bmichael asked: I guess the difference for me is that the women are characters in the weeknd songs, but lana del rey is sort of just herself in her songs. she's a character, sure, but she's always herself. the weeknd can never be his characters. i sort of thing ldr is like anything else, where people sort of like it or dont. i listened to video games about fifty times in one day and really enjoyed it. sometimes i dont like her music. its music.
Interesting. I’m wondering how you can differentiate between LDR and The Weeknd - why can she be both her image and herself, but he cannot? Both are singing from a first person point of view.
My main problem with her is that she’s created a character that is so passive and glassy-eyed and people are super turned on and galvanized by it as though it’s the second coming. The music, eh, it’s fine, not ground breaking. Mazzy Star or even Portishead have songs that sound just as delicate but those women act as though they’ve got steel spines.
