Lana Del Rey
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The Lana Del Rey Presidential Library For Girls & Gays February 19, 2025
To be a Language Arts fan is to be a Lana Del Rey fan. Ahead, we pair each of her albums with a must-read book....
Lana Del Rey Embraces Classic French Style August 23, 2024
Last night, Lana Del Rey served as the opening-night headline act at the Rock en Seine music festival in Paris. The singer hit the stage and performed her hits such as “Doin’ Time,” “Summertime Sadness,” and “Ride,” marking her second time playing th...
Post Malone Made Himself at Home in Country Music August 22, 2024
In 1994, the country singer Alan Jackson released a hit country song about country songs by non-country singers. Instead of criticizing these new arrivals, he just chuckled. “The whole world’s gone country,” Jackson sang, and in the video he flashed ...
On Post Malone's 'F-1 Trillion' August 21, 2024
Is country a lifestyle or an accessory? Depends on who you ask. Presently it’s fashionable to try and bridge that gap. Blue-state dwellers with email jobs are dressing up like duck hunters, donning Carhartt and Realtree camo to the warehouse rave or ...
The Tech Right Galvanized Lana Del Rey August 19, 2024
With J.D. Vance selected for the Trump admin, it’s apparent that MAGA has a new type of company infiltrating its ranks. Vance, with Peter Thiel’s support, represents what Richard Hanania has dubbed the “Tech Right.” Alongside Elon Musk, these types f...
The Artist’s Artist February 13, 2024
When Taylor Swift won her fourth Best Album Grammy for Midnights, she dragged collaborator Lana Del Rey onstage with her, and gushed about the latter’s impact: “Lana Del Rey... I think so many female artists would not be where they are and would not ...
The Best Music of 2023 December 06, 2023
In mid-November, the musician André 3000—one-half of the beloved hip-hop duo OutKast, which released six idiosyncratic and irrepressible records between 1994 and 2006—announced that he was, at long last, putting out a full-length solo LP. “Hey Ya!,” ...
Already, I Was Disappointed by a Lot December 05, 2023
IN A RECENT INTERVIEW with The Face magazine, songwriter-producer Jack Antonoff—who has counted Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Lorde in his enviable stable—went on a rant against the NYC scene in general and Dimes Square specifically. “Well, what’s ...
Lana Del Rey Forgives You September 22, 2023
Lana Del Rey never intended to punch in for a quickie Waffle House shift. But after seven days of seeing the same faces during a visit to Florence, Alabama, and a July morning’s worth of shooting the shit with her brother and sister in the same plast...
The American Mystery of Lana Del Rey September 15, 2023
I've never really understood Lana Del Rey. She is a figure that burst fully formed into the musical landscape more than a decade ago with a persona combining nostalgia for Hollywood glamour and classic Americana with a deeply contemporary melancholy ...
California Gothic August 23, 2023
The purest distillations of noir ideology, a Hollywood mutation of the Gothic imported with the palm tree, function as allegories for the history of Los Angeles. Noir, in Paul Schrader’s view, eludes classification as a genre insofar as it eschews “c...
Lack of Charisma Can Be Comforting August 22, 2023
CARL JUNG WROTE that when you hate someone, they’re probably bringing up something you hate about yourself. Historically, few celebrities have boiled my blood quite like Taylor Swift. I was always embarrassed to be triggered by someone so obvious. I ...
Lana Del Rey’s Dissident Femininity August 14, 2023
It’s been quite a fortnight for Lana Del Rey. Last week, she was lauded as a “singer-songwriter laureate” and “the great American poet of the 21st century”. This week, she closed the Lollapalooza festival in the US by being physically dragged offstag...
Lana Del Rey: A Great American Poet August 02, 2023
The corner lot of 100 E Ocean Boulevard is not mythic. It’s a small patch of scrubland, rubble and grass, graffitied wall panels, a couple of vertebral palms. Round the back, a parking lot, asphalt bleached and sickly under the Los Angeles sun, and a...
The Mythologies of Lana Del Rey April 11, 2023
There are definitely a couple of thematic throughlines that are really helpful in orienting the listener. One of them being family, one of them being the idea of child rearing. There’s a lot about death. There’s a lot about the idea of legacy and que...
The Shallow Depths of Lana Del Rey April 03, 2023
After a brief false start to her career under her given name of Lizzy Grant, the pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey emerged fully formed with her 2012 debut Born to Die. Her music — self-consciously retro, Xanax-glazed, minor-key balladry laden with Twitter-...
Lana Del Rey Has Come to Confess March 28, 2023
Lana Del Rey is a colorful study in contrasts: She’s a quintessentially West Coast presence who spent her formative years in Lake Placid, a Catholic-school kid who blossomed into a songwriter with a flair for the salacious and the macabre, and a pop ...
Lana Del Rey's New Album Is Her Most Soul-Searching March 24, 2023
Early in Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey highlights a sermon from megachurch pastor-to-the-stars Judah Smith. In the most Del Rey fashion, it was clearly recorded on her phone during a service — you can hear her and ...
The 43 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2023 March 23, 2023
And just like that, spring is upon us: daffodils sprout, forget-me-nots remember, festivals beckon, would-be songs of the summer shake their fledgling tail-feathers, and the distant hum of a Rihanna album mingles with the birdsong. As marquee acts li...
The Freakish Powers of Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey March 10, 2023
Del Rey, born Elizabeth Grant in New York, weathered a now-incomprehensible controversy about “authenticity” (a word that, to paraphrase Nabokov, should only ever be in quotes) upon the 2011 release of her swooning, doomy single “Video Games.” “It’s ...
The Rise of the Sped-Up Remix March 09, 2023
If you’ve opened TikTok recently, you’ve likely scrolled past a video soundtracked by a fresh take on Miguel’s 2010 single “Sure Thing” — the defining moodiness of the original replaced by a jaunty bounce, and Miguel’s voice, once sultry, turned infa...
How Lana Del Rey Became Completely Unburdened February 27, 2023
Lana Del Rey practices “automatic singing.” Using the improvisational songwriting technique, she lets her voice carry over accompaniments, not commandeering where her words or melodies take her, accepting all ideas she has in the moment and editing t...
The Trad Mystique November 21, 2022
Tradness is conservative in the same way nostalgia is conservative. It’s related to the Lindy effect: a theory popularized by statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb and technology lawyer Paul Skallas (@LindyMan on Twitter) that posits a correlation betwe...
