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Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die: The Reviews Are In!
Despite all the hype and controversy, critics are pretty impressed by Del Rey’s atmospheric music.
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The now-infamous “Saturday Night Live” performance fail. All the hype about her looks, her path to the spotlight and the obligatory album leak a week before her debut dropped.
Lana Del Rey survived a lifetime’s worth of slings and arrows before her major-label debut, Born to Die, was even released. But now that it’s officially out, critics have had a chance to listen to the atmospheric tracks she’s put together, and for the most part, they’re pretty impressed.
The Chicago Tribune gave it two out of four stars and said the finished product is not always as interesting as the run-up to its release. “[The album] positions itself as a knowing retro commentary. It borrows heavily from B movies starring various second- and third-level ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ bad boys on motorcycles, string-drenched ‘Last Kiss’ pop tunes in which young lovers die in each other’s arms, beehived teens-with-attitude declaring, ‘He hit me and it felt like a kiss,’ ” music critic Greg Kot wrote. While Kot said Del Rey wishes to be taken seriously as “the bad girl in a gown, the cabaret singer with a masochistic streak,” he said she’s not always up to the task, even as he praised her distinctive, draggy vocal delivery and the dramatic, eerie arrangements from producer Emilie Haynie.
Over at BBC, the focus was squarely on the music, saying above and beyond the drama, Born to Die is about “something older and more mysterious than that; the extraordinary, resilient power of the pop song.” The reviewer lamented that nothing on the 12-track album quite reaches the exquisite bummerness of lead single “Video Games,” with several of the songs running “perilously close, while revealing there’s more to her than the love-stunned torch singer [of that song].” What makes the album so fascinating and sets Del Rey apart from the typical “I’m hot, you’re hot” pop tart is her “preoccupation with Hollywood archetypes of American femininity, and her ability to shape-shift between them.”
MTV News’ own James Montgomery believed the hype, writing that the album was “positively brimming with atmospherics — soaring, sonorous strings, echoing electronic boom-bap, morose, maudlin guitar crescendos — all of which imbue it with a truly epic (if not unnecessarily dramatic) scope.” For him, the album is a “thrilling headphone experience” that sounds like the $1 million he suspected it cost to make.
The U.K.’s Guardian also praised the “sumptuous” orchestration and Del Rey’s “fine” voice. But after being impressed by the “beguiling description of a mundane love” affair in “Video Games,” the reviewer said the album’s other lyrics are “incredibly heavy-handed in their attempts to convince you that Lana del Rey is the doomed but devoted partner of a kind of Athena poster bad boy, all white vest, cheekbones and dangling ciggie.” If anything, the Guardian critic didn’t buy the Del Rey tough-girl personality and said the best bet is to mostly ignore the lyrics and focus on “how magnificently most of the melodies have been constructed.”
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Swift and Adele are rumored to be gracing the covers of the February and March issues, respectively.
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<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/swift__taylor/artist.jhtml">Taylor Swift</a> and <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/adele/artist.jhtml">Adele</a> might be joining the likes of Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Britney Spears as the latest pop superstars to grace the cover of famed fashion magazine <i>Vogue.</i> </p><div class="player-placeholder right" id="vid:702275" width="240" height="211"></div><p> <a href="http://fashionista.com/2011/12/vogue-cover-rumor-update-adele-will-cover-march-but-taylor-swift-nabs-a-cover-too/" target="_blank">Fashionista.com</a> reports that after some initial speculation about who had made the final cut, sources confirm that Swift will appear on the February issue and that Adele has been tapped for March, which also happens to be the spring fashion issue. A rep for the magazine wouldn't confirm or deny the reports, simply telling MTV News in an email, "We don't comment on future cover speculation." <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2011/12/adele-may-cover-vogues-march-issue.html?mid=378929&rid=125903830" target="_blank"><i>New York</i></a> magazine's the Cut blog reports that speculation about Adele's cover began to spread when the magazine was reportedly asking designers to provide clothes in her size. </p><div class="player-placeholder right" id="vid:627854" width="240" height="211"></div><p> "Designers have been asked by the title to make special cover outfits for the full-figured chart-topper for the all-important March issue," according to the report, which first surfaced on <i>Women's Wear Daily.</i> <a href="/news/articles/1670246/adele-james-bond-theme.jhtml">Adele previously appeared</a> on the cover of the October issue of <i>Vogue</i> U.K. Meanwhile, <a href="http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2011/06/28/taylor-swift-teen-vogue/">Swift has appeared</a> on the cover of the tween version of the magazine, <i>Teen Vogue,</i> and was spotted with editor-in-chief Anna Wintour at the Rodarte Spring 2012 show at Fashion Week, where she also sat alongside November's cover girl, "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" <a href="http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2011/10/17/rooney-mara-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-nude-poster/">star Rooney Mara</a>. In other magazine news, <i>V Magazine</i> has <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/elliottwdavid/status/149237647074791424" target="_blank">confirmed</a> that Justin Bieber will appear on its cover, which hits newsstands on January 12. The cover was shot by photographers Inez and Vinoodh, who <a href="/news/articles/1670550/lady-gaga-you-and-i-fashion-film.jhtml">worked with Lady Gaga</a> on her "Yoü and I" short films. The Bieber cover was styled by the Mother Monster's right-hand man, Nicola Formichetti.</p>
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