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FEIST / “THE BAD IN EACH OTHER”
“But what and how / To find us now / When we’ve become two / Fluorescently blue / Down the neon river / The sadness canoes / Either without or with her”
ALBUM REVIEW: LANA DEL REY, “BORN TO DIE”
It’s impossible to discuss Lana Del Rey based solely on her music, when her introduction into the popular consciousness is based more on her past and her appearance than the quality of what she’s putting out in the world. So let’s get it out of the way up front: Lana Del Rey has received the Cinderella treatment from her record label, has had her past wiped away and been christened with a new name and aesthetic aimed at making her the newest “indie darling”. Del Rey gives incredibly awkward live performances (is there anyone in America who hasn’t seen her train wreck on Saturday Night Live?) and no matter how many times she claims otherwise there is NO WAY those lips of hers are real.
And with that out of the way, we can get to the real point: Lana Del Rey’s debut album, Born To Die.
Born To Die is the kind of album that you listen to for the first time and think, “Yeah, this is pretty good.” Then you listen to it a few more times and the hooks and the beats and Del Rey’s crooning voice start to slither into your head and refuse to leave. Del Rey (and her producers) have done something very clever in creating songs that have the pervasiveness of pop music hidden within a unique, “indie” sound.
Lana Del Rey has a unique voice and it has been paired perfectly with a lush, pervasive sound on her album. Every song is about glamorous death, obsessive love and the kind of shallowness that created reality television. While many reviewers will condemn Del Rey the seemingly superficiality of her lyrics, there is something to be said for an artist who knows the world she lives in and is just hoping to get hers. Del Rey sets herself up as the ultimate gangster girlfriend in Born To Die, lamenting on almost every song about her two great loves: bad boys and money.
The one glaring problem with the record is the fact that there is little evolution on it and almost no variety. it’s as though Del Rey’s record label/producers/songwriters saw what was good about Del Rey’s YouTube hits and tried to recreate them over and over again. If Del Rey hops to have any longevity she’s got to take what works about those songs and figure out no how to copy them over and over again, but what that means about her as an artist and make a second album that expands upon that.
Born To Die is, at the end, not an album to be taken seriously. It will win no awards, it will change no lives. It is no more than a grim yet beautiful fantasy and why should it be faulted for that? Music can help us escape and Lana Del Rey’s blood and perfume soaked dream is as good an escape as any.
BEST TRACKS: “Born To Die”, “Off To The Races”, “Blue Jeans”, “Dark Paradise”, “Million Dollar Man”
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