Polydor Lana Del Rey - Born to Die -CD

it came in a good condition

Getting to hear summer time sadness for the first time on a cd really took my heart I love the quality of this cd * HIGHLY RECOMMEND *

i love this album came in good condition and packaging

Great

Le cd est impeccable, Lana del rey est juste une star !

El mejor disco de Lana junto a Ultraviolence

There seems little point in reviewing an album that has already been reviewed by so many people, but a few thoughts are perhaps worth writing down, given the whirl of misinformation and hype and hating that has gone on. With just a couple of songs Lana Del Rey has completely rejuvenated and revalidated the whole of popular music. That may seem an overstatement, but I'm speaking as someone who wouldn't listen to the Top 40 if you offered me a large sum of money. I only had to listen to a snatch of one of Lana's songs, and I knew she was something special, something exciting from a musical realm that has been entirely stale for the past decade. Firstly the image: yes, she is striking to look at, but it is anything but an easy look, it's a confrontational look and a mysterious look; she doesn't smile, she looks like she could maybe kill you, given provocation. Everything she does flirts with the conventions of pop music, but all at one remove. In her songs, she plays a certain character, arguably several different ones. You sense that she doesn't feel any limitation on what she will do. She will quote Nabokov's Lolita, because she feels like it. She will write a song entitled 'Born To Die', she will call her album it, as no other calculating pop star would do. She sings about doomed love and death, as no other pop star would do. She mixes pungent reality with seductive fantasy. All her songs are shot through with a sad, wasted glamour that it's impossible to shake from your mind, once you've heard it. She is to pop music now what Springsteen was to pop music in the seventies and eighties. She is arguably one of the best lyricists at work today, in any genre. She presents to us 'a freshman generation of degenerate beauty queens'. The portraits she paints are old-fashioned portraits of young women and young women grown old, who have never heard of the word feminism, and blindly pledge their hearts to useless and violent and masculine men. Listen to the sadness in her portraits, rather than having some knee-jerk reaction to the un-PC characters. This is no advert for female empowerment, but it portrays these doomed and sincere women with great fidelity and affection. Del Rey doesn't sneer; she empathises with her characters, she becomes her characters. There is as much depth in her portraits of superficiality as you would find in a Matt Berninger lyric. Dark Paradise is one of the most subtly powerful and devastating portraits of living after the death of a lover that you will find. Carmen is a heartbreaking portrayal of a woman who everyone envies the false image of, while the woman herself is living in hell. Million Dollar Man is a perfect indictment of a certain kind of flashy man who women will fall for, only to be mistreated. Del Rey's women are victims, yes, but it's the sincere tragedy of their situations which makes for such memorable music. The tunes, of course, are entirely sublime. The sort of tunes you thought had died out with pop's heyday. You remember Madonna circa 'Like a Prayer'? Born To Die itself is one of the most majestic pop songs ever written. She is in the same league as Prince when he wrote 'Nothing Compares 2 U' and 'When Doves Cry'. Her voice is not a perfect instrument; there's a hitch in her voice which is occasionally disruptive, but she manoeuvres around it pretty well, and her ability to move from deep sophisticate to adolescent wanna-be is frequently striking. Buy the fifteen track version. Lucky Ones is classic.

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