Even Doja Cat has thoughts.
Oh, Lana. We’re not just saying it—so is Twitter. There’s a reason why the phrase was trending worldwide recently: Lana Del Rey’s Beyoncé and Cardi B slut-shaming comments did not fly over well. And as soon as you see what the star posted to her Instagram page, you might just understand why.
On Wednesday, May 20, the 34-year-old “Born to Die” singer took to the social media platform to pose a “question for the culture.” She posted screengrabs of a lengthy letter calling out sexist standards in the music industry—in Lana’s case, the Grammy-nominee took issue with the criticisms she’s received in the past over supposedly “glamorizing abuse” in her music. “I’m fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorize abuse,” she wrote in the letter.
Social media users didn’t necessarily have a problem with Lana’s defense of her music; instead, they took issue with the finger-pointing language she used to convey it. The star decided to call out almost exclusively Black women in music, such as Doja Cat, Cardi B, Kehlani, Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé—the sole exception being her mention of Ariana Grande—in an effort to compare her struggle to theirs.
Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had numbers ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating, etc.
In response to the stan war, viral rapper Doja Cat coyly commented: “gang sunk that dunker,” which can basically be summed up as a basketball reference to say, “points were made.” Whether that’s in reference to Lana’s post or her critical commenters, however, is up for interpretation.
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