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  Making Sense of Liz Phair's Lana Del Rey Defense

  February 6, 2012 – Has each successive wave of backlash and backlash-to-backlash over a young pop singer with an OK voice, a distinctive Betty-Draper-gone-Beth-Orton (plus dated hip-hop slang!) aesthetic, and a couple of otherwise-forgettable TV appearances got you dizzy yet? Just you wait. …
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  Beauty Bar: See 'SNL' Host Bon Iver, Defend Lana Del Rey

  February 6, 2012 – Justin Vernon's Christmas dream came true on Saturday night. As promised, Bon Iver performed not only "Beth/Rest," but also "Holocene," both from last year's self-titled record, on Saturday Night Live. Bon Iver's performance followed Lana Del Rey's oh-so-supposedly-significant appearance a couple of weeks earlier. …
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  Lana Del Rey Steals Late-Night Spotlight From Nas, Evanescence, Korn

  February 3, 2012 – Remember earlier this week, when everybody was in an eloquent, must-read tizzy about Lana Del Rey? Well, the seductive singer's Born to Die is on pace to hit No. …
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  Animated SPIN Critic Obliterates Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die' in NMA Video

  January 31, 2012 – We are honored to announce that SPIN has finally made its animated-news debut: Today's NMA World Edition features the controversy surrounding everyone's favorite pop-culture punching bag du jour, Lana Del Rey, and her "evisceration" by American critics. …
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  Lana Del Rey, 'Born to Die' (Interscope)

  January 31, 2012 – Read the review, then check out Deconstructing Lana Del Rey: untangling the year's most divisive new artist. "Bob Dylan" is not his real name. The "Ramones" were not related. "Sun Ra" was from Alabama, not Saturn. The Strokes' dads are not plumbers. "Rick Ross"... look, we don't have time for this. …
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  Deconstructing Lana Del Rey

  January 30, 2012 – Everyone has something to say about the year's most divisive new artist. But separating myth from fact means untangling a knot that also happens to encapsulate the weird state of pop stardom in 2012. Plus: Read SPIN's review of Born to Die. I. …
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  Lana Del Rey Plans to Re-Release Lizzy Grant Album

  January 27, 2012 – Unlike Lil Wayne, Lana Del Rey might be trying to remind us that she's still a human being: Not only did she recently (and, okay, unwittingly) help a band get big in Germany, now she's planning on re-releasing her 2010 album, when she was known as Lizzy Grant. In an interview with BBC News yesterday, Del Rey said that she had recently bought back the rights to the album she recorded in 2008 and released in 2010, Lizzy Grant aka Lana De …
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  Lana Del Rey Helped Make a Band Big in Germany

  January 26, 2012 – Lana Del Rey's conversation-dominating rise has been a boon for at least one long-slogging band. …
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  Watch Lana Del Rey's Contentious 'SNL' Performance

  January 16, 2012 – Saturday Night Live has already won. You're reading this, right? Year after year, the show brings out at least one or two musical guests who generate more buzz for a supposedly awful-sounding performance than all the other, presumably unobjectionable acts do combined. Ashlee Simpson, of course. TV on the Radio. Ke$ha. Hell, even critics' darling Kanye West got everybody to act all Statler and Waldorf a few years ago. …
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  Dissecting Lana Del Rey's Leaked 'National Anthem'

  January 5, 2012 – Patriotic themes are, for better or worse, universal, at least in the nation they're being patriotic about. …
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