Alright, so I’m going to be sitting out the third act of the Lana Del Rey saga

Today, we saw the second act draw to a close as the “Born To Die” reviews came shuffling out and Pitchfork’s Lindsay Zoladz made a few good points, but sort of threw some credibility out the window by expressing that she somehow had higher hopes. 

No, the only required reading for the end of this second act is Rob Harvilla’s hilariously empathetic and gently backhanded SPIN review, (“And here it is, Born to Die, the album, the “product,” the anticlimax, borne of the lips that launched a thousand thinkpieces.”) and Amy Klein’s “The Irony Lady,” which explores LDR’s persona through the lens of feminism. It is also empathetic.