Lana del rey best album4/6/2024 Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey made her first big splash in 2012 with the polarizing album “Born to Die.” (Austin Hargrave/AUGUST) Behind the lyrics She believes in songcraft as truth-telling. Now she has made an album where she’s patrolling the margins of her psyche and relaying her findings, whispering hyper-intimate lullabies that can feel as exquisite and disorienting as reality. I’m just singing because that’s what I know how to do.” Never will.” Gawkers are still gawking at that retort, but why not take her at her word? Back in 2011, at the dawn of her fame, she told Pitchfork, “I’m not trying to create an image or a persona. When NPR published a deep, diligent, largely flattering review of her new album last month, Del Rey took issue with its mention of personae and blasted back on social media: “Never had a persona. Here was a remote pop star dream-journaling from a perspective too fabulous to belong to an actual human being.ĭel Rey has rejected that idea from the jump. For years, the easiest way to reconcile the strangeness of Lana Del Rey was to tell ourselves that we were listening to a persona.
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