Lana Del Rey is in hot water with fans after posting a lengthy rant on Instagram, taking credit for paving the way for bigger names in the industry such as, Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Doja Cat, Camila Cabello, and Kehlani.
Furthermore, she declared herself to be not not a feminist...?
There's a lot to unpack here. But understandably, people are not impressed.
If you've been online in the last 24 hours, then you probably already know that singer, Lana Del Rey, is being dragged across all corners of the Internet.
Lana, sis, WYD?
That's so unclear.
"Or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I'm glamorizing abuse??????"
"When in reality I'm 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."
She received a justified amount of backlash over that song.
Anyway, I digress.
"Let this be clear, I'm not not a feminist — but there has to be a place in feminism for women who look and act like me — the kind of woman who says no but men hear yes — the kind of women who are slated mercilessly for being their authentic, delicate selves, the kind of women who get their stories and voices taken away from them by stronger women or by men who hate women".
"So I just want to say it's been a long 10 years of [expletive] reviews up until recently and I've learned a lot from them," she wrote.
Her statement was quickly met with a lot of reactions like this one.
Most of the names Lana listed are women of color, who face many difficulties of their own in the industry and in life, that she diminished, and then tried to take credit for giving them the freedom to sing sexually explicit lyrics.
It definitely seems unfair that she is trying to suggest that she has been treated less fairly than they have when that couldn't be further from the truth.
I mean, considering that Beyonce has been successfully singing liberated, female-friendly music since Destiny's Child, I think she paved the way for Lana — not the other way around!
"Bro. This is sad to make it about a WOC issue when I’m talking about my favorite singers," she wrote.
She then explained that by dragging her for this post, fans are proving the very point that she was trying to make in the first place, which is that she doesn't have a "voice".
"There are certain women that culture doesn’t want to have a voice it may not have to do with race I don’t know what it has to do with."
While fans might not think she is racist, they certainly think that her privilege has peered its ugly head.
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