Lana Del Rey designed the cover art for her upcoming album ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’, seeming to respond preventively to criticisms about the diversity of the group of people he portrays.
The singer revealed the album art and tracklist on Sunday night (January 10). It features Del Rey and several other women gathered around a table smiling.
She also left a comment on Instagram elaborating the cover art, initiating the message: “I also want to say this with everything that is happening this year! And no, that was not the intention – these are my best friends, since you are asking today.
“And damn it! As it happens when it comes to my incredible friends and this cover, yes, there are people of color in this photo on the album and that’s all I will say about it, ”added Del Rey.
Some of the people on the cover, she wrote, were “Valerie from Del Rio México, my dear friend Alex and my beautiful friend Dakota Rain, as well as my dear Tatiana”.
“We are all a beautiful mix of everything – some more than others that are visible and celebrated in everything I do. In 11 years of work I have always been extremely inclusive, even without trying ”.
She continued, writing that “My best friends are rappers, my boyfriends were rappers”.
“My dear friends came from everywhere, so before you comment again on a WOC / POC problem, I am not the one invading the capital, I am literally changing the world by putting my life, thoughts and love out there on the table 24 Seven. Respect. “
It is unclear who made the criticism Del Rey was responding to, or whether the statement was entirely preventive.
Read Del Rey’s comment on the full cover art below:
Last May, Del Rey was criticized for a post she made on Instagram, in which she rebutted claims that she was “exalting abuse” with her music. In her post, she quoted several women from pop and hip-hop – including Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Kehlani, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé – who, she wrote, “had number one with the songs about being sexy, without clothes, having sex, cheating, etc ”.
“made women go back hundreds of years.”
She later denied that her post was an attack on the artists she cited, most of whom were women of color, calling “headlines that catch critics [who] can’t read and I want to make it a racial war ”and claiming that the singers she mentioned were some of her favorite artists. She also posted a video message, in which she discussed “the need for fragility in the feminist movement” and also addressed the allegations that her post was racist.
“I’m not the enemy, and I’m definitely not a racist, so don’t get it wrong. No one can tell your story except you, and that is what I will do in the next two books. So, God bless you and yes, fuck you if you don’t like the post, ”she said.
The tracklist for ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ is 11 songs, including the previously released lead single ‘Let Me Love You Like A Woman’. Find below:
The ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ track list is:
1. ‘White Dress’
2. ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’
3. ‘Tulsa Jesus Freak’
4. ‘Let me love you as a woman’
5. ‘Wild Heart’
6. ‘Dark But Just A Game’
7. ‘Not all who wander are lost’
8. ‘Yosemite’
9. ‘Break slowly’
10. ‘Dance Till We Die’
11. ‘Free’
From ‘Let Me Love You Like A Woman’, NMERhian Daly wrote that the song could be “a classic palette cleaner between albums that, in the context of the new album, will continue its journey to increasingly distant plains”.
Although the exact release date for the ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ not yet known, the album should be available for pre-order today (January 11) along with the release of the video for the album’s title track.
Along with the preparation of the new album, Del Rey shared a series of covers, including the classics ‘On Eagle’s Wings’ and ‘You Never Walk Alone’, as well as ‘Summertime’ by George Gershwin.
She had already released an entire album made up of “American standards and classics” that has not yet been released.