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On Sunday, Lana Del Rey dropped the cover art and playlist for her expected upcoming album Chemtrails about the outdoor club, which will include songs such as ‘Tulsa Jesus Freak’ and ‘Not All Who Wander Are Lost’, as well as the EP’s previously revealed single, ‘Let Me Love You Like a Woman’, which premiered this fall. In an interesting nod to the plot of Christopher Nolan Tenet, the singer also wrote an Instagram comment in which she tries to reverse and defend the flow of the internet’s entropy Chemtrails‘covers art against all future criticisms that may be voiced, including, apparently, that her inclusion of colored women can be seen as an attempt to counter her bad press from this spring. In fact, Del Rey goes wide enough to conclude with the rules: ‘I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love on the table there 24 seven. Respect it. “Phew!
‘I want to say the same with everything that is going on this year! And no, that’s not a euphemism for something else, my dear friends. And damn !, ”the singer wrote in the comments that have since been removed, captured here by Stereogum. ‘As for my wonderful friends and this cover, yes, there are coloreds on the plate of this record, and that’s all I’ll say about it. But thank you. My lovely friend Valerie from Del Rio Mexico, my dearest friend Alex and my lovely friend Dakota Rain, as well as my beloved Tatiana. This is my friends, this is my life. We are all a beautiful mix of everything – some more than others, visible and celebrated in everything I do. ”
“In 11 years of work, I have always been extremely inclusive without trying to do that,” Del Rey continued. ‘My best friends are rappers, my boyfriends were rappers. My dearest friends were from all over, so before you comment again on a WOC / POC issue, it’s not me who’s storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world, my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. Respect it. ”
In May, the singer defended herself against criticism that her remarks comparing her alleged reception to those of female artists such as Beyoncé, Doja Cat and FKA Twigs were tone deaf and racially sensitive. “The fact that they want to convert my post is my advocate for fragility in a racial war,” Del Rey said in a subsequent video to try to clear up her statement. “It’s really bad. This is actually very bad. ”