Lana Del Rey

[WildHearted]

I have her album and have listened to it quite a bit, and been following her for a while now. I like her enough, but I can't really get behind her fully, mostly because she constantly expresses that music isn't that important to her and that she's "over it" and that really bothers me and rubs me the wrong way.

The album is consistent, but almost to a fault. Her lyrics are all the same - and not even in a thematic way, but she constantly uses the same phrases, and her songs are also very formulaic in terms of the melody and overall song structures, in my opinion.

Definitely a really interesting sound, for sure - and the instrumentation on the album is FANTASTIC. I'm glad I got it for that alone, stellar production.

However I can't get past the fact that she is hands down one of the worst live performers I've ever witnessed (in such a high profile position, in any case) - between her emotionless vocal (probably due to the preoccupation with having to keep up the particular style/sound she puts on her voice [which is not how she naturally sings]), dead eyes, awkward stage presence, lack of charisma, and pitchiness and lack of control... I get major secondhand embarassment.

So I kind of go back and forth between liking her and not liking her.

Also of note is that she's another one of Jimmy Iovine's creations.