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Lana Del Rey Takes Her Place On The Internet's Sacrificial Altar With Born To Die

Maura Johnston, The Village Voice, 2 December 2011

IN ANOTHER era, Lana Del Rey would just be another pretty pop singer with a second-rate voice and big, unrealized ambitions, a major-label footnote maybe worth a page or two in a book about the foibles of the early-'10s music industry.

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