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Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey (The New Yorker)
Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey (The New Yorker)
‘Del Rey doesn’t have the emotional and psychological depth to support all the satin and spotlights. Her invocations of Sinatra and Lolita are entirely appropriate to the sumptuous backing tracks, but, when it comes to lyrics, she and her collaborators get lost in a tangle of keywords.’
·newyorker.com·
Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey (The New Yorker)
Rob Harvilla: Lana Del Rey: 'Born to Die' (SPIN.com)
Rob Harvilla: Lana Del Rey: 'Born to Die' (SPIN.com)
‘The vast majority of this record is given over to rhapsodizing over some hunky, dangerous fella, and none of the alterations — sonic, biographical, cosmetic — allegedly made to the real-life Lana/Lizzy could distort the truth as thoroughly as her unrelenting Ooh He's a Bad, Bad, Sexy Man routine. It's instructive to picture what this guy would actually look like IRL, some clown with a real emotional haircut, Crocs hanging off his feet, Urban Outfitters leather jacket hung over his IKEA futon, remnants of that Taco Bell burrito with the Fritos in it congregating at the corners of his mouth as he binges on Skyrim, blasts "Pumped Up Kicks" on infinite repeat, and gargles dozens of shots of, like, Goldschläger.’
·spin.com·
Rob Harvilla: Lana Del Rey: 'Born to Die' (SPIN.com)
Maura Johnston: How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide (Village Voice)
Maura Johnston: How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide (Village Voice)
‘1. Go through your piece and flip the gender of your descriptive phrases' subjects. Are there any that sound ludicrous as a result? 2. Are you essentially making shit up about the artist in order to sexualize her? 3. Are you comparing the artist you're writing about to other female artists only? If so, why? 4. Are you writing about a moment where your subject flirts with you and you respond in kind?’
·blogs.villagevoice.com·
Maura Johnston: How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide (Village Voice)
Eric Harvey: “The big question here is not: Is she real? But, rather, why it seems impossible to believe that she could be.”
Eric Harvey: “The big question here is not: Is she real? But, rather, why it seems impossible to believe that she could be.”
‘Songs are always already their own advertisements; that’s what makes them such a compelling commodity. But my main problem with BTD is that it steps beyond the necessary function of pop song-as-ad and embodies the form of advertising as well. It doesn’t mean that LDR critiques thus can’t be (unconsciously) gendered (even this one), but to me it’s impossible to get past. We can both embrace the multiple pleasures of pop artifice while simultaneously critiquing its most craven examples.’
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Eric Harvey: “The big question here is not: Is she real? But, rather, why it seems impossible to believe that she could be.”
Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” (The New Yorker)
Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” (The New Yorker)
‘Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production tasks. This makes popular music similar to film, television, visual art, books, dance, and related areas like food and fashion. And yet no movie review begins, “Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in ‘The Iron Lady.’”‘
·newyorker.com·
Sasha Frere-Jones: Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” (The New Yorker)
Judy Berman: Just the Music: An Experimental Review of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born to Die’ (Flavorwire)
Judy Berman: Just the Music: An Experimental Review of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born to Die’ (Flavorwire)
‘So, here’s where this experiment fails. This is the point where I concede that it’s impossible to talk about Lana Del Rey without delving into the reams of criticism that attack, defend, or otherwise analyze her existence. It’s the lyrics to her songs themselves that prove there’s no way to think about her on her own terms — she doesn’t have her own terms. What she wants so desperately is to know what we — that is, the default heterosexual male listener — make of her.’
·flavorwire.com·
Judy Berman: Just the Music: An Experimental Review of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born to Die’ (Flavorwire)
Amy Rebecca Klein: The Last Thing I'll Ever Write About Lana Del Rey
Amy Rebecca Klein: The Last Thing I'll Ever Write About Lana Del Rey
‘Exploring “what a woman should be” is boring and cliche in the 21st century, and perhaps that is why Lana Del Rey seems to many to be so bored and sad on stage. So let’s take Lana Del Rey for what she is—a pop star playing a role, a woman whose real life we know nothing about—and learn from what she’s taught us about our own insufferable addiction to a vapid version of femininity. In the future, I’m hoping we’ll accept more female artists who are interested in mining the depths of who they really are.’
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Amy Rebecca Klein: The Last Thing I'll Ever Write About Lana Del Rey
Tom Ewing: Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet (Village Voice)
Tom Ewing: Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet (Village Voice)
‘In other words, "Video Games" sounds classicist at first, "retro" in a vague way. But the closer it gets, the more obvious its theatrics become, even before you take Del Rey's image-building into account. It's uncanny valley pop about an uncanny valley love affair—almost convincing, but just wrong enough to chill and fascinate.’
·villagevoice.com·
Tom Ewing: Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet (Village Voice)
Nitsuh Abebe: Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward Vegas (Vulture)
Nitsuh Abebe: Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward Vegas (Vulture)
‘She’s really quite earnest about what she’s trying, and alarmingly scattershot in her ability to get there — good news for those of us with the critical distance to chuckle happily over Born to Die, and also, perhaps, for anyone who wants to swallow it whole and digest a lot of strange, messy ideas about being a “girl.”’
·nymag.com·
Nitsuh Abebe: Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward Vegas (Vulture)