Lana Del Rey Has More to Say About Her Controversial Instagram Post

Lana Del Rey wants the world to know she’s in control of her own story.

On Friday night, the singer-songwriter shared a lengthy message in which she continued to defend her controversial comments about stifled self-expression and double standards within music. The original was deemed tone-deaf and racist, as Del Rey compared her struggle to other female artists like Beyoncé, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, and Kehlani—all of whom are women of color. However, Del Rey has maintained nothing about her message was racist and said she was simply “advocating for a more delicate personality” like her own.

Though she admits she could’ve provided more context, the artist tripled down on her defense Friday night, insisting anyone who was making her comments into a race issue were either “super Trump/Pence supporters or hyper-liberals or flip-flopping, headline-grabbing critics (who) can’t read and want to make it a race war.” She said her issue was actually “with *female critics and *female alternative artists who are dissociated from their own fragility and sexuality and berate more sexually liberated artists like myself and the women I mentioned.”

Del Rey refused to walk back her comments about self-advocacy “for the more delicate and often dismissed, softer female personality,” and said such women would finally be heard and recognized “in what will inevitably become a new wave/3rd wave of feminism that is rapidly approaching.”