I’ve been progressively warming up to Lana Del Rey over the past few years. Some of her songs are actually pretty good. Not great, but good. I like Summertime Sadness a lot, but I’m still holding Lana at arm’s length because of her fake lips and manufactured career. Not that most pop stars aren’t manufactured and don’t have fake lips. I guess Lana isn’t alone in that way at all, so I should stop giving her a hard time about that stuff.
Lana does act kind of bratty in interviews though. She claims to be entitled to respect as a great artist. She (like everyone else) wants to be the next Angelina Jolie. Then there are the weird lyrics about how her p*ssy tastes like Pepsi Cola, which was supposedly a lyric coined by her boyfriend, Barrie-James O’Neill. Now Lana is wearing a new ring on her “important” finger. The Mail has photos of the suspicious new piece of jewelry. Us Weekly says Lana and O’Neill have been secretly engaged since last summer:
Summertime happiness! Lana Del Rey is secretly engaged to boyfriend Barrie-James O’Neill — and has been since the warmer months, multiple sources tell Us Weekly exclusively.
The “Summertime Sadness” singer, 27, became engaged to O’Neill — who sings and plays guitar in the Scottish band Kassidy — last summer. (Del Rey’s rep didn’t respond to requests for comment.)
Del Rey and O’Neill reportedly began dating in 2011. The couple sparked engagement rumors in July 2013 when they were photographed house-hunting together in L.A. with Del Rey wearing a diamond sparkler on her ring finger.
Though the retro-glam New York native typically sings about loss in her broody, atmospheric songs, Del Rey noted to Complex magazine in January 2012 that her “Off to the Races” track on her Born to Die album is about euphoric love.
“When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‘Off to the Races’ melodies,” she explained. “That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.”
[From Us Weekly]
I’d totally buy that these two are engaged. Lana even seems like the type to run off and get married at a courthouse or in Vegas and not tell anyone. The ring itself looks so simple and might be an actual wedding ring too. Hmm.
Lana has also been revealing details of her new album. She strongly hints that this record will be dark, much darker than Born To Die. The new record is called Ultra Violence: “The record is finished and it’s beautiful. And don’t worry you will love Ultra – it’s so wrong and exquisite. It is absolutely gorgeous – darker then the first – so dark it’s almost unlistenable and wrong. But I love it.” Yes, Lana has a definite shtick, but I like her shtick a lot more than, say, that of Lady Gaga.
By the way, here’s the full recording of Lana’s cover of “Once Upon A Dream” that was featured in the Maleficent trailer.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
Nope, still not a fan.
Me, neither. She doesn’t do anything for me.
What a freaky looking face.
Yes! How come someone so young can look so waxy and plastic? I know she had a lot of plastic surgery and fillers but why?
Love her. I admit though that sometimes she sounds a bit dumb in interviews. But then you listen to others and she seems very smart. I think she is just a bit insecure and sometimes puts on a persona she can hide behind. She is a terrific composer, though. Her lyrics occassionally annoy me a bit but if you can come up with those kinds of melodies I’m willing to forgive you for singing about your red dress again.
Does she write her own songs?
I like her music. I hate admitting it, but her melodies are very beautiful compared to most other radio-friendly stuff. She’s legit. Messed up, but legit. She appeals to the alco-fuelled tragically romantic 20-something free spirit side of me that occasionally breaks free from my generally no-nonsense, steely self.
So good on her.
Yes. She has co-writers now but most of her early stuff she wrote on her own.
Never been a fan of Lana until I saw Maleficent dream trailer and heard her sing Once Upon A Time in such a haunting and beautiful way. That voice made the trailer brilliant and kind of hypnotizes us to watch the movie.
Ugh! Why are people still trying to make this woman happen? Nothing makes her interesting.
She has a very pretty, but odd voice to me.
I love summertime sadness too. Her lips still bug me though
Love her voice. I don’t care much about her personality, but to judge someone because she said her lady bits taste like peps cola is just stupid and wrong. I love my lady bits and I wish I could write a song about her too.
Is she still a thing?
Good for you, Lana! She’s a great talent and her albums are heard on a regular basis in my home when I’m cleaning, chilling or feeling frisky. My husband loves her music too, we call her our girlfriend.
I’m over defending her looks and career. She’s a legitimate and talented artist and her looks have nothing to do with it. If you’re hung up on some lips then too bad for you, you’re missing out.
That’s a very lucky man.
Ugh, this woman. There are so many things that annoy. Her obviously altered face and her insistence that she’s all natural? Check. Her sleepy lyrics and Nyquil-induced singing? Check check. But I think what annoys me the most is how into herself/her persona she is. I respect people who just do their thing and are more concerned with their craft than obsessed with defining it. But she spends so much time telling us ‘I’m so this’ and ‘My music is so that’ that it feels utterly forced. That she has self-styled herself as ‘gansta Nancy Sinatra’ is like nails on the chalkboard of my soul.
We get it ‘Lana’. You think you’re awesome. But you know what? If you have to keep telling us? You probably aren’t.
Go away.
I don’t know who this is.
I don’t have strong feelings for or against her and her music. She has two or three songs I’ve enjoyed listening to, especially if I want to indulge in melancholy.
Also, I think she’s pretty. I don’t know what work she’s had done, but if I didn’t like an entertainer (singer, actor, etc.) based on THAT, I’d be hard-up for entertainment.
I don’t mind when people have had work done — I mean, I think most of the time its unnecessary and makes them look worse but it won’t put me off an actor/singer. When they vehemently deny having work done when it is starkly obvious, I get really eye roll-y. Don’t piss on my leg and try to convince me it’s raining, you know? Even that doesn’t put me off a person though; it’s just an annoyance. If they are amazing in all other respects, whatever. I’ll just ignore that part of their image.
When such behavior is coupled with over-hyped ‘talent’ though…
I love her ,i’ll definately buy that album. Her voice is haunting and beautiful at the same time.
Guy, never wear black shiny shoes with blue jeans, it looks bad. Real bad.
I heard summertime sadness on the radio and loved it. THen I heard another song, loved it. My boyfriend got her album and I found out that the radio version was a remix and the original song kind of sounds like she was on heroin. Slowwwwwwwww. Still, I’ll be interested to hear her new album, “so dark it’s almost unlistenable”. Colour me intrigued.
She did this one song really, really early on called “Kinda Outta Luck” which I absolutely LOVED so I rushed to listen to all her other music. Didn’t like any of it.