Lana Del Rey has catapulted the 2023 Glastonbury Festival into further chaos after hinting that she might pull out of her performing commitments during this year's music festival.
This comes just a few days after Glastonbury boss Emily Eavis spoke out about the controversial 2023 festival line-up, which contains a serious lack of female headliners, particularly on the famous Pyramid stage. She explained to The Guardian that a female headliner – which fans believe to be Taylor Swift – pulled out due to a change in touring plans. And due to the festival's choice of replacement for her, a lineup of all-white, all-male headliners for this year’s event was left.
Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John were promoted as the main headliners, which left Lana upset as she pointed out that she was the main headliner for the Other stage. Commenting under Glastonbury's Instagram post, Summertime Sadness singer Lana Del Rey wrote: “Thanks for announcing that I was headlining the other stage. Thumbs up.” According to separate reports, she took to her own private Instagram post to share the poster, adding: “'Well, I’m actually headlining the 2nd stage. But since there was no consideration for announcing that, we’ll see.”
This comes after Glastonbury's Emily Eavis blamed the lack of female headliners as a “pipeline problem” in the industry. "This starts way back with the record companies, radio. I can shout as loud as I like but we need to get everyone on board,” she explains.
Lizzo is set to open for Guns N'Roses, and technically has joint headline billing with the rockers but will not hold the headline set herself. "She could totally headline,” Eavis has said. “Many of the artists could. But the headline slot had already been promised to someone else.” Meanwhile, we'll see debut performances of Eurovision winners Måneskin, the Brit award-winning girl band Flo and the US country stars The Chicks.
But some still feel disappointed by the lack of female musicians in the top-billing performing slots. Fans have called the line-up the “biggest disappointment of my life” finding the lack of female headliners “grim and exhausting”.
Another tweeted: Yea not only all male but all white, and either pensioners or middle age. @emilyeavis what happened to diversity. So so disappointing.”
Eavis has insisted that she is “entirely focused on balancing our bill", adding that "it’s not just about gender, it’s about every aspect of diversity.”
As a woman working in the music industry, she referred to the plight of female musicians as a personal issue for her.
“It’s top of our agenda, and it probably makes it a bit harder because we’ve decided to make that important to us. To be honest, sometimes it’s easier to keep your head down.”
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