Tag: Freeing the Natural Voice

  • “How You Get That Way?”: Candice Wuehle on the Ultravacant Poetics of Lana Del Rey

    “How You Get That Way?”: Candice Wuehle on the Ultravacant Poetics of Lana Del Rey

    Lana Del Rey is a smart artist, a self-styled “gangster Nancy Sinatra.” She references Whitman, Plath, the Beats; wears and sings about heart-shaped sunglass as though she herself is a vintage cover (sonically, visually, textually) of Lolita. But it’s really only on her unreleased songs that she also sings about the murderous dark side of…