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Celeb News: Ultraviolence Metacritic: 74
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Good reviews 
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wow that Daily News review 
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MC probably about the same as her others.
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I'm only waiting for tiny mixtape
a reminder 0 points
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Thematic Index for Born to Die by Lana Del Rey
Note: Every index is created through an act of interpretation. Dominant figures and themes emerge from the words to form patterns that reveal a skeletal “whole,” and all the indexer can do, in good faith and with hermeneutic grace, is allow this skeleton to rise, to dwell, to utter. Here, the risen skeleton is Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die. [The first numbers refer to the track number (see below), while the second numbers refer, vertically, to a line from each song’s lyrics (as given in their most recent, and finalized, form).] I have done my best to place the album, as a series of utterances, in its agony and vacuity, in its depth, in its lonely sincerity, with its unnameable masks on, at the center of an endlessly conflicted, hip niche within contemporary capitalism, to show itself. In that place is a woman, a name, two, maybe more, and here she is in part, I think. So listen along; listen to these bones howl their fragmented song. –Nathan Shaffer, TMT
AFFIRMATION, final words, (“it’s all going to happen”), 12.96-12.98; see HOPE.
ALCOHOL, (Bacardi chasers) 2.28, 2.73; (beer) 4.4; (“black cristal”) 2.19; (cherry schnapps) 12.48; (cognac) 2.60; (liquor, top shelf) 9.4, 9.79; (“Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice”) 12.7.
AMERICAN DREAM, 6.71-6.74, 8.27-8.28.
APOLOGIES, (inconsequential) 2.101.
AUTO-TUNE, (inauthenticity of) 9.23, 9.49, 9.72.
BOREDOM, (video games) 4.6, 4.13, 4.43, 5.40-5.45.
BORN TO DIE, see ELIZABETH GRANT, LANA DEL REY.
BOY, see CODEPENDENCY, PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LANA DEL REY.
BRANDS, (7-Eleven) 5.66; (Bacardi) 2.28, 2.73; (Bugatti) 6.8; (Diet Mountain Dew) 5.6, 5.26, 5.46, 5.58, 5.73; (Pabst Blue Ribbon) 12.7; (Pontiac) 5.67; see also LANA DEL REY.
CHILDHOOD, (unhappy) 1.39-1.43.
CITIES, (nondescript) 1.8.
CLICHÉS, (American Dream as) see AMERICAN DREAM; (dancin’ in the dark in pale moon light) 11.7; (last words as) 1.32, 1.59, 1.78 ; (finish lines) 1.2; (geographically based) see CITIES, LAS VEGAS, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK CITY; (“ride or die”) 3.59; (“one for the money, two for the show”) 10.13-10.14, 10.37-10.38, 10.48-10.49; (roads as) 1.20, 1.24, 1.48, 1.70; (rolling stones as) 2.53-2.54; (“until the end of time”) 3.22-3.23, 3.71-3.72; (walking on the wild side as) 1.27-1.28, 1.54-1.55; (“world … built for two”) 4.26-4.27.
CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES, (black bikini tops) 12.54; (blue jeans) 3.1; (high heels) 11.10, 12.17; (leather) 2.89; (party dress) 6.86; (red dress) 2.58, 9.61, 11.5; (ribbons, in hair) 12.73; (sundress) 4.7; (sweater, “favorite”) 3.11; (white bikini) 2.14; (white shirt) 3.1.
COCAINE, see METAPHORS.
CODEPENDENCY, 1.13-1.14, 1.50-1.53, 1.75-1.81, 2.1-2.133, 2.34-2.39, 2.45-2.47, 3.16-3.28, 3.32-3.33, 3.70-3.83, 5.1-5.85, 7.1-7.10, 7.23-7.39, 7.48-7.57, 7.72-7.87, 8.7-8.11, 8.63, 10.1-10.58.
COSMETICS, (lipstick) 9.62; (mascara) 6.85, 12.19; (nondescript makeup) 2.59; (red nail polish) 2.14-2.15; (perfume) 4.12.
CRYING, see SADNESS, TEARS.
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Just to be safe 50-82 
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Just to be safe 50-82 |
no way to make a mistake between those numbers lol
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Who actually checks for meta critic? If I wasn't on this site, I would have no idea let alone care what groups of critics scores are and neither does majority of the GP, so people need to stop freaking out about these scores.
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I'm still shocked the Guardian gave it 4/5 when the actual write-up sounds more like a 2.5  Not that I'm complaining, though 
Hopefully Tiny Mix Tapes won't do another troll review. They did the same with Gaga (Born This Way - 0) but then did a legitimate fair review for ARTPOP (60). Guess it just depends on which reviewer's desk the album lands on.
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If this get a less meta score than Beyonce album, I'll be done. American critics couldn't have good taste in music.
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Please please please I just want it to stay above 70 
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Originally posted by letscauseascene1
Who actually checks for meta critic? If I wasn't on this site, I would have no idea let alone care what groups of critics scores are and neither does majority of the GP, so people need to stop freaking out about these scores.
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I think it's relevant for an artist like Lana. Maybe no one is checking for Gaga or Katy or Rihanna's MC scores outside of this forum, but "snobbier" music fans do. imo the big backlash from the critics at the start of BTD really held her back in the US.
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Please please please I just want it to stay above 70 |
Predicting it will stabilize in the high 60s. I think some of these guys aren't going to let up on her just yet 
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She needs more albums and stay true to herself to get validation, i think.
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
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Deserves something in the 80's in all honesty, but it'll probably get something in the mid-60's.
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