New Lana Del Rey, Linkin Park Singles Debut on Hot 100 It makes “Blurred Lines” look like Adele. Rarely has a pop singer ever dared to keep her audience on the hook and leave them this uncomfortable. The character in this song doesn’t owe us her consent, but we do owe her ours. Suddenly, we really have to know what’s going on here, but Lana doesn’t tell us and she knows she doesn’t have to. But topping it with “Come on, you know you like little girls” is a huge stop sign. “You can be my daddy/ Put me in a movie” is an X-rated come-on that’s slightly kinkier than the usual porn-pop clichés. It’s creepy because we don’t know if she’s into daddy play or if she’s luring in would-be predators to murder them. The swaying “Put Me in a Movie” is - there’s no way around it - a creepy song. “Put Me in a Movie” (from Lana Del Rey…AKA Lizzy Grant, unreleased)īefore she was Lana Del Rey, Lizzy Grant was already toying with the male gaze’s presumptions of her, both in art and, being a woman subject to unwelcome advances, likely in life too. “Come on, you know you like little girls,” “You’re my little sparkle jump-rope queen” Trollgaze? Meet her under the bridge downtown. Her catalog is dotted with knowing glances at those who’ve let her do her thing while comments sections explode and fall into her traps. But as of 2017 she’s remained firmly on the A list, and it’s not just because she’s weathered the storm.
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