12 The Retriever Weekly Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Lana Del Rey Album Review By Julia Celtnieks Sinatra,” or you hate her. helped her put out an album that songs. really dance to it. Unless you’re Staff Writer It could be argued that Del barely sold. But that’s just an What makes the album is the great at impressions, you can’t Two months inFeatures and it’s already Rey is to 2012 as Ke$ha was to image question. What about the sound. Del Rey’s brand of slowed- really sing along to it, either. But been quite the year for Lana 2010. Both singers burst onto new album? down, low-key but nonetheless love Lana Del Rey or hate her, it the mainstream pop music scene It’s…not bad, actually. Stay with catchy pop is bolstered by a does make for an entertaining leading up to the release of her rather suddenly, each with her me. veritable arsenal of producers Delmajor-label Rey. The debut, hype/confusion Born To own distinct personal gimmick Del Rey has a distinctive who add massive string sections, it was the musical equivalent Die, combined with her recent, (Ke$ha as the crazy party girl voice–a tone that was once seductive bass lines, and tight 15of tracks a Disney in its own Channel way. For sitcom: me, much-maligned performance on who may be living in her car, described to me, accurately, as “a beats to every track. The result something I shouldn’t be so Saturday Night Live has created Lana as the girl without much cross between Adele, Lady Gaga, is a kind of bizarre musical time embarrassed to admit that I a divide deeper and wider than personality), and created as and Minnie Mouse”–but she’s not machine, whizzing from sixties liked. the one between Ravens fans and many fans as detractors almost much of a singer. Songwriting baroque pop to today’s R&B. Del Steelers fans. Among people who overnight. But while Ke$ha didn’t isn’t her forte, either. If you’re of Rey’s deep, sing-songy vocals and Races,” “Video Games,” “This Is have heard of her, it’s a starkly change much besides the obvious legal drinking age, take a shot the gargantuan production make WhatQuick Makes Download: Us Girls” “Off to the black-and-white issue: you either dollar sign, just four years ago Del every time she says “kiss me.” I for a fascinating, oddly appealing love the indie chanteuse and Rey was Lizzy Grant, a girl whose guarantee you won’t remember combination. [email protected] self-described “gangsta Nancy wealthy domain-investor father Now…Born to Die. You can’t

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