Lana Del Rey is the latest musician to be unhappy with the way she was portrayed in a feature story. After an interview with The Guardian, which featured the "West Coast" singer saying she wishes she were dead among a few other eyebrow-raising phrases, she's saying the UK publication portrayed her in the wrong way.
In a series of since-deleted tweets, Del Rey attacked both The Guardian and the journalist she thought interviewed her, Alexis Petridis (in reality, she spoke with Tim Jonze). Del Rey didn't dispute the veracity of her words, but instead claims she was led in the line of questioning.
"I regret trusting the guardian- I didn't want to do an interview but the journalist was persistent. Alexis was masked as a fan but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about," she wrote on Twitter. "His leading questions about death and persona were calculated."
Del Rey is, of course, referring to her much-talked about quotes, wherein she said "I wish I was dead already" and "I don't want to have to keep doing this [living]. But I am."
But Jonze and The Guardian aren't taking Del Rey's contrary statements lying down. Jonze posted the controversial audio excerpt of his interview with Del Rey online and defended his journalistic integrity in a new op-ed.
"She may well have not wanted to do the interview but it certainly didn't seem like it - she was delightful company for the 70 minutes we spent talking, and was happy to continue over the allotted time when the PR knocked on the door, an hour in, and asked how we were getting on," Jonze wrote. "It's not pleasant asking a pop star if she thinks the idea of dying young herself is attractive - it's a dark question, but it's not a leading one. She has every opportunity to say no."
Besides deleting her accusatory tweets, Del Rey has yet to respond back to The Guardian.
