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Harry Nilsson Being the Devil on John Lennon’s Shoulder Doesn’t Prevent Lana Del Rey From Saying “I Just Wish I Had A Friend Like Him”
Lana Del Rey is no stranger to name-checking white male musicians from the 60s and 70s in her music. It’s become something of a barometer [Read More…]
The Introvert’s Conundrum When Pitted Against the Extrovert’s Will
Taylor Swift did a couple things in the span of one award acceptance on Grammy night that elicited polarized reactions. And, considering that Swift, in [Read More…]
A Lana Del Rey Song Posing As a Bleachers One, Or: The Antonoff-Del Rey Partnership Persists on “Alma Mater”
For those hoping that being a “superstar” producer had left Jack Antonoff no time to remember his own musical “project,” Bleachers, the media regrets to [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey Serves Up A Heteronormative Wet Dream By Singing “Stand By Your Man” in Arkansas
Lana Del Rey, who has never been one to shy away from heteronormative, 50s/60s-era themes and iconography in her work (in fact, that is the [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s “Candy Necklace” Video Deliberately Blurs the Line Between Fantasy and Reality With Its Meta Framework
When an artist reaches a certain point in their career, self-reference can’t be avoided. In Lana Del Rey’s case, that tends to become quite a [Read More…]
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…]
Lana Del Rey’s “A&W”: It’s Not About Selling Root Beer, So Much As Selling Yourself
Considering Lana Del Rey’s history with shilling soda pop on the side (hear: “Diet Mountain Dew” and “Cola”), one’s initial assumption about a song title [Read More…]
Did You Know That Lana Del Rey Wouldn’t Give Us A Song Without A Bit of L.A. History To It?, Or: “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”
Having recently cited Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” as one of her all-time favorite songs, maybe it should come as no shock that Lana Del Rey has [Read More…]
