Lana Del Rey has music and book manuscript stolen, asks fans to ignore leaks

nme.com:

Lana Del Rey has alerted fans that her car was targeted by thieves for a second time this year, except instead of stealing the car altogether, they stole a backpack full of tech containing several of her forthcoming projects.In a message shared to followers of her private Instagram (but uploaded to YouTube by a fan), the artist explained that she had her car broken into when she’d “stepped away [from it] for a minute”, returning to see all of the windows broken and her backpack missing. “Inside of it was my computer and my three camcorders and my harddrives,” Del Rey said, noting that she was forced to remotely wipe her computer.In the process, Del Rey deleted the only known copy of a 200-page manuscript for her forthcoming poetry book, Behind The Iron Gates: Insights From An Institution, which she’d been working on for Simon & Schuster for more than two years.She told fans that the draft had not been backed up because “we do not have any cloud systems that we access”.

Despite as much, Del Rey confirmed that she would not scrap the project, and will instead “start over”. On the significance of having lost her work, the artist said: “I loved the book that I lost with all of my heart and put a lot of passion into it.”She went on to say that material from her harddrives – notably her “songs and personal photos” – had begun leaking online.

She pleaded with fans to ignore any material they see pop up around the web, saying: “Please don’t listen to the music, if you hear it, because it’s not coming out yet.”The album she was working on – a follow-up to last year’s ‘Blue Banisters’ – has not been formally announced as of yet, but Del Rey assured fans that, as with her book, she will not be deterred by this setback. “I am.