Susan Frates

Cover of Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019

Lana Del Rey’s music became the soundtrack to the early 2010s, where dispassion and mistrust ruled. Many of her followers have since come of age alongside the New York singer, who released a new album last year. Now it is clearer than ever that Del Rey’s career embod- ies so many of the changes of the last decade, though one thing has remained: her unique take on that evergreen genre, the love song.