Lana Del Rey is everywhere, and I haven’t been exposed to her greatness or phoniness depending whom you are listening to, but this could change soon if I can get in when she does an in-store performance at Amoeba in a few weeks.
Anyway, there is a strange story about her: Thought Catalog, a popular everyone-can-participate-kind-of blog, qualified of a ‘fascinating experiment in ego-blogging’ by Gawker, recently posted a piece entitled ‘Lana Del Rey Responds to Her Critics’ by a young writer, Dave Schilling, but written according to Lana’s perspective.
Del Rey’s publicists requested the removal of the post,although it was obvious that the chanteuse was not the author of the piece. This is what he wrote about this:
‘Of all the bad press that she’s gotten in the wake of her‘performance’ on Saturday Night Live, I think it’s amusing that she (or her publicist, or both) chose to attack my article. It was a clear piece of satire.Is the real Lana Del Rey like the ‘Lana Del Rey’ I wrote about in my article? I don’t know. Probably not.’
But it was without counting on another ego-driven popular site run by satirist Hipster Runoff, who has published the post again. The whole thing is pretty funny and creative, portraying a witty Lana defending herself with arguments like:
‘I admit I used to be called Lizzy Grant and I made pop music for bored college girls who shop at Anthropologie, and now I’m a ‘gangsta Nancy Sinatra.’ We all create ourselves. I can be whatever I want to be. If Lana Del Ray doesn’t work, I’ll rename myself L-Deezy and join Odd Future. Nice try, h8ers.’
‘More importantly, I give you what I want, which is to appear scared out of my mind in front of cameras. It’s a comment on fame, since I want to be famous, but seem totally unprepared for that which I covet. Putting on a good show is easy. Making people pay attention to you even though they dislike you is hard. I like to think of myself as a modern day Jean-Luc Godard of pop music. I’m a sexy Jean-Luc Godard.’
It is crazy that her publicists asked for a removal, it was not offensive at all, on the contrary! I don’t know her but the real Lana is probably not as funny, or witty, and this is the real reason why they had tocensor it.