Lust For Life
For the most part, Lana Del Rey’s fifth album is quintessentially her: gloomy, glamorous, and smitten with California. But a newfound lightness might surprise longtime fans. Each song on *Lust* feels like a postcard from a dream: She fantasizes about 1969 (“Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind”), outruns paparazzi on the Pacific Coast Highway (“13 Beaches”), and dances on the H of the Hollywood sign (“Lust for Life” feat. The Weeknd). She even duets with Stevie Nicks, the queen of bittersweet rock. On “Get Free,” she makes a vow to shift her mindset: \"Now I do, I want to move/Out of the black, into the blue.”
The fourth full-length from Lana Del Rey is sincere, sublime and beautiful. As personal as it is impressionistic, Lust for Life is the emergence of a great American storyteller.
When Pitchfork recently sat down with Lana Del Rey for a wide-ranging interview, the topic of the pop star’s apparent newfound happiness came up right away. “I made personal commitments,” Del Rey responded when asked how she’d reached a better place, although she demurred on specifics. “I had some people in my life…
Lana Del Rey just wants a beach to herself so she can enjoy her peaches in peace.
Lana Del Rey's fifth album, 'Lust for Life', is a tasty banquet of lush orchestration and high-end guests.
Del Rey continues to reinvent and redefine herself in new and captivating ways, and Lust For Life is just one more step in that profound and lovely evolution.
Review at a glanceWith her evocations of the tragic starlets of old Hollywood, Lana Del Rey has long been in danger of being typecast.
Lana Del Rey has become a hugely adored miserablist thanks to a perpetually wounded voice and plainspoken poetry.
Her duet with The Weeknd proves a masterful pairing, they stand out among their peers as two artists who have succeeded at crafting their own myth
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Since Lizzy Grant emerged as Lana Del Rey back in 2012, she's been donning the trope of the Hollywood starlet with a darkness surrounding her.
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Review of Lana Del Rey's 'Lust For Life': Lana Del Rey certainly hasn't lost her touch on 'Lust For Life' as she builds it into something beautiful.
With a sunnier sound and a determined smile on her face, Del Rey is moving on from the darkness she’s inhabited in the past
Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life may well be the funniest piece of post-ironic conceptualist performance art project you’re likely to hear this year.
Lana Del Rey is one of the pop stars of our age, a self-made, self-styled, self-obsessed icon for the selfie generation.
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