Lana Del Rey Is Better Than Good

Lana Del Rey Is Better Than Good (A CherryOnTop Review)

9 out of 10 cherries

Lana Del Rey is better than good. I wouldn’t say perfect, but she does do things perfectly. She crafts melody with dope instrumentation, and has a voice all her own. Her major label debut, Born To Die, is museum ready, and the more you listen to it, the more you will agree.

The album starts off big with “Born To Die”, a symphonic middle finger to creation. It’s performed well and has enough sound to fill the room. “Off To The Races” is fast passed in a smooth ride. Her vocals would taste like candy if you could eat them. The strings are subdued until the very end, where the composition will speak for itself. “Blue Jeans” is the only song missing from the Kill Bill soundtrack. The guitar driven love song is a love song in every way. The good, the bad and the intoxicating. “Video Games” is beautiful. It’s rare you hear harps performed this perfectly, but it’s done with ease on this track. It’s simply a beautiful song. “Die Mountain Dew” is dope. The beat is ill, à la the Wu-Tang Clan, but the mood is all Lana. She sounds like she and Amy (Winehouse) would have shared a cigarette at some point in life. This song rocks.

“National Anthem” is the most unique. It’s a song glorifying money, and the making of it, but feels like it would be on the iPhone of someone who’s occupying something. “Dark Paradise” is dark. “Radio” is another beautiful song, but this time, her vocals smell like cinnamon, over a pop friendly track that still remains true to the aesthetic. “Million Dollar Man” should be made into a video. The music is moody, but the lyrics are divine. It’s the break up song that movie stars play in their head every time they get a divorce. “Summertime Sadness” is pretty rad, but kind of sounds like the second song. “Lolita” is pretty cool; it has a great hook and a super dope beat. Think what Gwen Stephani was going for on her first solo album, then you can picture it. And “Lucky Ones” is just awesome. This song will be on a movie soundtrack someday, I guarantee it.

Lana Del Rey is all her own. Nothing sounds copied, manipulated or reductive. In fact, it sounds perfectly made.

- Digo RockZtar

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