A tiny little introduction to the (white) American Exeperience and the Music of Lana Del Rey.
Today at Beyond the Underground , The (white) American Experience and the Music of Lana Del Rey One of my favorite things about her stuff is the very clever (blink and you’ll miss it clever. Subtle is best.) way she speaks quite self-disparagingly but in this completely meta way. Great example – from Gods and Monsters In the land of Gods and Monsters I was an angel Looking to get fucked hard Like a groupie incognito, posing as a real singer Life imitates art She is like the Tyler Durden of white chick music. She speaks to the worst parts of our nature. She talks about things we feel but do not speak of, Wants Suppressed. This will get me shot but her music, at times, is like you went to the Cozmik Bartender and said “ Hey, lover pour me a glass of your finest Sylvia Plath, light on the madness.” Not in terms of quality or depth but speaking purely in terms of it’s pure co...