Tag: Lana Del Rey
The Awkwardness of Being A Feminist When Someone You’ve Worked With Turns Out to Be A Predator
The precedent for women declaring themselves as feminists yet still going ahead and working with known sexual predators was most glaringly set in recent years [Read More…]
We Are All Venice Bitches Thanks to A Song That Manages to Be Even More Nostalgic for A Time Past Than “Summertime Sadness”
If anyone knows the value of nostalgia, of how it can still cut to the quick of what’s left of human emotions, it is Lana [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
The Direction of Lana Del Rey’s Sound Continues To Meld Her Pre-Fame Style With Leonard Cohen’s
In November of 2017, Lana Del Rey participated in a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in his hometown of Montreal. Called Tower of Song (in [Read More…]
“Woman”: The Origins of the Lana Del Rey Sound Are Overt in Cat Power’s Collaboration With Her
After Cat Power served a little time opening for the European leg of Lana Del Rey’s LA to the Moon Tour (the best date of [Read More…]
Miles Kane Might Have Actually Had a “Coup De Grace” With More LDR Songwriting on His Latest Album
Miles Kane, sometimes known as one-half of The Last Shadow Puppets, somewhat publicly shamed (albeit unintentionally) a recently gender neutral Lana Del Rey when it was [Read More…]
“Blue Jeans”: The Forever Pool-Drenched Song of End of Summer
While Lana Del Rey had to “just ride” on the coattails of a remix’s success in order to find a larger audience in the mainstream [Read More…]
Miles Kane Gets the Lana Del Rey Treatment on “Loaded,” Offering Un Certain Homage to Marc Bolan
Miles Kane, sometimes more accurately known as Alex Turner’s better half in The Last Shadow Puppets, is no stranger to going solo. With two albums [Read More…]
National Anthem: The Politicism of Lana Del Rey Before Lust for Life
Lana Del Rey has generally been regarded as an artist that was not very political in her work up to 2017’s Lust for Life, an [Read More…]
If Lana Del Rey Can Put A Car Into Space, So Can Elon Musk
In 2015, on the day of Lana Del Rey’s “High by the Beach” single release, an interview detailing her passion for the work of Elon [Read More…]