Lana Del Rey covers the November issue of Nylon. I can never quite tell what she’s promoting besides, you know, herself. Lana does have a short film (Tropico) coming out soon, but that’s not really enough to snag a magazine cover. Of course this is Nylon. Any reason is as good as another. As far as Lana photoshoots go, this is one of the better ones. Her face seems to have “settled” a lot compared to early 2012 when she was almost certainly plumping up her lips, etc. I also like the styling here a lot more than most Nylon shoots.

Lana did an interview too, and of course she’s full of herself. She’s not whining about America this time or talking about how her p—y tastes like Pepsi. She is alluding to how she gets no respect for her very important work. She also claims to not listen to haters even though they’re affecting her song writing:

On her next album: “When people ask me about it, I just have to be honest–I really don’t know[…] I don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, definitely–the next one’s better than this one,’ because I don’t really hear a next one. My muse is very fickle. She only comes to me sometimes, which is annoying.”

Writing post stardom is hard: “It’s harder to be an observer when people are watching you. You have to go further inside because the outside world becomes a harder place to draw from.”

On quitting drinking before 21: “Sometimes when I write about my feelings, about what sounds like a person, I’m actually writing about the way I felt when I was completely inebriated, which was really good–until it wasn’t working for me anymore[…] Thinking about not drinking forever was very scary, but once I did it wasn’t hard anymore because I had all of these miracles happen that let me know I was on exactly the right path.”

She & boyfriend Barrie-James O’Neill are weird: “[Kurt Cobain is] a big part of our daily conversation. Jeff Buckley is another big inspiration. And Jim Morrison–I mean, we talk about these people like we know them. They’re a part of our relationship. We always say, ‘All of our friends are dead, and they never knew us.’ I’m lucky to have met someone who feels that way, too.”

On her new short film, Tropico: “It’s Elvira and Jesus and Marilyn and extraterrestrials all in one.”

She doesn’t listen to haters: “It’s important to have a good relationship with yourself when you become well known[…] People will say a lot of things, and you’ll start to wonder if they’re true. But then you have to go back to all of those little truths and kernels you found along the way that remind you: You are where you’re supposed to be.”

[From Nylon]

From what Lana says, I gather that she’s having trouble writing songs for a new album. I get it, really. It’s probably tough to keep writing different songs about soft drinks. Sometimes I sigh to myself and wonder how the 403rd post about Tom Cruise will happen while trying to say something faintly original. Not the same? Damn.

I do have a confession to make. I downloaded a Lana song a few weeks ago. No, not the Pepsi Cola song — the “Summertime Sadness” remix by Cedric Gervais. Don’t laugh at me, the remix has proven to be Lana’s biggest seller so far. Don’t worry, I still can’t stand the rest of her music. Her Tropico film will probably be a mess of a Lynchian homage, but at least she’s staying true to her alter ego.

Photos courtesy of Nylon