lowkey i feel like this album was a parting gift from the world as we once knew it bc literally nothing has been the same since its release… https://t.co/8OGxAXrSHy
She asked the culture a question and then the culture spent six years answering it.
Two months after this post went up and the internet tried to end her career, Taylor Swift released folklore. An album built on sadness, longing, and fictional heartbreak. The most dominant pop star on the planet pivoted to the exact aesthetic Lana was defending.
Seven months later, a 17-year-old named Olivia Rodrigo released "drivers license." A song about crying while driving. It became the biggest debut single in Spotify history. Rodrigo said it herself: "Lana raised an entire generation of songwriters and taught them that there's beauty in their vulnerability and power in their melancholy."
Billie Eilish said Born to Die "changed music." Taylor Swift called her "the most influential artist in pop." Three of the five biggest female artists of the decade gave her the credit publicly.
Pitchfork called her debut a "faked orgasm" in 2012. She went on to release nine consecutive top-10 Billboard 200 albums, cross 50 million equivalent sales, and headline Coachella.
Olivia Rodrigo's third album comes out next month. The title: "You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love."
That's the answer to her question.
“Todo mundo quer soar como ela, mas ninguém consegue reproduzir de fato a gramática sonora singular de sua escrita, que se desenrola como uma mensagem íntima vinda da fronteira nebulosa entre o sono e a vigília.”
@nytimes sobre Lana Del Rey
Robert Pattinson: "My agent is always so mad at me. I'll just say the vaguest things. They're like, 'What do you want to do?' I'm like, 'Hmm, something about a fish?’And then they find a thing about a fish and I'm like, 'I'm over fish now, it's too late'."
Scotland Herald 2020