{"id":27743,"date":"2024-05-26T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/river-gas.com\/?p=27743"},"modified":"2024-05-26T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:09:55","slug":"adrian-thrills-shes-hardly-a-del-rey-of-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/26\/adrian-thrills-shes-hardly-a-del-rey-of-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"ADRIAN THRILLS: She's hardly a Del Rey of sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANA DEL REY: <\/span>Norman F*****g <\/span>Rockwell!(Polydor)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verdict: Flawed brilliance\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lana Del Rey’s deliciously dark persona<\/a> is so persuasive that even the British weather once seemed to fall under her spell.Playing Glastonbury five years ago, she opened in glorious sunshine before clouds began to billow ominously behind her.<\/p>\n

By the time that she had finished singing, the skies above the Pyramid Stage couldn’t have been gloomier. The queen of sad pop was wearing a brightly coloured psychedelic dress, but the imminent storm was fully in keeping with the air of doomed romance.<\/p>\n

It’s essentially the same old song on her fifth major album.The mood is downbeat and nostalgic with piano, guitar and retro-sounding strings providing the backdrop to smoky tales of messed-up girls, bad-boy lovers and Old Hollywood glamour.<\/p>\n

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Lana Del Rey’s new album\u00a0Norman F*****g Rockwell!contains a downbeat mood which is nostalgic with piano, guitar and retro-sounding strings providing the backdrop to smoky tales of messed-up girls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018I dream in jeans and leather,’ she sighs early on, before embarking on a series of ill-starred adventures.By the time the album ends, more than an hour later, she looks to have hit rock bottom: \u2018Spilling my guts with the Bowery bums is the only love I’ve ever known.’<\/p>\n

Quite how authentic all of this is has always been a matter of debate.<\/p>\n

Born Elizabeth Grant, Lana was raised in a middle-class household in upstate New York.But the good-girl-gone-astray character is one that she has played with increasing conviction as her focus has shifted to California, where her new album is set.<\/p>\n

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She brought out the Born To Die album in 2012 which proved a massive success.Lana has used the good-girl-gone-astray character with increasing conviction throughout her career<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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