Musician Lana Del Rey offered a fiery rebuke of her critics and several of her pop contemporaries this week while confirming plans for a new album, set to drop later this year.

In a lengthy note posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Del Rey took aim at those who claimed she’d “glamorised abuse” on albums like 2012’s “Born to Die” and 2014’s “Ultraviolence.” 

“Question for the culture,” she wrote. “Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating etc. — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorising abuse??????” 

“I’m just fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorise abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous person just singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are all very prevalent emotionally-abusive relationships all over the world,” she continued. 

Describing herself as “not not a feminist,” Del Rey said she believes her work has made a lasting imprint on pop culture by encouraging female artists to express themselves authentically.  

“It’s been a long 10 years of bullshit reviews up until recently and I’ve learned a lot from them,” she wrote. “But I also feel it really paved the way for other women to stop ‘putting on a happy face’ and to just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted to in their music.”

She concluded the post by announcing plans to release two books of poetry as well as a new studio album. While she didn’t elaborate on the followup to 2019’s “Norman Fucking Rockwell!” she said the record would be unveiled Sept. 5. 

By Thursday morning, Del Rey’s post had received more than 1 million likes on Instagram. The response from fans, however, was decidedly mixed. Though some praised the frankness of her words, others accused her of unfairly criticising female artistsof colour. 

Of course, the six-time Grammy nominee is familiar with controversy on social media. Last year, she slammed NPR music journalist Ann Powers who ― in a mostly positive review of “Norman Fucking Rockwell!” ―  compared the singer unfavourably with artists like Joni Mitchell. 

“I don’t even relate to one observation you made about the music,” Del Rey tweeted at the time. “There’s nothing uncooked about me. To write about me is nothing like it is to be with me. Never had a persona. Never needed one. Never will.”

In a second tweet, she added: “So don’t call yourself a fan like you did in the article and don’t count your editor one either.” 

Someone get eyes on Kanye West, because Drake just took shots at his sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, on an unreleased track. 

The Toronto-born rapper has presumably been spending quarantine in his $100 million eyesore of a mansion, where he’s kept busy combing through his archives of old songs and playing snippets on Instagram Live. 

During an impromptu streaming session on Wednesday night, a hookah-smoking Drake played an unreleased collaboration with Future, in which the duo name-drops the billionaire makeup mogul and sister of Kendall Jenner.

“A song that mark ran last night on night owl sound live set shouldn’t have been played. It’s a song that leaked 3 years ago and got scrapped shortly after,” the rapper wrote. “He was just going too deep in the drake/future catalogue.”

Drake added: “Last thing I’d want to do is wake up having any friends of mine feeling disrespected so I just had to say that to start the day.”

See, while Kylie Jenner and Drake are on relatively good terms ― at least they were ― the “Tootsie Slide” rapper has clashed with Kylie’s brother-in-law, West, over the years.

As of 2018, the two were locked in a feud that spilled onto Twitter over a host of issues, but mostly West’s role in Pusha T’s revealing that Drake had fathered a secret child. 

Things, however, boiled over when the internet was convinced the Canadian rapper once carried on an affair with Kim Kardashian, who later denied the rumors in a tweet saying the tryst “never happened.”

This should all end well, right? 

“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty in connection with the college admissions bribery scandal.

Both will serve prison time and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines under their plea deals for “securing the fraudulent admission” of their two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, to the University of Southern California crew team “as purported athletic recruits,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said in a statement Thursday.

Both daughters had never participated in the sport, according to court documents. The couple were accused of paying $500,000 to snag their places on the team so the girls would be admitted to the school.

Loughlin, 55, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, according to the deal she signed on Wednesday, and will be sentenced to two months in prison, a $150,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 100 hours of community service.

Giannulli, 56, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud, prosecutors said. He agreed to a sentence of five months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 250 hours of community service.

The couple will formally plead guilty and be sentenced at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton that hasn’t yet been scheduled, the statement added.

Loughlin and Giannulli are among dozens of prominent public figures charged in the scandal that erupted in March 2019. The FBI called it a nationwide conspiracy that exposed how well-heeled parents bribed their children’s way into the nation’s most elite colleges.

Former “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman served 11 days in a low-security prison after she was found to have paid $15,000 to boost her daughter Sophia Macy’s SAT score so that she could secure a spot at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

A worker at a Costco store is being praised on social media for calmly deescalating a battle with an angry customer who refused to wear a mask while shopping in the store.

Costco requires all employees and customers to wear a face covering while inside its retail locations. But the customer filmed himself waiting in the checkout line without a mask and berating a worker named Tison who asked him to put one on.

“I’m not doing it because I woke up in a free country,” the customer said after threatening to put the Costco worker on his “3,000-follower Instagram feed.”  Tison greeted the man’s Instagram followers, politely told him to have a great day and walked away ― taking the customer’s shopping cart of goods with him. 

“You’re no longer welcome here in our warehouse,” Tison said. “You need to leave, thank you very much.” 

Realising his error, the customer quickly suggested that his partner ― who was wearing a mask ― take his card to pay for the goods while he leaves the store. But was too late. Tison was gone and so was the shopping cart full of toilet paper, detergent and other items.

“He’s a pussy little bitch,” the customer ranted. “I’m not a fucking sheep.”  

TMZ found the customer’s feed, which featured another rant he posted after leaving the store. The booted customer said he was “not the fucking sheep” and boasted that he was one of the only people in the store without a mask.

Tison, on the other hand, won acclaim on social media for how he handled the situation:  

Just bought a Costco membership thanks to Tison

— Dana Piccoli (@DanaPiccoli) May 20, 2020

Tison replied from his own Twitter account. 

“People of Twitter thank you for all of the support,” he wrote. “I was just trying to protect our employees and our members.” 

And he shared an image: