norman

fan of film tv music books / Letterboxd :

[n @ctrlarchive]

it’s the start of a rohmer summer

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@greatestptl NFR

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The music-review site Pitchfork gave Lana Del Rey's debut album a 5.5 out of 10 in 2012. By the end of 2025, that same album had spent more time on the Billboard 200 than any album by a woman in history: 618 weeks, almost twelve years.

She got there by surviving one of the roughest welcomes in modern pop. When Born to Die came out, critics called her voice fake and her whole image a marketing stunt. Tabloids ran stories saying the record label had manufactured her. The album sold anyway, and finished 2012 as the fifth best-selling record in the world.

Then the same critics turned around. Her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell! scored a 9.4 on Pitchfork, the highest grade they gave any album that year, and the review called her one of America's greatest living songwriters. It was the most-cited album in critics' end-of-year lists for 2019 and earned a nomination for Album of the Year. Rolling Stone now ranks it among the 500 greatest albums ever made.

The fans were there the whole time. "Summertime Sadness," a single off that panned debut, crossed 2 billion Spotify streams in 2025. Born to Die has been somewhere on the chart for almost twelve straight years.

Her mark is all over the artists who came after. Billboard credits her with pulling pop away from loud club music toward the slower, moodier sound that defined the 2010s, and names Lorde, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift among the artists she shaped. The Washington Post put her on its list of people who defined the decade. She was the only musician on it. NYU teaches a course on her music.

She has been nominated for 11 Grammys. She has won zero.

[Jim Maxwell @1jcmaxwell]

He was so unpretentious. Its refreshing.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 41st birthday to the iconic Lana Del Rey.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter holds one of the most acclaimed discographies in music today with albums like ‘Born To Die’ ‘Norman Rockwell’ ‘Ultraviolence’ and more. She is regarded as one of the most influential and impactful figures in music — often cited as an influence by numerous of her peers.

[amy adams screaming loud as hell @jubide5a7]

the greatest to ever do it.

[Brian Rowe @mrbrianrowe]

Happy birthday to the incredible Nicole Kidman, we’re sorry you only have five Oscar nominations, it should be at least double that

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@GoneBoy94 Holly Hunter and Ellen Burstyn

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@bestpicturecast Natalie Portman
Audrey Hepburn

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@greerdraws Row house?

[norman @ctrlwoods]

Leads of my top four

[Shadow Knight @shadowknightdk]

leads of my top four

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@filmstofilms_ Hepburn
Taylor
Bergman
Kelly

[ricky @aqauriusgroove_]

She should look back on 7 rings with so much fucking pride AISHSJDKD

[mon @poetcinematic]

having a very elena ferrante summer this year

[i just want better for all of us @unsettlingvibes]

and it is true that this behavior is not exclusive to gen z but i definitely think there’s a rise in extremely sex negative attitudes in gen z and this contributes to what i’m talking about. it’s right wing evangelical rhetoric breaking into feminist spaces online.

[norman @ctrlwoods]

@GoneBoy94 Aghdashloo , Hunter close second

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

BY WHO

[vittοria @poeticardigan]

vedere tutti i luoghi testimoni del loro incontro che per ore sono stati vivi grazie alla loro presenza improvvisamente vuoti e statici ti lascia lo stesso magone che devono aver provato loro quando si sono separati penso uno dei miei finali preferiti di sempre

[giovane @lindissimaf]

I've seen enough. Emmy.

[Genie @lettersfromjuno]

I respect you so much for waking up this conversation. A lot of friendships are hostile and competitive because there is this need for a friend with a little bit more experience to look down and consistently lecture their other friend just for existing and experiencing life in-