After winning the Special International Awards at the 2024 Ivor Novellos, Lana Del Rey caught up with NME to tell us about feeling more chill rather than vindicated, her love of London and past life frequenting Kingsland Road, what's in store for new album 'Lasso' and her upcoming headline show at Reading & Leeds 2024
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00:02 - Lana Del Rey, congratulations.
00:04 - Thank you, sir.
00:06 - How are you feeling?
00:07 - Like I spoke pretty long, but good, really good.
00:11 - That's a beautiful speech.
00:12 - Thank you.
00:13 - What do awards like this mean?
00:15 This particular award.
00:16 - This particular award,
00:17 so 'cause I met my managers 15 years ago,
00:20 they spoke about this award since the minute I met them.
00:25 It was like to them, it was just the crown jewel.
00:30 So when we heard that I had won one,
00:33 we were all, it was kind of a full circle moment,
00:36 especially 'cause I won one 12 years ago to the day.
00:39 So it's cool to still be here.
00:42 - You just smashed Coachella,
00:43 you just announced your first stadium show,
00:45 you played Hyde Park, Glastonbury was amazing.
00:48 Just one, just the one.
00:49 But I mean, judging by your speech,
00:51 so moments like this make you feel vindicated
00:53 against all like the naysayers you had
00:54 when you first came out?
00:55 - No, maybe like three years ago,
00:58 like there would have been a sense of vindication,
01:00 but now it just feels playful, I don't know why.
01:02 I think if you like hang in long enough,
01:05 it just ends up being easy.
01:06 Or you know, you just feel like,
01:09 no, no vindication, no nothing,
01:11 but just kind of happy to be here.
01:13 Easy going in that way.
01:15 - And you said that you spent quite a lot of time
01:17 going up and down Kingsland Road
01:19 when you first moved to London.
01:20 - Benny, my manager.
01:23 - Do you still frequent Kingsland Road?
01:24 - No, I haven't been here in at least a year.
01:27 No, but I remember like every smell,
01:31 every shop, every beauty shop.
01:33 I used to get green contact lenses,
01:36 like greener than my eyes for my interviews,
01:39 you know, to get signed.
01:40 And Ben once saw me,
01:43 and I got like these massive extensions as well.
01:45 And he physically took the little green lizard contacts.
01:50 He remembers it.
01:52 And then he stomped them.
01:53 And he was like, you look like a lizard.
01:54 Anyways, this is actually,
01:57 I'm trying to say there's amazing beauty shops
02:00 on Kingsland Road,
02:01 past the fish market, the whole thing, the buses.
02:04 I remember everything, yeah.
02:06 - And what can you tell us about Lasso
02:08 coming out later this year?
02:09 You've gone country, right?
02:10 - Oh, geez.
02:11 Well, I mean, what can I say now?
02:14 What can I say now?
02:14 I mean, when I gave Jack Antonoff his award
02:17 for best producer of the year,
02:21 and I said, you know, in case you,
02:23 I said, welcome Nashville to Hollywood,
02:25 and Hollywood welcomed Nashville,
02:27 because the music business is gone, gone country.
02:30 And it went silent.
02:31 5,000 people, dead silence.
02:34 And then the next week,
02:35 we had three major artists announce big country albums.
02:39 So where's Lasso going?
02:40 I really have no idea now.
02:43 You know what I mean?
02:44 - Yeah.
02:45 Lyrically, what's been inspiring?
02:46 Is it part of that kind of fun,
02:47 that ease you were talking about on stage?
02:49 - Yeah, I would say so.
02:50 Like maybe less to say in terms of like,
02:53 yeah, like any kind of self-revealing things,
02:57 like on "Tunnel" or "Blue Banisters" or "Chemtrails,"
03:01 and more, just more melodic.
03:03 Maybe more like American songbook style.
03:06 Yeah.
03:06 - Anything you can tell us about your plans for "Redding"?
03:08 Horses on stage?
03:10 - Ooh.
03:11 Do you wanna know something?
03:13 I actually thought about that.
03:16 I fucking did.
03:17 Yeah.
03:20 - Thank you so much.
03:20 - You're so welcome.
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