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Like seeing a car accident: This is how Lena Del Rey became the hated woman in America
The singer has managed to reach the peak of her career in recent years, but in an attempt to speak directly to the audience she has managed to make every possible mistake and upset the whole world.
Just like the cliché that you would not eat hot dogs if you saw how they are made, maybe even pop stars are better off not getting to know them closely
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Ben Byron Braude
Friday, 29 January 2021, 00:05
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On the way to being the next victim of the culture of cancellation.
Lena Del Rey (Photo: GettyImages)
In this case, too, the Israelis were the first to identify.
At the end of August 2018, just a week before it was supposed to be the main show of the "Meteor" music festival - music festivals, remember there was such a thing?
Lena Del Rey canceled her preparatory appearance accompanied by a short post, in which she explained that as long as she could not appear in the Palestinian Authority parallel to Israel - she would not be able to reach the area.
This was already the second time that Del Ray canceled a show in Israel (the previous time was in 2014, against the background of Operation Resilient Cliff) and for the fans here it was already too much Summertime Sadness.
Lena Del Rey has been labeled anti-Israel, not to mention anti-Semitic, and many surfers have called for a boycott of her on social media.
Cut to early 2021 - Lena Del Rey is arguably the most controversial popular singer in the world.
Fans flood her page with hateful comments, media celebrating at her expense, and she?
- She just wanted to shake off the image of the singer who sang pleasant and melancholy songs.
At this rate, Del Rey is on the safe path to becoming the next victim of the Cancel Culture - the phenomenon in which people, especially celebrities, who openly oppose public consensus on certain issues (race / environment / corona / add your own) get so many negative reactions on the networks Socialism, until they are forced to stop acting on them.
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To understand the history of the conflict one has to go back to May 2020, so the world was a little more naive about the corona and a little more free to deal with issues that are not at the top of the world.
Del Rey then decided to publish a long post called "Question of Culture," in which she came out against critics who call her music "anti-feminist" and argued that "female fragility" is a trait that is no longer appreciated.
Here it is important to note that Del Rey's texts do indeed describe relationships between men and women in a problematic way.
"He hit me and it felt like a kiss," she is quoted as saying in the song "Ultraviolence."
As in many cases with Del Rey, the rush was created by the gap between what she thought she was saying and how the things she said were perceived by the general public.
According to her theory, while being crucified on her lyrics - other singers who "wear little clothes, and sing about betrayals and fucks" are perceived as strong women, gaining commercial success and first places in the charts.
Then she also counted the same singers: Beyonce, Cardi Bee, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and more.
The common?
All of them are also dark-skinned women.
Del Rey did not understand what the problem was with the list she created, while the fans could not stop themselves.
They accused her of racism, claiming she ignored the fact that for decades dark-skinned women had to be strong, and did not have the privilege of that "feminine fragility" she was talking about.
Such a deep pit
This may be the place to make another leap in time, this time for 2011 - the year Lena Del Rey burst into our lives with hits like "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans", which began to gain momentum online and accompanied by clips in the aesthetics of an old-fashioned 8mm camera, created a buzz environment It was only a few weeks before the world realized that behind the exotic name Lena Del Rey lay a completely white girl named Elizabeth "Lizzie" Grant, who had even released quite a few songs before, which were unsuccessful. This information combined with photos from time to time, formed the basis The shaky on which mistrust grew between the crowd and Lena Del Rey.
It was just the first storm of many to come, but it connects to a bigger and more important point: we do not want to know the pop stars we love. Not really. Just like the cliché that you would not eat hot dogs If you were to see how they are made, maybe even pop stars are better to consume as they are offered to us in the "store".
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Why not let the music speak?
Del Rey (Photo: GettyImages)
This is of course true not only for pop stars, but also for artists in general.
For the most part, the personality behind the talent will make us rethink our love, which, even if we do not admit it - we have already crossed the age of 30 - is at all similar to admiration.
Take Adele for example (and no, we have no idea when the new album will come out), a pop-superstar we all love to love off-screen as well.
It's not just about her mighty voice: she radiates popularity, feet on the ground but most of all - the feeling that if we send her a message in private she will totally respond.
This is of course a lie.
As early as 2017 she said that her executives had taken away her access to her Twitter account because she has a “big mouth” and so she maintains a secret private account.
So the truth is that her successful public image is the result of excellent management, with each of her posts going through a thousand eyes examining whether it will cost her in losing followers.
Back to Lena Del Rey / Lizzie Grant, someone who no doubt manages the social pages for herself - and does a not-so-successful job it turns out.
She wants to shake off the image of forgery, she wants to talk to the world directly, not through messages from agents and publicists and on topics that really interest her.
The problem?
Her opinions keep getting annoying.
In just the last three months she has managed to dig herself a media hole so deep that even Benny Ganz would have smiled awkwardly.
Yes, it's time for an emoji to grab your head
It started with the mesh masks that she decided to wear at the height of the corona era, ones that have a lot of style and zero protection percentage, and as a result they were directly attached to the title of Corona denier.
Next came another, long and bizarre post that she put up along with the cover of her upcoming album, "Chemtrails Over The Country Club," called Game of Thrones on Conspiracy Theory.
To the black-and-white photo, which features a group of women in dresses, she attached a long text in which she responds to criticism (which has never been voiced since no one has watched the photo before), explaining that she has always been a person who surrounds herself with all types of people, even without trying.
Then came a line that had already become a cult: "My best friends are rappers, my mates are rappers."
Yes, it's time for an emoji to grab your head.
It was also the time when any self-respecting magazine published a text accusing it of one of today's popular sins - "cultural appropriation".
Looking at the attached picture one can understand what Lena Del Rey was so worried about.
It looks like a group of rich white women celebrating the good life at a country club, a place that for decades has been marking white, rich, non-racial America, but was its explanations really needed?
of course not.
At the end of the day Del Rey is a musician, not a politician or a social leader, and her attempt to justify her every artistic move never ceases to hurt her media, and on the way to annoy anyone who is just looking for reasons to get hurt.
It's a shame that (a) chances are that Del Rey has a problem with expressiveness, not necessarily racism, and (b), in the last two years she has reached an artistic peak in her career that no one really believed she would reach.
Since the release of her previous album, Norman Fucking Rockwell in 2019, critics have kept praising the pop star who has become a truly important creator.
The giant Bruce Springsteen has already said that Del Rey is one of his favorite songwriters, iconic musicians like Joan Baez and Stevie Knicks have already collaborated with her, she has released a songbook, and on the upcoming album even got approval to renew Johnny Mitchell's classic "For Free" .
But instead of letting music do the work, she prefers to let us know her more and more.
Her latest radio interview with Annie Mack on BBC Radio 1, which is meant to minimize damage, is already a car accident that is hard - but also a little amusing - to hear.
Among other things, in an attempt to explain why Trump is the worst president the United States has had, she argues that the riots in the Capitol had to happen so that we could all see before our eyes the magnitude of the disaster.
Lena Del Rey is just a very public case that shows how breaking the fourth wall, the one between the persona and the person behind it, created image damage and did not strengthen it.
None of us know what Beyoncé, Ariana Grande or Noa Kirl and Margie are chattering as they sit together in the living room, and the truth?
Probably better that way.
Her music Lena Del Rey is better and more interesting than ever, so maybe it's just better to spend a little less time reading her musings on Instagram.
Chances are that in your private feed you will find people with slightly more reasoned opinions.
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