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| The official Lana Del Rey thread; New album "Lust for Life" | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 27 2011, 12:15 PM (11,973 Views) | |
| bulgar | Jan 26 2012, 11:20 PM Post #121 |
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do you know if this will be released in the US? i can only see the regular edition on amazon
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| Riverwide | Jan 26 2012, 11:26 PM Post #122 |
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I haven't heard anything yet! If you need one, let me know and I'll send it to you! |
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| bulgar | Jan 27 2012, 12:14 AM Post #123 |
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aww, thank you dear! I might just order it from amazon.co.uk though. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 27 2012, 12:15 AM Post #124 |
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4 out of 5 from The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/27/lana-del-ray-born-to-die-review It's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Lana Del Rey. She's hardly the first pop star in history to indulge in a spot of pragmatic reinvention that muddies her comfortable background, but you'd certainly think she was. You can barely hear the music over the carping, which appears to be getting louder as her debut album approaches: a cynic might say that's just as well, given the recent Saturday Night Live appearance in which she demonstrated her uncanny mastery of the vocal style deployed by Ian Brown during the Stone Roses' later years – she honked like the foghorn on Portland Bill lighthouse. But one off-key TV spot is surely not a career-ending disaster. Perhaps the arrival of Born to Die will silence the controversy and shift attention to the songs. Or perhaps not. There's something impressive about her desire to brazen it out, but you do wonder at the wisdom of including Radio, one of those how-do-you-like-me-now? songs in which the singer revisits their terrible struggle to achieve fame. "No one even knows how hard life was," she sings, "no one even knows what life was like," which does rather invite the response: indeed not, but given that your father was not only extremely wealthy but so supportive that he took to the pages of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise to promote your debut album I'll hazard a guess at (a) probably not that hard and (b) basically quite nice. There's always the chance that she's playing a character, although that seems doubtful, because when Lana Del Rey is in character, she really lets you know about it. The one truly disappointing thing about Born to Die isn't the sound, which understandably sticks fast to the appealing blueprint from Video Games and Blue Jeans: sumptuous orchestration, twangs of Twin Peaks-theme guitar and bum-bum-TISH drums. Nor is it her voice, which is fine: a bit reedy on the high notes, but nothing to get you reaching for the earplugs. It's the lyrics, which in contrast to Video Games's beguiling description of a mundane love affair, are incredibly heavy-handed in their attempts to convince you that Lana Del Rey is the doomed but devoted partner of a kind of Athena poster bad boy, all white vest, cheekbones and dangling ciggie. The reckless criminality of their lifestyle is expressed via hip-hop slang – "yo", "imma ride or die", and, a little Ali Gishly, "booyah" – and the depth of their love through romance-novel cliches ("you are my one true love"). It's Mills and Booyah. The problem is that Del Rey doesn't have the lyrical equipment to develop a persona throughout the album. After the umpteenth song in which she either puts her red dress on or takes her red dress off, informs you of her imminent death and kisses her partner hard while telling him she'll love him 'til the end of time, you start longing for a song in which Del Rey settles down with Keith from HR, moves to Great Yarmouth and takes advantage of the DFS half-price winter sale. The best thing to do is ignore the lyrics; easy enough given how magnificently most of the melodies have been constructed. Video Games sounded like a unique single, but as it turns out, it was anything but a one-off: the album is packed with similarly beautiful stuff. National Anthem soars gloriously away from a string motif that sounds not unlike that sampled on the Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony. There's something effortless about the melodies of Diet Mountain Dew and Dark Paradise: they just sweep the listener along with them. The quality is high throughout, which is presumably what you get if you assemble a crack team of co-writers, including Heart FM king Rick Nowels, author of Ronan Keating's Life Is a Rollercoaster, Dido's White Flag and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is a Place on Earth. You could argue that his presence recontextualises Born to Die, drawing it away from the world of the indie singer-songwriter she was initially thought to inhabit and firmly into the mainstream. It fits better there, where no one bores on about authenticity and lyrics matter less than whether your songs' hooks sink deep into the listener's skin. What Born to Die isn't is the thing Lana Del Rey seems to think it is, which is a coruscating journey into the dark heart of a troubled soul. If you concentrate too hard on her attempts to conjure that up, it just sounds a bit daft. What it is, is beautifully turned pop music, which is more than enough. |
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| FuckBuddy | Jan 27 2012, 12:19 AM Post #125 |
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it sounds so lush and gorgeous overall. it's one of those albums u initially stick to a number of standout tracks out of fear the whole set wears thin too fast-only it probably won't. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 27 2012, 12:20 AM Post #126 |
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I pretty much love them all now. It's one of *those* albums. Skip-free!
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| Riverwide | Jan 27 2012, 11:03 AM Post #127 |
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BORN TO DIE WRITING CREDITS Born to Die - Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker Off to the Races - Lana Del Rey, Tim Larcombe Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey, Emile Haynie, Dan Heath Video Games - Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker Diet Mountain Dew - Lana Del Rey, Mike Daly National Anthem - Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey, Rick Nowels Radio - Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker Carmen - Lana Del Rey, Parker Million Dollar Man - Lana Del Rey, Chris Braide Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey, Rick Nowels This Is What Makes Us Girls - Lana Del Rey, Jim Irvin, Larcome Lolita - Lana Del Rey, Liam Howe, Hannah Robinson |
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| Riverwide | Jan 27 2012, 12:10 PM Post #128 |
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Germany: 1. Born to Die (Special Version) - Lana Del Rey 3. Born to Die - Lana Del Rey Ireland: 1. Born to Die - Lana Del Rey 2. Born to Die (Deluxe Version) - Lana Del Rey ]Austria: 1. Born to Die (Special Version) - Lana Del Rey 4. Born to Die - Lana Del Rey Netherlands: 2. Born to Die (Deluxe Version) - Lana Del Rey 12. Born to Die - Lana Del Rey Switzerland: 1. Born to Die (Special Version) - Lana Del Rey 3. Born to Die - Lana Del Rey |
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| Deelightful Bitch | Jan 27 2012, 05:49 PM Post #129 |
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Both songs rick cowrote are my fav. He wrote stuff with madonna I believe right? |
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| bulgar | Jan 27 2012, 08:26 PM Post #130 |
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my edition of 'Born to Die' 1. Born To Die 10/10 2. Off To The Races 8/10 3. Blue Jeans 9/10 4. Video Games 9/10 5. Diet Mtn Dew 9/10 6. National Anthem 8/10 7. Dark Paradise 9/10 9. Carmen 8/10 10. Million Dollar Man 10/10 11. Summertime Sadness 9/10 12. This Is What Makes Us Girls 8/10 14. Lolita 10/10 15. Lucky Ones 10/10 |
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| TheBitterEnd | Jan 27 2012, 09:23 PM Post #131 |
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Really dislike Lolita. It's crass |
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| quoideneuf | Jan 27 2012, 10:51 PM Post #132 |
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went to HMV after work to but this but ended up buying STRONGER by Kelly Clarkson instead - played 'Mr Know It All' in the car all the way home... I do Like this album though - I think I'll wait til its a fiver to buy it... |
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| Riverwide | Jan 27 2012, 10:53 PM Post #133 |
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Wow. Great choice.
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| Riverwide | Jan 28 2012, 12:35 AM Post #134 |
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Nice radio interview! She is sooo adorable. |
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| FuckBuddy | Jan 28 2012, 03:43 AM Post #135 |
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i've just ordered a shipment of the deluxe edition on hmv.com. it's a bit expensive but i care shit - this has album of the year written all over it, even though it's only january |
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| Riverwide | Jan 28 2012, 06:55 PM Post #136 |
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| bulgar | Jan 28 2012, 07:45 PM Post #137 |
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| bulgar | Jan 28 2012, 07:46 PM Post #138 |
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| bulgar | Jan 28 2012, 07:46 PM Post #139 |
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damn right!
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| bulgar | Jan 28 2012, 07:50 PM Post #140 |
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which is exactly why i love it to bits. it's also shameless, hot, and catchy as fuck.
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