Perhaps the best example of this is Cola, the highlight of Paradise and one of her best songs to date. Her sultry, velvety voice hits the right spot between sounding completely bored, stoned and sexy. She makes the most mundane, dull lyrics sound enchanting. This is where we get to Lana’s main selling point – her vocals and delivery.

Pretty lame, huh? Well, somehow, Lana makes it work. Ah he’s in the sky with diamonds and he’s making me crazy ĥ. We get crazy every Friday night, I drop it like it’s hot in the pale moonlight ģ. I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy, I’m tired of driving ’till I see stars in my eyes Ģ. Here is a random selection, for example:ġ. But for the most part Paradise is filled with uninspired lyrics that we’ve all heard before. Gods & Monsters is quite well-written too, with lines as perplexing as “ Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer life imitates art”. She does throw in a couple of interesting and creative lines, like the already infamous “ My pussy tastes like Pepsi-Cola” lyric from Cola. Lyrically it’s the same old tale about devoting herself to her one and only man (admittedly she likes them older) or getting crazy and living to the fullest.

Unfortunately, Paradise, like its predecessor, doesn’t stray too far from this formula. For the most part, her songs explore the following themes: love, being crazy, being crazy in love. Lana get criticized at a lot for sticking to her Gangster Nancy Sinatra schtick, and you have to admit, it does get a bit weary sometimes. She’s been recording music since at least 2005, and she has literally hundreds of unreleased songs in her catalogue. The question is: how did the music hold up? With the release of her new EP, Lana seems to have finally come to terms with her own status and personality. She went from a Pitchfork-approved indie darling to nation’s laughing stock following her performance on Saturday Night Live to a worldwide superstar in space of one year – basically in this short period of time she achieved what most artists take decades to. Watching Lana evolve and grow throughout this year was an interesting experience. So far it hasn't stopped playing for a moment. In a year where I've listened to over 120 different Lana songs, it was going to take a lot for me to want to spin this. Make no mistake, this is an album worthy of consideration on its own merits, not attached to Born to Die. Obviously nothing is going to top the first four tracks of Born to Die, but considering this has been marketed as a throw-away bonus disk on Born to Die it is unbelievably good. On Paradise, each of the songs follow a common theme and were for the most part written around the same time (minus Yayo) and so this album flows in a way that Born to Die could never have. The older tracks (like Diet Mountain Dew, National Anthem, This is What Makes Us Girls) sounded better as the pop songs they were in the early demos - the fluffy subject matter did not lend itself to the darker theme. The later material fit with the dark rich production, driven by the strings and beats. This was a natural result of the fact that the album was a mix of material written from a few different periods in Lana's career. If I had one issue with Born to Die it was that some of the songs felt over produced. Producer 4, 7, 8, recording engineer 4, percussion 4, horns 6, strings 7, 8, keyboards 7, piano 8, engineering 8 Recording engineer 2, 3, 4, mixing engineer 2, 3, 4, drum programing 3Įlectric guitar 2, 3, synthesiser 2, 3, piano 2-4, strings 3, glockenspiel 3, brass 3, organ 3, 4, guitar 4, dulcitone 4, Moog 4, bells 4, Optigan 4, Mellotron 4 Songs included in leaked albums are not listed in this section.Producer 2, 3, 4, keyboards 2, 3, synthesiser 2, bass 3, acoustic guitar 3, drums 3, piano 4, Mellotron 4, strings 4Ĭo-producer 2, drums 2, 6, 7, keyboards 6, 7, producer 5, 7, assistant producer 6 Songs in this list are original songs recorded by Lana Del Rey that have been leaked onto the internet, or released un-commercially.

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