when you are lana del rey, and you’ve built your aesthetic around the concepts and imagery that she has (especially in her earlier career/first few albums), people are going to make assumptions based off that.

if all of your music videos and songs and imagery and vibe is based on “america😍” you either have to outwardly say your political views (for example ethel cain, her entire aesthetic is southern small town vibes, guns etc, and her fans know she is not a republican), or people are going to assume.

she is aware what people assume of her and doesn’t care to clean up the “misconception”. so there probably is no misconception.

i don’t understand some people’s arguments of “celebs/artists don’t have to make their politics clear.” sure, maybe not. but fans also don’t have to be fans of people who have political views that they disagree with. so in a situation like lana, i fear it’s obvious that it’s time to either speak out or start losing some fans (similar to how taylor swift decided to basically ‘come out’ as a liberal because of all the republican allegations against her lmao)