"A counternarrative accrued — Lizzy Grant took a run at stardom through normal channels but didn’t click until a pit crew of handlers relaunched her as a search-engine-optimized Blair Witch pop star — and an army of bloggers, rushing to something too inchoate to really be called judgment, spent the rest of 2011 putting Lizzy’s past on that Summer Jam screen. Down with the Great Deceiver! Occupy that crazy frescoed-out church from the “Born to Die” video!"

A look at Lana Del Rey and her new album ‘Born to Die’ - Grantland (via secondverse)

Now that this piece exists, can we agree as a society not to discuss Lana Del Rey for at least the next 988 years?

(via secondverse)