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The much-anticipated full-length debut from husky, internet savvy singer/songwriter Lana Del Ray featured 12 cuts, including the self-described "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra"'s omnipresent 2010 hit "Video Games." Born to Die drops January 27, 2012 on Interscope.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amidst a sea of juvenile criticisms (the kind female artists seem to face exclusively), Lana Del Rey proves she has the chops!
If you haven't heard of Lana Del Rey by now, then you've probably just crawled out from under a rock (we have a black President now, by the way...) Lana has garnered a pretty loyal fan base over the last year following a string of popular Youtube music vids from her EP. She has also come to the attention of many others (myself included) more recently following an SNL performance that garnered much negative attention, including tweets from the likes of has-been actresses Juliette Lewis and Eliza Dushku. Everyone waited with anticipation for the release of this album to see if she could put the money where her pouty mouth is.And I think she more than paid off! The album is a love-letter to fans of trip-hop and lushly orchestrated ballads. Lana is a vocal breath of fresh air, eschewing the auto-tune that is the current bane of the music industry. And the tracks are varied enough to not get stale, and as I mentioned, well orchestrated and multi-layered. It's a sonic delight that compels multiple play-throughs. It's been awhile since an album has dominated my player as much as this one has. I've listened to it nearly exclusively over the past week, and even the few tracks that I didn't like at first have become favorites!The album opens with the four songs that comprised her EP from 2011. BORN TO DIE, OFF TO THE RACES, BLUE JEANS, and VIDEO GAMES. To me, these were all fresh as I never heard the EP before. OFF TO THE RACES is an album favorite of mine, and is frankly the reason I finally decided to download the entire album. VIDEO GAMES, of course, is the song she will be forever identified with (until she tops it, anyway). And it is indeed a fantastic and dark ballad, though I think the album boasts plenty of songs to rival it.Following this is a handful of tracks updated from her previous recording sessions, and some new tracks. Highlights include more trip hop goodness with DIET MOUNTAIN DEW, a Fiona Apple-esque ballad MILLION DOLLAR MAN, and the swirling (though profane) RADIO.Through multiple listens, and putting pieces together from her interviews and biography, it becomes clear this album is meant as a snapshot of her teen and young adult years. We see two sides of Lana here, singing about partying with her girlfriends on tracks like WHAT MAKES US GIRLS and in full Jersey Girl Twang with NATIONAL ANTHEM ("Gawd, yeh so hansum..."), and then covering more personal ground as the fragile, lovelorn girl who has loved and lost and fears being used, in tracks like the now infamous VIDEO GAMES and MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Between these two extremes lay tales of how girls are used as sex objects ... stories of drinking, drugs, and the many other things teens do today to cope with their burgeoning adulthood.Many of her critics brutalized her for their misconception of her as being a shallow artist singing about partying and nothing much else. But there is much more depth here than appears at first glance. I caught it at the end of the last song - Lana laments how she was taken away from her best friends in WHAT MAKES US GIRLS: "They were the only friends I ever had / We got into trouble and when stuff got bad / I got sent away, I was waving on the train platform / Crying 'cause I know I'm never coming back." Whatever happened during her youth, it ended with her parents sending her to Boarding school - and with this line, the entire album comes into focus. It's a lament, a funeral dirge for her lost youth and the friends and loves she was forced to leave behind.Which leads to the excellent (and seemingly overlooked) album cover. Lana appears against a mostly clear blue sky with tightly coiffed hair and a white collared shirt, buttoned all the way up to the neck - an image that screams conservative! She's all grown up now. But then there's that red bra ghosting through - a reminder that she still retains that wild, party girl somewhere inside her. You can take the girl out of the party scene, but you can't take away the party girl! What a fantastically appropriate image for the album!In short, Lana rode into town this year amidst a sea of insensitive critics who were more obsessed with her background and the size of her lips than her actual music. Can anyone remember the last time a male artist was chastised for being fake or too handsome!? Who was the last male artist who was declared a manufactured product of the music industry!? It's a shame that in our current day and age, we still can't give women a fair shake. Well, fortunately miss Del Rey has more than proven herself, and I look forward to more to come from her in the future!
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Album
In a time where it's just one track on spotify and on to the next, this album begs to differ. You can listen from start to finish and do it all over again. Her Best Album!
5.0 out of 5 stars LEGENDARY POP BIBLE
Love this vinyl, mine came in red lettering (was expecting blue tho)
5.0 out of 5 stars Works great
I have had this for about a month, and haven't come across any problems. it sounds pretty perfect and transitions between songs very smoothly.
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Brilliant, beautiful, delightful album
4.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 Stars - Moody, Catchy, and Full of Feeling, but Gets Repetitive
I gotta admit, I was avoiding Lana Del Rey and Born to Die when she blew up earlier this year. Her music just seemed so somber and depressing and I wasn't in the mood for that at the time.However, I finally gave in last week when I was browsing the top indie sellers on Bolo and there it was, Born to Die, at the top of the list. And for $3.99, I figured it was worth it to find out what the hype was about.I wasn't disappointed; this album is straight-up sad as hell. But that's not such a bad thing - it has focus.Initially, I loved the sound. The album is beautifully produced with excellent instrumentals to back Lana's husky (and at times, surprisingly sweet, pop, and girly, for lack of better words) vocals and gloomy lyrics. For me, the first and titular track, "Born to Die", is my favorite as it sets the tone for the rest of the album and embodies the mindset with which Lana wrote the album.(Also note the hip hop influences in the music as well as the lyrics.)But after repeat listens, because this is the type of music that gets into your head and keeps you coming back, I began to think that it wasn't as great as I first thought it was. To me, it seemed like the content was what a 16-year old high schooler might come up with; the pains of love, existential crises, drugs and alcohol and money, and feeling a little self-destructive.Now, I understand that angsty teenagers don't have a monopoly on what I listed above, but it was the lyrics behind that enchantingly despondent, slightly dazed way Lana sings.-- 'You and I, we were born to die; I'm off to the races, cases of Bacardi chasers; You're so fresh to death...I will love you 'til the end of time; Money is the reason we exist; I wish I was dead; All my friends tell me I should move on...Loving you forever, can't be wrong.' --Just some examples - and actually the line, 'I will love you 'til the end of time', in "Blue Jeans" is one of my favorites from the album, but it also serves to prove my point.Which is: this album is shallow; a choice word a friend offered me in regard to Born to Die which I agree with wholeheartedly.Personally, I like her music, but this album was about a girl going through a bad break-up, talking about drinking and getting high, all camouflaged at first listen by the sophistication of funereal string arrangements and an overall amazing production. With repeat listens, the former overtook the latter for me and I couldn't get the word "shallow" out of my head. After six or seven songs of this, the second half of the album is more of the same and kind of blurs together for me.That being said, I truly did enjoy the album more than I didn't. It's sad and childish, but elegantly done in both regards. I hope Lana Del Rey follows Born to Die with a more diverse effort - in subject matter and lyrical content. And fosho, I won't wait half a year after it comes out to buy it.
5.0 out of 5 stars love her and the product!!
came in great shape and had no problems with it!!
O primeiro
O primeiro mas não quer dizer que seja o melhor. Já que pra mim, o Ultraviolence ganha. Mas esse tem a melhor capa, cor azul, contraponto da tristeza com um dia ensolarado e muitas músicas marcantes.E no vinil, a voz de Lana del Rey, sai suave, límpida. Você fecha os olhos e sente as músicas.
Great!
My wife likes it!
Fuaaa
El disco me llegó en perfectas condiciones y aparte venía con el certificado de ser original. Aparte le gustó mucho a mi novia :3
Lana Del Rey immense chanteuse.
Toujours une préférence pour les chanteuses, je découvre seulement Lana Del Rey avec du retard et je commence par cette album en raison du titre Summertime Darkness qui est une pure beauté de tristesse et d'émotion. Tout le reste est magnifique. Un grand coup de cœur pour cette artiste. D'autres CD suivront.Achat arrivé moins de 24 heures. Trop Ford Bolo.
L’album che ha definitivamente cambiato il pop!
Quest’album è un tuffo nel 2012, l’estetica tumblr di questa ragazza che si è presentata al mondo con un video homemade e con delle canzoni che hanno definito la musica pop dal 12 in poi. Un must have. Il debutto di una leggenda. Vinile nero. Spedizione ottima
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