The new comer, Lana Del Ray, is probably the most overly hyped girl on the internet I've seen. Her album is really boring. It pretty much just consist of lifeless ballads. Her performances fit pretty well with that discription. It is a pretty coheasive album. I do have to give her that. I also give her props for making such a non mainstream album and have it smash.
Top Tracks - Video Games, Diet Mtn Dew, National Anthem
The album starts off with some of the best pop songs released in recent memory, tracks 1-7 are all amazing, some near perfect. After track 7 however is a repetitive, lazy, uninspired mess. The tracks are near indistinguishable, after many listens i cant remember what without you, million dollar man or radio sound like unless i play the track. For some reason lana is completely oblivious to any emotion and while it works with some songs, 15 tracks is just tiring. A complete chore to listen to, i usually just listen to the above mentioned first 7 tracks and stop there.
Edit you score. Take away 30 points for us to balance the average.
Don't give an album a low or high review to "balance" it out, that would completely defeat the purpose, I don't even look at other scores when I'm writing mine to make it as unbiased as possible.