greenthing replied to your photo: ThingsI’mTryingToUnderstandBecauseIJustDon’tGetIt.j…
She’s a phony. She used to be “Lizzy Grant” but now she’s a pile of hipster vomit. She’s just…a phony.
meganomalous replied to your photo: ThingsI’mTryingToUnderstandBecauseIJustDon’tGetIt.j…
I don’t think she can sing. Dunno what the hipster deal is?
I feel like I should form a response but I don’t know where to go with this. Because most articles I’ve read have led me to the fact that she was originally marketed off to “mainstream” music but then it was decided that if she changed her look, she could be sold as an indie artist.
While I understand the problem with the whole “phony” thing, I just feel like people are backlashing on how easy it is to form an image and fool people that “oh hey, I could fit in on this scene, listen to me croon.”
People have been selling images since the beginning of marketing. That’s the general appeal of celebrities; they are who you think they are, who you want them to be. They reflect the life you wish you could live but instead read about or listen to. And then they make a song that you can relate to and you’ve got this sense of human unity and let’s get together and feel alright.
Is this an issue with the fact that if she’s on an indie music scene, one where the superficiality of the “mainstream” is supposed to be absent, she should be playing by their rules and not making it up as she goes along and calling herself a part of it?
I’m not going to necessarily agree with a collagen injection in order to draw in more fans nor am I going to say I’m some big Lana Del Rey fan because to be honest, I hadn’t heard any of her music until about an hour ago. I just feel like this is an example of how bent out of shape certain subcultures get when they feel like they’re being intruded upon. In addition to the unsaid issue of popularity and how it’s all about what you look like rather than what you can do, but that’s never going to change. It just feels like these people that call themselves hipsters but don’t want to be called hipsters because they’re genuine and real feel threatened because someone beat the system and now they refuse to listen to her music.
And in all this escalation of hatred, she wound up getting more attention. Is that considered a victory for the indie music scene? Now she’s too popular to even call herself a part of the scene?
I understand that there’s a problem if you question a person’s authenticity but if we’re being completely honest with ourselves, anyone of any degree of fame, indie or not, is not a person to us. They’re more of an idol, a snapshot, some small aspect being sold to us exaggerated to the power of infinity.
Of course people viewing her through this limited scope like her for this. Or in addition to this. Am I supposed to be proud of people able to see through this? Give them a gold star for seeing through falsity?
I’m not applauding her character or her image or anything on a superficial level. I can’t even applaud anything on a deep level. I can only say that okay, I’m sure it sucks to be told that you should listen to someone and then you find out that she actually has plenty of money backing her and now you feel duped.
If that’s the issue at hand here, I’m sorry it’s not “just about the music.” When has it ever been, though? Had you thought it was?
I don’t know. What I’ve heard is fine, even the live stuff. It’s not of my taste and I likely won’t be bumping her music on the regs but I just thought it was weird that this chick I’ve never heard of was being badmouthed daily and I was told I should hate her. I guess that’s the main point here.
I just don’t “get it.”
