Sultry singing sort Lana Del Rey drew admirers in their droves with her debut single ‘Video Games’, attracting rapt comparisons to the dusky tones of alt-jazz glamorpuss Cat Power, the pin-up style of Lana Turner, and the flirtatious hip hop patter associated with R&B femmes Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim.
Disparate as they might seem, these qualities all resonate together in Del Rey’s new track, ‘Blue Jeans’, which sounds a bit like a bawdier ‘Wicked Game’, and is introduced by the first lines from beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s ‘Loud Prayer’.
Both ‘Video Games’ and ‘Blue Jeans’ will be released as a double A-side single on 16 Oct via Stranger Records. Here they are:
Sections: by Aly Barchi - CMU Approved | Tags: Lana Del Rey
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