Our album of the year saw a maturing Del Rey dismantle the American dream while loving it to death, her imagery and artistry aligned to perfection
When Lana Del Rey arrived in 2011, anyone who bet on her becoming one of the decade’s defining artists would now be quids in. As sublime as her debut single Video Games was, her debut album, Born to Die, was flimsy, laced with hiccupy hip-hop affectations and surface obsessions that didn’t suggest much potential for maturation. How nice it has been to be proved wrong.
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