Women Sold on Looks

I keep seeing this new musical artist pop up, named Lana Del Ray. As I started to learn more about her, I realized her case reminds me a lot of our class discussions.

Many independent music websites keep saying she is the "new big thing" and showing her videos and premiering her songs and such. The controversy is though, that she once came out in the music world under her real name, Lizzy Grant a few years ago. She sounded pretty much the same, but looked a bit different. She kind of failed as an artist, and appeared back on the music scene again this year with a new look and a new name. There is much talk about how real she is, especially when it comes to her looks. Many are saying that she got a lot of plastic surgery, and her new face is the reason for her new fame.

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-The picture on the left is her as Lizzy, the one on the right is her as Lana.-

She obviously looks slightly different. Lana Del Ray is kind of the epitome of physical perfection, in my opinion. She is almost abnormally gorgeous. I don't think anybody could disagree that she is rather perfect. The point is that many people are arguing that she is only getting so much hype because she is so physically attractive.

Is this what a woman has to do now ? Get plastic surgery and then people want to hear her music?

Let's just say, however, that maybe her looks are not the reason for the attention. But, even if this is the case, it's very sad that people even attribute a woman's fame to her looks. This basically does what every ad, or commercial does...just makes a woman no more than an object. Ignore the talent (or the lack of talent), and just look at the woman for the only thing she is good at, which is fulfilling a sexual fantasy. You would never really see this kind of issue with a man. Men rarely get sold as sex objects, and you hardly ever see a man's popularity/fame being attributed to his looks, and not his talents.