I made a joke about this to my partner, but the rate of Lana Del Rey thinking and writing (‘scholarship’) was actually amazing and cool. I mentioned her in a piece back in, I think, November — and that was after resisting mentioning her a few times already. At this point, all the greatest music writers and cultural critics, for the most part, (certainly not including myself in that group — unless Photoshops count) have read, written, and rewritten about her. The LDR hype cycle backlash cycle represented an amazing surge of critical brainpower, and it was cool to watch unfold. I honestly don’t care that it was about her rather than a more ‘deserving’ artist. I’m just glad it happened, and I think it was worthwhile. Another semi-hemi-demi-monoculture movement.