Something about american pop culture and her singers
I do not know for a fact that Lizzy Grant, the canny songwriter behind Lana Del Rey, secretly earned an American Studies degree at SUNY-Geneseo, but all the evidence points in that direction.
Lana Del Rey is, of course, the pop ventriloquist act who burst onto the scene in 2012—a ginger-haired gun moll with big hoop earrings, a moody disposition, and a lavish taste for 1960s torch-song atmospherics. Del Rey is a character invented by Grant: a full package of image, attitude, and sound that results in a familiar yet singular image. Indeed, her brand is that of the femme fatale in its most frankly Platonic form.
Grant’s bio reads like an uptown-downtown hipster inversion of Jack Donaghy’s: she grew up in the tony suburbs of Lake Placid, New York, before being sent to a boarding school at fifteen “to deal with her alcohol dependence.” She went to SUNY for…
Ver la entrada original 2.164 palabras más
Artelón 