Tag: Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Louche in Louisiana: Lana Del Rey’s Visual Accompaniment for “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” Has Its Roots in “Video Games”
Being that Lana Del Rey is hardly a stranger to making “no frills” videos interspersed with “found footage,” her visual accompaniment for “White Feather Hawk [Read More…]
Cinderella’s Got to Go: With A Matter of Time, The Clock Strikes Midnight as Laufey Steps Even Further Into Her Own Musical Skin
Nothing about Laufey’s musical journey has been conventional. Perhaps the biggest example of that was becoming an “overnight” sensation during the pandemic while posting videos [Read More…]
Nosferatu Was Made For Lana Del Rey a.k.a. Ellen Hutter
While The Shangri-Las might have been the OGs when it came to perfecting the notion of “he’s good bad, but he’s not evil,” Lana Del [Read More…]
2012 Strikes Again: Lana Del Rey Determined to Send A Message That She Hasn’t Forgotten About the Critical Crucifixion of Her Early Career During Coachella Performance
If there’s one thing 2024 has taught us so far, it’s that celebrities don’t forget a slight (*cough cough* Beyoncé making Cowboy Carter in response [Read More…]
On Born to Die’s Tenth Anniversary, Let Us Reflect Upon How the Album Would Fare Today, Plus the “We All Died in 2012” Theory
The accelerated pace at which society has altered in the years since one, Lana Del Rey, released her debut album, Born to Die, is almost [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey: A Patron Saint of Father’s Day, Or: Every Song By LDR That Mentions “Daddy”
Despite only one line in Lana Del Rey’s 2012 song, “Ride,” mentioning anything about a “Daddy” (while also including “father” in the lyrics, “Dying young [Read More…]
LDR & Jared Leto’s Gucci Guilty Commercial: A “Born to Die” Redux
As the more approachable “twin” to Link Wray’s cherished 1958 hit single “Rumble,” the record’s B-side, “The Swag” is fittingly used to set the sonic [Read More…]
“Blue Jeans”: The Forever Pool-Drenched Song of End of Summer
While Lana Del Rey had to “just ride” on the coattails of a remix’s success in order to find a larger audience in the mainstream [Read More…]
Five Years Later & I’m Living the Narrative of LDR’s Born to Die Album More Than Never
The thing about Lana Del Rey is, women either think she’s god or an overly dramatic phony who has cashed in one too many times [Read More…]
