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Lana Del Rey - Bringing Noir To Music

Lana Del Rey, Pretty When You Cry (Official Video) YouTube I've been a major fan of Lana Del Rey's for several years - at least since I first posted about her, with her remarkable music videos, Carmen and National Anthem , in July 2012. I find her music now even stronger, and her recent videos (below) for her songs Pretty When You Cry and West Coast, are as powerful as the songs themselves. It may seem an odd comparison, but Lana Del Rey seems perhaps the female answer to Bruce Springsteen , when he is at his best as an American storyteller - his early albums, the magnificent Nebraska and songs like 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) , capture a highly distinctive vision of blue-collar America. Lana Del Rey, Pretty When You Cry (Official Video) YouTube Lana Del Rey is the first musician to truly introduce the concept of noir to popular songs. Her songs are about love and sadness and joy (Summertime Sadness, for instance), but the joy is always tempered with