Years before she was one of pop‘s most renowned voices and songwriters, lauded by the likes of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey was simply Lizzy Grant, an up-and-coming artist from New York whose artistic reinvention was almost universally slammed by critics.
In 2012, the musician’s debut album under her now-famous alias Born to Die was widely trashed by music critics, with many taking aim at the perceived inauthenticity of her glamorized Americana aesthetic or disparaging her for glorifying violence and objectification. (See Pitchfork‘s original review of the album; the publication…
