Had been thinking about the Lana Del Rey aesthetic as like “the themes of ideal Kodachrome Camelot Golden Age Americana deadpan applied to the real modern day”

Which not wrong (and h/t @lanadelreyaesthetics) but I was playing RDR Online and the figure of Madam Nazar reminded me how much she specifically rhymes with a “gypsy” figure that’s fallen out of typology

And no, Kodachrome Camelot wouldn’t know what “Romani” even was but it’d be county fair knockoffs anyway, flowy dresses and tops and rich lips and that saunter

(Compare to I Dream of Jeannie orientalism and the figure of “the exotic dancer”)