Why do Trump supporters love Lana Del Rey so much?

Lana Del Rey once again gave the unsettling impression of stepping out of another era when she appeared at the Variety Hitmakers 2024 ceremony in Los Angeles on December 7. Already physically, the 39-year-old American singer stood out among the crowd of women in mini dresses, see-through underwear and head-turning heels. Revised vintage look, crew neck sweater. old money Jackie Kennedy’s style, Marilyn Monroe’s pout and flawless blow-dry inspired by Old Hollywood icons Rita Hayworth. Then comes this famous moment when she walks on stage, takes the microphone and says, “It’s so scary when you have to cling to an innocent perception of how things can be when you’re in a field where your values ​​and morals may not quite match the anger.” Before publicly thanking her “incredible husband,” Jeremy Dufresne reporting, an alligator shower and “a known Donald Trump supporter,” according to multiple sources.

It doesn’t take much to set the internet on fire. After these comments, Lana Del Rey is officially a pro-Trump conservative. In 2017, he organized a mass occult ritual against a politician. On the other hand, his delighted republican fans. “Oh Lana, we know your secret and we’re with you,” @2dwade expressed on X, for example, and continued in another post: “She’s not a Democrat. Just stop. She’s happily married to her Republican husband.”

Democrat… old school?

Regardless, this is far from the first time Lana Del Rey has melted Republican hearts with her 2023 album release Did you know there is a tunnel under Ocean Park? does not go unnoticed by the most conservative of them. Especially the title Judah Smith InterludeAn almost five-minute recording of a sermon by star pastor Judah Smith from California. In this successful album, which earned her five Grammy nominations, Lana Del Rey bares herself. He talks about his love for God as well as his unbridled sexuality in his very successful life A&W:. Dare to trust his fear of being forgotten by this industry that always tends to label him girl next door. Pays tribute to lost icons of Old Hollywood Candy necklace…

These artistic choices, often depicted in the background of the American flag, appeal to Republicans. Klavan, editor The American Mindpublication of the conservative American think tank Claremont Institute. “Time again for me to ask conservative straight men to explain Lana Del Rey to me,” she tweeted at the time.

In the process, the editor opens a discussion where several conservative men agree on the same thoughts. For conservative newspaper editor Ben Domenech The audience“She is everything men idolize the Pacific American sex queen, a sweet, sad, sun-kissed Californian wrapped in an American flag that tastes like cigarettes and broken dreams.” “She intuitively understands true power, which she acts ‘like a woman’ and translates this allure and mystery into her music,” analyzed another.

Points of view that, when you think about it, make sense. Because things are always a little hazy with Lana Del Rey. One day we see her hand in hand with Taylor Swift, a democrat in the pop music industry. in which a stranger dressed as a waitress filmed and sang. amazing Grace! with the regular of the place. Or shows up without warning at a football game between Texas and Oklahoma in cowboy boots and holding a beer.

free spirit

Lana Del Rey is this woman who is against carrying a gun in her title Looking for America (I’m still looking for my own version of America / One without a gun, where the flag can fly freely in peace.) But also, who is criticized for not speaking up on various divisive topics, when Taylor Swift expresses in black and white her the desire to vote for Kamala Harris in the last US presidential election.

He prefers to share his beliefs in a small number of face-to-face videos on Instagram before deleting them a few hours later. He also says he defends them through his art and songs sees no problem in glamorizing toxic relationships with men, nostalgic for the failing American dream, fascinated by images of women from the 1950s and 1960s. in pastel dresses and sauerkraut buns, whom we meet in portraits of Norman Rockwell, the artist who, moreover, lends his name to Lana Del Rey’s seventh studio album, released in 2019.

To many, “he’s not a modern liberal doctrine, but an old-school liberal,” Rich Cromwell says in an op-ed. The audience. Actually, the eternally good girl from America who takes the liberty of riding a Harley Davidson on Route 66 with complete strangers in her music video. wrinkledor putting up one billboard to promote her latest album in her ex-boyfriend’s hometown. And it is this spirit of independence and flexibility that he has cultivated for more than a decade that makes him a politicized icon. Often regardless.