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This has become an entire subculture in itself, with many on social media platforms like TikTok showing off their ‘Lolita aesthetics’ to the familiar sounds of Del Rey hits. Society has always had paedophilic undertones, but this movement has become a powerful contributor to its reign. What’s more, Hollywood has washed over Nabokov’s initial sentiment, rendering it lost in a mosaic of visually pleasing images, catering to a cultural infatuation with young girls. Many diasporic Mexicans also regard Lana as the Anglophone heir to the cultural tradition of tragic, elder female singers – colloquially dubbed “señora music”. In señora music, outsidership features as a gendered position: one of underappreciation and martyrdom. TikTok often compares Del Rey to Jenni Rivera , a Long Beach-bred Mexican-American singer, while Danielle suggests that she’s also reminiscent of Amanda Miguel and Jeanette. “This is the music introduced to us by our parents,” she says, describing it as exploring “dramatic vulnerability and unhinged emotional release”. Del Rey’s lyrics – an alchemy of love, duty, desire and neglect – clearly chime with this. As Kimberly, another Mexican fan, says: “She suffers in her relationships, [and that parallels] the sort of imbalanced relationships dynamics we see play out at home.”

A cynic might suggest that, from its title to its lyrics (“24/7 Sylvia Plath”, “spilling my guts with the Bowery bums is the only love I’ve ever known”), this is a song that teeters on the verge of self-parody. But it’s hard to be cynical while it’s playing – just a piano and voice, it’s the model of elegant simplicity. 12. National Anthem (2012) Del Rey's work isn't made up of numerous radio hits, but she's created songs and videos that have received more than a billion views on YouTube. Her aesthetic often pairs American iconography with darker perspectives. Early the following year, it was revealed that Radiohead asked for some of the publishing rights to Del Rey's "Get Free" due to similarities to their hit song "Creep." And that’s absolutely fine. If a woman wants to live a life that, for some, may be seen as traditional, that’s completely her choice, and it’s nobody’s place to say otherwise. However, the point at which it becomes a little more complicated is when abusive notions, much like many women who were forced to take up such roles without the luxury of choice, are exercised under the guise of romanticism. Del Rey’s penchant for glorifying abusive spaces has been widely discussed, and the singer has routinely defended herself, but if we teach more women that being a victim is something to celebrate, doesn’t it perpetuate harm?Del Rey then lashed out at 'larger magazines' for 'taking my well-intentioned and believe it or not liberal comments out of context' However, some fans of Del Rey have defended "Judah Smith Interlude" as satirical or "ironic." As Coleman Spilde wrote for the Daily Beast, "Del Rey is exactly the type of person who would attend a celebrity-studded mega-church, both for a cleansing of the soul and to lambaste its intrinsic flamboyance with her friends." It’s more appropriate now than under the Obama administration, where at least everyone I knew felt safe,” she said. “It was a good time. We were on the up-and-up. Women started to feel less safe under this administration instantly. What if they take away Planned Parenthood? What if we can’t get birth control? Boarding school wasn't a complete cure, but by the age of 18, Del Rey was sober. Instead of attending college right away, she went to live with her aunt and uncle on Long Island; her uncle taught her to play guitar. Though Del Rey soon enrolled at Fordham University in the Bronx, where she studied philosophy, music became her true focus. Early Career

OK complex not that our 10 year relationship matters I guess," she tweeted. "Thanks for the cool soundbite taken out of context, I said that the bigger problem is Sociopathy-so whether he meant to incite a riot is less important than the larger issue in America at hand -the problem of sociopathy." The song "Ultraviolence" featured the controversial line "He hit me and it felt like a kiss"; in 2017, Del Rey said she's no longer comfortable with the lyric. In 2014, Del Rey went to the Palace of Versailles to sing at the pre-wedding dinner for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Her setlist included "Young and Beautiful,""Summertime Sadness" and "Blue Jeans." Her song "Big Eyes" for the 2014 Tim Burton film of the same name was nominated for a Golden Globe, and Del Rey sang an updated "Once Upon a Dream" for the movie Maleficent (2014). Del Rey has always defended this, saying that taking up traditional gender roles makes her as much a modern woman as the next person. At the same time, she also claims not to be a feminist, which, in today’s climate, is challenging to relate to. Unless you possess an unequivocally misunderstood definition of feminism, chances are you probably are one.Success brought Del Rey new opportunities. She modeled for H&M and a Mulberry signature handbag — "The Del Rey" — was created for her. In 2013, she made a short film called Tropico, as well as a Tropico EP. That year, Cedric Gervais made an EDM remix of her "Summertime Sadness" that went platinum. An ambiguous ode to youth: the lyrical message is be-young-be-foolish-be-happy but the tone of the vocal coolly indifferent, there’s something noticeably ominous about the music. How you take it probably depends on how old you are, but there’s no arguing with the power of the tune, or the sweet reference to the Beach Boys’ troubled ballad Don’t Worry Baby. 6. Ride (2012) To honor the release of the singer’s ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, we’ve ranked her 50 best songs, from modern standards to deep cuts to an unreleased gem we can’t get out of our heads. But when it comes to sun-drenched heartbreak, and the downsides of modernity, she is the embodiment of the destructive nature of the id, even when we think the ego is in charge. She isn’t afraid to be vulnerable, to be fragilely feminine, to admit that things aren’t always awesome when the id takes over. “A&W,” from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel, at first blush seems a lament for women writ large. Used and cast off, she speaks for a generation. Lana Del Rey’s favourite song from Honeymoon, apparently because it was “jazzy”. It’s jazzy in the sense that a torch song is jazzy, but – beyond the parched, reverb-heavy guitars that recall Mazzy Star – the most obvious influence is John Barry’s Theme From Midnight Cowboy, echoed in the lovely descending vocal melody. 14. Lust for Life (ft the Weeknd) (2014)

Del Rey's first major-label album was Born to Die, which came out in 2012. Though critics didn't embrace the album, it reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. 2012 also saw the release of the Grammy-nominated EP Paradise, which contained the songs "Ride" and "Cola." 'Ultraviolence' saw the arrival of the dark, critically praised Honeymoon. Del Rey has described the album as "a tribute to Los Angeles." She moved to California in 2012 and says it's a place where she's found more musical collaborators than in New York. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and landed at No. 1 in countries like Australia and Ireland. 'Lust for Life'If we want to pretend her appeal has anything to do with conservative politics, specifically, it’s mostly that she isn’t a doctrinaire modern liberal, but more of an old school one. There are also her forays into independent thought, ones that don’t properly take identity politics into consideration, among other transgressions. And she’s not exactly an activist, particularly on issues that conservatives, heterosexual or otherwise, are bothered by. Maybe there are some out there who are opposed to people having running water, I suppose, though she hasn’t taken heat for that stance, yet. Best Known For: Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey took the world by storm with her single "Video Games" in 2011. Since then she's built up a body of work that features languid, melancholic tunes and fascinating videos.

To her ultra-devoted fans, she is the patron saint of the misunderstood. But along with forging a deep personal connection with her core audience, Del Rey’s baroque, retro-pop style, intense intimacy, and unapologetically honest lyrics have changed the sound of pop music in the past decade. The news that Del Rey had signed with the label Interscope made some wonder if "Video Games" was a marketing ploy and not a video she'd created herself. There was also speculation that her father was a millionaire who'd bankrolled her (Del Rey has said her family was never wealthy). In 2012, Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live and was criticized for looking nervous and singing hesitantly. However, her first studio album was still a success, as were subsequent releases. Albums 'AKA Lizzy Grant' When it came out, Tropico was lambasted for cultural appropriation. “Dressing up like an entire culture and calling it ‘fashion’ is offensive,” wrote one Jezebel article . “Using another person or culture as an outfit to make your art edgy is in poor taste.” Some fans also feel that while Del Rey’s proximity to Latin culture is cute or touching, she does not necessarily do anything to ‘help’ Latinos in a meaningful way. Speaking to Dazed, Mexican fan Danielle says she is a fan of Lana’s work, but notes that she doesn’t think Del Rey is “in necessarily any solidarity with Latinidad or our culture […] she is in no way an activist trying to uplift Chicano culture.” On the inaugural night of Lana Del Rey’s concert circuit in Mexico, an audience of 65,000 chanted “ ¡Lana, hermana, ya eres Mexicana! ”, or “Lana, our sister – you are now Mexican!”No this was not intended-these are my best friends, since you are asking today," she wrote — although it was written as a standalone comment, not a reply to anyone in particular. One obvious answer is that Del Rey is “everything straight men idolize about the sultry sex queen tradition of the American Pacific, a sweet sad California golden sunburnt lover wrapped in an American flag who tastes like cigarettes and broken dreams.” Also, it doesn’t hurt that she looks like this: Lana Del Rey in Hollywood California, February 2012 (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic/Getty)