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Lana vs. Lana Part II

Posted by on February 7th 2012 4

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Note: We here at The Rotation thought we’d get a two-sided look at LDR’s latest album. This second installment is the negative review, written by Stephen Choi:


Saturation is a strange thing. It’s pervasive, it’s insistent, you turn around and its there, glaring right back at you. It craves the battle cry of the public; it fuels itself on both anger and love. So, it isn’t surprising how the static overload of Lana Del Rey’s dividing ascent has seized the attention of Georgetown’s various news outlets; only furthering the divvying momentum of her latest album, Born to Die.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die”

Posted by on December 14th 2011 0

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The lack of attention on this blog to Lana Del Rey‘s music is not an oversight as much as it is an overwhelming inability to put into words what stirs so strongly everything that I love, have loved, and will always love about art.[1] But with yesterday’s release of her latest video, “Born to Die,”one of the smartest and most emotive works I have witnessed this year, her value as an art-ist, that rare operator able to move between mediums and messages to edge closer and closer to the god-honest truth – and to the edge itself – becomes crystal clear.

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