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''Also just wanted to let you know I've written the most beautiful new songs. Can't wait to share more w u.'' ''We have a collection of songs that I've sequenced and I really love.'' ''In our first week I had two songs that I just though were maybe two of the best songs I've written.'' ''I love it so much. I adore it. Love this album.'' ''I am excited about this album.'' ''It’s a really thoughtful album. It’s very pretty. I’m just happy it came out easily with no pressure. It’s really important to work with somebody who says yes a lot and is open to more experimental sounds. I got lucky with him.'' ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- When you know you have made your best album yet and a future classic

Why do I have this feeling that people who keep talking about Lana scrapping the album, songs, re-working it and shit are just projecting their own hopes and fantasies under the guise of speculation. Lol

https://youtu.be/p-dYoW2OB9k

There's no denying that Born To Die and that whole little era ( Lana's whole come up, singles, music videos, SNL, etc.) is one of the most iconic things that happened this decade. I don't deny it's her most iconic album to date, I just don't think the music is good. It could've been good, but they fucked up.

I'll take good music and lazy, shitty visuals over bad/mediocre music and great visuals any day of the week. Born To Die had some great visuals, but the music has aged badly. And not even nostalgia can trick me into thinking that album was any good.

It's kinda amusing how Norman Fucking Rockwell is shaping up to be everything Born To Die should've been (but failed) after Video Games. Classic Lana songwriting with Lizzy/Video Games vibes, beautiful melodies, but more mature, understated, stripped down... without tacky/cartoonish vocals and heavy, glossy production. That's why it's going to be her best and most acclaimed album ever.

#1 it's not ''acoustic''. #2 it's light years better than poorly mixed, overproduced, overblown Born To Die shit that age like milk. Like I said the other day, y'all need to move on and go listen to Halsey.

I think they meant flop quality-wise. Most of the rappers nowadays make awful music either way, so they lose nothing by making longer album just for the sake of inflating their chart numbers. Lana is not a shitty rapper and she should put quality above anything else.

The (3) pre-album singles she's released so far are all truly great - they are among her career highlights. How To Disappear live is hauntingly beautiful, and so is pretty much every snippet she's shared so far. I don't know if Jack deserves any credit for this, but she has really perfected the formula and is playing to her strengths. So many of the tracks she's shared or teased so far are dripping with Lizzy Grant/Video Games vibes, it's just incredible. Lana singing about Jim and cracking beer over stripped down/minimalist production... it doesn't get better than that. it's what she does the best. Whenever she drops this album, it will become her best and most acclaimed work to date. So it goes without saying that I'm befuddled by some of the posts that I'm seeing all over the internet, where certain group of ''fans'' are saying that she should scrap this boring, ''acoustic'' shit and re-work the album with Andrew Watt and shit like that. I honestly though that these people have moved on. I mean, it's been how many years since Born To Die? And here we are, in 2019, and they are still at it. They still don't get it. Lana doesn't need radio nor big Billboard entries just like Vampire Weekend doesn't need them. I wish these people would just let it go already. If they want overly shallow, nonsensical, cartoonish, hookish pop sold as alternative, go listen to Halsey. Let Lana do her thing.

Sputnik calls it "her best record to date." http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/74333/Lana-Del-Rey-Lust-For-Life/

Good read via Stereogum. http://www.stereogum.com/1953275/premature-evaluation-lana-del-rey-lust-for-life/franchises/premature-evaluation/

''Love'' sticks out like a sore thumb, quality-wise. Easily the best song on the album. ''13 Beaches'', ''Cherry'', ''Summer Bummer'' are solid. ''White Mustang'', "Tomorrow Never Came", ''Groupie Love'' are listenable. ''Political'' cuts are god-awful, with "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing" leading the charge. Just awful. Biggest disappointment is "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems". Awful writing, awful chorus. The most interesting stuff happens very early on, and then things fall apart. Easily her worst album.

Love is magical and timeless - one of her best singles. Lust For Life is vapid, bland, flat, dull, boring, uninspiring. Still have high hopes for the album.

Pitchfork: Do you want to be a pop star? Caroline Polachek: If you mean pop star in the sense of playing ball with radio formats, no. But if you mean it in the sense of building a compelling world that I’m at the center of, that a lot of people are tuned into, then yes. Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I’m amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that’s so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention. Lana Del Rey is a perfect example. http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/10065-finished-business-an-exit-interview-with-chairlift/

Mixed? review from Pitchfork. --- In some ways, Lana Del Rey and the Weeknd are perfect opposites. She’s the willing paramour and sucker for tragic romance. He’s the epitome of the shadowy men she chases, —drugged up, bad, broken, and emotionally unavailable. The Weeknd even admitted to these roles in an interview with Pitchfork, calling Del Rey “the girl in my music, and I am the guy in her music.” Their third collaboration, “Lust for Life,” goes just as the others have: They play tangled apparitions reliving a Hollywood daydream that’s more Sunset Boulevard than La La Land. Even more than the others, this song—the title track from Del Rey’s upcoming record—is the auditory equivalent of a perfume commercial, all wisps of sensations and hints of feeling. Unlike Del Rey’s last single, "Love," which used young romance as a time machine linking eras, "Lust for Life" is outside of time, lacking the same empathy and resonance. This song’s ideas are hollow in comparison—there’s talk of being masters of fate, captains of our own souls, and having, of course, a lust for life, but these are all empty signifiers amid all the whimpers, coos, and listless falsettos. That isn’t to say Del Rey and the Weeknd don’t thrive in these spaces. There is a certain charm each possess that’s magnified when they’re together; they’re silhouettes moving through a fame diorama of their own making, where the rules bend to their whims. So naturally, they’re the coolest people there. When Lana whispers, “In these stolen moments/The world is mine,” it feels all but a certainty, but she’s hardly lusting after it. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/19012-lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-ft-the-weeknd/

Lana was never ''singles artist'', not even at height of her success (Born To Die days). Especially not in the US. So I don't know why some of you are so bothered by it. I think the song is beautiful and it will get quite a lot of people interested in listening to the new album, no matter what it does on charts.

I'm surprised that Spin didn't review this (yet).

I really like it.

The AV Club critic is clearly biased against Lana. Very predictable review.

If Lindsay is reviewing it, Lana will be lucky to get anything over 4. But we all know that Pitchfork is going to give her a bad score no matter what, so why even bother about it? It's just interesting how male rappers can make racist, homophobic, sexist or any other remark and get free pass for it. They can rap/sing about the most absurd and ridiculous things and barely ever catch flack for it. Lana's music can be good as theirs, but she won't get away with it like they do. And this oh she's inauthentic, she has stage persona bullshit is still the most ridiculous criticism here. Who is really authentic and genuine? Who doesn't have a stage persona? I understand why some may find Lana's act to be a bit over the top, but come on. When Video Games first came out in 2011, press acted like she was the first musician ever who developed new stage persona and new name.

Staff music critic for the Boston Globe.

http://prettymuchamazing.com/music/lana-del-rey-cruel-world

Wow. It must be so hard for these indie sites to admit that they like it. This one is really something. http://flavorwire.com/462212/lana-del-rey-is-the-urban-outfitters-of-music

No, but it's a very credible site.

5/5 stars http://www.alterthepress.com/2014/06/atp-album-review-lana-del-rey.html