Tag: Lana Del Rey
Subverting Pastiche: Some Takeaways From the Norman Fucking Rockwell Album Cover
As Lana Del Rey stans proceed to attempt picking the wigs that were snatched up off the floor after getting an official release date and [Read More…]
I Feel So Alone on a Friday Night: Essential LDR Songs for the Sad Party Girl In You
As one, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, embarks upon year thirty-four (on June 21, much to the chagrin of Geminis everywhere who recently had to reconcile with [Read More…]
In Light of Moby’s “Confession” About Lana Del Rey, Certain Lyrics of Hers Seem Tailored Toward His 00s Ego
After setting the tone in 1999 with Play for his commercialized career of the 00s, Moby very much indeed transcended into “the man.” Though not [Read More…]
LDR & Jared Leto’s Gucci Guilty Commercial: A “Born to Die” Redux
As the more approachable “twin” to Link Wray’s cherished 1958 hit single “Rumble,” the record’s B-side, “The Swag” is fittingly used to set the sonic [Read More…]
A Fame Compendium Arises in “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me–But I Have It”
An impish grin characterizes Lana Del Rey’s expression on the more than somewhat lo-fi album cover for her latest single, “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing [Read More…]
G-Eazy’s Arcane Ability to Get More Attractive Women to Write Songs About Him
In terms of what women have available to them with regard to “straight” “men,” it can perhaps be no grand surprise that, muse-wise, what inspires [Read More…]
An Apple Tree of Censorship Grows in Brooklyn
Lana Del Rey, despite the success that has mounted and therefore augmented her clout with finagling potential endorsement deals over the years (still unclear why [Read More…]
In The Ongoing LDR/Banks War, Del Rey Is Not Taking A Page from Miley Cyrus–Perhaps the Only Other White Lady to Have “Taken A Stand” Against A Black Artist
It is something of an unspoken cardinal rule that the white woman must never speak “out of turn” against a black woman lest she 1) [Read More…]
Wanderer Finds Cat Power in Familiar Territory: Solid Gold
After Cat Power (Christian name Charlyn “Chan” Marshall) released her ninth album in 2012, Sun, it seemed as though she was content to disappear for [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Isn’t Done Lusting After “Bad Men” on “Happiness Is A Butterfly”
Single-handedly bringing metaphor back into song in a big way, Lana Del Rey has given us yet another preview of a song she teased earlier [Read More…]
