Features & Benefits
- Highly anticipated 2012 debut album
- Lana Del Rey's direct influences were visual as well as musical
- Cites Britney Spears, Thomas Newman and Bruce Springsteen as her musical influences.
- Visual influences include David Lynch, soundtracks for '50s black and white movies, the whirring sound of the Ferris at Coney Island, fame itself.
- Lived in New Jersey trailer park and decked her homestead in flags, streamers and seasonally inappropriate Christmas lights.
- The album is a mix of color and vitality.