Review: Lana Del Rey's Born to Die

I spent a good amount of time defending Lana already, so there's really no need to re-hash that.  There's an actual album of music in our hands now and it's time, as hard as that may seem to be, to review the music for what is - as opposed to what the music should or should not be, as based on your preconceptions of Lana Del Rey. 

Defending Lana Del Rey

Somewhere in the summer of 2011, I was introduced to a song called "Video Games" by one Lana Del Rey.  I had heard the song mentioned once or twice, but besides that, I had absolutely no context as to who she was and what this song was about.  At that moment, the hype was still small enough that I could download the song and listen to it without having the opinion of another music fan forced into my face first.  Perhaps this was the best possible way to be introduced to LDR.