Lana Del Rey threatens to pull out of Glastonbury following line-up backlash

05 March 2023 , 06:44

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Lana Del Rey appears to have threatened to walk away from her headline slot at Glastonbury this year - as a backlash against the music festival continues to rage.

The 37-year-old singer is due to take to The Other Stage on the Saturday afternoon of the festival - which is to take place in 2023 over the weekend of June 21-25.

On Friday, festival organisers unveiled the line-ups far - confirming Sir Elton John will headline the event alongside Arctic Monkeys and Guns N Roses.

The line-up announcement caused furore among music fans as the top billing stars were slammed for lacking diversity - as those performers are all white males.

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Lana Del Rey appears to have threatened to quit Glastonbury 2023 (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

There has been a huge backlash over the 2023 line-up which has included mostly white men (Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

And it seems Lana has also taken umbrage with the announcement - as her own headline slot was buried deep within the announcement on the seventh line of names.

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Taking to social media, Lana threw shade at the Glastonbury announcement - and appeared to threaten to pull out of performing.

She wrote: “Well, I’m actually headlining the 2nd stage. But since there was no consideration for announcing that we’ll see.”

And to make things worse, a source has told The Sun on Sunday about the upset: “Lana is disappointed. She was proud to be doing a headline slot, but on the announcement graphic her name is buried among lesser-known artists.

“She feels let down being presented as an afterthought lagging behind the all-male trio.”

Music fans were disheartened to find a list of performers that was stacked disproportionately towards white, male performers - sparking complaints online after it was noted 53% of performers confirmed so far are male and just 43% of acts are non-white.

Independent's Culture & Lifestyle News Editor Roisin O'Connor said: "Situations like this year's Glastonbury lineup are a direct symptom of industry failures to support female artists from the ground up. Getting them on the smaller stages, on radio, at live venues."

Glastonbury will take place in June over the weekend of 21-25 (AFP via Getty Images)

And fans online didn’t take kindly to the line-up either, with one expressing disappointment by tweeting: “Stormzy wasn't at big festival headliner status when he did Glastonbury and look what he did with the platform. Seems unusually backwards to not allow that same opportunity to literally any women."

Another commented: "Awful lack of diversity in the headliners. The undercard is excellent though."

And a futher commenter said: "@glastonbury do better!!! All male headliners? You can’t even blame lack of talent, there is a overwhelming WEALTH of amazing women to choose from."

Sir Elton John is one of the Glastonbury 2023 headliners (Getty Images)

Defending the line-up to The Guardian, organiser Emily Eavis pleaded: "We’re trying our best so the pipeline needs to be developed. 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."