On May 16, Lana Del Rey was spotted by a fan at Moniso Boutique in Los Angeles. Lana was then seen on May 25 arriving at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later dining with friends and family at Copacabana Palace Hotel. Lana will be performing at Rio de Janeiro’s MITA Festival.
Candids > 2023 > Spotted by a fan at Moniso in Los Angeles, California, USA (May 16)
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Candids > 2023 > Arriving at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May 25)
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Candids > 2023 > Dining with friends and family at Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May 25)
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In this year’s Culture issue, New York Times Style Magazine asked mid- and late-career artists and other creatives (the majority of them over 45) to identify a younger female artist who inspires them. It didn’t have to be someone they knew, or even someone in the same field or discipline, but it had to be someone they saw their younger selves in or who gave them a sense of hope. They were brought together, some their first meeting, for some photos and an interview about their relationships with ambition, legacy and mentorship. Legendary American folk singer-songwriter and activists Joan Baez chose Lana Del Rey.
The interview, which can be read below and also online here, is titled “Lana Del Rey Wanted to Sing With Joan Baez. But First, She’d Have to Find Her.” The singers talked about the audition that changed them both — and the “secret to real success.” The print edition will be available on Sunday, April 23.
Joan Baez: In 2019, Lana, whom I’d heard about from my granddaughter, Jasmine, invited me to sing with her in Berkeley. I said, “Why? Your audience could be my great-grandchildren.” And she said, “They don’t deserve you.”
Lana and I are sort of opposites. When I was starting out, I wouldn’t let anyone else onstage. I had two microphones — one for me, one for my guitar — and I stood barefoot, singing sad folk songs. I didn’t even write for the first 10 years, and she’s a songwriter.
I stopped singing three years ago; it was time to move on. After 60 years as a musician, I started painting. An artist friend said I need to loosen up and make mistakes so, if a painting isn’t working out, I dunk it twice in the swimming pool to see if it becomes something interesting. A hose will also do.
If people want to learn from me, I tell them to look beyond the music to my engagement with human and civil rights. My voice was what it was, but the real gift was using it. A documentary has just been made about me [“Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” 2023]. There’s footage of me marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Grenada, Miss., in 1966. At another point in the film, I mention in a letter to my parents that I want to save the world. Lana doesn’t make such grand political statements — at Berkeley, she brought me out to do it for her. And yet, amid the colorful chaos and glitter of her show, she was at one point, I believe, barefoot.
Lana Del Rey: I was having a show at Berkeley three years ago and wanted Joan to sing “Diamonds & Rust” (1975) with me. She told me she lived an hour south of San Francisco, and that if I could not only find her but also sing the song’s high harmonies on the spot, she’d do it. I was given a vague map to get to a house distinguishable only by its color and the chickens running in the yard. At one point during my audition, she stopped me with a steely look to let me know I didn’t get it right. By the end, she said, “OK, that’s good. I’ll sing with you.”
Midway through the performance, I said to the audience, “I have someone coming onstage who is the most generous-of-spirit singer I know, and the most important female singer of the ’60s and ’70s, and we’re gonna do ‘Diamonds & Rust’ together.” After the show, we went to an Afro-Caribbean two-step club, and she told me not to stop dancing until she did. That’s what my song “Dance Till We Die” (2021) is about.
I think the secret to real success is to make sure you’re always emotionally intact. I learned that from Joan. I recently said to her, “I just want you to know that I’m keenly aware that, in this lifetime or any other, I have no right to be standing shoulder to shoulder with you.” And she replied, “Oh, shut up.”
Photoshoots > 2023 > For New York Times Style Magazine by Katy Grannan
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On April 15, Lana Del Rey attended the High Water Music Festival in North Charleston, South Carolina where Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers were performing. Lana eventually joined Jack onstage for them to perform ‘Margaret’ together, the song about his fiancée Margaret Qualley. It’s the first live performance of the track, taken from Lana’s latest album, ‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.’
Performances > 2023 > Performing with Jack Antonoff/Bleachers at High Water Music Festival in North Charleston, South Carolina, USA (April 15)
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So far in April Lana Del Rey has been to Disneyland with Evan Winiker, and spotted by fans while out dining and shopping. She took a selfie at Moona Star in Topanga modelling their Stevie Top and the OVO jewellery set by AVILLA. Lana was also recently out with her friend Zella Day at Craig’s, an American restaurant, and yesterday was spotted at in South Carolina for the High Water Music Festival.
Candids > 2023 > At Disneyland with Evan Winiker in Anaheim, California, USA (April 4)
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Candids > 2023 > Shopping in Malibu, California, USA (April 7)
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Candids > 2023 > Celebrating Easter with family and friends in Los Angeles, California, USA (April 9)
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Candids > 2023 > Dining at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Woodland Hills, California, USA (April 9)
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Candids > 2023 > Spotted by fans in Los Angeles, California, USA (April 11)
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Candids > 2023 > At Moona Star modelling their Stevie Top and OVO jewellery set by AVILLA in Topanga, California, USA (April 11)
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Candids > 2023 > With Zella Day at Craig’s in West Hollywood, California, USA (April 13)
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Candids > 2023 > Spotted by a fan in North Charleston, South Carolina, USA (April 15)
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Lana Del Rey is on the April 2023 cover of French magazine, Les Inrockuptibles, with photos by Neil Krug. Oh her honeymoon Instagram account, Lana posted the magazine cover and said, “thank you to JD who’s been interviewing me for this magazine for 10 years.” The pair talk about “her passion for Jeff Buckley and Bowie, her intense relationship with her spirituality, her outlook on the world, her art of signwriting, and her grief.” The magazine is out on March 29.
Magazines > 2023 > Les Inrockuptibles (April – France)
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Lana Del Rey is on the April/May cover of Rolling Stone UK, which is currently available to purchase, including a second cover which is a black and white version. The photoshoot was shot by Lana’s sister, Chuck Grant, with styling by Joseph Kocharian. The interview was conducted by Hannah Ewens. Lana later shared some outtakes from the shoot, though they are photos of a computer screen.
By retreating, she believes she has begun to see the culture more clearly. Her albums have followed suit, increasingly humorous and observational in their commentary. Meanwhile, regardless of genre, her sound has distilled into something that is pure Lana: classic and glamorous with her trademark airy, theatrical vocals. She found a fellow partially off-grid companion in Antonoff. “Jack Antonoff and I are super similar in the way we know about so much that’s going on culturally, but we have no idea how. We definitely don’t read that much about it or hear that much about it, but all of those turning points in culture, somehow we’re always aware,” she explains. Often, she and Antonoff will sit together in the studio and discuss what they’re doing to try to survive the negative waves of trends in tech, self-promotion, music and society. “I think even if I was in a remote area, I would always know what’s going on and I’ve always had a little bit of an intuitive finger on the pulse of culture,” she continues. “Even when I started singing, I knew it wouldn’t completely jive right away.”
A spiritual instinct is ever-present in Del Rey, the person. As soon as she sits down, we’re laughing about astrology and the time she tweeted her birth time and everyone realised — along with her — that she’s a Cancer, not a Gemini. “Once I had a thousand dollars, I bought this beautiful Gemini medallion which is no longer relevant to me,” she hoots, clapping her hands together. She’s so impressed with her regular psychic that every time someone tells her that she must be proud of her music, she thinks, “‘You should see what these people in the wellness community can do’ — especially in LA, it’s the mecca.” Singing is a talent too, but psychic abilities to her are magic. “It’s so validating when I meet someone like that because it’s very affirmative that there’s so much more going on.”
This fascination with the otherworldly began when she was young growing up in Lake Placid, New York. “I had fun playing sports and meeting new friends, but I was concerned about why there were no television shows or talks from people and parents about where they thought we came from and why they thought we were here. It deeply troubled me from the age of four,” she remembers. “So, my parents did have their hands full with a lot of esoteric questions. I think that’s just a predisposition.” Attending a Catholic elementary school only encouraged this search for knowledge, as did her philosophy class at age 15. In the mid-00s, she went to Fordham University in the Bronx to study for a degree in philosophy with a specialism in metaphysics. “I tried to get as many questions answered in four years as I could,” she says, sagely. “And then I was taught that philosophy was a study of questions, not answers. There were no answers, which almost made things worse.”
Read the full interview at rollingstone.co.uk.
Magazines > 2023 > Rolling Stone Magazine (April/May – UK)
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Photoshoots > 2023 > For Rolling Stone UK by Chuck Grant
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Photoshoots > 2023 > Behind the Scenes/outtakes from Rolling Stone
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Candids > 2023 > Out with Rob and Charlie at Dan Tana’s in Los Angeles, California, USA (March 3)
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Candids > 2023 > Spotted by a fan at the Jewellery District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA (March 4)
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Candids > 2023 > With a fan at a restaurant in Los Angeles, California, USA (March 14)
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Candids > 2023 > With a fan at Le Parker Méridien in Palm Springs, California, USA (March 17)
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Candids > 2023 > Spotted by a fan while out in Palm Springs, California, USA (March 18)
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Candids > 2023 > With fans while out with Evan Winiker at Pappy + Harriet’s in Pioneertown, California, USA (March 18)
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Candids > 2023 > With a fan in Los Angeles, California, USA (March 22)
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Candids > 2023 > Out with Rob and Charlie in Los Angeles, California, USA (March 23)
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On March 1, Lana Del Rey attended the 2023 Billboard Women in Music event at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood where she accepted the Visionary Award. Watch Lana’s acceptance speech below.
Public Appearances > 2023 > 2023 Billboard Women in Music event at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, USA (March 1)
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