Marmotinis Handy Dandy Lana Guide
So that you don't look like a mouth breathing hipster to her fans.
1) The Big Sleep. Maltese Falcon. Mildred Pierce. All the big film noir of the 40s, maybe even Brick.
2)Speaking of high school, Lolita by Nabokov
3) American pop culture 101: patriotism, capitalism, materialism, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, James Dean
4) Femme fatale as a literary construct.
5) the archetype of women as whore/prostitute/mistress in various forms
6) Los Angeles, irrational love of Los Angeles and it's cultural significance and history
7) white trash, trailer parks, cheap motels, romanticism of the teenaged runaway or free spirit (See: Hick)
8) alcoholism and drug addiction as an intimate topic
9) dominance and submission
10) sexual and romantic fantasies of American heterosexual woman
You're welcome [***] . Lana del Rey is smarter than most of the people who criticize her, she's an abstract embodiment of American culture, from a twentieth century historic perspective. BUT NO YOU GUIZ ARE SO SMRT. MAKE SURE U BE LAUGHING AT SNL PERFORMANCE.