Lana Del Rey has stayed relatively quiet ever since her little feminist rant on Instagram resulted in a wave of backlash, which only got worse when she doubled down on it. With protests over George Floyd’s death now taking over America, the singer broke her silence in the worst way possible. Not only dug her hole even deeper but she’s also drawn the ire from the likes of Kehlani (whom she ironically called out in her feminist rant) and Tinashe.
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While Lana Del Rey stayed uncharacteristically quiet over the George Floyd protests, she did share some now-deleted photos and videos on Instagram of herself and protesters at a demonstration. While she did take them down, she left one video of the protesters up.
What makes Lana’s posts troubling is how her videos clearly showed the faces of protesters and looters, making them vulnerable to being arrested by the police. Given the heavy scrutiny on police brutality and how cops are using excessive force to arrest protesters, this is a dangerous move from her behalf.
After being briefly used as a Trojan horse on Twitter to get a positive message about the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter across, it’s almost fitting to see Lana Del Rey do something stupid to erase what little goodwill she’s earned back.
According to Vulture, Kehlani called Lana out for sharing her Instagram posts, sharing the now-deleted tweet: “[Lana Del Rey] please remove your instagram post it’s dangerous as fuck and a very poor choice of moments to post. By all means protest, but DO NOT endanger people with your very massive platform. oh and turn your fu*kin comments on man.”
Tinashe also shared a now-deleted tweet calling out Lana: “[Lana Del Rey] why the fu*k are you posting people looting stores on your page literally WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM.”
After realising that Lana still had one of her videos up on Instagram, Kehlani responded on Twitter accordingly and this time she didn’t delete her tweet.
One has to wonder what was going through Lana Del Rey’s mind when she inadvertently exposed the faces of protesters for every police officer to see. Apropos of nothing, she did date that celebrity cop so make of that what you will.
America is rudderless right due to an incompetent leader who is playing wannabe dictator and tensions don’t look to be easing up anytime soon. Here’s hoping that Lana forgets her Instagram password because we got far more important things to worry about than her social posts, and Tinashe and Kehlani’s energy is better spent spreading helpful messages than calling out an entitled white singer.
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