, and you’re in a scenario, and every day you wake up and you can’t believe the things being said and done are real. And I think some people are questioning if this shit is actually happening, like especially with the North Korea issues, which are really the scariest because you’re talking about nuclear annihilation.”

On shying away from doing interviews: “Because it’s hard to talk about your innermost feelings if you feel the reception will be cold. And I hung back for a while. I did a handful of interviews, but not many in the last few years. But also I was writing and writing, and digging through stuff, and not writing things as easy to digest or discuss. It still comes from me, but as I’ve evened out as a person, I don’t have as much I don’t want to say. I feel comfortable.”

On writing music: “I know a couple of people who love to write and love to rhyme, love melodies, and I do too. But to me it’s so much more than that. It feels like a life’s work and it feels like it’s really important just to me, so I put a lot of time into it.”

For more from Lana, visit Flaunt.com.

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Credit: David LaChapelle/Flaunt
Posted to: Lana Del Rey, Magazine