Lana Del Rey Responds To Frances Bean Cobain's Criticism

In the interview, Del Rey was asked if she saw early death as glamorous, considering two of her heroes, Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain, died young. Her response ("I wish I was dead already") upset Cobain's daughter, who tweeted yesterday that Del Rey should "embrace life because you only get one."

Frances clarified in another tweet that she was "not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience."

Del Rey directly responded to Cobain's daughter via Twitter, saying that she agrees that glamorizing death is not something she meant to do: "@alka_selterzer66 it's all good. He was asking me a lot [about] your dad I said I liked him because he was talented not because he died young."

She also added in another message that the "other half of what I said wasn't really related to the people he mentioned. I don't find that part of music glam either."

As NME notes, Del Rey has distanced herself from The Guardian interview, calling out the publication for "hiding sinister ambitions and angles" and asking "leading questions about death and persona," which were "calculated." The series of tweets have since been deleted.

The author of the piece, Tim Jonze, later released audio of Del Rey saying the comments that she claimed were taken out of context. Jonze also wrote in an open letter accompanying the audio that he was not "masked as a fan" and that he "genuinely likes her music and really liked her too -- her life story is fascinating, she was refreshingly open when answering even the most difficult question and she seemed completely in love with music. As for the rather vague 'sinister ambitions' she claims I had -- well my colleagues sadly refused to comment on how sinister I am, but they were adamant that I'm 'not in the slightest bit ambitious.'"

Del Rey's latest album, Ultraviolence, is out now.

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Lana Del Rey, Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse