Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence (2014), featured greater use of guitar-driven instrumentation and debuted atop the U.S. She achieved critical and commercial success with her second album, Born to Die (2012), which contained the sleeper hit " Summertime Sadness". After numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey's breakthrough came in 2011 with the viral success of her single " Video Games" she subsequently signed a recording contract with Polydor and Interscope. Raised in upstate New York, Del Rey moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue a music career. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being ″one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century." She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for six Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, containing references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s– 1960s Americana. Lana Del Rey says she wants a feminism that makes room for “women who look and act like me - the kind of woman who says no but men hear yes - the kind of women who are slated mercilessly for being their authentic, delicate selves…” The pool of mainstream artists is more diverse than it was 10 years ago, with women finding commercial success with tracks about sex, love, abuse, and mental health, but there is always more work to be done.Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 22, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter. Blige, and Keyshia Cole were also singing about the complexities that come with being in relationships that are beautifully painful. She says she feels like she “paved the way for other women to stop putting on a happy face, and just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted to in their music - unlike my experience where if I even expressed a note of sadness in my first two records I was deemed literally hysterical as though it was literally the 1920s.” She might have popularized making sad songs for Coachella teens, but if she checked the history books, she’d see names like Nina Simone, Mary J. In a 2019 review of Del Rey’s album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, for NPR, writer Ann Powers pegged her as “a loyalist to outdated ideals like mad love and bad-boy machismo.” (Lana publicly responded to this review on Twitter, and Powers is likely one of the critics she’s referring to when she writes about “female writers saying that I glamorize abuse”).ĭel Rey’s post also doesn’t mention the female artists who have come before her and are standing right beside her now. Lana has been saddled with the label of a “Hollywood sadcore” artist, and mocked for making indie-pop songs about James Dean-types. She’s not wrong in highlighting the heap of criticism she’s received since she released “Blue Jeans” in 2011.
“With all of the topics women are finally allowed to explore, I just want to say over the last ten years, I think it’s pathetic that my minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes submissive or passive roles has often made people say I’ve set women back hundreds of years,” she wrote.
She’s taking issue with the fact that other women are allowed to explore provocative and controversial subjects in their music, while she is ridiculed for consistently singing about flawed or destructive relationships. And whether she intended to or not, name-dropping these women, along with other WOC like Cardi, Kehlani, and Camila Cabello, came across as oddly racially-targeted and seemed to tear down their progress.ĭespite her very pointed opening statement, Lana isn’t mad about topping the charts. It was an empowering and unifying moment that proved the power that women have when they work together to break the music industry’s glass ceiling. Just last week, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, and Megan Thee Stallion collectively owned the No.
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