Trending News|June 24, 2014 09:55 EDT
Frances Bean Cobain Calls Out Lana Del Rey for 'Romanticizing' the Death of Musicians; 'Embrace Life, Because You Only Get One'
Singer Lana Del Ray caused a backlash after an interview with the Guardian when she mentioned the death of young musicians as sort of a badge of honor for an artist. One of the names mentioned was Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, to which his daughter, Frances Bean, called out the "Summertime Sadness" singer for "romanticizing" death.
"I Wish I was dead already," she said to the Guardian as she talked about her heroes Cobain and Amy Winehouse, "I do! I don't want to have to keep doing this. But I am."
She continued after being urged by the interviewer to not say that, "Everything. That's just how I feel. If it wasn't that way, then I wouldn't say it. I would be scared if I knew [death] was coming, but "¦"
Continuing on this theme, Del Rey's first album is called Born to Die, and also has a song of the same name. Her new album is called Ultraviolence.
Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean was obviously very close to the situation of losing her talented father and growing up without that figure in her life. She took to Twitter to vent her frustration on glamorizing such tragedy.
"The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize," she wrote. "I'll never know my father because he died young and it becomes a desirable feat because people like you think it's "cool'. Well, it's f****** not. Embrace life, because you only get one life."
She continued, "The ppl u mentioned wasted that life. Don't be 1 of those ppl, ur too talented to waste it away."
"I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was trying to put things in perspective from personal experience," she tweeted.
Del Rey has since gone on the defensive and claimed the interviewer pressured her into speaking about that topic, reported CNN.
"I regret trusting The Guardian," she tweeted after deleting some posts, "I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [He] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about."