Lana Del Rey

Originally Posted by Moon_Child

Thanks for sharing. I enjoy her music, a lot. I'm a hopeless romantic and her music enhances my feelings of love, romance, and loss.

I don't think she's pretentious. Her style of clothes is modest and reminiscent of beauty inspired by romance; her songs too.

I don't like guessing people's MBTI. I find it rather rude. I don't like to define people to my definition/perspective. I just know I love her art.

My favorite song by her at the moment is:

A boy made me feel like this. And she made me dwell on those feelings and appreciate them.

^Amen to all of this. I also really like the songs Off the the Races and Dark Paradise. Actually, I've yet to hear a song that I don't like from her. I just love the sound of her voice, and I like singing along with her songs haha.

My main impression of Lana Del Rey is that she has the stage presence of a lost girl. Video Games is a lovely song, but its lovelier without her warbled, faux jazz vocals. The amalgam of The Smiths "This Charming Man" with "Video Games" is good actually and made me appreciate the composition (sampling) on that song. The singles "Born to Die" and "Blue Jeans" especially, have great production, it sort of reminds me of HURTS music. That song's layered texture was aurally promising, but Del Rey's vocals were lackluster. She sings better than on SNL, but such stretches are relegated to the studio setting. I recall one live performance when she switched from the deep, throaty vibrato to this little girl purr in like one second, which was unnerving for me, to say the least. She's so-so for me.