Tag: Lana Del Rey
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…]
“Beer/Here”: Musicians & Their Repeat Rhymes
As Lana Del Rey gradually reveals snippets from her forthcoming album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, after already releasing “Mariners Apartment Complex” and “Venice Bitch,” the latest [Read More…]
Before Totally Dismantling the White Man, The White Woman Gets Her “Due” As Well: Kanye West, LDR & Azealia Banks
As the escalation and intensity highlighting the vast rift in the extremes of the American mentality–divided into, if we’re being as reductive as possible, somewhat [Read More…]
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…]
