I was glancing around the internet the other day and somehow stumbled onto some old article about “2011 Buzzbands” and Lana Del Rey was listed there and my first thought was, “Oh my god, has it been that long?"  And yeah, it turns out it’s been that long.  It’s kind of nuts to be honest.  It’s just kind of crazy how fame cycles work, where she went from being talked about all over the internet, a darling to a villain to being declared a failure to… whatever.  I am not sure what place she holds in the pop culture landscape now.  She was labelled a failure but she seems to have her fans, she certainly sold a lot of records, she is making a living, so failure seems wrong.  She isn’t… buzz worthy anymore though?  By which I mean she isn’t driving page views for various snarky internet publications, people aren’t just sitting around talking about her.  She’s clearly important enough that she keeps showing up in magazines and stuff.  I don’t know, none of this is really important, it’s just always a subject of fascination to me how we like to set up idols, crush idols, destroy idols, eat our idols and so forth.  Anyway, I happen to still enjoy her and her music and think she is quite pretty so she’s here today.  Today I want to fuck Lana Del Rey.