crimsonandclover

honestly, this. her entire early career is "blue collar" - not only that, she actually embraced white trash as an identity for quite a long time. (there's a lot to be said about that, of course: a privileged white girl basically slumming it & "experiencing" the poor life from the cushioned position of someone who'll always be able to run back to mom and dad if things *really* get rough, but that's kinda beside the point here - almost as moot a point as questioning bruce springsteen for still singing about the blue collar working life now that he's a famous millionaire. but i digress.)
 
i think that's definitely a part of her identity now, and even a big part of her more glamorous styles usually include trashy / kitschy signifiers like the stripper nails, chola makeup, hippie-looking floral dresses, all the americana references, glittery/bejeweled stuff etc., which weren't unintentional coincidences. i might be completely mistaken, but i actually think she identifies more with trashiness than with genuine, earnest glamour - by that i mean that her persona often depicts someone trying to ooze glamour from an "underdog" standpoint (stripper, housewife, prostitute, struggling artist, addict etc.) rather than adopting the role of the unattainable, perfect music star. even the insta baddie / vloger thing hints at that same thing, in the sort of meta way of a famous pop singer basically role playing a person aspiring to get famous via social media.
 
edit: also, she covered *sublime* of all bands lmao, arguably one of the most uncool, trashiest bands of the 90s... i mean!

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who actually like LFL rip
What’s so bad about it?

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who actually like LFL rip
What’s so bad about it?

My thoughts: ‘Doin’ Time’ a step in the right direction musically, because the trip hop LDR is the best LDR for me.
 
However, it’s way too short, doesn’t build to anything, and since the vocalist has no emotional investment in the material, even in the sort of ‘pretend’ way she did on ‘Diet Mountain Dew,’ it seems even shorter and hollower, more like a demo or a throwaway B-side than a finished track.
 
The music and the musicians are the stand-outs, rather than LDR. Her voice sounds good, but she seems to breeze through the song without any sense of commitment, style, or care.

ugh Venice Bitch is amazing. the closing lines are what makes the whole 8 minute interlude worth it. it's such a haunting song and my thirst for NFR is still quenched because of it 

some of the problem for me is that she's SO emotive and personal as an artist and even her bops on born to die (which i'm still not bored of) were emotive, this is a great cover and i think it has radio play all over it (whether this happens or not is a different matter) but it wasn't written by her and it just... doesn't move me, maybe because i don't associate it with her or anything she's trying to say about herself
 
it's partly why love did nothing for me, again great song.. but i didn't feel she meant 50% of that album and was instead trying to move on from this 'sad girl' image she's created... when actually, she seems like a restless unsatisfied person

i just fell in love with her because she was so honest and wise and feminine, which was rare for me to hear at the time, she was just so sad and i'd always been looking for an artist like her all my life