Who shall win, the real fans or the fans of real music? Well, after the dust settles there is no clear winner, and it turns out that Del Rey herself encapsulated her plight perfectly many moons ago when she described herself as a “Gangsta Nancy Sinatra”. A great song is a great song and the story behind it ranges from being a minor curiosity at best to outright irrelevant.īut still, the battle lines are drawn, the knives are out and the smell of blood is in the air. But in reality, these people are pretentious morons, for as every Michael Jackson fan will testify it’s the finshed product that counts not the ghoulish Frankenstein behind. Her ballooning, botoxed lips are an easy target for ridicule, but it’s the fact her music and image have been sculpted, manipulated and transformed by music industry insiders that really riles fans of ‘real’ music. True, Del Rey is manufactured both physically and musically. For too many people the credibility of the artist overshines the quality of the music. Everyone is expecting big things from the 25-year-old New Yorker.įor someone whose debut album has only been out for a day it seems odd that she has already attracted as many enemies as admirers. The superlative ‘Video Games’ has racked up 24 million hits on youtube, and press attention has reached unprecedented levels, rivalling that of a royal hip-replacemnt. Like Kot, Roberts sees some promise in the recordings, which he describes as “an impressive gambit that worked magnificently by one measure - buzz and maybe even first-week sales - but that ultimately rings hollow because of a weak performance by the actor/singer.Divisive, talented and manufactured, Lana Del Rey is the most hyped (over-hyped?) artist of her generation. STORY: Lana Del Rey’s Lambasted ‘SNL’ Performance Offends NBC’s Brian Williams “And how Born to Die… landed at the top of the year’s most anticipated release pile.” “One of the great pop music mysteries of the past year is exactly how a young fiction called Lana Del Rey, whose music has an odd retro-futuristic vibe woven through it, moved from nowheresville to SNL,” he writes. Los Angeles Times critic Randall Roberts found the album unconvincing after all the hype. “After 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?”

“Del Rey is at least distinctive her unhurried style sounds nothing like the countless femme fatales with brassier voices and personalities clogging the charts.”īut, in the end he finishes his review unimpressed. “Though she’s not a particularly strong singer,” Kot writes. STORY: Lana Del Rey: 5 Things to Know About the Sexpot Singer And THR looked to the early reviews to see how the album is faring among the critics – and it isn’t doing well.Ĭhicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot opens up his write-up of the album by describing it as “ho-hum.” Yet, he gives the 24-year-old points for having a unique sound.

Del Rey releases her new album, Born to Die (Interscope Records), on Tuesday.

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