Frances Bean Cobain and Lana Del Rey
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For starters, she declared feminism "not an interesting concept [for me]" in an interview with The Fader .
But it was recent comments she made to The Guardian that have the singer's name trending across the Internet; she told the U.K. paper "I wish I was dead already," a statement that earned a response from one person who knows a little too much about musicians dying young: Kurt Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. (The Guardian notes that Del Rey's statement was made during a discussion of Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain.)
"The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize," Bean Tweeted. "I'll never know my father because he died young, and it becomes a desirable feat because people like you think it's 'cool,' " she continued, before adding, "Well, it's f-----g not. Embrace life, because you only get one life. The people you mentioned wasted that life. Don't be one of those people. You're too talented to waste it away."
After a less-than-civil reaction from Del Rey fans on Twitter, Cobain clarified her statement. "I'm not attacking anyone," she said. "I have no animosity towards Lana. I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience."
Del Rey, who has covered Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" in concert, expressed regret at the interview, claiming in a series of now-deleted Tweets that "the journalist [Tim Jonze] was persistent" and asked "leading questions about death and persona."
Jonze, for his part, said Del Rey was "delightful company."
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