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Despite it being one of the lengthiest tracks on the album at nearly five minutes, it isn’t lacking in the hooks department. The opening title track, for example, perfectly sets the scene for 23 tracks of hip-hop infused, operatic relational drama. This apathetic obsession is pop beauty at its finest which makes this album something more than it should’ve been.ĭespite the fact that the the album initially sounds like it’s some boring music not designed for the general listener, the tracks from Born To Die are genuinely well-constructed songs that stand up to modern-day scrutiny. This is then combined with the fact that the lyrics actually possesses a lethal dependency on love even as Lana sounds like she’d rather be at a poetry reading to make the ultimate in pop music. Even the two main genres that this alt-pop album possess are pretty much at odds with each other: there seems to be a certain calculated, manufactured approach to operatic music that seems to downright contradict the supposed authenticity of hip-hop. This is proven if you closely examine her voice, which manages to trickle out a semblance of emotion despite the fact that beyond the surface, there is a certain vacancy where genuine heartache should reside. So it's pretty much the standard pop package. Lyrically, we get to hear subordination disguised as lovesickness (Dark Paradise, Summertime Sadness and Without You), some quasi-sexual-empowerment (lyrical guilty pleasures Lolita and Cola), the anthem dedicated to her haters (Radio) and half-hearted stabs at social commentary (National Anthem and This Is What Makes Us Girls). And it certainly summed up the Born To Die era perfectly with its melodramatic tendencies that perfectly accommodated the inauthentically authentic tracks that somehow fitted the musical, vocal and lyrical landscape. Some artists perfectly recapitulate their musical persona and artistry in their own art and it seemed that Lana wanted to be that artist right from the start. “Blurring the lines between real and the fake” Lana briefly tosses away in the bridge of National Anthem, the 5th single from Born To Die. Review Summary: So, it seems that subtlety, nuance and alt-learnings actually wins the day making this one of the better pop debuts of the 2010’s.