The only difference is in the players and pieces. These, and all arguments about realness and credibility, are merely efforts of people to define the genre they love when they feel it is slipping away from them. So when it came to light that this was a rebooted career of Lizzy Grant, and perhaps this whole thing is just a major label sham and ham-fisted attempt at creating an indie crossover star, the blogosphere exploded with criticisms and counters. The Pitchfork Best New Music review, which went a long way in establishing her in the indie culture, even compares her to Cat Power. While it's obvious now that Lana Del Rey belongs squarely in the pop genre, her debut was met with a little more flexible vagueness: she utilized a retro style in her persona, video and music (retromania being a modern indie hallmark), and she could have passed for a pure singer-songwriter if she stayed in this lo-fi, low budget space. This is the battle to define a genre through one intangible that has many names: realness, street cred, artistic integrity – take your pick.įor evidence of this, one only needs to look to last year's Lana Del Rey explosion and pushback, where the battleground was in indie culture.
This argument is part of a cycle it's always going to come up. Although it may seem like that issue is dead and buried, the beef squashed and people moving on, rest assured that it will come back again, if not with Nicki Minaj, than with someone else. Minaj responded by withdrawing from her appearance at Hot 97's Summer Jam. It was just a couple of weeks ago that Peter Rosenberg, a DJ for New York's iconic Hot 97, caused a small wave in music culture by dissing Nicki Minaj's song “Starships” by saying it wasn't real hip hop.
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