The Caucasity of it all,” wrote Danielle Kwateng-Clark, culture and entertainment director at Teen Vogue. “Lana Del Rey erased the work of Black women and played the oppression Olympics, just to promote two poetry books and an album. Reactions to Del Rey’s post were swift and brutal. She also seems especially peeved that her “minor lyrical exploration detailing my sometimes submissive or passive roles in my relationships has often made people say I've set women back hundreds of years.” The pretext for this note is that she is releasing two books of poetry and an album this fall. She goes on to claim that her albums have “really paved the way for other women to stop 'putting on a happy face' and just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted to in their music” and how she is “just a glamorous person singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are very prevalent emotionally abusive relationships all over the world.” In her post, which appears to be a screenshot of a note written in a Word doc, Del Rey writes: “Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating, etc - can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money - or whatever I want - without being crucified or saying that I'm glamorizing abuse?” “Question for the culture” is how singer Lana Del Rey began her Instagram post this morning, a tell for me - and the internet more broadly - that we were about to witness a gloriously embarrassing moment of Peak White Woman Behavior.™
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