"It seems everyone has an opinion on recent Billboard cover girl Lana Del Rey. Now that her hotly anticipated debut "Born To Die" has widely leaked, expect the still-unproven live singer to elicit a whole new wave of "she's not that bad on record!" defenses all over the Internet in the days leading up to the album's official release on Tuesday (Jan. 31).
So: is it any good? Well, at 15 tracks, it's as puffy as the singer's oft-debated lips. Many of the songs tread the same lyrical territory (good girl falls for bad boy, or vice versa; variations on lines like "kiss me on my open mouth" and "take your body downtown" are used throughout), and the noir production from hip-hop vets like Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Jay-Z) and Emile Haynie (Lil Wayne, Eminem) starts to sound stale on late-album cuts "Million Dollar Man" and "Lolita."
But perhaps that's only because the highlights (title track "Born To Die" and the viral hits "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans") have already become veritable anthems for the Hype Machine circuit by today's short attention-span standards (it's worth noting that Lana Del Rey was a virtual unknown before "Video Games" created a blog firestorm in late July.) Backlash notwithstanding, the "SNL" exposure helped Del Rey crack the Billboard charts for the first time last week, including a No. 20 bow on the Billboard 200 for a self-titled digital EP. The continued curiosity surrounding Del Rey is only going to keep her atop Twitter's trending topics." - Billboard
Tracklist:
01 Born to Die
02 Off to the Races
03 Blue Jeans
04 Video Games
05 Diet Mtn Dew
06 National Anthem
07 Dark Paradise
08 Radio
09 Carmen
10 Million Dollar Man
11 Summertime Sadness
12 This Is What Makes Us Girls
13 Without You
AVAILABLE: JANUARY 31 2012
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