What makes a girl, a girl?

Music has a huge influence on today’s culture and concepts of gender. Lana Del Rey is a 27-year-old musical artist with a very distinct singing voice. Lana Del Rey says “I’ve been a writer since I was seven… I can’t do much else. I wrote every word on my album… There is nothing that I didn't write.” Her song “This Is What Makes Us Girls,” was written to describe her feelings right before her parents sent her off to an exclusive boarding school in Connecticut. In the song, there is a very clear description of how women and men have been culturally shaped, how female behavior is influenced by male interaction and persuasion.