& adding on to my original post comparing her to Lolita - lana describes her style as “lolita got lost in the hood.” aside from the racism in that statement, lana paints lolita as merely a seductive, young girl with heart-shaped sunglasses, when lolita was a victim of sexual abuse. she perpetuates the idea that lolita chose to be in a relationship with an older man, when she was actually a child who was kidnapped and raped by her step-father. in the novel, “lolita” wasn’t just an idea, she was a person. and to quote another article,
…the idea of a deliberate seduction of older men was definitely not the case with Lolita. She was too young to understand what was going on, and her stepfather exploited her innocence. To talk about her precocity