Lana Del Rey deserves more attention from American listeners

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Hannnah Dioh, Staff Writer

Lana Del Rey deserves more attention from the public. She puts a lot of time and effort into her work and has earned the title as a world reknown artist around most parts of the world. She puts more than a hundred percent effort into everything that she decides to bring to the public. Lana Del Rey is admired and well respected  in every other country but America.

She is not the typical artist of today, her music is not automatically pleasant to the typical listener. She is very far from mainstream, her songs are not catchy for that reason most people have the tendency to avoid her music. Lana deserves to be more appreciated, while others are only giving us catchy rhythms, she is providing lyrics that allow one to break away from reality and slip into a “Dark Paradise”.

In each of her songs she plays a specific character. Sometimes a song is an extended version of another. She uses her past experiences to illustrate her feelings on certain subjects such as domestic violence, substance abuse and death. Some critics say that Lana Del Rey degrades women through her choice of language. She does not, she speaks on topics that others dare not to touch. That does not make Lana Del Rey wrong, it makes her brave.

Some of her lyrics are explicit mostly because the women that she is singing about doesn’t necessarily have the easiest lives. For example in a lot of her songs she makes references to the book and film Lolita. These references are spread throughout her album  Born To Die. From “Of to The Races” a song that tells a story about an overpowering commanding older lover to Carmen, the name of the song itself is a term giving to Lolita by Humbert Humbert, to a song name Lolita. The movie Lolita is very controversial in itself, Lana Del Rey playing it into her provocative verses stimulates her music even more.

She has released a lot of songs and she doesn’t get enough credit for her hard work. Sure, it is nice having a lot of people that adores you, it is also nice to be making a lot of money. Artists such as her are constantly getting overlooked. Lana Del Rey deserves to get more appreciation from the public.

The minds of young adults of our generation does not have dimension. Being expose to Lana Del Rey type of music having giving plenty of young adults and just people in general a wider range of thought. We as the public can not let someone as talented as Lana Del Rey to slip away from the music scene It is only right to give Lana Del Rey the reward that she deserves.