Lana Del Rey Will Release A Spoken Word Album With Half The Proceeds Going To Native Americans
Witch princess and Narc, Lana Del Rey, is coming back with a new album. She actually just released her album Norman Fucking Rockwell! in August but she’s here with another out in January. But this isn’t your typical Lana Del Rey sleepy, drug-infused yodeling about an older boyfriend who’s a hardened criminal with prison tattoos but you love him anyway and roll his cigarettes and count the money because he eats your pussy right, this album is spoken word. And what’s more? Lana will be donating half of the money the album makes to Native American causes.
Pitchfork says that Lana has a new LP dropping and this one will be even sleepier because she’s not going to sing. Lana’s untitled sleep speak album will come out on January 4, 2020, and she says half the proceeds will go to help Native Americans, calling it a “reparative act”. And she was inspired to do this because of 23andMe, or something:
“I had wanted to do it because in doing my own work in connecting to my family lineage, I was encouraged to also try and connect with the country’s lineage–this was a while ago–and it kind of informed the next album that I’ve been working on. And I just really wanted to sort of pay homage to this country that I love so much by doing my own reparation, I guess I would say, my own reparative act. I know it’s an unusual choice, and I have no reasoning for it other than it just feels right to me, so as long as my spoken word album is distributed, half of it will be going to Native American organizations across North America.”
Here’s her announcement:
Love this energy and love what she’s doing, but Lana Del Rey didn’t specifically say in that video if she discovered she has Native American blood. However, she does go around wearing Native American headdresses (see: above), so I’m just going to go ahead and guess that she’s Maybe Somewhat Kind Of Cherokee. And that’s a real thing. Ask Johnny Depp!
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