“ Hi! We are aware that you have been having trouble with Lana Del Rey for some time now. When you know that a relationship isn’t working it is somtimes hard to move forward but we just want to let you know that it is alright to make a clean break. And maybe the right time is now. Maybe now it is time to let go of Lana Del Rey. And that is fine. Do not feel guilt. She is safe in the arms of pop. Why now? Well, she’s got a proper single out this week. This is the one that’s supposed to be ‘the big one’. And yes we know the accidental Top 10 hit last year confused you a bit, because you weren’t sure whether you were already supposed to have bailed on her by that point, so your end-of-2011 year in review articles were a bit muddled. You didn’t know what you were supposed to think any more, but that does not matter any more because, like we say, you can walk away right now with your dignity. And there’s no need to feel bad that it hasn’t worked out. You’ve given it a good go. You’ve had your chance to impose your boring ideas of authenticity onto a pop creation, to express your disgust that she might be better in the studio than on the stage. That’s the way you like to judge things and that’s fine, it’s just that this isn’t how pop works, and Lana Del Rey is a pop thing. A hot, melodic, major label-signed pop thing. ”
Popjustice - A note to Alternative Music Scribes having trouble with Lana Del Rey
Been waiting for someone to write this post (there’s more). I have to admit I fundamentally don’t understand the venom about Lana Del Rey. The primary complaints appear to be that she has a “manufactured” image, which, DUH, it’s an IMAGE, that’s the POINT, and that said image is a problematic performance of womanhood, which, yes, but (a.) that’s not exactly new in the music world and (b.) a problematic performance of something can still have incredible entertainment and artistic value: see “West, Kanye.” There’s also the “can’t perform live” thing, but, well, very few people in this world really can perform live, and she’s also in her early twenties, so that doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Don’t get me wrong — I don’t really even like her that much, I think the songs are pretty decent and her voice is an intriguing instrument, but come on, folks, she’s just a product, like everything else in this world. You wouldn’t write 5,000-word screeds about Doritos flavors you don’t like, no matter how much other people like them.
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kfan said:
AMEN
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hungryghoast said:
“Lana Del Rey is the Tacos At Midnight Doritos of music” … I can quote you on that right?
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maura said:
“melodic” is a stretch
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