The Silver Screen

Delighted to welcome Lana Del Rey! Hello.

Hi!

How are you?

I’m good. And how are you?

I’m fine. I’ve ever noticed in your videos before the gold teeth.

Is that a recent edition? Have you chipped it? What’s going on there?

It’s a recent edition ya just… you know I just keeping in a real, just for a little bit..

Are you dentally good though?

Ya, all good

Ya the brits are too, I don’t know what are they talking about?

It’s a terrible stereotype.

That’s stupid.

Although I …

I know all about that.

So you first caught our attention last summer when I saw a video of a couple of your songs online

And from saw the videos, the image I had of you in my imagination was this kind of Bohemian girl who’s perhaps a bit like jade wit life

Who probably lived in a small quite cluttered apartment full of bricabracan and nicknacks

And you spend your spare time go to garage sells

And buying a couple of scenic films

And splice them together by night.

How closed that truth?

I don’t know. I mean I feel like that…

I feel like that the vision is …

Like you’re talking about the same girl except I just

I don’t go to the garage or anything like that…

I’m really hunting for my film on YouTobe

(right) but … I don’t know …

It’s half a way there..

Ok it’s no get of truth in there

So you don’t got o the garage sells

What do you spend your money?

Or are you a thrifty person?

What I do my money spend on?

I don’t spend my money on anything. I just …

You re thrifty-yeah I’m thrifty. Yeah I hate spend my money.

But you’re not somebody who puts a lot of sentimental value on things.

You are more of an experienced person?

Not really, I mean…

You know like if I had a lot of money

Like I’ll buy something like really beautiful like maybe with little diamonds in it

About this little ring

But other than that

Like I spend money on you know

like it’s actually experience to get some of those films cleared like for video games

and things like that and I like to put my money back into the music usually

and are you from a film background or a music back ground

music

so you didn’t like… its just an interest you…came to yourself

ya I didn’t study it.

I was like a writer first and a singer.

And then kind of came into editing later

But it’s something I ended up feeling just as passionate about as singing, so…

So manage the picture and the voice(yeah)

And so… so quickly in terms of having a record out

And I don’t know how quickly is in terms of what’s going on your life

But certainly so quickly in terms of having release a record

It’s gone very massive it’s huge level of success

And then there’s been this a kind of unprecedented very modern kind of snippy backlash

How’s that…that is tentative for you?

Do you feel like you got everything you wanted on one hand but it has been tainted?

I don’t know if it’s been tainted,

It’s definitely been different from what I expected

But you know I have a lot of time to think about the record and what I want

Coz you know I’ve been written it since last year

So I sort of finished writing record before anything was really happening

And so…I don’t know I mean I don’t really think it’s tainted.

But I couldn’t have imaged that it like this. I guess that I’d say

I think most people’s way to image success is people are hearing your music ,you are out playing shows and people are liking it.

I don’t image that some snipping on a hipster blog or on a brochure review is a part of that. Though you re quite bulletproof to that criticism, do you think it?

I don’t know .you know, I don’t think it too much only because you know I’ve been in new York for about 7 years and a lot of people I started singing with don’t sing anymore, don’t write anymore.

So the fact I can still do that like come here, play shows, sing and write

You know, that’s kind of a gift, that’s kind of I sort of stay focus on like I keep writing

when I went back to New York and California

the last two weeks I got to come back into the studio and keep working so I find that when I’m working, it’s easier to just sinking to that.

You’re bad with down time then?

No, I actually really like down time but I haven’t had too much of it.

Well that probably get wild before you get any as well. - we’ll see.

And Lana Del Rey then the sort of name or the personal, is it you as a person or is a part you’re playing?

Definitely very much me.Emm…I just had… I just really wanted a name that was as beautiful as I thought the music was gonna be

Like where did you find where did you find the name come from?

Well. I was going with my sister a lot to Miami…

We were spending time with our friends from Cuba

And I wanted something that’s different sort of sound like…

Faded seaside glamour

And that was something that sounded beautiful but sonically

I just like a way it sort of rolled off the tip of tongue

Did you have a long list of the other option?

I had a very short list

What else is on the list?

I don’t know.

You do know-I wouldn’t tell you. I’m sure I wouldn’t tell you.

A question I want to talk to you is it real Nancy Sinatra being in touch

After having describe yourself as gangsta Nancy Sinatra?

No she hasn’t,no.

But you know I mean like again that I had something I just put on my Youtube page like for fun.

And the as soon as the song sort of got more attention and then people had grabbed that phrase of my Youtube and started recycling it before I could even get a hold on it

But that’s a way of the things you can ues phrases like that in bios and Tweeter or Youtube for years

And nobody knows them, but the second on spotlight is on.

But everything is hype-scrutinized.

I know, that’s was a real classy…classy decision, that’s great

Ask this question what music is die rise to you in fact

If you’ll be euthanized, what would be on the CD mistype for you to die to?

Well, I was…I didn’t have any another answer for you

But since you put it that way, I probably died to Jeff Buckley,

I guess there probably wouldn’t be another way.

It’s good way to go out yeah-good music.

Good music to die to, send me on the heaven,heavenly voice, heavenly tunes

But I have a couple of records that I sort of near endeared me.

I really like Nirvana and I really like Bob Dylan, and I like frank Sinatra’s voice.

Are you scared to death?

Well yeah yeah …

Do you think about your own death?

I used to think about it.

Did you see it like natural cases at old age or tragic starlet robbed of life?

No, I don’t know what I thought.

I just knew that it scared me, god! I don’t know.

Cos they say there are two types of people that the people who fantasized about their weddings and and people who fantasize about their own funerals

That’s true.

Yeh yeh do you think you are falling into other those categories?

Yeh I’m a modern day woman, I think I fall into both of them.

I fantasized about I was both of them.

Would you have a happy funeral or people really are clenching their teeth and wailing

And outpouring grief?

That’s a good question.

The same goes for wedding

Hopefully just the family would be their god, I don’t know

Oh emm…can you pinpoint a moment in your life where you feel that was the moment be it one second or ten minutes

Or whatever that you felt that you are content and happiest?

Yeh I mean for me it’s… I mean for me it’s really every day.

I mean I can’t really explain to you.

I’m really so grateful just to be alive and healthy every single day

That’s such a surprise for me given that the film

You used have a sense of nostalgia to them

I would expect you to be nostalgia of a summer or you know a boat journey

Or you know something you would romanticize that way-ah yeah i think i see...

I mean like I see everything in the pictures like when i think back to the way that things they were very vivid to me like and i do

When I kind of write I sort of write back to the picture that I can remember

But I mean that a lot of things that people said they thought they were said

I actually thought I were happy be

And like you know when I wrote Video Games

I mean to me it was real a love song

It was actually about sort of a happy time

But I think because of the melody is sort of sullen that...

Did you, when you came up with the melody which we heard just before

You know that lift in the chorus

You know, did you know you’re on to something

Because it’s something almost like military like

a military band or Last Post or something about it

I personally thought that I was on to something

I mean not on to something I mean in terms of

Writing a melody that I thought describe me perfectly

You know like that I thought was gorgeous and didn’t compromise

I definitely thought the song did that

But it was you know a choir 5min 30 sec

Love ballet with no instruments

So sentiment wasn’t necessarily you know

And you feel like the girl in that song still

Um yeah I mean I always feel...I mean

I always feel like the same person

Wherever I go sort of

But you know she’s not...she wasn’t sad you know like...

it doesn’t same like that...

Seems like something called slug...might be but can’t say the slug love

You know you’re just kind of happy to

Lie around with someone around(yeah)some wall slop out

Yeah, I mean I really enjoy...

You know I’m just... it’s nice to be in love.yeah...so...

And what you want?

I have everything I want.

That was OK...what you hope for? What you strike for? What’s your ambition?

I really can’t think of any.

I wouldn’t have to leave the house if I felt like that

I don’t wanna leave the house,I’m happy at home

I really am,I am!

Lana thank you so much for talking to us,

The best luck with the album Burn To Die

Thank you, I appreciate it, appreciate it.