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I’m fascinated by the popularity of Lana Del Rey, whose lyri...
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  05/24/18


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Date: May 24th, 2018 4:52 PM
Author: judgmental smoky black woman psychic

I’m fascinated by the popularity of Lana Del Rey, whose lyrics and videos set 50s Hollywood and Badlands imagery in the modern day—one video starts with Lana and her ear-gauged beau in front of a rippling American flag—among 1st and 2nd generation immigrants living in Harlem, a demo that also makes shrines to Hepburn and Monroe. A whitewashed mythos that couldn’t be more of an anathema to well-intentioned progressives, and yet to the Youtube comments in Portuguese this ahistoricism is exactly the point. The nonfiction past weighs heavy on the Google-doodling present, with its malign or obsequious reminders of difference, while the hyperreal past offers a clean break, an American grandeur that has no modern heir—and so a chance at assimilation.

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