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Lana Del Rey
Artist Icon Born to Die (2012)
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Born to Die est le 2e album de Lana Del Rey. Il est sorti le 27 janvier 2012 en Suisse et le 30 janvier 2012 en France. Il comprend les singles Video Games, Born to Die, Blue Jeans, Summertime Sadness et National Anthem

Avec Born To Die, Lana Del Rey signe un album original, audacieux, mais qui pêche à certains endroits.

Et oui, soit Lana Del Rey est vamp aguicheuse, retro glam, idole des 50's avec une voix traînante et envoûtante sur fond de piano et de cordes, soit elle est bad girl aux accents r'n'b et au dirty talk façon Rihanna.

Mais quand elle mélange les deux genres, on s'égare.

Le titre Born To Die est l'hymne majestueux que l'on connaît et qui donne une touche impériale au disque. Comme entrée, on ne pouvait pas rêver mieux.

Off To The Races nous offre un phrasé rapide presque rapé, mais toujours très Lana Del Rey, comprenez que la belle est toujours lancinante, comme si elle nous faisait le coup de la panne dans sa Chevrolet Bel Air décapotable, un soir d'été.

Sur Vidéo Games, Lana Del Rey redevient séductrice et sort les violons...

Avec Diet Mountain Dew, on se croirait back dans les 90's, aux grandes heures du r'n'b ou de la newjack. On imagine bien Lana Del Rey en cycliste fluo et sneakers blanches, remuant du popotin.
Etrangement, le refrain nous rappelle le Don't Speak de No Doubt.

National Anthem est une redite de Born To Die, en plus sensuel, très Gwen Stefani sur ses albums sol, dans la manière de sussurer et d'accélérer certaines phrases.

Les ballades Million Dollar Man, Summertime Sadness, Dark Paradise (qui fait penser à Apologize de One Republic) se ressemblent un peu et n'ont pas le petite truc en plus pour nous faire décoller.

Pourtant, le talent est là, indéniablement.

Le problème c'est qu'à chaque fois que Lana Del Rey nous emmène quelque part, elle se reprend en chemin et fait volte-face.

Son bolide fait un embardé et nous éjecte tout droit dans le décor.

En écoutant Born To Die de Lana Del Rey, on a affaire à un grand melting pot où Gwen Stefani rencontre Rihanna qui rencontre Nancy Sinatra qui croise Kate Bush avant de tomber sur Tori Amos à la sortie d'un bar.

Parfois, on a l'impression d'entendre l'influence d'Imogen Heap, Alanis Morissette , ou alors on se prend à imaginer que Lana Del Rey est une Kanye West au féminin, comme on l'a redécouvert assagi sur 808's and Heartbreak et My Dark Twister Fantasy.

C'est normal, Born To Die a été produit entre autres, par Emile Haynie, un ponte du hip hop qui a travaillé avec Kanye West justement, Ice Cube, Eminem ou encore Kid Cudi.
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User Album Review
If you want an explanation for the unlikely rise of Lana Del Rey, it isn’t that hard to find. Ignore accusations of cynical marketing and inauthenticity, or speculation about surgery and Daddy’s money – that’s not important. And don’t get distracted by the YouTube statistics or the online hyperbole, this isn’t about new media. It’s about something older and more mysterious than that; the extraordinary, resilient power of the pop song. For all of her trashy Americana and startling beauty, if Del Rey hadn’t arrived last summer with a song as luminously beautiful as Video Games, none of this would be happening.

So the only truly important question about Born to Die is whether there’s more where that came from. Cynics look away: the answer is an emphatic yes. Nothing else quite matches Video Games’ eerie perfection of form and melody – after all, 99% of singers go an entire career without finding one song that good – but several run it perilously close, while revealing there’s more to her than the love-stunned torch singer of Video Games.

What makes Born to Die so richly fascinating – and what marks Del Rey out from the standard issue "I’m hot, you’re hot" pop starlet – is her preoccupation with Hollywood archetypes of American femininity, and her ability to shape-shift between them. So, on the stately, bloodstained title-track, Del Rey plays femme fatale, deliciously stoned and doomed, with an imperious vocal to match. On the addictive, sugar-rushing Off to the Races she’s trailer trash living the high life, her vocal veering deftly between husky cynicism and hiccupping glee; while on the tender This Is What Makes Us Girls she’s the poor little rich girl looking melancholically back on youthful hedonism.

It all reaches its apotheosis on National Anthem where Del Rey, dissatisfied with merely being an all-American girl, becomes America itself, offering up deadpan slogans like "money is the reason we exist" before demanding utter patriotic devotion on the swaggering chorus. If that sounds knowing that’s because it is, not to mention intelligent, ambitious, and more interesting than anything Adele is likely to write even by the time her inevitable 72 collection hits the shelves of the future. It’s also brilliantly realised, thanks to Del Rey’s extraordinary delivery, her ability to slip from deep-toned haughtiness to breathless ecstasy to velvety vamping – often in the same gorgeous melody.

Born to Die isn’t perfect: it slumps slightly towards the end, and the glossy trip-hop production grows wearying on lesser gothic melodramas like Dark Paradise. But it’s the most distinctive and assured debut since Glasvegas’ eponymous disc in 2008, and makes you desperate to see where she goes from here. Del Rey’s defenders can take a break: Born to Die does their job better than they could hope to.


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