Couldn't have said it better!
Music in 2012: K-pop, rattle and roll
By Neil McCormick7:00AM GMT 21 Dec 20122
Lana Del Rey was the face of 2012. Doe eyed and pouting, she gazed from computer screens and billboards with a perfectly blank sensuality, cosmetically altered, retro styled and utterly modern, a 21st-century pop icon so ready baked and perfect she could only have been a fiction, the question was whose?
The internet swarmed around her, instantaneously abuzz with rumours, theories and revelations while trolls spat and snarled from the gloomy caverns of anonymous ISPs. She was a billionaire’s daughter, laughing all the way to the bank. She was a major-label-manufactured production-line pop tart masquerading as an indie scruff. She was plain Lizzy Grant remoulded by plastic surgery and sinister stylists into a digital wet dream. Authenticity briefly became the big issue in the most inauthentic medium the world has ever known, a controversy as preposterously fake as her eyelashes.
Lana Del Rey was a new kind of star, a perfect internet storm, a self-invented pop fantasist whose lo-fi, home-made YouTube video went viral and whose freakishly fast rise to the top was followed by the swiftest and most furious backlash in pop history. It was a virtual stoning of a wanton woman with more than a hint of misogyny about the way bloggers tried to rip her to shreds for daring to fulfil her own fantasy.
For a moment she blinked, tearful and afraid, then her album, Born To Die, went to the top of pop charts all around the world, and she was still standing, doe eyed and demure, slowly fading into a hinterland of product placement and fashion ads, leaving behind a beautiful concoction of genre-bending singer-songwriter trip-hop pop, dreamy songs about what it means to be a girl in an age of illusion. And that was only January.
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