Lana Del Rey Tired Of Spotlight? Tells Rolling Stone ‘Write About Someone Else’

Lana Del Rey appears on the cover of Rolling Stone, as the alternative songstress promotes the release of her latest album. Ultraviolence dropped on June 17, and serves as Lana’s follow-up to the 2012 worldwide hit, Born to Die.

Moody as ever, Lana reportedly told Rolling Stone to cancel the feature interview, saying:

“I’m not sure if they should run this story… I feel like maybe we should wait until there’s something good to talk about. You know? I just wish you could write about something else. There has to be someone else to be the cover story. Like, there has to be. Anybody.”

Lana’s fans would surely disagree. Since the video for “Shades of Cool” was released last month, it has racked up over 7.5 million hits on YouTube.

On the heels of her performance at Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s wedding, Lana is undoubtedly at the top of her game. But she told Rolling Stone, she is not celebrating yet:

“It doesn’t feel like success. Because with everything that could have felt like something really sweet, there’s always been something out of the periphery of my world, beyond my control, to kind of disrupt whatever was happening. I’ve never felt like, ‘Oh, this is great.'”

Lana might be forgiven for her neurosis considering the criticism she has faced in her short career. Since the release of Born to Die, she has faced a backlash over her authenticity as a musician. Pointing to everything from Lana’s pouty lips to her Saturday Night Live performance in 2012, critics insist she is a poseur.

One of her opponents arguments’ often comes down to her using Lana Del Rey, rather than her given name, Lizzy Grant.

Lana defends her on-stage persona telling Rolling Stone, “There’s not, like, a schism between people… It’s actually just a different name, and that’s sort of where it begins and ends”.

Though the five-page Rolling Stone interview is comprehensive, readers should not expect to unravel Lana’s mysterious persona by the end. As associate editor Brian Hiatt writes:

“[Lana] is a baffling bundle of contradictory signifiers, a mystery that 10,000 tortured think pieces have failed to solve… Her consistent viral videos are id-infested pageants of creepy-nostalgic Americana, good-girl/bad-girl dichotomies and the occasional make-out sesh with an old dude”.

To learn about Lana’s visit to a psychic and her relationship with an Italian photographer, read the whole Rolling Stone interview in the July 31 edition. It is available online and on news stands on Friday.