"Lana Del Rey is exactly what I was hoping to inspire when I took on the male rock establishment almost twenty years ago with my debut record, Exile in Guyville... She's writing herself into existence. She's giving herself a part to play because, God knows, no one else will and she wants to matter in this life. As far as I can tell, it's working. I went straight to iTunes and bought her new release... because it was more than a collection of songs or a performance, it was a phenomenon...As a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard."

-- Liz Phair has "a lot to say" about Lana Del Rey and radical feminism, which she has expressed in a post for the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog.