Lana sure gets a lot of media attention. I noticed the
Billboard logo on in the Next Media video to see if there was a review of the album. This came up first in my search:
Quote:Lana Del Rey's Boy Toy in 'Born to Die' -- Meet Bradley Soileau
How did you meet Lana and become part of the "Born to Die" video?
I got picked because the photographer, Armen Djerrahian, shot me for The Wild Magazine and knew the director of the video, Yoanne Limoine. I met Lana at the video shoot.
What was it like working with Lana and embracing her for over three minutes on camera like that?
Lana was amazing to work with. The whole crew was. Everyone made me feel very comfortable so everything went so smoothly. Lana is an amazing woman. She has a beautiful soul and she's so much fun to be around. Embracing her was easy. Everyone asks the same question, did you have a boner? Ha! No, I didn't. There's a huge crew of people staring at you shouting, moving around, bright lights everywhere. Madness.
What's your view on gender roles in music videos now that you're a 'man behind the woman' type?
Most chicks in rap videos are basically hos... and I kind of feel exactly the same. . . .
Many of the tracks from the new album have been floating around on YT for a long time which makes it's actual release rather anti-climatic.
Billboard does review it
(here).
Quote:So: is it any good? Well, at 15 tracks, it's as puffy as the singer's oft-debated lips. Many of the songs tread the same lyrical territory (good girl falls for bad boy, or vice versa; variations on lines like "kiss me on my open mouth" and "take your body downtown" are used throughout), and the noir production from hip-hop vets like Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Jay-Z) and Emile Haynie (Lil Wayne, Eminem) starts to sound stale on late-album cuts "Million Dollar Man" and "Lolita."
BTW, Chris Seefried, who wrote
Wonderland with Haley, composed a song with Elizabeth Grant named
Boarding School (apparently it was not released). I guess Elizabeth left
Boarding School behind, for Lana's
Born to Die.
