Lana Del Rey couldn’t keep her “Summertime Sadness” in check in Paris on Friday when she noticed some uninvited paparazzi tagging along.
In a viral video obtained by TMZ, the singer is captured stepping out of a store. She appears surprised upon noticing someone recording her.
“Don’t,” she says, reaching to snatch the phone from the person’s hand. It’s unclear whether the individual is a pushy fan or a paparazzo.
Lana then elaborated on the reasons behind her anger. It seems she wanted to see the City of Love on her own terms. “I only have one day here,” she pointed out. “I work every single day, [and] I have four hours to myself.”
However, when a man in the group tries to calm her by saying, “Don’t scream,” she only gets louder, retorting with, “Shut up!”
Lana Del Rey Calls the Photographers in Paris ‘Stalkers’
After the footage surfaced online, Del Rey expressed her frustration further on Instagram. “These a-holes actually told me that they were going to alter the pictures to make me look bad after we got into a fight.” She additionally described the group as “stalkers.”
Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey had much kinder words recently for her pal, Taylor Swift.
“She’s told me so many times that she wants it more than anyone,” the 38-year-old singer said of Swift to the BBC. “And how amazing – she’s getting exactly what she wants. She’s driven, and I think it’s really paid off.”
Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift collaborated on the single Snow on the Beach, featured on Swift’s Midnights album.
“I think so many female artists would not be where they are and would not have the inspiration they have if it weren’t for the work that [Lana has] done,” Swift told People. I think she’s a legacy artist, a legend in her prime right now. I’m so lucky to know you and to be your friend.”
Musician and producer Jack Antonoff discussed the “magic” of collaborating with Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift.
“Every time we do something new, I joke, ‘I guess we still got it,’ because there’s no reason for it to keep coming the way it does,” Antonoff explained in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 earlier this year. “There’s a lot of magic there. I feel that way with Taylor, I feel that way with Lana, I feel that with my band.”