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I just need something out of this era. Like pre-releases used to be so fun. And now "the eras", something she has literally made into her own thing, don't feel like eras anymore...

In 2037 maybe 

Loving lana’s blonde hair.

it was meant more as a guess/wish. my bad.

where’s the [april fools] name gone 

For the love of God, when are we getting a new leak? It's been months

I thought this was the Salvatore demo…

https://open.spotify.com/track/4pNApnaUWAL2J4KO2eqokq?si=ty9bXUQ9TsOoCWcvY4-oPg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6kZ42qRrzov54LcAk4onW9

California — by Lana Del Rey (2019)

no and i wish edtwitter would stop using her as their muse 

No and this is why I'm high key in favour of gatekeeping. OB might be but I think she has played into people saying it's her aesthetic.
BTD was hipster and "gangster" Americana, UV was west coast grunge, Honeymoon was floral and dreamy, L4L was futuristic and 60s, NFR was.. whatever that was lol, COCC was southern inspired, BB was not really aesthetic driven imo.. And Lizzy Grant was tropical Hawaiian trailer trash chic. She's always been feminine but is that really enough for it to be such a fixation for some people? I don't think so.

Let’s see what it means to be coquette, a definition, if there is one. 
According to Merriam-Webster, coquette is a noun (person, place, thing, idea), described as “a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men”.
Wikipedia (a wonderful source, I know!) informs us that coquette as an aesthetic has been “characterized as both a way to relive and express creativity through childhood fantasies, and a way to ‘fully escape into...femininity without feeling guilty about it,’ while ultimately being "self-aware and playful”. Wiki also notes that it’s a way for strong women to give in to their feminine side, feel delicate and innocent, and not feel like being an empowered woman makes them more masculine.
And, of course, I have to look up what Aesthetics Wiki has to say about coquettes. This page is the first to mention that girls and young women who saw themselves as nymphets eventually evolved into coquettes, because the association with Nabokov’s novel Lolita lead to various websites/social media pages to ban accounts and posts with the word “nymph”. Aesthetics Wiki describes coquette as a “hyper-feminine aesthetic that incorporate elements of youth and teenage girlhood”, and points out that it’s not focused on sexuality in the same way/at all as the nymphet aesthetic.
 
Now, let’s see how much of Lana we can fit into the coquette aesthetic.
Lana has a well-known song called Lolita, and I think we can all agree that 1949 took inspiration from the book as well.
I can’t think of any of her songs, except for maybe Get drunk and one or two break-up songs, where she does not seem to have at least a little affection towards her romantic partner. She does, however, know that she’s smarter than them, that she sees them through, and is aware that she can and might move on from them, as in Norman Fucking Rockwell, for example. But I do think she still feels something for the guy in that song. However, I guess she does line up with Merriam-Webster’s definition in the lyrics of A&W, because she doesn’t seem genuinely interested in any of the men she mentions in the song, and seem to even be aware that she can easily get another “Jimmy” even if she acts crazy to him.
I think Lana enjoys being feminine, as we’ve seen for many years, even before her big breakthrough. Long nails, big hair, flirty lashes, beautiful dresses. I don’t know if she uses that to “escape” into her femininity as Wikipedia describes it though, I think she simply is a glamorous person.  She seem interested in womanhood though and embracing her femininity and empowerment, remember her reading Women Who Run with the Wolves?
She reminisces her childhood, teenage and young adult years in several of her songs, like Gramma, This is what makes us girls, White Dress etc, so she does incorporate images of youth into her music, and seem to have been for a while, too, perhaps even more in recent years. Lana has always been feminine but I’d say she’s been truly hyper feminine during Born to die and Ocean Blvd eras, with her old Hollywood styled hair and bedroom pictures.
 
When it comes to things associated to the aesthetic, from what I’ve seen online, like the color pink and white, frills, lace, bows… I don’t know, Lana isn’t a stranger to bows or vintage lace, but I haven’t really seen her pick pink or frills when she dresses for herself. I think her classic white dresses for live performances were intentional picks. I think she might like the aesthetic though, with the bow merch, bows printed on merch, plastic cherry cake jewelry boxes etc.
 
So is Lana coquette? Slightly, maybe, there seem to be some elements aligning, but I don’t see her dressing as one or necessarily living by the… can I call them rules? I don’t really like that she’s associated with the aesthetic, I feel like so much of her music and who she is just is ignored, but I guess I can see why she is associated with it. 
 
Thanks for coming to my ted talk. 

The Ocean Blvd era in my opinion is the closest Lana herself ever came to being “coquette”. Maybe Blue Banisters too also sorta kinda but not really. I think the connotation early on may have come from both the Lolita thing, and the fact that Video Games blew up on Tumblr, which was heavily into that aesthetic. But that doesn’t make Lana herself that aesthetic, just a figurehead in that community. During the Born to Die era she was way more Gangster Nancy Sinatra than coquette. And before that it was trailer park going to gas station so who knows why the coquette thing stuck around for years later despite Lana herself not being that way. And who makes up these words???? I don’t really understand the exact definition of the aesthetic and when i hear the word coquette i think of tiktok edits with shit like #lolita #sylviapath #priscilla #lanacore

Used to say I looked too coquette 
Then the rejection came and said I wasn’t coquette enough 
Said I couldn’t frilly it up 
Well if that ain’t coquette tell me what isssss 

how do i retweet 

There's "coquette" (a fake and gay psyop), and then there's Pabst blue ribbon sparkler trailer miss America jump rope heaven palm tree brite lights Nevada gas station sequins carry me off the stage purple wig for my mermaid video

Personally what bothers me about people who call her coquette are the ones who reduce her into an aesthetic. while she has created her own style, idc if she is or isn’t coquette, she’s more than just an aesthetic 

Lana is absolutely a croquette. Her style is very much aligned with being a fried ball of potatoes and filling like vegetables. I have never seen her eat a croquette, but I have reason to believe, with several facts and evidence that I have been meticulously collecting over the past half decade, that she would eat one or had one at some point. 

I feel like ppl are just triggered bc they want to be haters of cute little things, and they hate "locals" relating to Lana in some form. It's Easter, let the deepness and darkness go a bit and have some fun with a pretty little aesthetics 
 
Lana isn’t “above” the coquette aesthetic 

The fact that Lana wasn’t coquette until ocean came out in 2023 tells me all I need to know. 
 
She wasn’t coquette until it was popular, and now it’s her brand. It makes no sense to me tbh

how about we stop feeling the need to make new styles/aesthetics and trying to pigeonhole ourselves and other people into them and just exist as unique individuals who like and feel inspired by their own things  coquette cottagecore twilightcore barbiecore e-girl soft girl coconut girl fairycore goblincore balletcore shutthefuckupandgetajobcore

I definitely dont think her past eras were coquette like BTD and AKA. Especially not UV, Idk where people are getting that from
 I guess you could say she’s leaned into the coquette aesthetic more recently during OB, but I don’t think the aesthetic defines her. 

not until very recently when she started to play into the aesthetic, i honestly never understood why people associate her with that aesthetic because she never matched that style, in fact, throughout her career, her aesthetic often changed, born to die felt very americana and opulent, while honeymoon felt slightly tropical, floral, perhaps inspired by europe, lust for life felt more futuristic and hippie, COTCC was clearly inspired by the south and the midwest, you get the picture
 
it especially annoys me how they bring lizzy grant into it since she had such a strong aesthetic which was so unique and nothing really like the coquette aesthetic, it was also very 2000s and not in the modern-day interpretation of the 2000s, like genuine 2000s which people have quite the inaccurate view of, like, how do people see photos of her hanging around in peak 2000s fashion and damaged, bleached hair by trailers and consider it coquette? and i'm not saying her photoshoots aren't nice or artistic or beautiful because they most certainly are and i just hate how misinterpreted and misrepresented that time of her career is
 
it doesn't help that some of the coquette people are the very annoying and gross whisper app pinterest type

and it completely dismisses what her art stands for

Lana is absolutely not coquette. The whole "Lana is coquette" thing is just a huge mislabeling of her unique aesthetic