Lana Del Rey by 201460269

The vintage beauty

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At the beginning of her career in the 2010s, Lana Del Rey's stardom was often associated with 20th century American culture and vintage style. She used her best efforts to establish herself as an American beauty of the last century. Using makeup from retro Hollywood films of the 20th century and adding classicism to her music, she appeared to the public as an old-time celebrity.

Young and Beautiful (2013)

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lana del rey's most famous song as well as an interlude in the film The Great Gatsby. Combined with the time period of the film's scenario, lana del rey sets her vintage style with this song, creating an image of her as a classical beauty.

Video Games (2011)

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In her music videos, she often uses vintage filming techniques. Blurry and unclear picture quality, unstable images and black and white images like early Hollywood movies. And these music videos often feature American street scenes from the last century. Her unique artistic approach makes people feel as if she is really a singer from the last century after watching her videos.

Burning Desire (2012)

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Lana Del Rey presents a classic vintage beauty look in the music video for Burning Desire. It was also her iconic look during that time period. Her clothes, hair and make-up emphasise the 1950s and 1960s style, with black wavy hair, red lips and ornate jewellery.

Cannes Opening Ceremony in 2013

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Similar vintage beauty looks are often used by her on the red carpet and at various public events to highlight her personal style.

Vocal style and characterisation

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Blackburn(2020) suggests that Lana Del Rey uses different singing voices to portray many different female characters. The most prominent of these are the Lolita-like rebellious teenage girl and the dark and femme fatale who uses sex to get what she wants..

Lolita and electra complex

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Lolita is one of lana del rey's personas. The literary work Lolita had a profound effect on Lana Del Rey, who could be described as obsessed with it. In real life, her preference for older men is also well known. On her album born to die, she often appears in songs as a teenage girl longing for love, and the objects of her affection in the lyrics are often older men.

Preference for older men

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In Lana's lyrics there are frequent references to her love of older men and her daddy issue, while in real life the men she has dated have all been older, mature types.

Lolita (2012)

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As a huge fan of the literary work Lolita, she composed the song of the same name for it. With a sweeter voice she portrays a rebellious and charming American teenage girl. In this song, she transforms herself into an avatar of Lolita, giving a first-person perspective on her relationship with her stepfather and making no secret of her preference for older men.

anti-feminism?

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While striving for vintage in her dress and make-up, the concept of love expressed in her songs was also considered old-fashioned by the public. In her early songs, love was paramount and the women she portrayed often gave everything for love. At the heart of her early songs were women's desire for love, self-destructive tendencies and extreme romanticism. This made her controversial, with feminists criticising her for reinforcing stereotypes of women.

Ultraviolence (2014)

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The song reflects her self-destructive tendencies in the face of love. The lyrics 'he hit me but it felt like a kiss' led critics to attack her for romanticising violence.

Her response to her anti-feminist accusations

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lana made this long post on instagram to illustrate her views on feminism. It subverts the anti-feminist image some people used to have of her.

Money Power Glory (2014)

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In this song lana del rey's image becomes that of a femme fatale who exchanges her charms for money and status from men. It is also a reflection of her own experience, as she has admitted in interviews that she has had sexual relationships with some of her music producers for the sake of her music career.

Femme fatale

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This is another classic persona image of Lana Del Rey, it appears more often on her album ultraviolence.

Transformation

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In 2017, with the release of her album Lust For Live, she underwent a bit of a transformation in every way. She no longer insisted on portraying herself as a vintage beauty, and in this interview with elle, she mentions that with age and experience, she no longer had to rely on a refined look or a glamorous persona. From this stage onwards, she focuses more on being her authentic self.

Gothic Aesthetics and Religion

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Gothic and religious elements often appear in her work, and she herself is interested in metaphysics and witchcraft.

Norman Fucking Rockwell

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Norman Fucking Rockwell This album brings not only a thematic elevation of Lana's songwriting, but also a reinvention of her star image. The entire album offers a glimpse into the current state of American society through reminiscences of its past.

Summertime Sadness (2013)

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Death and loss are the most obvious gothic elements in her work. Her image in these songs with gothic elements is always that of a melancholic woman with self-destructive tendencies.

Political participation

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Apart from the transformation of her appearance, the biggest change was that she began to care about current political affairs and human rights issues.

Textbook (2021)

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Lana began to convey some of her own thoughts on social issues in her songs. In Textbook, she speaks out for black rights and against racism.

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She is gradually moving away from making herself into a sophisticated vintage beauty and focusing more on comfort and casualness. At the Grammy Awards, instead of wearing an expensive couture gown like other celebrities, she wore a discounted dress from the mall. It makes her image more real and approachable.

The Patriotic Singer

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Lana loves America and American culture, especially America in the 20th century. In the early days she emphasised her American identity more than once in her songs with American elements. After the Lust For Life period, her patriotism became more evident and she began to worry about the future of America.

God Bless America (2017)

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She sings 'god bless America' directly in the lyrics to show her patriotism. The Lust For Life period was also the period of Trump's administration, and she has rebelled against the Trump regime on several occasions, either directly or indirectly.

Season of the witch (2019)

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Among her many personas, the Witch is also one of the more famous ones. She became involved in witchcraft-related things and sang interludes for horror-themed films and TV shows.

Witchcraft

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During Trump's administration, she openly admitted that she used witchcraft with the coven to try to get Trump out of office. This reinforced her image as a witch.

Lizzy Grant

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Lizzy Grant is Lana del rey's real name and to some extent represents the truest original her. As she gradually leaves behind the aura of Lana del rey and wants to be herself, she transforms back into Lizzy Grant. She appeared in social media as a completely make-up free image to the public and she started to show her truest self to everyone.

Million Dollar Man (2012)

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The song depicts the image of a gold-digging woman who engages in romantic relationships with wealthy men for the sake of money. This has been criticised by feminists who see such ideas as commodifying women.

sexual liberation

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In her later musical work, it is easy to see that lana's depictions of sexuality and emotional relationships in her songs are not anti-feminism but more like sexual liberation. She is portrayed to the public as never shying away from sexual desires, and she advocates that women and men have equal rights to sexual freedom.

Music to watch boys to (2015)

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Lana shows the female gaze in this song, that women like men can have the right to generate desire. And the man becomes the object of the female gaze, judgement, and projection of desire.

A&W (2023)

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On her latest album, she even refers to herself as an american whore, and in this way she tries to nullify degrading terms for women and to oppose sexual shaming of women.

chemtrails over the country club (2021)

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The album is very different from her earlier work, chemtrails over the country club describes more of Lana's real everyday life rather than her fond fantasies of 20th century America. On this album her image is that of a woman happily living in a countryside.

A true artist

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At this stage, Lana is portrayed as more of a true artist than a commercial star. She didn't care about her commercial value or her record sales or the media attacks on her out-of-shape body. She was fully committed to making music and spending time with her family, and from time to time, she spoke out for the rights of the black and LGBTQ communities.

Venice Bitch (2019)

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In the era of the rise of social media such as tiktok, many music creators seek to produce short and catchy music that is suitable for use in short videos to ensure sales. While Lana's Venice Bitch is nine minutes long, she cares more about creating what she wants to create and ensuring quality.

National anthem (2012)

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She appeared in the video as a singer from the last century, singing for the former President of the United States. We can see that Lana is proud of her American identity and misses the America of the 20th century.

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Lana said in the interview that she just wants to be herself now

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Catholic

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Lana was raised in a Catholic family. Even though she doesn't consider herself a devout Catholic, Catholicism still influences her. She makes frequent references to God in her songs and attends the met gala in Catholic-inspired attire.

Different personas

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Unlike most other celebrities, lana del rey's image is not singular and constant. She has shown many different personas at the same time.

Obsession with the 20th Century

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She believes her soul lives in the last century and focuses on imitating the women of the last century in every way. Her style, singing style and ideas were greatly influenced by the culture of the last century.

The Grant Family

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Lana had a bad relationship with her family when she was younger, now she has returned to her family and eased her relationship with her father. In 2023 she release the album Lost at sea with her father Rob Grant. it was also a sign that she was back to being Lizzy Grant.

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (2020)

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This is lana's poetry reading album. The poems on the album are written by her and they show the listener her true inner thoughts. It also gives Lana the image of a poet.

She failed to get the Grammy award

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Norman fucking Rockwell is probably one of lana's best albums. In 2020 she attended the Grammy's with confidence and didn't get an award. It was one of the reasons for her transformation. Since then she has realised that she doesn't need outside judgement for her talent.

Gucci advertisement

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Indie Music Star

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Her distinctive American 60s-inspired tunes have led to her being regarded as an indie music star.

Doubts about her vocals

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Her first public performance on stage was a failure due to her inexperience, and she made mistakes such as running out of tune. This led people to question her singing skills and assume that she could only sing in the studio. This discouraged her from performing in public for a long time.