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“Rocky, as straight male, doesn’t speak in Del Rey’s video: His erotic, mischievously coded body is featured prominently on-screen, but he isn’t “featured” on the track—he has surrendered his sexual self-presentation entirely to Del Rey. In a typical pop/hip-hop collaboration, Rocky would be allotted thirty seconds to voice his own desire and thereby reclaim the phallus. But the video for “National Anthem” isn’t a collaboration—it’s matriarchal reverie…. In silencing Rocky, Del Rey not only puts pop on top but also isolates female desire as the essence of Americanness.

- Christopher Glezak, for Artforum

(http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=37457)

# Lana Del Rey A$AP Rocky National Anthem Pop music Artforum

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What Made "The O.C." Great, Bitch →

“It’s personal in the deepest possible way. I’m 47 years old. I’m a grown-ass man, you know? We’re a married couple. Sober. We are sober, singing the theme to a FOX show. And I have got to say, every single week it makes me love my wife, and love TV, and love everything in the world all at once. And last week, when ‘The O.C.’ went off TV, I cried. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.” - Ira Glass

# The O.C. Long Reads Ira Glass Seth Cohen Sandy Cohen

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