Music's introspective queen of melancholy discusses moving on from (and winning over) her longtime detractors, being a mentor to Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo and that viral gig at Waffle House.
The resulting video didn’t last 10 seconds. But after the restaurant’s manager posted the clip to Facebook and a few fan selfies featuring Del Rey in uniform popped up on the usual platforms, a narrative took hold. Lana Del Rey, Grammy-nominated artist who has sold 12.3 million albums, was working at Waffle House. Music blogs, morning news shows and food magazines all attempted to assign meaning to the bread crumbs — music video? writing expedition? career pivot? — for the better part of a week.
“For dip,” she clarifies, miming a spit of chewing tobacco over a Coke of her own . “I didn’t see anyone take a video of me.”Born to Die , an album that divided critics at the time with its melancholia and just logged a historic 500th week on the Billboard 200. But The Waffle House Affair demonstrates how the 38-year-old’s story is just as often commandeered by social media, the press and her fans — a particularly zealous crowd that analyzes stray photos as exhaustively as her song lyrics. “The secret to Lana is that she’s exactly who she is,” says Jack Antonoff, who has produced three of her albums.
“I started at a time when things were very much one way. Little by little, there’s a lot more room for storytelling and saying different stuff,” says Lana Del Rey. She was photographed Sept. 10 in Beverly Hills.Her deep text — she’s released nine albums and one book of poetry — also has earned Del Rey some high-profile admirers. Bruce Springsteen called her one of the greatest American songwriters. Billie Eilish credits her with changing music for women. Elton John compared her to Prince.
If her peers turned on to her early, wider recognition took a longer. After near-instant commercial success, the native New Yorker turned Angeleno finally tipped the critical scales within 2019. Debates over authenticity and performative ennui seemed to subside with her swirling 68-minute opus — as much a lamentation of failed romance as it is of failed American dreams, fires engulfing the California coast on the album’s cover.
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