Her attempts to bring back the old-fashioned style of the old greats such as Nancy Sinatra or Leonard Cohen have been known to clash with overly. On a surface level, Lana Del Rey may seem to many like a living musical contradiction. Review Summary: Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. Release Date: 2014 Tracklist.

A pinwheel unmoored from its handle. But also: a Swarovski crystal earring. Half-melted Icees in Styrofoam cups, one flip-flop, taco foil, condoms, a dead vape pen. This is what people forget about Los Angeles beaches: They're part of the city, inundated with the city's grit.

It is expected to be released on October 22, 2021. But their brooms can't clear the ocean.Blue Banisters (formerly known as Rock Candy Sweet) is the upcoming eighth studio album and seventh major-label studio album by Lana Del Rey.Released: October 22, 2021Blue Banisters (formerly known as Rock Candy Sweet) is the upcoming eighth studio album and seventh major-label studio album by Lana Del Rey. A few miles up the Pacific Coast Highway, away from the skateboarders and homeless people, WASPs sun themselves at country clubs as employees sweep the sands.

Does she drive past Malibu to El Matador, where the water is the cleanest but the one Porta-Potty often overflows? Down to Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, near the aquarium where schoolkids swarm? In her songs she dwells on Venice and Long Beach, two places where the red signs the city uses to warn of excess sewage in the water show up the most. Reading this, I wonder where she goes and what she does after she unfolds her towel and sets up her umbrella. List: Del Rey's 2012 smash hit Summertime Sadness from her album Born to Die.'I'm mostly at the beach!' Lana Del Rey exclaimed in a recent interview, explaining her cultivated disconnect from the Hollywood pop machine. 6/8/15 Last night Lana Del Rey's Endless Summer tour, in fact, ended. On March 15, 2021, four days.

' Cholo meets surfer,' he wrote in his memoir. Would have made it the 15 miles west to the beach 20 years ago, or even at the height of the surfing craze in the 1960s, when as a kid the writer Jack Lopez almost got beaten up by a tough guy for walking down Western Avenue in board shorts, clutching a copy of Surfer magazine. See, there's the slippage, the step away from an authentic or even consistent narrative: Few Latinas from East L.A. Her hair is in in Dutch braids, similar to the styles cholas wore in the 1990s. In several shots, she holds onto a surfboard.

Instead, she has made slippage the basis of her approach. (Exhibit A: The Poetry of Rock.) Hip-hop, a revolution in fragments, challenged this order, yet it still exerts itself in most discussions of what makes great songs.For most of her career, Lana Del Rey has not participated in this discourse. The rise of the singer-songwriter in the 1960s reinforced the value of narrative pull and shored up other hierarchies: rock over disco, sitting and listening over dancing, lyrics over sound. There's a subtle tension within many popular songs, however, between the unsettling effect of juxtaposing disparate elements вЂ” say, English folk melodies and Delta blues (that's Led Zeppelin) or Caribbean inflections and Nordic electronic beats (many Rihanna singles) вЂ” and the comfort of a unified narrative, the songwriter's art.

Words like 'classic' and 'greatest' adhere to her now she writes songs that use them unironically. But she has earned a following among listeners who value unmonitored reveries.On NFR! Del Rey is at her most instantly compelling, a pro asserting her future spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as her closest peer and rival Stefani Germanotta did with her turn in A Star is Born. Critics have doubted her motives.

That's the gist of Lana Del Rey, and still her superpower as she floats toward more readable songcraft: Whether her music makes cultural connections that are obvious or obscure, they always feel deeply personal, individuated, like mementos.In her early days, what she claimed вЂ” bouffanted femme-fatalism weirdly aligned with a tattered Fourth-of-July style patriotic nostalgia, Bettie Page reborn as an Instagram star вЂ” felt undeveloped and, because of that, cynical. At least that's what one fan, namely me, hears. In 'Mariners,' she deflects the Elton John comparison its piano part demands ('I ain't your candle in the wind'), only to build to a chorus that seemingly echoes the Oscar-winning theme from a classic 1970s disaster movie (Maureen McGovern's magisterial 'The Morning After') and, in its warm but uncanny multi-tracked vocal hook, the synth-kissed love songs that brought Leonard Cohen back from obscurity in the 1980s. It's a story about which most people can feel something.Yet the sensitivity and compassion Del Rey expresses in these songs really resonates not in its straightforwardness, but because of all the pings it sets off in the listener's brain, each one hitting like a nearly-erased memory.

Satin slips, Freudian slips: Throughout her tenure as a pop star, Lana has pursued revelations about how desire disassembles and recombines elements of a woman's personality. Cognitive dissonance is the essence of her art, the way she builds her dream logic. On NFR! she remains that artist, even as she asks herself if she might, with insight, better compartmentalize her impulses.Lana Del Rey is all about wrong combinations: sunset dreams and dirty water, Mexican-American braids and a wetsuit, hip-hop flow and torch song feeling, conventional feminine submissiveness and post-feminist self-possession. She would be a problem вЂ” a loyalist to outdated ideals like mad love and bad-boy machismo, a constant gardener of the weediest patches of the contemporary psyche. But as she built her repertoire, Del Rey proved fully committed to the messy alignments of her art, and better able to articulate how they formed the stories by which she, or the characters she claimed as her own, lived.

It's because there were things I was saying that either they just couldn't connect to or were maybe worried that, if they were in the same situation, it would put them in a vulnerable place.'But we know this. My mom would have called it 'needy' today, more common descriptions are 'disempowered,' 'self-sabotaging,' 'unwoke.' 'Women hated me,' Del Rey told writer Alex Frank in 2017. The tone of her voice as she uttered these words was forever after labeled 'sad,' but was really something different. 'I hear that you like the bad girls, honey, is that true?' And so a dream of romantic fulfillment slipped into self-negation, the way it has since time immemorial in the scripts that young women learn from those songs and from movies, their moms, other girls and the boys who benefit. 'Tell me all the things you want to do,' Lana continues. The sentiment is soaked in banality, but also in the perfume of all those other girls.

Yet even on NFR!, an album some writers have extolled as a (circuitous) form of protest, Del Rey remains much more invested in describing how people вЂ” mostly women вЂ” fall apart, how they take risks or otherwise work against their own best interests in the pursuit of pleasure, intimacy and what she still guilelessly calls 'love. She's modified that stance somewhat in the aftermath of the #metoo movement, citing Trump's infamous 'grab 'em' remark as a sign that sexuality has been weaponized beyond even her tolerance levels. Del Rey herself simply said she found feminism uninteresting. Lindsay Zoladz sympathetically recontextualized it in a cogent 2017 essay, seeing Del Rey's embodiment of the weak woman as an antidote to 'empowerment as the default aspiration of the pop star' вЂ“ the tendency of chart toppers from BeyoncГ© to Taylor Swift to configure their careers as one long therapeutic, vaguely political pep talk. Mostly, critics have perceived this as an anti-feminist stance. Instead, she has explored what happens when women call themselves children when they stumble in high heels when they put the love of a man before all.

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