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Artist News
Lana Del Rey blames public scrutiny, “fickle muse” for artistic dry spell
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 24 October 2013
Lana Del Rey has essentially said she’s having a really hard time writing a sequel to her 2012 LP, ‘Born To Die’, because she isn’t feeling very inspired these days. Only she phrased it in a more ‘lyrical’ way that that, so it’s fine.
Playing for time in an interview with Nylon, she said: “When people ask me about it, I just have to be honest; I really don’t know. I don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, definitely, the next one’s better than this one’, because I don’t really hear a next one”.
And: “My muse is very fickle. She only comes to me sometimes, which is annoying”.
Apparently the scrutiny ‘awarded’ to famous popstars isn’t doing her artistry a lot any favours either. Lana says: “It’s harder to be an observer when people are watching you. You have to go further inside because the outside world becomes a harder place to draw from”.
On the bright side, that ‘Tropico’ short film we’ve all heard so much about is coming out soon. Though in light of Del Rey’s creative dry spell, and the hints she made earlier this year that the film was a kind of “farewell”, that might not be quite so bright a side.
