The representation of femininity in Lana Del Rey’s songs

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This article aims to analyze the feminine representation in Lana Del Rey’s songs. In order to achieve that objective, discourse analysis will be used as a useful tool in our studies, since we are going to deal with lyrics in, thus, discourse. Our corpora are her famous songs: Ultraviolence, Ride, This is what makes us girls, Cola and Off to the races. Since Lana Del Rey is a well-known personality in pop music and the majority of her fans are women, we consider that the discourse she conveys in her songs provides feelings of representation and identity, which will be analyzed in our paper. We also expect to find ambiguous discourse, which seems to empower women and their identity in a chauvinist society and, at the same time, seems to portray them as fragile and passive. The results show that Lana draws contradictory accounts on the feminine image, but in a way that makes us aware of women representation face to society. Lana Del Rey’s lyrics reflects a disappointing reality in which it is not that hard to understand why women (and men) try to escape into alcohol, self-injury and other forms of self-destruction.

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Matheus Gomes Alves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Professor de Linguística, do Departamento de Linguística e Filologia. Professor de Língua Portuguesa, do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas. Doutorando em Linguística pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística da Faculdade de Letras - UFRJ. Cursa Especialização em Língua Portuguesa no Liceu Literário Português. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, com ênfase em Teoria e Análise Lingüística e em Gramática da Língua Inglesa. Atua no grupo de pesquisa de Biologia da Linguagem, da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, com interesse em cartografia sintática e em ensino de tempo e aspecto em L1 e em L2.

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2024-09-17

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