Lana Del Rey Was Spotted At Waffle House In Alabama, And She Was Actually Working There

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• Here’s Why Lana Del Rey Worked a Shift at an Alabama Waffle House
• The award-winning singer-songwriter has nine great studio albums, and now she might be attempting a career pivot.
• The Hollywood Reporter
• Making friends and meeting fans at Waffle House
• Bill Maher Warns About Bad Choices And The People Who Make Them In 'Real Time'

I didn’t know if it would be received well. But there’s a lot of weirdos out there now, so, we’re fine. I started at a time when things were very much one way.

Here’s Why Lana Del Rey Worked a Shift at an Alabama Waffle House

Was she recording new music? No, per AL.com, which contacted multiple studios in the area to check their schedules. Was she recording a new music video, perhaps for the song “Paris, Texas,” which mentions Florence? Was she “going Method” for a switch to acting or recording an orange juice commercial? Were royalties from streaming simply not cutting it anymore? For two months, Del Rey—as she is wont to do—left fans in the dark.

The award-winning singer-songwriter has nine great studio albums, and now she might be attempting a career pivot.

(Laughs.) Also, the world has an interesting sense of humor. I like getting all the props together [for projects]. I bought this fucking couch for this photo shoot.

Lana Del Rey Works a Shift at a Waffle House in Alabama: See the Photos - Billboard

Lana Del Rey Works a Shift at a Waffle House in Alabama: See the Photos.

Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

The Hollywood Reporter

I’ll meet someone and they’ll think I’ve always been popular. (Laughs.) I have to correct them. And I’m so in touch with that.

The 38-year-old singer-songwriter was spotted Thursday (July 20) pouring coffee and chatting with customers at a Waffle House location in Florence, Ala., in full employee uniform complete with a “Lana” name tag. During break times, she was able to snap a few photos with fans, blue vape pen in hand. Back in July, reports and social media posts began popping up showing the six-time Grammy-nominated recording artist at several spots around Florence. Not only did she pose for photos and selfies with fans at a local nail salon and a Texas Roadhouse restaurant, she was also spotted at a Waffle House in the area.

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And an empty cup,” she said, miming that the second cup was for the man’s tobacco spit juice. Tuttle additionally also appears to have met Del Rey prior to the singer’s adventure at the diner chain, posing for photos out of uniform in a July 19 post. "There is no Summertime Sadness here!!" wrote LaShawn D. Tuttle, who works at the Waffle House. She posted other photos of her posing with the singer.

[But] this is a totally different tour. The stage production is bigger. There are more people on that stage with me, so I’m more comfortable.

“is this what she meant when she said she wanted to explore other career paths in that one speech,” wrote one fan on LanaBoards. “Moonlighting as a Waitress at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama” sounds like it could be the title of pop star Lana Del Rey’s next Americana-infused album. Now, after summer sightings of the singer doing just that, Del Rey has revealed in a recent interview what was actually going on. During the conversation, Lana spoke about her persona and people’s perception of her as an artist, invasions of privacy, thoughts on younger generations of artists and where her music is heading.

Bill Maher Warns About Bad Choices And The People Who Make Them In 'Real Time'

She is a six-time Grammy-nominated recording artist who has garnered fame across the globe. Yet, on July 20, reports and social media posts showed the singer wearing the typical Waffle House wait staff uniform and apron posing in photos with her "manager" and "siblings." After pictures of the “A&W” singer in full, powder blue uniform (name tag and all) started popping up on Twitter/X, fan speculation began to border on conspiracy.

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Lana Del Rey Waffle House Video And Photos, Explained.

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Lana Del Rey‘s fans are fascinated with pretty much everything the “A&W” singer does, especially when they get a rare chance to interact with her offstage, in the wild. That’s why when she popped into a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama in July and worked a shift pouring coffee and chatting the patrons up — she even had an official “Lana” name tag — it briefly broke the internet. She also offered a few more details about one of the videos that emerged from the unexpected shift, though it wasn’t totally clear which one. It was, for lack of a more imaginative, let alone fitting term, iconic.

The “Video Games” singer recently performed at Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, although her set was cut short due to a strict curfew at the venue after the artist was late to the stage. It turned out, as AL.com previously reported, Del Rey was in town visiting family in the Florence area. The new Hollywood Reporter story reiterates this.

A fan account also shared some snaps of the singer preparing coffee and posing with fans to Instagram. Even so, LaShawn Tuttle, an employee at the chain, did snap a selfie with Del Rey, who knowingly smiled with her. On fan forums, some speculated that she might be recording a music video, while others suggested that it could be a publicity stunt for upcoming songs. Others jokingly suggested that she might be exploring a new career path. “This guy, a regular, comes in every day and orders two things, so they were like, ‘Just go get it for him! And an empty cup,” that she explained was used as a spittoon for chewing tobacco.

There was a lot to be sad about [back then]. What’s funny to me is that there wasn’t as much room for me to write about that as other people who did. By the grace of God, things have cooled down a little. But it’s been challenging for sure. Only in the past two months! I’ve never had someone make comments on my lyrics before, and then I recently met up with another writer.

Music's introspective queen of melancholy discusses moving on from (and winning over) her longtime detractors, being a mentor to Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo and that viral gig at Waffle House. The 38-year-old del Rey has recently released her new album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.” Fans speculated that the Waffle House gig was part of a video in conjunction with the album. AL.com checked in with recording studios in the area, including FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound, to see if Del Rey had been recording there, but confirmed that she was not. Her most recent album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” dropped in March. She is scheduled to play at Lollapalooza in Chicago and Outside Lands in San Francisco in August, but has no performances scheduled in the South or surrounding areas.

It’s a little bit of a different process now. For Tunnel, I did not edit myself. Might that reason be, at least in part, the world catching up to you?

It’s not like you have to be nice to be good [in music]. But, if you happen to be nice and a great singer, it makes me happy for the culture. I always had girls telling me [things like] that. Maybe not the critics or anybody else — but singers I knew, no matter how big or small, would write me letters. I always felt like the older sister to pretty much everyone I ever met.