Should politics even be bound up with music in the first place?
Lana Del Rey has joined Kanye West in the ranks of artists who overpromise when it comes to album release deadlines. The singer had indicated on social media that her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters, would drop on July 4  an apt date for a musician whose persona associated so freely with classic American iconography. But midnight came and went and Del Rey revealed the record would be released later and treated fans to a new single instead. It was just another wild loop in the road for an artist who has had a lively 2021. Politically, in particular, Del Rey has been in the firing line. In January the 36-year-old felt the need to go on Instagram to explain herself after telling