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nprmusic:

I’d just like to point out that Lana Del Rey is not singular, either in her music or in regards to the buttons she’s pushed. She’s actually fairly typical of what pop often gives us these days, simply with a different veneer, a different method of distilling key elements of the culture’s sheet-rumpling dreams. Here’s a list of artists who might not share her most obvious attributes, but who nonetheless belong to the same conversation we’re having about LDR.

—Ann Powers via Lana Del Ray: Just Another Pop Star

yes. 

Lana Del Rey is a particularly polarizing figure for two reasons. Her persona relies on classic femme fatale allure, but without the usual “girl power” update — the sassy shake of the finger that makes a phrase like “put a ring on it” seem almost feminist. So women find her troubling; she embodies the worst part of being a girl. And her music — well-constructed and catchy, but also strangely incomplete, with lyrics that feel slapdash sung by an unpolished voice — is neither fish nor fowl, too awkward for corporate pop and too distant-feeling for indie