{"id":137963,"date":"2021-03-19T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137963"},"modified":"2021-03-19T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:21:50","slug":"lana-del-reys-new-album-chemtrails-over-the-country-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137963","title":{"rendered":"Lana Del Rey&#8217;s New Album: Chemtrails Over the Country Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe id=\"lbry-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/2021-03-19-13-31-36\/0b45058a923b1d4555b4952e7f798cd4f8780b9c?r=CnZcV5Qhq8W7enV7waohfBazJwTbNQ5M\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/lana-del-reys-new-album-chemtrails-over-the-country-club\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: &#8220;Singer Lana Del Rey has been triggering music critics for a decade for her pride in being a beautiful straight white American woman. But she\u2019s so smart (philosophy major in college) and aesthetically gifted (both in terms of her overall shtick and, on this new album, in massive melodic hooks) that she\u2019s gotten away with it so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comments:<\/p>\n<p>* The criticism on Lana is not so much that she is a white or straight, but that she sings mostly about men, and often not in a condemning tone. If she sang about how oppressive and piggish men are, then there wouldn\u2019t be a problem. The problem is that she sings about how she loves men, and how femininity is all about the chase of a man worth chasing. *That* is what pisses not only feminists, but all liberals and left-leaning people about her,<\/p>\n<p>The big theme of Lana\u2019s music is that the biggest thrill of femininity is to chase a man that you are in love with while he ignores you, and conquering his attention and affection. Needless to say, this pisses the Woke crowd to no end. <\/p>\n<p>* \u201cDel Rey\u201d, isn\u2019t that hispanic?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Southern California 1920s glamor.<\/p>\n<p>* Billie Eilish highly admires Del Rey. Eilish is another example of a musically gifted white female who writes somewhat depressive music. Her recent single, \u201cmy future\u201d, opens with a series of jazz chords of the type you just don\u2019t hear in current pop music.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Billie\u2019s brother said she wants everyone to like her and that has turned her into a woke liberal. A lot of wokeism is just a desire to conform, be popular and follow the crowd. There is no group that worries more about being popular than teenage girls, of which Billie is one.<\/p>\n<p>This wokeism has mostly kept her out of trouble but not completely. Her last single, a Latin song sung in Spanish, caused her to be accused of engaging in cultural appropriation. There was a controversy after the just concluded Grammy awards about her winning Record of the Year over a black female rapper. The underlying premise of these complaints was that the black female rapper had a better song but lost because of racism. Billie is intelligent enough to realize this was going to happen and spent most of her acceptance speech profusely apologizing for winning.<\/p>\n<p>* She herself has described her music, which I find unusually interesting for something that isn\u2019t obviously interesting, as \u201cHollywood Sadcore.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>* a lot (most) of the current woke hatred is just envy \u2013 basically Sailer\u2019s Law of Female Journalism applied to all of white society.<\/p>\n<p>Most women don\u2019t look at the aesthetic of Cardi B\/Megan Thee Stallion and aspire to live that out, they look at the stuff like Del Rey\u2019s album cover and imagine themselves in that picture, and the implied financial and relationship security behind it. But going full bore feminist doesn\u2019t lend itself to that outcome \u2013 instead women are told they need to act like men in their approach to career and sex lives, and it makes them miserable, which they reframe as being \u2019empowered\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As for men, our culture cannot admit that the white guy with the suburban house, wife, kids and dog is still the archetype of success, and a huge percentage of society has no shot of getting there, thus those that do or at least check most of these boxes are hated.<\/p>\n<p>* She\u2019s enormously talented musically and in her evocation of a nostalgic Americana.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m unsure where she\u2019s going with the nostalgia. Is it a futile, defeated nostalgia for \u201can America that never existed\u201d, or for an America that existed but is now dead?<\/p>\n<p>Many of the young women she depicts are on the nihilistic life path of finding the world bland and without anything to believe in, partying and sensation seeking to escape the bland world, being hurt or mutilated or killed by glamorous but callous men, but wallowing in the hurt, because it\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s real and there\u2019s nothing else to believe in.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to her for a long time before I watched her videos, which then reinforced my feeling of unease. She doesn\u2019t look like a healthy or happy young woman. <\/p>\n<p>* As she sort of humblebrag acknowledged in that little Instagram tiff she had last year, Lana has got a fairly wide open lane for her shtick since the median point of performative femininity in music today has settled somewhere between Billie Eilish\u2019s schizoid asexuality and \u201cWAP.\u201d There\u2019s an unmet demand for a woman who is actually reasonably pleasant to look at singing songs that are reasonably pleasant to listen to. Props to her for coming out of her attempted canceling last year though by refusing to back down or apologize. Props also to her for her productivity over the last decade. I appreciate musicians who can keep working consistently rather than getting burned out and\/or lazy with success.<\/p>\n<p>*  She is a very creative and talented artist and I am very glad she\u2019s not my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>* Lana del Ray is a hilarious stage name. It just steers straight into Hollywood regency era kitsch exoticism. It\u2019s the name dashiell Hammett would give a studio bosses vaguely ethnic mistress whose real name would turn out to be Debrorah Westlake.<\/p>\n<p>* Today I learned this woman was a philosophy major from New York who is reported to have had a drinking problem at the age of 15. Special. <\/p>\n<p>* Steve\u2019s influence is limited to lucky happenstance because Tucker Carlson\u2019s show has become the most popular news show and the main people responsible for the content of the show are regular readers of this blog. Tucker, Mark Steyn, and the former top writer who Tucker fired are readers.<\/p>\n<p>* Smart, highly creative women are not usually very easy to handle. Guys who want a house in the suburbs, kids and a dog should probably avoid them in favor of \u201ccommon-sense\u201d women.<\/p>\n<p>But some of us can\u2019t help ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>* One of my favorite Lana moments came when she told world-renowned crazy shit-talker Azealia Banks to STF or she\u2019d kick her ass.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2021-01-11\/lana-del-rey-album-cover-video-chemtrails-over-the-country-club\">THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Jan. 12, 2021<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More Lana Del Rey drama ensues after her diversity comments about new album art<\/p>\n<p>Lana Del Rey\u2019s Instagram posts of her upcoming album\u2019s front and back covers have sparked yet another debate about the singer and her thoughts on race \u2014 a conversation that the \u201cSummertime Sadness\u201d artist appeared to be trying to get ahead of.<\/p>\n<p>Pro tip: Saying your \u201cbest friends are rappers\u201d isn\u2019t likely to win over anyone when discussing race relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always turmoil and upheaval and in the midst of it- there\u2019s always beautiful music too introducing my new album chemtrails over the country club,\u201d Del Rey wrote Sunday on social media, posting the black-and-white album cover, featuring herself surrounded by 10 smiling women. Its back image shows Del Rey\u2019s face peeking out from among the other women\u2019s backs.<\/p>\n<p>She followed up with a lengthy second statement that began, \u201cI also want to say that with everything going on this year! And no this was not intended-these are my best friends, since you are asking today. And damn! 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ4W2J-h5pO\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Lana Del Rey (@lanadelrey)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ4XEZJhHXA\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; 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