Lana Del Rey‘s just-released song, “Brooklyn Baby,” an ode to the hipster lifestyle, was originally set to be a whole lot cooler.
The embattled pop star, 27, had planned for rock legend Lou Reed to feature on the track, but on the day she was set to meet him, he passed away.
“I took the red eye, touched down at 7 a.m. … and two minutes later he died,” the singer said in an interview with the Guardian.
Death wasn’t far from the “Video Games” chanteuse’s thoughts throughout the conversation with the British paper.
Talking about some of her idols, who include Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain — two members of the 27 Club, a group of musicians who died at age 27 — Del Rey said she’d like to die herself.
“I wish I was dead already,” she said.
The singer — who, despite selling 7 million copies of her debut album, “Born to Die,” has been a frequent target of ridicule since breaking through in 2011 — said she’s just tired of fame and everything that comes with it.
“I don’t want to have to keep doing this,” she said. “But I am.”
According to Del Rey, who was personally asked to perform at Kimye’s wedding, the glamorous life that she’s made a subject of so many of her songs, and which most listeners think she lives, hasn’t turned out to be all that good.
“Family members will come on the road with me and say: ‘Wow, your life is just like a movie!'” the singer said. “And I’m like: ‘Yeah, a really f—ed-up movie.'”
But the interview wasn’t all doom-and-gloom death talk, the singer also took time to mention that one of her more talked-about moments — the video for “Ride” in which she hooks up with members of a biker gang — is true to life.
“Oh, 100 percent,” she said when asked how much of the video she’d lived.
Del Rey’s second album, “Ultra Violence,” is due out next Tuesday.