Tag: Lana Del Rey
Youth Desert: Yearning For Carefree Simplicity in the “White Dress” Video
Since to set the story of the music video for “White Dress” inside of a diner (think Twin Peaks’ Double R) as Lizzy Grant dreamily [Read More…]
Chemtrails Over Taylor Swift’s Folkloric Country Club
Wasting no time in establishing that Chemtrails Over the Country Club is her “country-folk” album, and that she’s going to out-folk Taylor Swift’s folklore (also [Read More…]
A Car Crash: “Chemtrails Over the Country Club”
In an odd turn of events that, like bankruptcy, happened gradually then suddenly, Taylor Swift has managed to out-Lana Lana Del Rey, leaving the latter [Read More…]
White Girls in Native American Garb
A tradition almost as time-honored as Thanksgiving itself in America, the odd gravitational pull white girls feel toward dressing in Native American garb (mostly for [Read More…]
“Let Me Love You Like A Human Being That Subscribes To Neither Gender Trope”
In a move that seems to continue to prove that Lana Del Rey doesn’t exactly have her finger on the pulse of what “the kids [Read More…]
For A Song Called “Hallucinogenics,” Matt Maeson and LDR Make It Sound Soberly Vanilla
Maybe it was appropriate that Matt Maeson’s first single was called “Cringe,” for that’s the effect his music has on anyone who doesn’t view the [Read More…]
Amy Winehouse: A Final Emblem of a Generation of Women Willing to Justify Caddish Male Behavior as True Love
It was the most overt and major stain on her. A scarlet F for Fool. And yet, it was the very thing that propelled her [Read More…]
“LA Who Am I To Love You” Is The Norma Jeane Baker Explanation For the Inexplicable Pull to the City Where People Will Never Say “Damaged” Like It’s A Bad Thing
As Lana Del Rey begins to roll out the audio for her spoken word poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, while we await [Read More…]
Brightest Blue Is the Warmest Color
Maybe there’s something to the fact that Ellie Goulding looks an awful lot like Lana Del Rey on her latest album, Brightest Blue. After all, [Read More…]
“Thunder” Cries For the Veruca Salt Immediacy of Wanting It (A Conclusive Action) Now
After Lana Del Rey formed an impromptu band with Alex Turner and Miles Kane upon performing a rendition of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” at karaoke [Read More…]