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magiefish · 5 months ago

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Y'know considering that I actually like Marina & Florence + The Machine & quite a few Billie Eillish songs, I might actually like Lana Del Ray's music if I listened to it, but I also just categorically refuse to do so because by this point she's become so intertwined with some of the most insufferable views of "feminity" I've ever seen that I literally just cannot do it.

#also her music seems a bit slow and percussionless #and i'm a strong beat type of gal #her lyrics also just seem kind of meh but again that might just be because i've viewed them almost entirely #via snapshots given to me by people who frankly don't seem to be the sorts of fans who will dig deeper #than a superficial knowledge of a discography so. maybe some of her songs have lyrics i might vibe with.#sorry this post comes off so r/imnotlikeothergirls #but its not the embracement of feminity itself that's bad #it's this fetishsisation of feminity as defined by victimhood #filtered through this weird sexualisation of delicate waifs and chiffon and mental illness and suicide #in a way that would have given the pre-raphaelites a run for their money #combined with a glorification of the 'i hate men because they're inherently different from me because im a woman #but i also need men because im a woman'#as if that's everything womanhood is #it's also (dare i say it) a very affluent white teenager way of looking at it #and i say this as an affluent white female teenager #and as someone of that identity whose had legitimate struggles with anger issues & self-harm & suicidal ideation & fears of abandonment #i just *really* don't appreciate people sanitising and objectifying frankly very ugly parts of human suffering #sorry that was a WHOLE tangent but just. like. that's why i can't stand this lana del ray shit and its probably quite subjective #but there it is #tw vent

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