Lana Del Rey Research Paper
Getting Into: Lana Del Rey
4 years after the release of Born To Die, (re)discover Lana’s career in 10 songs
With Getting Into, we try to help you discover bands and artists that we believe are worthy of your time and ears. Because discographies can sometimes be exhausting, we carefully select here 10 songs from the artist’s career to give you an ideal, overall look at their body of work. This is not necessarily a list of the 10 best songs, the 10 biggest hits or an album-by-album overview, though it can sometimes get close to this. Instead, it is the starting point to help you start digging into the world of the act.
Born To Die was released on January 27th 2012. If it wasn’t exactly the first album for the NYC singer, it definitely was Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough. It charted in the top 5 of many countries and keeps moving copies well, as it has been one of the 100 best seller in the US four years in a row. Initial reviews of the album however were divided, as …show more content…
She is still in the alternative, in the margin as no other pop star quite seem to compare to her. More than a musician, Lana Del Rey is a character, a brand, an entity, as you’ll discover through these 10 songs.
Video Games, Born to Die (2012)
It was late in 2011 that Elizabeth Grant launched Lana Del Rey into the stratosphere with just one song, Video Games, and its accompanying video. Drenched in nostalgia and a cinematographic production, the breakthrough single set the tone for her career and character. Easily one of the most iconic tracks of this decade, Video Games feels both light as a feather and enormous. Here, Lana uses her lower register to paint lines about her infinite commitment to her man, even if he doesn’t seem to feel the same way towards her. A tragic relationship? Sounds like A grade subject matter for her.
Brooklyn Baby, Ultraviolence
4 years after the release of Born To Die, (re)discover Lana’s career in 10 songs
With Getting Into, we try to help you discover bands and artists that we believe are worthy of your time and ears. Because discographies can sometimes be exhausting, we carefully select here 10 songs from the artist’s career to give you an ideal, overall look at their body of work. This is not necessarily a list of the 10 best songs, the 10 biggest hits or an album-by-album overview, though it can sometimes get close to this. Instead, it is the starting point to help you start digging into the world of the act.
Born To Die was released on January 27th 2012. If it wasn’t exactly the first album for the NYC singer, it definitely was Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough. It charted in the top 5 of many countries and keeps moving copies well, as it has been one of the 100 best seller in the US four years in a row. Initial reviews of the album however were divided, as …show more content…
She is still in the alternative, in the margin as no other pop star quite seem to compare to her. More than a musician, Lana Del Rey is a character, a brand, an entity, as you’ll discover through these 10 songs.
Video Games, Born to Die (2012)
It was late in 2011 that Elizabeth Grant launched Lana Del Rey into the stratosphere with just one song, Video Games, and its accompanying video. Drenched in nostalgia and a cinematographic production, the breakthrough single set the tone for her career and character. Easily one of the most iconic tracks of this decade, Video Games feels both light as a feather and enormous. Here, Lana uses her lower register to paint lines about her infinite commitment to her man, even if he doesn’t seem to feel the same way towards her. A tragic relationship? Sounds like A grade subject matter for her.
Brooklyn Baby, Ultraviolence