“Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating etc – can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money – or whatever I want – without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorising abuse?” She invoked a wave of recent female-led US No 1 singles, predominantly by women of colour, to make her point. Equal pay and equal rights would be nice.” The section on Del Rey was deleted from the final published version of the book. Gordon wrote: “Today we have someone like Lana Del Rey … who believes women can do whatever they want, which, in her world, tilts toward self-destruction, whether it’s sleeping with gross old men or getting gang raped by bikers. In a leaked draft of Kim Gordon’s 2015 memoir, Girl in a Band, the Sonic Youth co-founder claimed that Del Rey “doesn’t even know what feminism is”. The influential online music site Pitchfork said of the album: “You’d be hard pressed to find any song on which Del Rey reveals an interiority or figures herself as anything more complex than an ice-cream-cone-licking object of male desire.” She wrote: “In reality I’m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world.” She said she had been “honest and optimistic” about her “challenging” relationships: “News flash! That’s just how it is for many women.”įrom the release of her major label debut album, Born to Die, in 2012, critics have dwelt on what they perceived to be Del Rey’s regressive sexual politics.
In a lengthy text post to her Instagram account, the 34-year-old singer criticised “female writers and alt singers” who she says have blamed her “minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes submissive or passive roles in my relationships” for “ women back hundreds of years”. Lana Del Rey has hit out at the accusations that she “glamorises abuse” that have trailed her throughout her decade-long career.
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