Pricey vintage clothing store Lana del Rey is all over the place because she has a new album coming out she said this week in a line plucked from my dreams, “I wish I was dead already”.

When asked if she sees death as glamorous, del Rey claims, in a line I believe is from Shakespeare, “I don’t know. Ummm, yeah.”

When asked about her life, she says:

Family members will come on the road with me and say: ‘Wow, your life is just like a movie!’  And I’m like: ‘Yeah, a really fucked-up movie.’

Lana del Rey (aka Elizabeth Grant, but sounding like a chanteuse’s code name at a seedy Santa Monica motel has that ALLURE) is whatever you want her to be.

She’s the “gangsta Nancy Sinatra”.

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She’s a nerdy girl who plays “Video Games” with the boys.

She’s the resurrected version of your dad’s high school prom date.

She’s collagen in an evening gown.

She’s a Roy Liechtenstein newspaper byline.

She’s a photoshoot at the Stahl House.

She hangs out with Lady Gaga and Lindsay Lohan, formulating a triumvirate of 2nd decade 21st century culture—the 1st decade being Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and our Lindsay.

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She sings.

More importantly, she just is.

Being everything to everyone is simultaneously the easiest and most difficult job in the celebrity world.  You’re always disappointing someone, thrilling someone else, confusing others, vexing most.

You’re a blank canvas.

So you claim you want to die while stubbornly, effortlessly, living.

That’s why Lana is hard to ignore.

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