‘You’re giving off super gremlin energy. Not in a good way’
If you come for Lana Del Rey, the likelihood is that she’ll clap right back – as she once said during a faceoff with Azealia Banks: “I won’t not fuck you the fuck up”.
Someone who recently learned this the hard way is Christian influencer Traci Coston.
It all started when Coston shared a video on social media that contained footage from one of Del Rey’s concerts in Mexico. In the clip, the crowd can be seen parting as people randomly fall to the ground in quick succession, in what looks like a human domino effect.
Speaking over the video, Coston suggested that the reason the crowd started falling was because Lana Del Rey practices witchcraft. “This is not normal,” Coston said in her little video. “Whatever witchcraft Lana Del Rey is doing, the spells she’s putting on her music to make it attractive, those demons are being invited into the crowd and into you when you attend. These demons will destroy your life.”
Coston concluded her video by pleading to viewers to stay away from witchcraft and concerts. “Please give your life to Jesus,” she added. “He’s the one who frees you and protects you. For the love of everything, please stop going to this stuff.”
Despite Coston uploading her video in early September, it took over a month for the post to make it into Del Rey’s orbit. However, when it did, the “Venice Bitch” singer was not happy. In a now-deleted comment, which was luckily captured by Stereogum, Del Rey hit back at the accusations that she was a conjuring demons. "B!tch I know the Bible verse for verse better than you do,” she wrote. “You’re giving off super gremlin energy. Not in a good way.”
Coston didn’t respond to Del Rey’s accusations of “super gremlin energy”, although she did limit the comments on her Instagram account.
Del Rey, of course, has openly practised witchcraft in the past. In 2017, the singer said that she was using witchcraft against then-sitting president Donald Trump, even going as far as to encourage her fans to join in with her hexes.
However, whether witchcraft was responsible for the strange collapse of the crowd at her Mexico show is unclear. Speaking to The Messenger, G Keith Still, an expert in crowd science, hypothesised that what actually occurred at the concert was something called “progressive crowd collapse, where the momentum of one person knocking into another increases significantly”.
According to Still, the term “domino effect” is apt. “A domino can knock over another domino one-and-a-half times its size, simply because you're turning a potential energy into kinetic energy,” he said. “You’re changing the force. So it’s very easy when you get into close proximity when the crowd is packed together to actually knock the whole thing over as one.”
Of course, there is every possibility that, while performing, Lana Del Rey is conjuring demons. Indeed, when the beat drops in “A&W”, there is a case to be made that while listening one becomes possessed. What is music if not magic?
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