[DynamiteRave]

I just picked up the Born to Die CD by Lana Del Rey and despite her poor Saturday Night Live performance, I think the CD is a brilliant work of a new artist. Yeah she's kinda got the jazzy lounge singer feel with a touch of hip hop seeing as a lot of her songs were arranged by hip hop producers and the songs are really a lot of bad boy meets girl/bad boy leaves girl or vice versa, I think it's lyrically pretty amazing, especially considering the amount of vapid crap out of the market today.

I feel awful because the music critics have really lukewarm if not totally trashed the CD and I feel like a lot of it came from her strange SNL performance and people trying to figure out if shes a Lady Gaga clone in a different genre of music.

As someone who really enjoyed Amy Winehouse (and no, Del Rey isn't as good as Winehouse) and enjoyed that jazzy lounge feel, I really can't help but defend the girl and hope she does well in her music career, if hopefully it lasts that long.