At the beginning of this decade, Del Rey - the nom de plume of 34-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzy” Grant - was frequently dismissed as a fraud or a faker or “a groupie incognito posing as a real singer,” as Del Rey herself would put it in her 2012 song “Gods & Monsters.” “Her indelible pop melodies are strung together with the grace of a tragic ballet,” writes Pitchfork, in what’s more or less a reflection of the critical consensus that includes her being the only musician on the Washington Post’s “ Decade of Influence” list: Lana Del Rey is a mature pop artist, one of the greats of her generation, and someone worthy of being taken seriously.īut that wasn’t always the case. Not two months later, in October, it was named the 19th best album of the 2010s by Pitchfork.
At the end of August, Lana Del Rey released her latest record, Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
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