Lana Del Rey warns to steer clear of selfish singers and date a bassist

Lana Del Rey has vowed never to date another singer, saying they are too selfish and that she prefers humbler bass guitarists.

The Video Games singer, 31, has been in relationships with former Kassidy frontman Barrie-James O’Neill, musician and producer Steven Mertens and the unnamed head of a record label whom she was with for seven years. She is now single.

Speaking about her ideal man, she told ELLE magazine: “For me, the dream is to have a little bit of edge, the sexiness, the magnetism, the camaraderie, be on the same page and all that stuff, but without the fallout that comes from a person who is really selfish and puts only their needs first, which is like a lot of frontmen if we’re talking about musicians!

“I’m going to write a book one day called, ‘The curse of the frontman and why you should always date a bassist’.

“I actually am the best girlfriend because I only get into a relationship if I’m really excited about it. I’m unconditionally understanding, very loving and I like to be with that person for a lot of the time.”

The singer, from New York, is preparing to release her new album Lust For Life and says a lot of her writing was inspired by political events. She added: “It would be weird to be making a record during the past 18 months and not comment on how [the political landscape] was making me or the people I know feel, which is not good.

“I wrote God Bless America [a track on the album] before the Women’s Marches, but I could tell they were going to happen… I realised a lot of women were nervous about some of the bills that might get passed that would directly affect them. So yes, it’s a direct response in anticipation of what I thought would happen, and what did happen.”

Read the full interview in the June issue of ELLE UK, out on Tuesday.