I think one of the things Lana Del Rey can do that Lizzy Grant can’t is allow Lizzy Grant to examine her own desire to be a Lana Del Rey-type person. I think her palpable yearning to be someone other than Lizzy Grant — her hunger for the kind of approval and attention she imagines she’ll get as Lana — is a compelling through-line for a work of art to have. This is a real person who’s decided to tell the world a story about herself, and the story says something about the person even if it isn’t entirely true.
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