Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain

Help, our favourite alt-pop girlies are fighting.

If you’re a fan of Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain, you may well have spotted that, in the last 24 hours, things between the two singers have grown a little intense.

While the two artists have long garnered comparisons for the similarities in their music, it seems things have turned sour over a feud that is rumoured to involve ex-boyfriends, a new diss track and… Waffle House?

Hopefully, the pair can follow the lead of Charli XCX and Lorde and eventually work it out on the remix. In the meantime, though, here’s the timeline of the drama so far…

Critics have been comparing Ethel Cain and Lana Del Rey for some time now

Ethel Cain’s rise over the past few years has earned her many comparisons to Lana Del Rey, due to the similarities in their brooding, melancholy sound and exploration of themes like love in small-town America.

According to one social media user, Ethel even once cited Lana as one of her favourite musical artists on her DeviantArt profile from 2015. She also uploaded a cover of Lana’s breakthrough hit Born To Die back in 2017, but that seems to have been scrubbed from the internet with the exception of fan reposts.

In another universe, Ethel really could have been a perfect opening act at one of Lana’s concerts.

However, it seems that Ethel eventually began to grow tired of the comparison as her own profile grew and she became a revered artist in her own right.

In 2022, the American Teenager singer told i-D.: “I love Lana and I love her music but there’s a hundred other things at play here. If that’s an entry way for a review, that’s fine. But sometimes people arrive at Lana Del Rey and stop at Lana Del Rey.”

She continued: “I called [the comparison] lazy writing because it’s lazy for me and her. I think it’s kind of a detriment to the expansive work of two female artists to just reduce them to being similar to each other.”

Ethel has also made some controversial posts about her former muse. When one social media user posted “Lana Del Rey walked so Ethel Cain could run”, the American Teenager singer responded by writing: “I pushed her over when I ran........

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