January 25, 201213 yr 10 Born To Die 08 Off To The Races 10 Blue Jeans 10 Video Games 08 Diet Mtn Dew 07 National Anthem (demo would be 10) 07 Dark Paradise 08 Radio 07 Carmen 08 Million Dollar Man 09 Summertime Sadness 09 This is what makes us girls 08 Without You 06 Lolita 08 Lucky Ones This is my initial rating, although I can see some improving with time, like Radio. At first it was quite unassuming, but today it came on shuffle in my car and it just clicked as awesome. I think the reason people might be a bit underwhelmed by this album is because, like me, they are listening to it as half an album because they already had quite a few of the songs, and they happen to be the best ones. Now the songs are all getting their own identity after a few listens and I can see how good they are. My main criticism of this album is that it's all quite one note. The songs are all similar tempo, structure and mood. National Anthem and This Is What Makes Us Girls seem to have been brought in line with the other songs on the album, but I think the originals would have been better because they would've added some variation.
January 25, 201213 yr Lolita is currently my fave I think. I like hearing Lana not being depressed. Not that depressed Lana doesn't make wonderful songs! Currently I love every song on the album. Even Million Dollar Man which I hated at first grew on me.
January 25, 201213 yr Nothing really jumps out at me on the album and the album version of National Album remains dull as. Gonna stick to the demo and the singles I think.
January 25, 201213 yr I really love Miss America. I wish it was on the album, it's stunning! rfGNMyAMvmI
January 25, 201213 yr 09.5 Born To Die 10 Off To The Races 10 Blue Jeans 10 Video Games 09 Diet Mtn Dew 10 National Anthem (I thought I'd be disappointed but I REALLY love this version! Not quite as much as the incredible demo but still) 08 Dark Paradise 07.5 Radio 08.5 Carmen 06.5 Million Dollar Man 08 Summertime Sadness 08.5 This Is What Makes Us Girls 07 Without You 09.5 Lolita 07 Lucky Ones As I said, incredible album. Far too early to say this I know but it's easily going to be one of the best of the year I think.
January 25, 201213 yr I really love Miss America. I wish it was on the album, it's stunning! rfGNMyAMvmI LanaDelRey: "No idea how u got this song." Brandan: "You gave it to me in 2008 :) Years ago I was in love with it but could not find a copy so I asked you directly and you sent it to me via email under the title "Miss America". Now as the years went by, did you change the name of this song?" LanaDelRey: "God. I forgot that. I don't know if i changed the name- i think i called it Trash Magic in my notebook, but also miss america. i was staying at the sunset motel in new jersey off and on every other couple of weeks. i decorated it with tinsel from the duane reade up the street and wrote this song.. it still makes me happy." Ha! :D
January 25, 201213 yr Would someone be able to PM me the National Anthem demo? I can't find it anywhere! I haven't heard this album in full but I have heard most songs. They do sound samey although I didn't initially like Video Games and now I love it!
January 25, 201213 yr I'll need to hear the album throughout the weekend, it better not disappoint me! :D
January 26, 201213 yr The entire album is basically one song stretched out for an hour.I was going to download this because (as I have said before) I think she has potential. I don't think I'll bother now after reading this comment. Maybe give it a listen when it's on spotify or something. But I'm not going to rush and listen/download it.
January 26, 201213 yr The entire album is basically one song stretched out for an hour. This is guff of the highest order. If you like the singles then sure you know what to expect, but if you like the singles then I can see no reason why you wouldn't like the album.
January 26, 201213 yr The entire album is basically one song stretched out for an hour. I thought this too but I like it nonetheless. Dark Paradise is easily one of my favourites.
January 26, 201213 yr This is guff of the highest order. If you like the singles then sure you know what to expect, but if you like the singles then I can see no reason why you wouldn't like the album. It's true though. The exact same sounds are recycled all over the place and it's all a bit flat throughout. Born To Die and Video Games were certainly quite different but that's about as far as it goes unfortunately.
January 26, 201213 yr This is guff of the highest order. If you like the singles then sure you know what to expect, but if you like the singles then I can see no reason why you wouldn't like the album. I agree. Well I won't deny it sounds a bit samey in places, because it does, but if you like the singles then you're going to like the album.
January 26, 201213 yr but if you like the singles then you're going to like the album. You see, this is not always true. The samey-ness can detract from the whole thing because your ears/brain gets fatigued with the spirit crushing inevitability of each song sounding the same. It can get frustrating.
January 27, 201213 yr Not as buzzed about it after reading all that, but my deluxe copy has been shipped :D
January 27, 201213 yr I have to say based on my 4 listens to the album that it quite a let down, there's nothing approaching 'Born To Die' or even 'Video Games' levels of good. That's not to say it's BAD (both of those are fantastic), it's just not quite as tight, melodic and interesting as I was hoping for.
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