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| Lana Del Rey | Blue Jeans |
Everything about Del Rey is a reference to Hollywood. She took her stage name from 40s actress Lana Turner. She cut her look from retro magazines. And describes her sound as "Hollywood Sadcore." Her music videos are made up of lip-syncs to web cam, where she channels classic Hollywood ingenues, and a montage of vintage film clips, which together with her vocals turn Los Angeles into a haunting, dreamscape where Hollywood functions as a "dream factory" but in reality is a harsh, killer of dreams. David Lynch loves Lana Del Rey, I bet.
Lana Del Rey has earned her haters though. After it was discovered that singer/songwriter Lizzi Grant had reinvented herself, and transformed into Lana Del Rey, an overwhelming number were quick to resent her new found success and accused her of being a "sellout" because she "injected collagen into her lips" like it was totally unusual for a music star to reinvent themselves. The backlash was chronicled in detail in an wonderfully-written piece in The Guardian where writer Paul Harris defended Del Rey saying "all the greats have done it."
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