Love, the law, and Lana Del Rey
Posted By Admin on January 31, 2012
Her major label debut, Born To Die, refines the formula set out on that early material.
A sweeping epic of doomed love affairs and bruised glamour, it could be the lost soundtrack to a film noir.
Del Reys vocals have a cinematic quality, too. One minute, shes a breathy femme fatale; the next, a languorous, sultry diva: Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich competing for control of the microphone.
In person, however, the singer is more down-to-earth.
Softly-spoken and doe-eyed, she comes from a close-knit family. Her left hand is tattooed with a capital letter M for her grandmother, Madeleine.
And while her lyrics revel in seedy romance (he loves me with every beat of his cocaine heart) they were largely inspired by a single, happy relationship.
I never thought Id have the luxury of loving someone and being loved, says Del Rey. But when it happened, it really was what they talked about in the movies.
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