Salon: Wildest Dreams Lacks the Substance of Lana Del Rey's Work

[Cody Draco 2,531]

The Existential Genius of Lana Del Rey

"Indeed, Del Rey’s use of iconography, including her own image, is generally flattened and reduced to the façade, which is why so many people were quick to see Taylor Swift’s video for “Wildest Dreams” as Lana Del Rey-esque. But while Swift’s video features many of the accoutrements of a Del Rey enterprise—a fixation on handsome men, an old Hollywood nostalgia, a penchant for dark curls and red lips—it lacks the substance of Del Rey’s body of work, which offers a more nuanced and complicated look at human longing and desire."

Read the full article here: http://www.salon.com/2015/09/13/the_existential_genius_of_lana_del_rey_performing_yearning_self_destruction_as_meaningful_as_don_drapers_and_just_as_uniquely_american/

 

Queen of Substance.

P.S. the article goes pretty in depth on Lana from a Feminist perspective.

@StrawberryBlond I think you will find it quite interesting, I know I did.

[Sizzily 14,543]

They aren't wrong  And substance isn't the only thing its lacking 

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

I personally love the song and the video  It's hitting the top 10 next week

[JEANBO 364]

Interesting article.

[Red 94,526]

Why are they randomly comparing Taylor to Lana? They don't sing the same type of music, they don't have the same public, they don't have the same "theme" of lyrics, they don't have the same anything   

 

[Grace 348]

Why are they randomly comparing Taylor to Lana? They don't sing the same type of music, they don't have the same public, they don't have the same "theme" of lyrics, they don't have the same anything   

 

Because Wildest Dreams sounds like Lana?  Literally everyone and their mother can hear that

[Spock 20,290]

Cackling at the fact that their fave is about to drop an album but the stans are so insecure they still want to turn this into a thing. So extra  

[Alcina Dimitrescu 1,156]

Cackling at the fact that their fave is about to drop an album but the stans are so insecure they still want to turn this into a thing. So extra  

You know if the similarities betweens songs were a huge reach this kind of post would be valid. But since they arent, this kind of post comes off just as pissy, an quite "extra" too Good day 

[Spock 20,290]

You know if the similarities betweens songs were a huge reach this kind of post would be valid. But since they arent, this kind of post comes off just as pissy, an quite "extra" too Good day 

I'm not saying that the similarities in the song aren't there, just that no one gave two sh*ts about it when the album first came out, when the single was announced and then when the music video came out. Lana did not invent that style.  This is just them clinging to it.  good day

[Pop 4,541]

I would agree if this was 2012.

However, Lana has been repeating herself over and over again with her message, sound and visuality ever since then. 

It's very hard to take an artist seriously when they constantly try to recreate the moment they had when they peaked. 

[Alcina Dimitrescu 1,156]

I'm not saying that the similarities in the song aren't there, just that no one gave two sh*ts about it when the album first came out, when the single was announced and then when the music video came out. Lana did not invent that style.  This is just them clinging to it.  good day

Sure but it's not like the thread maker or anyone here wrote the article lol. If i can talk about the good stuff of Taylor then i can also talk about how she ripped off vocal style, visual and lyrical aesthetics and a chorus from Lana up to 2051 and beyond if  i want to lol. You said it yourself, the similarities are there, the one clinging to defend the undefendable here it's you lol.

 It's very hard to take an artist seriously when they constantly try to recreate the moment they had when they peaked. 

This would be valid if she wasnt doing the same **** even before she was famous.

[Evan Peters 10,458]

slay me, Without Dreams!  

[JeffSwift 314]

Cackling at the fact that their fave is about to drop an album but the stans are so insecure they still want to turn this into a thing. So extra  

They're trying to get her a few extra thousand copies sold by starting a stan war 

[Spock 20,290]

Sure but it's not like the thread maker or anyone here wrote the article lol. If i can talk about the good stuff of Taylor then i can also talk about how she ripped off vocal style, visual and lyrical aesthetics and a chorus from Lana up to 2051 and beyond if  i want to lol. You said it yourself, the similarities are there, the one clinging to defend the undefendable here it's you lol.

No, I'm not defending the unfendable lol. Yeah sure, you can talk about it, as do a couple of butt-hurt hispter blogs and the Lana fans on ATRL, but other then them, no one is lol. If this were something big like say Express Yourself/Born This Way okay, I would totally respect your opinion and this debacle lol. But the fact that no one outside those circles care is proof that the "rIP OFF!!!1" is clearly a reach lol (not saying that a few similarities aren't there lol) But whatevs, I'm talking to an apparent Lana stan so there is nothing else to say lol

[Alcina Dimitrescu 1,156]

No, I'm not defending the unfendable lol. Yeah sure, you can talk about it, as do a couple of butt-hurt hispter blogs and the Lana fans on ATRL, but other then them, no one is lol. If this were something big like say Express Yourself/Born This Way okay, I would totally respect your opinion and this debacle lol.

Ok... but that's not my point at all. Are you literally able to properly reply to me? you have done this before    In case you still dont get it, said point being "If x number of people think that WD sounds like WY and they wanna talk about it, they can do it". If we're "perched" and "clinging" that's our problem. In the end Taylor herself wouldnt be able to make me change my mind about the song, much less you lol.