Lana Del Rey has shocked followers by unveiling new art work for her upcoming ninth studio album – that includes the singer herself posing topless with one breast uncovered.
The super-prolific Video Games singer’s subsequent album, titled Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is ready for launch on March 24.
Del Rey revealed one in every of a number of different artworks for the album on social media over the weekend, exhibiting her gazing into the digicam with one arm up, her high unbuttoned. Here’s a censored model of the quilt:
It’s a stunning transfer for a singer who has courted controversy prior to now for calling out different feminine singers for “being sexy” and “wearing no clothes”.
She copped a backlash in 2020 when she referred to as out artists together with Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Doja Cat, Cardi B, and Camila Cabello for making music “about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating, etc” with out criticism whereas she claimed she was “crucified” for penning love songs that some claimed “glamorize abuse”.
Three years on, and plenty of followers have been actually stunned to see a lot of the singer on her new album cowl:
She has nonetheless acquired the tick of approval from rock icon and longtime buddy Courtney Love, who shared the art work on her Instagram tales with the caption: “Hell yeah you crazy diamond!”
“#sometimesitsfuntoplaytopless Boys did it. I f***ing love it!” Love continued, sharing a photograph of herself baring her breasts onstage within the ’90s.
Del Rey, 37, has additionally revealed the again cowl and tracklist for her new album – which includes a music with the verbose-even-by-her-standards title Grandfather Please Stand on the Shoulders of My Father While He’s Deep-Sea Fishing.
Del Rey made headlines final month after she unveiled the usual, non-topless art work for the brand new album – and revealed that she’d be publicising it with precisely one billboard, situated within the hometown of her latest ex-boyfriend, Sean Larkin.
“There’s only one and it’s in Tulsa,” Del Rey wrote of the billboard. “It’s. Personal,” she added.
The new album comes after Del Rey launched two albums in a single yr in 2021.
Del Rey isn’t the one artist to pose topless for his or her album cowl just lately: In 2021, Halsey appeared topless on the quilt of her album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.
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