Tag: Sylvia Plath
Lana Del Rey Returns to Her Church Choir Roots With “The Grants,” A Rumination on Memory and, More Subtly, Plath’s Fig Tree
With a recent interview in Billboard noting that Lana Del Rey found herself figuratively going back to Lake Placid as she wrote Did You Know [Read More…]
The “Difficult” Woman
There is no shortage of examples of the “difficult” woman in history. Better known as “crazy.” For when a woman is deemed too difficult, the [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey: A Patron Saint of Father’s Day, Or: Every Song By LDR That Mentions “Daddy”
Despite only one line in Lana Del Rey’s 2012 song, “Ride,” mentioning anything about a “Daddy” (while also including “father” in the lyrics, “Dying young [Read More…]
Lindsay Lohan Remains the Only One to Have Written A Frank Father-Daughter Relationship Song–Just Sayin’
That vexing term “daddy issues”–the one used to connote that a woman is damaged goods in her pursuit of men who will pay attention to [Read More…]
Tove Lo Gets Semi-Better Results From Sticking Her Head in the Oven Than Sylvia Plath in “Sweettalk My Heart” Video
Expounding on one of the larger themes of Sunshine Kitty–making a human connection at the cost of being perhaps overly visceral–Tove Lo’s latest single, “Sweettalk [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…]
Desperately Seeking Spoonerisms: The Decline of Word Play in Literature
“Spoonerism” may sound like a dirty word, but that’s only because it’s employed so rarely in contemporary literature that we’ve become unfamiliar with the term. [Read More…]
Daddy’s Girl: The Electra Complex in Poetry and Fiction
For those with a somewhat less warm and fuzzy view of Father’s Day, delve deeper into the psychosis of what it truly means to love [Read More…]
Remaking The Bell Jar: Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl
The analogies between The Bell Jar and Green Girl are undeniable. To start from an obvious standpoint, you have the fact that the main character [Read More…]
