Lana Del Rey slams Beyonce and Ariana Grande for singing about ‘wearing no clothes’ as she’s ‘crucified’ for her tunes
LANA Del Rey slammed fellow female artists such as Beyonce and Ariana Grande for singing about "wearing no clothes" in a furious Instagram post about her upcoming album.
ranted about the double standards she has experienced in the music industry and claimed she has been "crucified" for singing about "emotionally abusive" relationships unlike her contemporaries.
Sharing a lengthy Instagram post today, the 34-year-old raged about the recent spate of female-led number one singles on the Billboard chart.
She wrote: "Now that Doja Cat, [Grande], Camila [Cabello], Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating etc...
"Can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money – or whatever I want – without being crucified or saying that I’m glamourizing abuse??????
"With all the topics women are finally allowed to explore…"
"I think it’s pathetic that my minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes or submissive or passive roles in my relationships has often made people say I’ve set women back hundreds of years."
The Summertime Sadness singer added: "I’m not not a feminist – but there has to be a place in feminism for women who look and act like me – the kind of woman who says no but men hear yes…
"The kind of women who get their own stories and voices taken away from them by stronger women or by men who hate women."
The Video Games singer's lyrics have frequently addressed unhealthy relationships.
However, Lana has tried to distanced herself from her earlier troublesome lyrics, and removed her song Cola from live shows because of its references to an abusive character.
Despite her attempts, accusations of glamorizing abuse and "anti-feminist ideas" have continued to follow Lana throughout her career.
Referencing the criticism she has received, Lana said in the post she had "paved the way for other women to stop ‘putting on a happy face’ and to just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted to in their music."
She continued: "Unlike my experience where if I even expressed a note of sadness in my first two records I was deemed literally hysterical as though it was literally the 1920s."
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The Young and Beautiful singer then revealed that she be exploring the topic in her upcoming album, White Hot Forever, which will be released on September 5 as well as two poetry books.
The high-anticipated studio album follows up her Grammy-nominated album Norman f***ing Rockwell.