Why we love Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey isn't new to the music scene, as you might think – she's been performing for bloody ages. Since 2007 in fact - although she was performing under the name Lizzy Grant, which is a bit less romantic, so we can see why things have started to take off for her.
Is it wrong to perform under an assumed identity? We don't think so. It's done Lady Gaga the power of good (also she released some pretty good music so, you know that too) and Madonna probably wouldn't have done so well if she'd stuck with Louise Veronica Ciccone. Plus Lana Del Rey's persona is pretty cool.
Languorous, laid-back and treacle-thick, her voice makes us marginally warmer just by listening to it like some kind of audio three-bar electric fire. She makes a lot of sad music, that's true – her breakout hit Blue Jeans is the sort of song you'd find playing on the stereo on repeat when you come home to discover that your girlfriend's left you – but there's a lot of hope there, too. And a fair measure of badass.
Lana Del Rey makes the sort of music you could listen to whilst driving down one of those long American roads with one hand on the steering wheel and the other lazily draped out of the window holding the revolver you just used to shoot your daddy. Is that a genre of music? It should be.
Plus, all that, and – well – look at her. Top marks all round, we think.
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