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Lana Del Rey - Born To Die: Paradise Edition
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On November 2nd Lana will re-release her debut album 'Born To Die', which supposedly will have 8 new tracks on it. The album cover and info will be posted on justjared.com next week.
Rumoured Tracks:
Body Electric
In The Land Of God & Monsters
Will You Still Love Me
Burning Desire
Because Of You
Blue Velvet (Cover for her H&M campaign)
Paradise Lost
Rumoured Tracks:
Body Electric
In The Land Of God & Monsters
Will You Still Love Me
Burning Desire
Because Of You
Blue Velvet (Cover for her H&M campaign)
Paradise Lost
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I hope the re-release will be well promoted in the States btw. Her album is quite overlooked there.
Hate re-releases but love Lana. I will be first in the queue to buy this.
TTT has sold almost one million copies in USA, almost a million copies in the UK and reaching there in other parts of the world, but yes, Lana has been quite succesful for a debutant artist.
This!!
This however this is worth every penny. 8 new tracks is almost like a whole other album and for people like me, who wasn't interested enough in the beginning, can get it now
I don't blame US critics for not buying into her. The country as a whole is much less open to overnight sensations than the UK is; hype doesn't mean as much over there.
Surely the job of a music critic is to judge the album on the music contained within? In most cases, the US critics spent the vast majority of the review concentrating on everything BUT the album. That's what wazzed me off about the whole thing. The criticism wasn't in any way constructive, it was vindictive and nasty. The funny/embarrassing thing (for them) is many of those critics loved her when they thought she was an indie artist who came out of nowhere with Video Games. A critic scorned is a nasty creation.
Whoever came up with the idea of repackaged editions... one word... Karma! ;-)
"quaint, self-conscious, faux-retro lyrics" is that all you think she does? Case or point some of Lana's darker songs are nothing but total bleakness or total badass stuff -it er really isn't all "quaint" at all. Oh and don’t say it too loud but she actually does happy dancey songs occasionally too which botches the theory she only does misery. I think like a lot of people you've only heard a few tracks and haven't realised the full extent of what she has done. Great variety of B2D itself, but even more if you dip your toes into her HUGE amount of unreleased demo's and old material under previous stage names floating about on the web.
Lana is heavily into hip hop and classic poetry by all accounts. Fans know she's a big fan of classic American poet Walt Whitman-she's actually got his name tattooed on her arm. What I would say she has taken from that is her lyrics have a very intelligent poetic quality to them. All her songs tell stories and within those stories she often makes bigger points about how America is as a country.
Some people might say I read too much into her lyrics, but I seriously believe she is a very, very clever lyrist, up there with the best. Even her dumber songs are intelligently stupid, if you see what I mean. And yes I think she totally means everything she sings.
As for the US critics they need to get over their stupid prejudiced opinions. I think they thought they did something really clever what they found out she was a rich girl. Then off the back of that they made up all this nonsense that she was really some Paris Hilton character who'd got her rich daddy to fund her music career and write songs for her. Internet Trolls have roasted her for this ever since.
She's proven herself time and time again now as an artist and a song writer who does this off her own skills and merit, her back catalogue speaks for itself. They need to change the record, its got old now. Put it this way: I'm a super cynical Indie Boy, I bleed Indie dammit, and she's won me over time and time again. I don't expect everybody to like her, but I can never believe it when so called "music critics," people who should be shouting from the roof tops about good music, refuse to admit there’s any merit to what she does.
You know I've been trying to wean myself off the drug they call Lana Del Rey recently. I think I've O.D.'d on her all year, people are probably sick of my essay length posts on these boards about her. I'm thinking this is getting a bit crazy.
But god darn, I think I like being her kind of crazy, and she's just so worth shouting about! All she has to do is leak some songs, I'm reduced to a pile of music fan goo and I can't help myself. A lot of her fans say the same thing: "She's made music good again." Meaning she's saved us from all the crap that dominates the charts. She's different, she's special, I have nothing but respect for her.
Back to B2D Paradise edition: If the track listing is correct that's interesting. It does still mean BIG time quality unreleased songs that have become fan faves (like On Our Way), still remain unreleased. Possibly been saved for the next album along with new tracks? Hope so.
Being into poetry does not make one a good poet.
Likewise, singing about dark themes does not make one's style less quaint.
You're taken by her lyrics, I'm not. It's really that simple. I appreciate she's going for an impressionist, fractured take on society and love at large, but it doesn't work for me. She chucks dozens of themes at the wall and sees what sticks.
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2.One Direction - Up All Night 2.478.000
3.Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 2.059.000
4.Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 1.762.000
5.Gotye - Making Mirrors 1.535.000
6.Madonna - MDNA 1.469.000*
7.Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball 1.410.000*
8.Justin Bieber - Believe 1.398.000
08 Rihanna - Talk That Talk 1 287 000*
09 Adele - 19 1 264 000*
10 Whitney Houston - The Greatest Hits 1 248 0
(courtesy of Sonia85 on UKMix)