When it comes to inclusivity, even benevolent attempts to include people of color risk exoticism, which enforces harmful stereotypes and commodifies nonwhite people as props to gild the persona and image of the white-skinned star.
The white woman is seen as virginal and pure, worthy of male protection and social respect, whereas Black and Brown women are hyper-sexualized and fall outside of the remit of respectable womanhood entirely due to our unique histories with colonialism, war, sexual violence and/or slavery. stronger women.” It wasn’t a coincidence that nearly all of the artists she named were Black women.Ĭarving out a space in feminism for women to express vulnerability or sadness is a commendable project, but the idea that women of color are impervious to pain and not afforded the “softness” of womanhood stems from the power and pedestal that white women have always exercised at our expense. In a note titled “Question for the Culture,” Del Rey lamented that feminine fragility was no longer valued in the current cultural landscape and went on to reduce the music of her fellow female artists, naming Beyoncé, Doja Cat, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Kehlani and Camilla Cabello to “wearing no clothes, cheating, fucking.” While the note appeared to be targeted mainly towards music critics who had termed Lana’s music antifeminist-for example, in her 2014 song “Ultraviolence,” Lana sings, “He hit me and it felt like a kiss”-the singer didn’t lay the blame for her perceived victimhood only at the feet of sexist men or unsympathetic critics, but wrote that “delicate” women had their “voices taken away by. But most importantly, the note recalled an instance last year when the singer was widely castigated for perpetuating racism against women of color. The defensive note was unnecessary, as nobody had significantly criticized Del Rey for “including” people of color in her upcoming album, and her need to disassociate herself from the Nazi-led riot on Capitol Hill was also curious given Del Rey’s longterm public opposition to former president Donald Trump. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there 24 seven.” “My best friends are rappers, my boyfriends have been rappers. “I have always been extremely inclusive without even trying to,” she wrote, anticipating backlash.
The monochrome cover shows Del Rey assembled with several smiling friends at a table, all attired in white dresses and 1950s-style pearls, and was accompanied by a now-deleted comment on inclusivity. The cult of authenticity has always haunted Del Rey, the stage name of New York-born singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant, and recently, the “Summertime Sadness” singer found herself mired in yet another spat with music critics and the Internet after unveiling the cover and track listing of her seventh studio album Chemtrails over the Country Club on Instagram. Over the course of her career, the melancholic songstress has drawn ire for culturally appropriating a Native American headdress, romanticizing domestic abuse in her songs, proclaiming that she finds feminism boring, and was initially accused of being bankrolled by her father, though those reports have proven to be untrue.
Lana Del Rey is no stranger to controversy.
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