Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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CRITIC REVIEWS
80
Violet gives you everything you could want and have come to expect from Del Rey - and more.
70
With this collection of poems, Lana Del Rey offers an alternate view of the sun-dazzled California dreaming that fuels her songs. Her spoken word pieces reveal a more immediate lyrical sophistication, but they maintain the strange and powerful magic Del Rey has been cultivating her entire career.
9mo
60
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is more than a vanity project (and a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album would not be a surprise) but it’s hard to believe that anyone other than a diehard fan would listen to the full 39-minute audiobook regularly.
60
She is great on place specifics and internal assonance, less so as she wafts on about her own gentle nature.
12mo
a poetic statement solid as cement: complete with clever alliteration which correlates with numerological values. also, lana is an outstanding speaker, especially in the beginning.
Not gonna lie, Lana has had a rough year so far.
And that's ironic! A few months right after she released her critically-acclaimed near-masterpiece "Norman Fucking Rockwell!", she went on various petty tirades on Instagram about "what it means to be a female musician in the culture today." To be fair, in these posts, I think her wording was just so rushed and one-note that it came across in a manner that wasn't supposed to be interpreted. She was rightfully ridiculed by ... read more
And that's ironic! A few months right after she released her critically-acclaimed near-masterpiece "Norman Fucking Rockwell!", she went on various petty tirades on Instagram about "what it means to be a female musician in the culture today." To be fair, in these posts, I think her wording was just so rushed and one-note that it came across in a manner that wasn't supposed to be interpreted. She was rightfully ridiculed by ... read more
The fact that the first official release from Lana Del Rey after her career-threatening social media tirades is a spoken word album is baffling, hilarious, and just peak Lana. After being painted by naysayers and even many of her own fans as a rich, cop loving “Karen”, she releases a project that just validates her critics. While I still find her now-infamous Instagram post tone-deaf and offensive, I love that Lana does not let outside factors like her haters affect her artistic ... read more
Sometimes it's not the music that matters most, it's the journey. And this journey of checking every 10 minutes for updates on where this album is has inspired me in more ways than words can explain. This is a beautiful piece of work by Lana Del Rey, an artist that is so ahead of the curve that she can announce a spoken word album and not even release it and we still come flocking to her. A timeless classic
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Track List
- LA Who Am I to Love You
- The Land of 1,000 Fires
- Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
- Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving
- Salamander
- Never to Heaven
- SportCruiser
- Tessa DiPietro
- Quiet Waiter Blue Forever
- What Happened When I Left You
- Happy
- My Bedroom Is a Sacred Place Now – There Are Children at the Foot of My Bed
- Paradise Is Very Fragile
- Bare Feet on Linoleum
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Added on: December 20, 2019