Lana Del Rey is no stranger to name-checking white male musicians from the 60s and 70s in her music. It’s become something of a barometer for whether or…
Read more Harry Nilsson Being the Devil on John Lennon’s Shoulder Doesn’t Prevent Lana Del Rey From Saying “I Just Wish I Had A Friend Like Him”Taylor Swift did a couple things in the span of one award acceptance on Grammy night that elicited polarized reactions. And, considering that Swift, in her role as…
Read more The Introvert’s Conundrum When Pitted Against the Extrovert’s WillFor those hoping that being a “superstar” producer had left Jack Antonoff no time to remember his own musical “project,” Bleachers, the media regrets to inform you that…
Read more A Lana Del Rey Song Posing As a Bleachers One, Or: The Antonoff-Del Rey Partnership Persists on “Alma Mater”When an artist reaches a certain point in their career, self-reference can’t be avoided. In Lana Del Rey’s case, that tends to become quite a quagmire in terms…
Read more Lana Del Rey’s “Candy Necklace” Video Deliberately Blurs the Line Between Fantasy and Reality With Its Meta FrameworkWith a recent interview in Billboard noting that Lana Del Rey found herself figuratively going back to Lake Placid as she wrote Did You Know That There’s a…
Read more Lana Del Rey Returns to Her Church Choir Roots With “The Grants,” A Rumination on Memory and, More Subtly, Plath’s Fig TreeHaving recently cited Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” as one of her all-time favorite songs, maybe it should come as no shock that Lana Del Rey has sampled herself un…
Read more Did You Know That Lana Del Rey Wouldn’t Give Us A Song Without A Bit of L.A. History To It?, Or: “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”
