Lana Del Rey is heating up the covers of not one, but two magazines this month. Lana is the cover girl and feature story in both Lovecat magazine and T, The New York Times Style Magazine.
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In Lovecat, the 25-year-old singer/songwriter poses with diamonds and gives up a more feisty side we haven’t seen from her. She also discusses her biggest indulgences and secrets.
On her biggest indulgences: “My biggest indulgence is being an artist. I still think it’s beautiful that I make music for a living. The music videos that I make myself are expensive and it takes money to clear all the copyrights… My second indulgence is diamonds. I have a jeweler in Brooklyn named Uri and he makes me all my custom gold and diamond pieces—grills, triple rings, etc.”
On a secret from her life: “When I was young, I had a tree house and in order to get to the top of it, me and my sister had to climb up a satin Christmas ribbon. One day, on my way up the ribbon snapped and I fell 15 feet on to a fire pit. I broke my ribs and never told anyone except my mother. Last year I stopped into a Unitarian church and and a man came up to me out of the blue and told me he was a clairvoyant and that the reason why I had a shallow, breathy voice was because I had fallen out of a tree house 15 years ago. I still can’t get over how strange it is that he knew that.”
Meanwhile in the T, New York Times Styles Feature, shot by the talented Terry Richardson, she discusses breaking into the industry and whether or not her lips are natural.
On breaking into the industry: “I mean, I met everyone who is anyone in the music industry over the last six years and I was unsignable. That’s what I was told by everyone. I would play my songs, explain what I was trying to do, and I’d get, ‘You know who’s No. 1 in 13 countries right now? Ke$ha’”
On whether her lips are natural or not: “They’re real lips, I mean … in real life my lips don’t look that big. I think because I cartoonized the footage of myself in the video for ‘Video Games’ things look exaggerated.”
On feeling anxious before performances: “I’m not by nature a showstopper. I love to write and play songs, but onstage, all these things come into play. I’m always saying to myself, don’t mess up.
Both magazine features will be released this month. Lovecat will be on stands February 17th, 2012.
