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Jan 30, 2012There is a chasm that separates "Video Games" from the other material and performances on the album, which aims for exactly the same target--sultry, sexy, wasted--but with none of the same lyrical grace, emotional power, or sympathetic productions.
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Jan 30, 2012For all of its coos about love and devotion, it's the album equivalent of a faked orgasm-- a collection of torch songs with no fire.
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Feb 3, 2012A deeply, deeply flawed meditation on love, image, and fame in the 21st century, and a collection of ideas thrown at the wall to see what sticks.
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Jan 30, 2012Given her chic image, it's a surprise how dull, dreary and pop-starved Born to Die is.
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Jan 30, 2012There's just enough promise here to show that there is indeed talent beyond all the hype.
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Feb 10, 2012So the question becomes, is Born to Die more good than bad, or vice versa? Let's err with the former, hype be damned.
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Feb 28, 2012Spread over 12 songs, Del Rey becomes so ordinary, even bland, that no amount of little girl vocals or pouting can save her.
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Jan 30, 2012Even the terrible parts of Born to Die are just so lovable, which bodes well for the actually great parts.
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Jan 31, 2012Her debut is mediocre at best. At worst, it's as uninspired and repetitive as her internet commentators.
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Jan 27, 2012All tabloid tawdriness aside, she unleashes some truly A-level songs. But its baffling failures drop Die to a middling, maddening C+.
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Feb 2, 2012Much of her music aims to capture elusive emotions, yet she ends up spelling them out with literal refrains, banal narratives and sexed-up histrionics that leave little to the imagination.
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Feb 1, 2012It all sounds very immaturely polished.
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Jan 30, 2012Lana Del Rey's partying is fuelled by a knowing sadness, and sung in that laconic, hypnotic voice, which ultimately saves this thoroughly dissolute, feminist nightmare of a record for the romantics among us.
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Jan 27, 2012The worst thing about Born To Die is that even its great songs contain problems.
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Jan 27, 2012In song after song, she offers variants on the same theme, in infatuated erotic reveries of submission to bad-boy or sugar-daddy lovers with fast cars and lots of money.
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Feb 2, 2012After that highpoint ["Video Games"] things head downhill quickly.
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Jan 27, 2012After all the hub-bub of recent weeks, one of Lee's greatest songs sums up Del Rey's grand entrance: "Is That All There Is?"
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2,089 out of 2350
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Mixed: 80 out of 2350
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Negative: 181 out of 2350
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