A Timeline of Lana Del Rey's Biggest Controversies - Billboard

Billboard compiled a timeline of Lana Del Rey's headline-making mishaps below.

Del Rey encountered one of her earliest criticisms of "glamorizing abuse" when she shared the artwork for "Blue Jeans" (the B-side to "Video Games"), which showed a man's tattooed hand putting her in a not-so-dainty chokehold.

October 2012: Del Rey dons a full Native American headdress for the "Ride" music video.

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.

November 2014: A 27-second snippet of a scrapped Marilyn Manson music video shows Del Rey in a rape scene.

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.

"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.

"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.

— piercey (@piercespears) September 30, 2018.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 9, 2018.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 9, 2018.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 9, 2018.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 9, 2018.

Titled "Lana Del Rey Lives In America's Messy Subconscious," Powers described her artistic persona as "a bad girl to whom bad things are done" with "uncooked" lyrics, which the artist herself viciously denied both claims on Twitter in response to Powers sharing the story

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) September 5, 2019

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) September 5, 2019

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