
- Summary: The full-length debut for the New York singer features the single Video Games, which appeared on the CW TV series Ringer.
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- Record Label: Polydor
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 37
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Mixed: 17 out of 37
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Negative: 2 out of 37
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Jan 30, 2012A delicious hybrid of Portishead and Nancy Sinatra.
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Jan 27, 2012Born to Die is a brilliant album, but it's one that leaves room for a few improvements, and inspires confidence that they'll happen.
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Q MagazineFeb 21, 2012Confirms her as the most compelling new pop star around: half doomed romantic, half mordant cynic, with a distinctively conflicted vision of how love, fame and America work. [Mar 2012, p.94]
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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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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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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, 2012I have done my best to place the album, as a series of utterances, in its agony and vacuity.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 309 out of 346
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Mixed: 26 out of 346
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Negative: 11 out of 346
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Jan 31, 2012
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Jul 24, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Sep 10, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 28, 2017
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