Lana Del Rey has many, many fans, including the staff and patrons of a Florence, Alabama Waffle House, the administration of NYU, and the Recording Academy, who just nominated her 2023 album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd for five Grammys. Unsurprisingly, the artist—who penned the line “When you know, you know... like Hollywood and me” on her latest release—also counts many iconic names in film and television among her large roster of admirers.
One of those figures is Hairspray and Pink Flamingos director John Waters, who expounded on his adoration of the “Say Yes To Heaven” singer in her recent Harper’s Bazaar profile. “She’s unearthly suburban and unreasonably talented, and she can pretend to be a normal person,” he said. “I think of the ad campaign for Russ Meyer’s Lorna... [The tagline] could go for her: ‘Longing, love, lust, life, Lana. Too much for one man.’”
This isn’t the first time Waters has praised Del Rey. In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, the filmmaker said he’d been listening to her album Ultraviolence (released earlier that year) a lot. “She’s very David Lynch to me,” he added in the RS interview. “She infuriates people, but I think she’s in on it. I really want her to hook up with David Lynch, because he produces great albums these days.”
That collaboration may not be so far-fetched. Not only did Del Rey cover “Blue Velvet” in an ode to the filmmaker in 2012, but Lynch is also quoted as a fan of the singer in this week’s Harper’s profile. “She tells a story in her music,” he said. “She gives a mood and a story and a way to think, and she paints a picture in your brain.” Previously, Lynch also praised Del Rey as having “fantastic charisma.” “This is a very interesting thing—it’s like she’s born out of another time… She’s got something that’s very appealing to people. And I didn’t know that she was influenced by me!” he added (per Vulture). This really does sound like a match made in heaven to us.