Let’s get real: it takes more than talent, hair-color, facial transformations, and enticing (manufactured or authentic) intrigue to carve a solid, comfortable space in the music industry. It just seems so dumb, I’m amazed that people are still arguing about it,” he stated. You know pop-acts for decades and lots of rock acts haven't written their songs, so are they good or not? It doesn’t mean anything.

Incredibly low-life idiots do judge music that way. As Chuck Eddy, author of Rock and Roll Always Forgets and columnist for Rolling Stone and Spin elucidated for the Daily Beast.“Stupid people judge musical acts if they write their songs. In all fairness, the authenticity argument in Hollywood or the music industry is over-hyped. Related: 14 Celebs Who Love Billie Eilish (6 Who Stay Away)

While there’s nothing inherently wrong in weaving the unity thread for the broken-hearted against a tapestry of her infamous masochism and longing, it does lead to a bruised self-esteem and deep fissures in the self-image of listeners. Forget feminism, a large chunk of Rey’s fan base consists of impressionable, teenage girls and heartbroken adults, many of whom (on many Reddit threads), claimed to have found solace in the lyrics of Ultraviolence and other albums.

He hurt me but it felt like true love) made the Summertime Sadness singer's case even weaker. There are a lot of things that don’t seem organic about it,” news editor Steven Horowitz wrote for Billboard.įrom the feminist perspective, her lyrics (He hit me and it felt like a kiss. Speculation was rife that all her earlier work was erased from the world-wide-web, as part of the label’s marketing acumen to present the new Rey to the world. Related: A Deep Dive Into Lana Del Rey's Life And Career, In 18 Picturesįew Rey detractors opined that her journey to Lana Del Rey, the 'non de plume' of Grant, was a well-designed plan, her exotic new alias being carefully created and curated by her new management. Music was in a super weird place when I became known, and I didn’t like any of it.” Just because I do my hair big, does not mean I am a product. If that’s authentic to you, this is going to look like the opposite,” Rey revealed in an interview with Pitchfork.

If you think of all the music that came out until 2013, it was super straight and shiny. But Rey dismissed the chorus of accusations.

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