Born to Die (Lana-Del-Rey-Album)

Born to Die is the second studio album and the major label debut of the American singer Lana Del Rey. It was released on January 27, 2012 in iTunes and on 31 January 2012 on Interscope Records, Polydor Records and Stranger Records. The album reached number one in Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland and Austria, as well as second place in the U.S..

Formation and style

In June 2011, Lana Del Rey had signed the record contract with Stranger Records. The album was recorded with Patrik Berger, Jeff Bhasker, Chris Braide, Emile Haynie, Justin Parker, Rick Nowels, RoboPop and Al Shux as producers. In October 2011, the first single Video Games followed. As more singles were Born to Die, Blue Jeans, Summertime Sadness and Dark Paradise decoupled.

The album combines pop influences with those from the alternative hip-hop and indie pop. Until November 2012, it had sold more than 2.5 million times.

On 16 November 2012, the album was released in a re-release along with the Paradise EP, which contained 8 new songs under the name Born to Die: The Paradise Edition.

Reception

The album received mixed to favorable reactions. On the page Metacritic.com album received a score of 61 out of 100, based on 38 reviews in English.

The site Allmusic.com awarded 2.5 stars out of five. John Bush wrote that Del Rey was "unable to Consistently sell herself as a heartbreaker, and most of the songs here sound like cobbled Retreads of video games. " ("... Unable himself consistently sell as heartbreaker, and most songs would sound like cobbled together versions of video games. " )

For Christopher Dorner laut.de of the work is " with its twelve glamorous Sadcore songs still a decent, evocative pop album ". For him it fill " a void between Beyoncé and Nancy Sinatra ." However 'll clear "that the album runs out of steam at the end ."

Also in Music Express is criticized that it was the artist not been able to " breathe life into a complete album ." So was " Lana Del Rey [ ... ] landed on the ground again after the early high-altitude flight ," they have equally the " Happy, say it but, normal level " experience.

Jens-Christian Rabe joins for the Süddeutsche Zeitung this view. In the last pieces go, " the album pretty much the air of ": " The atmosphere is more consistent, but the sound is always more to the synth Preserve. " Cross is the album for him in spite of retro presentation but in much of the work of the 'informed mainstream pop music entirely on the amount of time. "

When TIME Frank Sawatzki recognize equally that the album apparently musically follow the mainstream, " Born To Die has become neither heaven nor hell, but a decent Popp Latte, and this decent Popp bar differs in sound and texture is not as bad of currently salon enabled mainstream productions ". This album certainly lose its magic: " decoupled from the flood of images that surrounds the artist on the Internet and in the projections of their performances, the phenomenon Lana Del Rey shrinks down to size ."

Title list

All songs were co-written by Elizabeth Grant ( Lana Del Rey ). Additional songwriters are listed.