After Lykke Li launched I Never Learn, a user of Shrimp shouted: No one can take away Sister Lei's position in my mind as the queen of funeral parlour! With the launch of the new album Ultraviolence, I want to say: You are right, big brother. If there is some kind of "market segmentation" in music style, then Lana Del Rey has reached a certain height in its specialization field (I don't want to describe its style in words), and even its position is unshakable-just like Amway, even if you don't like its sales method, you should admit that it is a banner in the field.

back to the new album. This album was produced by Dan Auerbach-who is Dan Auerbach? The Black Keys is the lead singer and creative core. Speaking of which, you may recall the melody of Lonely Boy in your mind: "(singing) I'm a lonely boy, I'm a lonely boy, oh oh oh, I got a love that keeps me waiting ~ ~" accompanied by shaking your head and shaking your legs-wait a minute! Isn't the style difference between the two too far? Can the synchronization rate be coordinated? -just heard the news, I wondered. However, it can't be said that El Camino, which is familiar to everyone, is a rock album, while albums that are not well-known in China, such as Magic Potion and Brothers (the best album of the year selected by Time Magazine), are more rooted and slower. After listening to Ultraviolence, I generally understand the changes brought by Dan: the Hip-Hop elements in the first special school have disappeared, such as those "drumming" beats with strong rhythm and hip-hop characteristics; Correspondingly, the traces of the new album overproduced are reduced; While retaining the strings, it highlights the role of the guitar, and there are even large sections of electric guitar solo, which must be Dan's handwriting. With the help of Dan, the album has the characteristics of "slow shake".

Another change of the album is to increase the echo reverberation, which brings the feeling of emptiness and isolation. This effect has two functions: a magnificent sense of atmosphere (some bands record albums in an open space in pursuit of this effect, such as Go Tell Fire to the Mountain by WU LYF, Let England Shake by Aunt PJ Harvey recorded in the church, and Eight Horses recorded in the library); The high cold temperament brought by the sense of isolation is the so-called "fairy spirit" (Haim made it in the album last year).

based on the above changes, Ultraviolence is more retro, gorgeous, elegant and full of goddess style. Lana Del Rey and Dan call the music style of the new album "real narcos Swing"-"psychedelic swing", which is quite appropriate, because many songs in the album are both fairy and can make your body shake slightly.

Although many people talk about Born to Die, the melody creation of this album is quite bright, which meets the requirements of mainstream "popular melody". It is fluent, catchy and "spiraling up", and each song can contribute a melody segment with memory points. Relatively speaking, although its arrangement is innovative, its production is very modular, strings and Hip-Hop beats are blended as appropriate, and the style of each song is not much different, so it is also criticized as "artificial and malicious retro". However, in EP Paradise, we can see the change of Lana Del Rey, the hip-hop beat disappears, and the melody ear grasp decreases. For example, in the song Yayo, the first time I listened to the melody, I couldn't grasp the direction, but what impressed me was the ecstasy "Ah-ah ~ ~ Ah-ah ~ ~ ~~~~~~”Ultraviolence continued to move forward on the basis of EP. Its melody is lower than Born to Die (especially the non-title songs behind the album), but there are many highlights in the arrangement, such as the guitar solo in Shades of Cool Bridge, which makes me feel refreshed. The use of rhythm in several songs reminds me of the previous album of The Black Keys.

when it comes to the concept of the whole album, it's really "full of negative energy". Please note that in Lana Del Rey's lyrics, the subjects are all "I", that is, they are substituted in the first person, telling their own "stories" (whether true or not), rather than bystanders, so they have a strong sense of situation. Telling those deformed stories from the first person's point of view is more direct than neutral bystanders. The songs are full of things, self-harm and self-loathing. Lana Del Rey sings her longing for love and suffering for love in a changeable and dramatic voice: I'm bad, I'm sad, I'm crazy, He hit me and it felt like a kiss, I'm in love. Obviously, such lyrics are bound to be unpopular with feminists, because this is. But I don't think Lana Del Rey's songs have the meaning of "praying". She is more like Sai Ren, seducing the audience from a distance with singing: "Come on, enjoy my scars and listen to my pain-you will fall in love with me." So the lured sailor/man plunged into the sea

Lana Del Rey has been controversial since her debut, and there are many rumors and even slanders around her. Lana Del Rey denied the rumor in the interview, but what she said in the interview was also true and false. What I admire is that she-and perhaps the behind-the-scenes team, although Lana Del Rey denies that she is the puppet of the behind-the-scenes team-has created the image of "Lana Del Rey" from music works to modeling to temperament to voice. In reality, the timbre of Lana Del Rey is "as sweet as a little girl", not the low voice in the song. Therefore, I think that the scene of SNL's car accident was not as simple as "not singing well". Imagine that you like a plane model very much, but when you meet a real person, you find that her "moving" is a problem: her eyes are out of focus! The voice is hoarse! Smile and show your gums! Walk with the same hands and feet! So you, who was hit by reality, squatted in the corner with a photo of the model and wept silently. Similarly, the rigid expression and behavior of Lana Del Rey at the scene destroyed the "temperament" and endangered its image. Fortunately, the team realized the problem, and her scene has improved a lot in recent years, and she is on the list of the top ten scenes selected by Billboard.