Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lana-del-rey">Lana Del Rey</a> offered a rare glimpse into her decision to marry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana">Louisiana</a> alligator tour boat operator Jeremy Dufrene, explaining some of the qualities she found attractive in him.
The 39-year-old celebrity made the remarks while introducing singer and songwriter Jack Antoff at the Variety Hitmakers event over the weekend.
&#8220;I’m grateful for [Antoff] for his example that he gave me in his marriage to Margaret [Qualley],&#8221; she said. &#8220;I saw the way he looked at her when he met her, and he’s a big reason why I waited so long to get married, and why I met my amazing husband. I feel like there’s a singers’ curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race,” Del Rey said during her speech.
She continued, “It’s super nerve-wracking to hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you’re in an industry where maybe your values and your morals don’t quite match up with what’s going on. Especially when people think you probably don’t have any morals or values. I can get all twisted up.&#8221;
Followers on social media were delighted by how fondly the singer spoke about her husband, who she married earlier this year, saying she was “<a href="https://x.com/BritHugoboom/status/1865602795744969032">glowing</a>.”
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Lana Del Rey waited so long to get married because it was hard to find an honest, good man in an industry that didn’t necessarily match with her morals and values.
Always knew she was a good one. 
She’s glowing when she talks about her husband. <a href="https://t.co/v3IAieo4uV">pic.twitter.com/v3IAieo4uV</a>
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Others wondered if Del Rey could have become a conservative now despite the fact that she’s publicly shunned President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> in the past, going so far as to cast a spell on him in 2017.
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The Brit Award winner made headlines for her unlikely choice of spouse when she wed the alligator tour boat captain this fall, especially as fans speculated that the Louisiana native was likely a Trump supporter.
Dufrene has set his social media accounts, including Facebook and Instagram, to private. But purported screenshots show Dufrene sharing pro-Trump content that aligns with conservative values, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lana-del-rey-marries-alligator-tour-guide-fans-freak-out-that-he-might-support-trump">reported</a>. One meme allegedly shared by Dufrene promotes physical action if a male were to enter a girl’s bathroom with someone’s daughter.
Dufrene, a father of three, seems to have met Del Rey in 2019 when she took a boat tour with him. The pair wed in late September on the same bayou where Dufrene operates his tours.

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Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, 39, was married last week to a man named Jeremy Dufrene, 49, an alligator tour boat captain in Louisiana.
The news, though, apparently upset some fans, who are angry that Dufrene might support former President Donald Trump, seemingly based on purported screenshots from Dufrene&#8217;s social media.
&#8220;Of all the cute and young ex-boyfriends that we know Lana del Rey over the years, she decided to stay with the worst, Jeremy Dufrene, a Donald Trump follower and homophobic,&#8221; one fan <a href="https://x.com/oroz_fa/status/1839534332689461580" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. 
&#8220;He’s a weird republican (sic),&#8221; another person <a href="https://x.com/bluemax_x/status/1839529945812394364">commented</a>. &#8220;Oh Lana, it’s over for you she just sabotaged herself all she does is lie.&#8221;
&#8220;Lana I hope those things I heard [about] him aren’t true hunny,&#8221; an X user said.
&#8220;Okay so she got married quickly to a man that is an alligator tour guide and potential MAGA supporter??&#8221; a fan <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1fqfzdd/lana_del_rey_marries_alligator_tour_guide_jeremy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>. &#8220;What am I missing? Lana Del Rey you could’ve gotten any other man!!&#8221;
Someone else brought up Del Rey&#8217;s past claim that she <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/07/lana-del-rey-spell-donald-trump">put a hex on Trump</a>. &#8220;It was over for me when she dated that cop,&#8221; the comment read. &#8220;Like how are you going to claim to be a witch and put a hex on Trump then marry this guy? Girl, what?&#8221;
&#8220;Y’all were eating up her Americana, trad 50s aesthetics but in reality she was doing alt right propaganda music and found her ideal man,&#8221; another post read.
Dufrene has set his social media accounts, like Facebook and Instagram, to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.dufrene.3">private</a>. But alleged screenshots show Dufrene sharing content that is pro-Trump and aligns with conservative values. One meme allegedly shared by Dufrene promotes physical action if a male were to enter a girl&#8217;s bathroom with someone&#8217;s daughter.
In the past, Del Rey has publicly criticized Trump. In 2017, for example, she said she cast a spell on the then-president.
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“Yeah, I did it,” she <a href="https://www.nme.com/features/lana-del-rey-interview-lust-for-life-2017-2113496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NME. “Why not? Look, I do a lot of s***.”
“I’m in line with Yoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] and the belief that there’s a power to the vibration of a thought,&#8221; Del Rey added. &#8220;Your thoughts are very powerful things and they become words, and words become actions, and actions lead to physical changes.”
A year later, the singer scolded Kanye West for wearing a Trump hat, calling it a &#8220;loss for the culture.&#8221;
&#8220;I can only assume you relate to his personality on some level,&#8221; Del Rey <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45704579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. &#8220;Delusions of grandeur, extreme issues with narcissism.
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&#8220;None of which would be a talking point if we weren&#8217;t speaking about the man leading our country,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;If you think it&#8217;s alright to support someone who believes it&#8217;s okay to grab a woman&#8230; just because he&#8217;s famous, then you need an intervention just as much as he does.&#8221;
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Del Rey and Dufene, who has three children, appear to have met in 2019, when she took a boat tour with her now-husband. The pair tied the knot this past week on the same bayou where Dufrene operates those tours.

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Courtney Love</a> had some criticism for some fellow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">recording artists</a>, which she candidly shared during a recently published <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/courtney-love-bbc-6-music-interview-taylor-swift-b1151094.html">interview</a> with U.K.-based outlet The Standard.
The 59-year-old took aim at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lana-del-rey">Lana Del Rey</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/madonna">Madonna</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/beyonce">Beyoncé</a> specifically.
“Taylor is not important,” Love told the outlet of the global pop star. “She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.”
The alt-rocker said she and the Material Girl don’t get along, either. 
“I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me,” Love said of Madonna. “I loved [the 1985 American comedy-drama film] ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ but for the city of New York as much as her.”
At another point in the interview, the former Hole band member said she’s also not a fan of Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter. 
“I mean, I like the idea of Beyoncé doing a country record because it’s about black women going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed, not that I like it much. As a concept, I love it. I just don’t like her music,” she explained.
She also voiced her critique of Grammy-nominated singer Del Rey: “I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off. Up until ‘Take Me Home Country Roads,’ I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.” 
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Love went on to say that contemporary artists overall sound too much alike. “It’s great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but lots of them are becoming a cliché,” she told the outlet. “Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music. They’re all the same. If you play something on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that’s exactly the same.”
Love is best known for her rise to fame in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s as a member of the band Hole, plus for her marriage to fellow rock star Kurt Cobain. She also appeared in several films in the early 2000s.

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Singer Lana Del Rey has a different reaction to the Trump presidency, believing it needed to happen in order to highlight the world&#8217;s greatest problem: narcissism.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r3k5">BBC1 Radio</a>, Del Rey said that the &#8220;madness that was Trump&#8221; finally revealed that the world has a serious problem with narcissism and sociopathy, putting those two issues above climate change and other left-wing causes celebres.
“The madness of Trump, as bad as it was, it really needed to happen. We really needed a reflection of our world’s greatest problem, which is not climate change, but sociopathy and narcissism. Especially in America,” she said. “It’s going to kill the world. It’s not capitalism, it’s narcissism. I was surprised we didn’t have a live-television psychopath crazy person as a president a long time ago because that’s what we see on TV and that’s what we see on Instagram.”
In the same interview, Del Rey said that she did not believe President Trump was directly inciting a riot at the Capitol last Wednesday, arguing the man has &#8220;delusions of grandeur.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, he doesn’t know that he’s inciting a riot and I believe that,&#8221; she said, as reported by <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2021/01/lana-del-rey-capitol-riot-donald-trump?utm_campaign=musictw&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social">Complex</a>.
Of Trump supporters, Del Rey added that the riot showed where the country&#8217;s collective mental health is at.
&#8220;We don’t know how to find a way to be wild in our world. And at the same time, the world is so wild,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;We didn’t know that we got half of the country who wants to shoot up the Capitol&#8221; she added. &#8220;We didn’t really know that because we never got to see it. I think this gave us the opportunity to see where our level of mental health is at.&#8221;
Leftist trolls immediately began to scold Del Rey on social media, prompting her to respond to the backlash.
&#8220;Thanks for the cool soundbite taken out of context, I said that the bigger problem is Sociopathy-so whether he meant to incite a riot is less important than the larger issue in America at hand -the problem of sociopathy,&#8221; she said on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/1349097239461777411?s=20
&#8220;You know I’m real. You know I voted for Biden. I’m super steady in everything I’ve ever said. You probably listened to my entire interview. So whoever wrote this is a genuine piece of s**t. I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light,&#8221; she said.
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Del Rey took on a wave of feminist and social justice scorn in May of last year when she dared to call out her critics for hypocritically dismissing her music for not being feminist enough while promoting the likes of Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé.
“Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating, etc — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?” Del Rey asked.
“I am fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world,” she continued.
Despite her passionate plea for fairness, critics on social media dinged Del Rey for criticizing Cardi B and Beyoncé — women of color.
“I don’t know who was giving Lana Del Rey a hard time but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Black women. Girl, sing your little cocaine carols and leave us alone,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1263449168833425408" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux.
“I think Lana’s post would have been fine if she hadn’t compared herself to a group of mostly black women with the clear tone that she thinks she’s been treated worse by the media when that’s observably untrue,” <a href="https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1263393209801203712" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> writer and activist Shon Faye.
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In early October, singer Lana Del Rey took a beating on social media when photos went viral of her wearing a mesh face mask during a book signing. According to her, the mask had plastic behind it, which, based on the photos, appears accurate.
In a tweet on Monday, Del Rey responded to an article in The Michigan Daily saying that the singer&#8217;s mesh face mask may have gotten her canceled.
&#8220;Great article. The mask had plastic on the inside,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;They’re commonly sewn in by stylists these days. I don’t generally respond to articles because I don’t care. But there ya go. Same goes for everyone’s masks in my video. I’m lucky enough to have a team of people who can do that.&#8221;
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&#8220;Again not that I believe it’s anyone’s business at all-but I made it clear who I voted for. And I don’t glamorize tough relationships,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Relationships can just be tough. Period. Every other singer sings about the same damn thing. Always have, Probably always will. Thanks stay tuned.&#8221;
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At the time of the controversy, people on social media immediately jumped to the worst of conclusions and scolded her.
“Girl that’s not a mask. you make good music but poor decisions,” said one Instagram follower.
“Girl not that mesh mask r u kidding me,” said another follower.
“Is that a mask? I think that mask does nothing,” said another.
The comments were overwhelmingly negative with few defenders in Del Rey’s corner. Del Rey’s sister, Caroline, later claimed that she tested negative for COVID-19 and practiced social distancing at the book signing.
Prior to that, Del Rey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lana-del-rey-says-cardi-b-nicki-minaj-beyonce-sing-about-wearing-no-clothes-fing-cheating-social-media-thats-racist">took on a wave of feminist and social justice scorn</a> in May of this year when she dared to call out her critics for hypocritically dismissing her music as not being feminist enough while promoting the likes of Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé.
“Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating, etc — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?” Del Rey asked.
“I am fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world,” she continued.
Despite her passionate plea for fairness, critics on social media dinged Del Rey for criticizing Cardi B and Beyoncé — women of color.
“I don’t know who was giving Lana Del Rey a hard time but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Black women. Girl, sing your little cocaine carols and leave us alone,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1263449168833425408" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux.
“I think Lana’s post would have been fine if she hadn’t compared herself to a group of mostly black women with the clear tone that she thinks she’s been treated worse by the media when that’s observably untrue,” <a href="https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1263393209801203712" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> writer and activist Shon Faye.
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Singer Lana Del Rey has been taking a beating on social media for wearing a mesh mask to a book signing in Los Angeles instead of a regular cloth or paper one.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lana-del-reys-mesh-mask-criticized-social-media">Fox News</a>, Del Rey was in L.A. on Saturday to greet fans over her new poetry book, “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.&#8221;
“I can’t wait to see you guys,” Del Rey said in an Instagram video that featured her wearing the sparkly mesh mask.
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Del Rey&#8217;s mask may or may not have just been transparent material over mesh threading. Either way, people on social media immediately jumped to the worst of conclusions and scolded her.
&#8220;Girl that&#8217;s not a mask. you make good music but poor decisions,&#8221; said one Instagram follower.
&#8220;Girl not that mesh mask r u kidding me,&#8221; said another follower.
&#8220;Is that a mask? I think that mask does nothing,&#8221; said another.
The comments were overwhelmingly negative with few defenders in Del Rey&#8217;s corner. Neither the singer nor her representatives have publicly responded to the controversy. Del Rey&#8217;s sister, Caroline, later claimed that she tested negative for COVID-19 and practiced social distancing at the book signing.
&#8220;However, a collection of photos <a href="https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1312209620551622656" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted by celebrity news blog Pop Crave</a> shows the singer stood rather close to some attendees,&#8221; reported Fox News. &#8220;Last month, Del Rey was featured on the cover of Interview Magazine with another bedazzled mesh-like face mask.&#8221;
Del Rey took on a wave of feminist and social justice scorn this past May when she dared to call out her critics for hypocritically dismissing her music for not being feminist enough while promoting the likes of Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, and Beyoncé.
“Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f***ing, cheating, etc — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?” Del Rey asked.
“I am fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world,” she continued.
Despite her passionate plea for fairness, critics on social media dinged Del Rey for criticizing Cardi B and Beyoncé — women of color.
“I don’t know who was giving Lana Del Rey a hard time but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Black women. Girl, sing your little cocaine carols and leave us alone,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux/status/1263449168833425408" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux.
“I think Lana’s post would have been fine if she hadn’t compared herself to a group of mostly black women with the clear tone that she thinks she’s been treated worse by the media when that’s observably untrue,” <a href="https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1263393209801203712" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> writer and activist Shon Faye.
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