All I ever heard from her is one song, “Mariners Apartment Complex.’
Her song “Summertime Sadness” is quite haunting. I prefer the cover version by Sharon Den Adel though. Sharon’s voice is better, Lana’s a little reedy for the song.
Born to Die. (2012) is one of my favorite albums of the last fifteen years. The song “Video Games” is on steady rotation in several of my playlists. She always seemed to be somewhat counter-counter-cultural but I really don’t look for political wisdom from musicians.
Here’s what Apple Music says about that first record:
Wreathed in internet-melting mystery and B-movie drama, the former Lizzy Grant’s mainstream debut journeys to the dark heart of the American dream. However, for all the layers of carefully cultivated artifice (the hardboiled Lolita narrative of “Off to the Races,” say) there’s nothing false about both Del Rey’s bewitching baritone and indisputable songcraft. Then there’s “Video Games”: a stately, slow-motion bomb blast of matchless melancholy that still has the power to stop you in your tracks.