The Silver Screen-Lana Del Rey

[00:00.947]Delighted to welcome Lana Del Rey! Hello. [00:01.692]Hi! [00:02.944]How are you? [00:03.943]I’m good. And how are you? [00:05.452]I’m fine. I’ve ever noticed in your videos before the gold teeth. [00:06.697]Is that a recent edition? Have you chipped it? What’s going on there? [00:08.694]It’s a recent edition ya just… you know I just keeping in a real, just for a little bit.. [00:11.200]Are you dentally good though? [00:13.198]Ya, all good [00:19.700]Ya the brits are too, I don’t know what are they talking about? [00:22.947]It’s a terrible stereotype. [00:24.445]That’s stupid. [00:24.945]Although I … [00:25.943]I know all about that. [00:27.953]So you first caught our attention last summer when I saw a video of a couple of your songs online [00:30.193]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 [00:39.946]Who probably lived in a small quite cluttered apartment full of bricabracan and nicknacks [00:47.701]And you spend your spare time go to garage sells [00:50.452]And buying a couple of scenic films [00:53.693]And splice them together by night. [00:55.444]How closed that truth? [00:57.200]I don’t know. I mean I feel like that… [00:59.195]I feel like that the vision is … [01:01.946]Like you’re talking about the same girl except I just [01:04.199]I don’t go to the garage or anything like that… [01:08.193]I’m really hunting for my film on YouTobe [01:11.443](right) but … I don’t know … [01:14.949]It’s half a way there.. [01:16.194] [01:18.445]Ok it’s no get of truth in there [01:20.197]So you don’t got o the garage sells [01:21.452]What do you spend your money? [01:22.695]Or are you a thrifty person? [01:24.447]What I do my money spend on? [01:26.201]I don’t spend my money on anything. I just … [01:29.195]You re thrifty-yeah I’m thrifty. Yeah I hate spend my money. [01:31.695]But you’re not somebody who puts a lot of sentimental value on things. [01:35.952]You are more of an experienced person? [01:37.196]Not really, I mean… [01:38.446]You know like if I had a lot of money [01:39.944]Like I’ll buy something like really beautiful like maybe with little diamonds in it [01:41.700]About this little ring [01:47.191]But other than that [01:49.443]Like I spend money on you know [01:55.886]like it’s actually experience to get some of those films cleared like for video games [01:59.636]and things like that and I like to put my money back into the music usually [02:00.888]and are you from a film background or a music back ground [02:01.886]music [02:04.141]so you didn’t like… its just an interest you…came to yourself [02:06.637]ya I didn’t study it. [02:08.136]I was like a writer first and a singer. [02:11.385]And then kind of came into editing later [02:14.391]But it’s something I ended up feeling just as passionate about as singing, so… [02:18.883]So manage the picture and the voice(yeah) [02:22.137]And so… so quickly in terms of having a record out [02:27.640]And I don’t know how quickly is in terms of what’s going on your life [02:29.891]But certainly so quickly in terms of having release a record [02:32.887]It’s gone very massive it’s huge level of success [02:36.380]And then there’s been this a kind of unprecedented very modern kind of snippy backlash [02:42.641]How’s that…that is tentative for you? [02:44.891]Do you feel like you got everything you wanted on one hand but it has been tainted? [02:49.142]I don’t know if it’s been tainted, [02:51.380]It’s definitely been different from what I expected [02:54.133]But you know I have a lot of time to think about the record and what I want [03:01.086]Coz you know I’ve been written it since last year [03:03.593]So I sort of finished writing record before anything was really happening [03:08.343]And so…I don’t know I mean I don’t really think it’s tainted. [03:14.089]But I couldn’t have imaged that it like this. I guess that I’d say [03:17.097]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. [03:23.344]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? [03:28.091]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. [03:50.238]So the fact I can still do that like come here, play shows, sing and write [03:54.986]You know, that’s kind of a gift, that’s kind of I sort of stay focus on like I keep writing [03:58.993]when I went back to New York and California [04:00.244]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. [04:09.439]You’re bad with down time then? [04:12.691]No, I actually really like down time but I haven’t had too much of it. [04:15.685]Well that probably get wild before you get any as well. - we’ll see. [04:20.931]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? [04:25.681]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 [04:32.182]Like where did you find where did you find the name come from? [04:37.940]Well. I was going with my sister a lot to Miami… [04:41.434]We were spending time with our friends from Cuba [04:44.192]And I wanted something that’s different sort of sound like… [04:48.435]Faded seaside glamour [04:50.931]And that was something that sounded beautiful but sonically [04:53.186]I just like a way it sort of rolled off the tip of tongue [04:54.940]Did you have a long list of the other option? [04:57.692]I had a very short list [04:59.940]What else is on the list? [05:00.939]I don’t know. [05:02.182]You do know-I wouldn’t tell you. I’m sure I wouldn’t tell you. [05:04.935]A question I want to talk to you is it real Nancy Sinatra being in touch [05:09.184]After having describe yourself as gangsta Nancy Sinatra? [05:12.932]No she hasn’t,no. [05:18.876]But you know I mean like again that I had something I just put on my Youtube page like for fun. [05:25.874]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 [05:32.621]But that’s a way of the things you can ues phrases like that in bios and Tweeter or Youtube for years [05:34.618]And nobody knows them, but the second on spotlight is on. [05:37.370]But everything is hype-scrutinized. [05:39.124]I know, that’s was a real classy…classy decision, that’s great [05:42.629]Ask this question what music is die rise to you in fact [05:46.877]If you’ll be euthanized, what would be on the CD mistype for you to die to? [05:51.128]Well, I was…I didn’t have any another answer for you [05:55.620]But since you put it that way, I probably died to Jeff Buckley, [05:59.624]I guess there probably wouldn’t be another way. [06:02.621]It’s good way to go out yeah-good music. [06:05.629]Good music to die to, send me on the heaven,heavenly voice, heavenly tunes [06:10.121]But I have a couple of records that I sort of near endeared me. [06:14.127]I really like Nirvana and I really like Bob Dylan, and I like frank Sinatra’s voice. [06:23.082]Are you scared to death? [06:26.076]Well yeah yeah … [06:28.582]Do you think about your own death? [06:29.835]I used to think about it. [06:32.332]Did you see it like natural cases at old age or tragic starlet robbed of life? [06:38.580]No, I don’t know what I thought. [06:43.084]I just knew that it scared me, god! I don’t know. [06:45.080]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 [06:50.587]That’s true. [06:51.324]Yeh yeh do you think you are falling into other those categories? [06:54.080]Yeh I’m a modern day woman, I think I fall into both of them. [06:56.329]I fantasized about I was both of them. [06:59.081]Would you have a happy funeral or people really are clenching their teeth and wailing [07:02.830]And outpouring grief? [07:04.331]That’s a good question. [07:06.086]The same goes for wedding [07:07.081]Hopefully just the family would be their god, I don’t know [07:10.268]Oh emm…can you pinpoint a moment in your life where you feel that was the moment be it one second or ten minutes [07:20.953]Or whatever that you felt that you are content and happiest? [07:24.701]Yeh I mean for me it’s… I mean for me it’s really every day. [07:26.210]I mean I can’t really explain to you. [07:28.952]I’m really so grateful just to be alive and healthy every single day [07:31.702]That’s such a surprise for me given that the film [07:34.709]You used have a sense of nostalgia to them [07:38.204]I would expect you to be nostalgia of a summer or you know a boat journey [07:41.710]Or you know something you would romanticize that way-ah yeah i think i see... [07:44.207]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 [07:56.151]When I kind of write I sort of write back to the picture that I can remember [07:57.150]But I mean that a lot of things that people said they thought they were said [08:02.398]I actually thought I were happy be [08:03.396]And like you know when I wrote Video Games [08:05.148]I mean to me it was real a love song [08:07.157]It was actually about sort of a happy time [08:08.654]But I think because of the melody is sort of sullen that... [08:12.904]Did you, when you came up with the melody which we heard just before [08:15.655]You know that lift in the chorus [08:18.651]You know, did you know you’re on to something [08:21.146]Because it’s something almost like military like [08:22.655]a military band or Last Post or something about it [08:25.396]I personally thought that I was on to something [08:27.904]I mean not on to something I mean in terms of [08:30.899]Writing a melody that I thought describe me perfectly [08:35.904]You know like that I thought was gorgeous and didn’t compromise [08:40.650]I definitely thought the song did that [08:43.647]But it was you know a choir 5min 30 sec [08:47.151]Love ballet with no instruments [08:48.908]So sentiment wasn’t necessarily you know [08:51.902]And you feel like the girl in that song still [08:54.899]Um yeah I mean I always feel...I mean [08:57.647]I always feel like the same person [08:59.157]Wherever I go sort of [09:00.898]But you know she’s not...she wasn’t sad you know like... [09:03.896]it doesn’t same like that... [09:05.148]Seems like something called slug...might be but can’t say the slug love [09:09.154]You know you’re just kind of happy to [09:11.396]Lie around with someone around(yeah)some wall slop out [09:13.904]Yeah, I mean I really enjoy... [09:18.152]You know I’m just... it’s nice to be in love.yeah...so... [09:25.039]And what you want? [09:26.792]I have everything I want. [09:30.046]That was OK...what you hope for? What you strike for? What’s your ambition? [09:35.289]I really can’t think of any. [09:36.791]I wouldn’t have to leave the house if I felt like that [09:38.795]I don’t wanna leave the house,I’m happy at home [09:43.244]I really am,I am! [09:47.941]Lana thank you so much for talking to us, [09:48.441]The best luck with the album Burn To Die [09:50.195]Thank you, I appreciate it, appreciate it.