I am amazed at the controversy surrounding Lana Del Rey. She has an interesting voice, writes some good music and is pleasant looking. This is neither grounds for beatification nor vilification. She does not belong to indie music culture, but she is no cookie-cutter pop icon either. Can we just enjoy the music and stop analyzing her to death? You’d swear she had promised her maidenhood to indie hipsters, only to be discovered fellating pop culture on the side. Grow up people, she can be whatever she wants to be, of her own accord, and we are free to like it or not. Good girl, bad girl, virgin, whore, indie, pop … is it the dichotomy that everyone is all lathered up about?
