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Haunting and beautiful. This is the Live version of Video Games. Doesn’t she just ooze elegance?

From the album:

Lana Del Rey – Born to Die (2012)

Quick Review:

Simply put, it is a record that is positively brimming with atmospherics — soaring, sonorous strings, echoing electronic boom-bap, morose, maudlin guitar crescendos — all of which imbue it with a truly epic (if not unnecessarily dramatic) scope. Del Rey’s critics will undoubtedly point out that scope as nothing more than cover for her perceived shortcomings as a performer, but it still makes Born to Die a rather thrilling headphones experience. This is an album that sounds like it cost a million bucks to make — mostly because it probably did.

This is not to say that Born to Die is a bad album — far from it. In fact, it’s certainly w-a-a-y better than most would’ve expected (tellingly, even less will admit to that fact), and Del Rey does showcase some rather deft songwriting prowess — or at least a knack for penning a catchy chorus — particularly on the album’s few bright moments, like “Off to the Races,” “Diet MTN Dew” and “Radio.”