It began back in May last year, when Lana initially teased her forthcoming album - Chemtrails Over The Country Club - and its imminent(-ish) arrival. It’s the latest of a string of statements and social media postings from Lana Del Rey, which over the last six months, have encouraged people to discuss her politics and presence in music - especially as the US battles socio-political disruption and domestic terrorism, such as the storming of the US Capitol building earlier last week. Which you know is, to a point, a photo just is what it is.” And I’m mentioning all this, like, to people who are listening because people really wanted even more people of colour on my album cover. My girlfriends come from all over the world, they have children from all different types of people. “My friends, my family, my whatever… They’re not all one way and we’re not the ones storming the Capitol.
You can’t just make it my problem,” she told Annie Mac, as confirmed by Consequence Of Sound.
So when they actually started saying things, I responded and I just said, ‘I got a lot of issues but inclusivity ain’t one of them.’ It just isn’t. “Before I even put the album cover up, I knew what people were going to say.
In the same BBC Radio interview that premiered her latest single Chemtrails Over The Country Club, Lana Del Rey dismissed the host’s - Annie Mac’s - questions on the single and her forthcoming album of the same name, instead electing to speak about the controversy that surrounded her announcement of the single a few days earlier.
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