Lana Del Rey has ditched her stars and stripes iconography, and it’s because of Trump.
Speaking with Pitchfork in a new interview, Lana was asked if it’s hard to be romantic towards American with Trump as president. “It’s certainly uncomfortable,” she replied.
“I definitely changed my visuals on my tour videos,” Lana continued. “I’m not going to have the American flag waving while I’m singing ‘Born to Die.’ It’s not going to happen. I’d rather have static. It’s a transitional period, and I’m super aware of that. I think it would be inappropriate to be in France with an American flag. It would feel weird to me now — it didn’t feel weird in 2013.
“All the guys in the studio — we didn’t know we were going to start walking in every day and talking about what was going on. We hadn’t ever done that before, but everyday during the election, you’d wake up and some new horrible thing was happening. Korea, with missiles suddenly being pointed at the western coast. With ‘When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing,’ I was posing a real question to myself: Could this be the end of an era? The fall of Rome?”
Lana’s new album ‘Lust For Life’ is released tomorrow, 21st July.