After experiencing a particularly online backlash to recent comments about other successful female artists, mostly women of color, Lana Del Rey posted an essay Friday claiming accusations of racism against her say “so far more about you than it does about me.” While she’s at it, the singer also writes that her music heralds a “new wave/3rd wave of feminism that's rapidly approaching.” Declares Del Rey, “Watch!”
Fans initially balked on Thursday, when, in response to criticism that her songs and videos glamorize domestic abuse, the singer gestured broadly to the work of Beyoncé, Cardi B, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Kehlani, Ariana Grande, and Camila Cabello. “Can I please return to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful, being crazy albeit the connection isn't perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I would like — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?,” she wrote on Instagram. Claimed Del Rey, “I’m just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotional abuse relationships everywhere the planet.”
In her new post, the singer maintains, “I stand in my clarity and stance therein what I used to be writing about was the importance of self-advocacy for the more delicate and sometimes dismissed, softer female personality, which there does need to be room for that type in what is going to inevitably become a replacement wave/3rd wave of feminism that's rapidly approaching. Watch!” there's a widely-recognized third wave of feminism that began within the 1990s, but her portent still stands.
As for those fans who felt she was claiming successful women of color don’t get criticized for his or her work while she does, or that they, too, stand accused of glamorizing abuse, Del Rey explains, in short, that that seems like a “you” problem, “you” being “folks who I can only assume are super Trump/Pence supporters or hyper liberals or flip-flopping headline-grabbing critics who can’t read.” Writes the singer, “But in fact making it about race says such a lot more about you than it does about me - you would like the drama, you don’t want to believe that a lady might be beautiful, strong and fragile at an equivalent time, loving and every one inclusive by making personal reparations simply for the enjoyment of doing it.” you'll read her full post below.
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