Louise Bruton: Social exclusion has an upside for Lana Del Rey
The US singer’s frequently ill-advised outbursts on Instagram offend plenty of people, but also betray a curious lack of façade and artifice about her
Whenever Lana Del Rey updates her social media, a little part of me dies. Despite being one of the sharpest songwriters of our time, Del Rey frequently writes the dumbest things in longform Instagram captions. As a longstanding fan of her melodramatically beautiful music, I respond with a meek “I know” whenever a friend shares her latest outburst. While her posts are never hateful, her half-baked philosophies on gender and race prove that sometimes it’s ...