Headline : Is Lana Del Rey Really a Pop Star?

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Lana Del Rey hasn’t had a solo hit single since 2014, and she’s shown far more interest in pursuing her own singular aesthetic vision than in chasing the charts. “It’s not meant to be popular,” she said, flatly, in her first Rolling Stone cover story, right after the release of 2014’s noir-rock classic Ultraviolence. “It’s not pop music.”

Despite all of the evidence that she is, in fact, a brilliant, alt-leaning singer-songwriter, the world keeps categorizing Del Rey as a pop star — perhaps in part because she is, in her own words, a “glamorous person.” The good news, of course, is that this possible misclassification has exposed countless self-identified pop fans to some seriously edgy and inventive music.

(The new episode of our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now digs into this subject, and Del Rey’s entire discography — find it here at the podcast provider of your choice, go directly to Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play above.)

Del Rey long ago declared that the contemporary artist she most identifies with is the brainy indie artist Father John Misty, and she started on her career path after reading a Bob Dylan discography. Her masterpiece, 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell, is one of the great singer-songwriter triumphs of the 21st century, retroactively inserting itself into the classic-rock canon, anchored by the nine-minute-long, Jack Antonoff-assisted psychedelic freakout of “Venice Bitch.” She continues her eccentric music journey on her new album, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — it’s her strongest since Norman, winning rave reviews from critics as well as Taylor Swift, who called Del Rey “the best we have” from her Eras Tour stage. Trending Billie Eilish Would Like to Reintroduce Herself Kanye West Announces 'Yeezy Porn' Amid Reports of Adult Film Company Neil Young Stuns at 2024 Tour Launch, Unveils Lost 'Cortez the Killer' Verse Opioids Came for Country Music. It’s Fighting Back Editor’s picks The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term

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