Tag: Lana Del Rey
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 Grapples With A New “Persona”—Middle-Age Angst—On Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
It seems fitting that Lana Del Rey would post and then delete a video (à la Britney) about persona on her Instagram the same day [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…]
On Lana Del Rey “Raising A Generation” (And Whether Or Not That Was Necessarily A Good Thing)
For whatever reason, when Lana Del Rey first arrived onto the scene, she appealed endlessly to the ten through twelve-year-old set. Like a “goth” version [Read More…]
Heaven Knows What: The Rihanna and Lana Del Rey of Movies
In 2011, Rihanna released the music video for “We Found Love.” Directed by Melina Matsoukas, its central focus is Rihanna in the role of a [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…]
Miley Cyrus Heavily Imitates Lana Del Rey Stylings in Teaser for Endless Summer Vacation
Along with announcing that her next album will be released March 10th, the same day as Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A [Read More…]
And So The Pop Star Begat… Lolahol
In the end, it was only a matter of time before Madonna’s firstborn should fully take advantage of the womb from whence she came. Sure, [Read More…]
Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” is a Continuation of the Folklore/Evermore Tradition–But Also the Iconic Soundtrack Song Tradition
Here and there, one notices a re-commitment to the film soundtrack that was once a constant. But with the decline of cinema as an “event” [Read More…]
When Lana Tried to Heal the Coast War With Her Placement of “Brooklyn Baby” Before “West Coast” on Ultraviolence, But Just Ended Up Making the Divide More Palpable
Lana Del Rey, like many looking for that “perfect” place in the U.S. that doesn’t exist, is a notorious flitter between the coasts. If not [Read More…]
