3 on the Billboard 200 and received two Grammy award nominations, but it didn’t perform so well elsewhere. September 2019: She slams NPR’s longtime music critic Ann Powers for her Norman F-ing Rockwell album review.ĭel Rey’s sixth album debuted at No. The artists then tore each other apart for their appearances, from Banks pointing out her “pointy Michael Jackson nose” and recommending a NSFW workout to Del Rey suggesting she see a psychiatrist since her “psych meds aren’t working.” When her house mysteriously goes up in flames while she is asleep inside… I want to see as many #Azealiavoodoo hashtags as possible,” she wrote on Twitter. “Honestly, you know The Big Bad Witch is smarter than that. The catfight that ensued later escalated to the “212” rapper threatening to burn down Del Rey’s house with #AzealiaVoodoo. You wouldn’t dare challenge a black woman on her opinion because you don’t have that (much of a) social prejudice in place between.” “Especially because you know that a white woman vs a black male will result in an immediate victory for the white woman due to societal circumstances. “To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to ‘pretend’ to be an ally,” Banks tweeted at the time from her currently suspended account. But Banks fired directly at the “National Anthem” singer for her privileged standpoint in the political debacle. The birth of this notorious feud involved one of hip-hop’s most controversial figures, Kanye West, after the Chicago rapper pulled out the red Make America Great Again hat for the first time. “Trump becoming our president was a loss for our country but your support of him is a loss for the culture,” she shot back in his comments. He’s seen throwing a Texas Chainsaw Massacre T-shirt clad Del Rey down onto a bed as she proceeds to cry and scream until he lifts himself off her. Marilyn Manson recruited horror film director Eli Roth for a music video that was never supposed to see the light of day but eventually leaked, but Roth played a horrifying role in the clip himself. November 2014: A 27-second snippet of a scrapped Marilyn Manson music video shows Del Rey in a rape scene. More trouble in her dark paradise ensues as Del Rey transforms into a stripper with two teardrop tattoos and a belly stamp that says “Trust No Bi-” (acting as some equivalent to Tupac Shakur‘s “Thug Life” emblem) in her 27-minute art film/music video titled “Tropico.” Toward the end of the cinematic visual, Del Rey and her thug beau shed their stereotypical ensembles and redeem themselves as the white-clothed couple ascends into heaven. Off her 2012 album Paradise, the artist let her tousled curls soar in the whimsical summer visual for “Ride” before tucking them into a Native American headdress.ĭecember 2013: Her “Tropico” short film appropriates Latino gangster culture.
Marilyn Manson’s forthcoming album, The Pale Emperor, comes out January 19.October 2012: Del Rey dons a full Native American headdress for the “Ride” music video. I’m a person that would beat somebody’s ass if they raped somebody that I know.” I don’t think either of us were ever intending for that to be seen, it was more of a camera test. Manson also pointed out that he had wanted to collaborate with Del Rey, but eventially dropped the idea, saying, “Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her, but she was being such a problem…” and “I would not make a video of that nature, nor would Eli. “The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who’s edited my videos, that video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who’s my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out what they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video, and that was in no way the intention,” he said. In an interview with NME, Manson claims have been present at various points during filming, but that the scene with Del Rey was never intended to be part of an official Marilyn Manson video. When the clip surfaced online last month, it was identified as an abandoned Marilyn Manson video - something the shock-rock titan has denied, saying, “It wasn’t a Marilyn Manson video.” The NSFW footage, which also depicts another woman covered in blood with her head stuck underwater, was quickly removed from YouTube. Marilyn Manson has come forward with an official statement concerning an unreleased but recently leaked music video that portrays a gruesomely staged rape scene featuring Lana Del Rey getting assaulted by director Eli Roth.