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Musical Elements From Ratliff pt.2 "Cherry"

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Musical Elements From Ratliff pt.2 "Cherry"

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In Lana Del Rey’s track “Cherry,” Del Rey is utilizing density and a single note.  The musical element density is the “quality of space: a heavy atmosphere, a space,” how the deep the piece is (Ratliff 139).  Lana Del Rey makes the bass very noticeable in this track “Cherry” which makes it feel like a very heavy, dense piece.  It makes you feel airy yet weighted down, the beating bass, the flowy lyrics, the background voices, they all help to create this illusion that you are in a relationship, but it is not a good one, but you love them and you feel broken up about it.  Because of the density of this piece, Del Rey is able to let you feel the emotion she is going through.  Lana also utilizes the concept of holding this single note, which Ratliff describes as a tool “shoving you to the next checkpoint,” in order to create a graduation to another movement (Ratliff 78).  Lana Del Rey utilizes her long note towards the end of her piece when she holds the note on the phrase “I fall the pieces.” This elongating of the phrase I believe shows more emotion and shows how torn up and broken she feels about loving this person in her life.

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Musical Elements From Ratliff pt.1 "Love"

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Musical Elements From Ratliff pt.1 "Love"

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One of my favorite tracks on this album is actually the first song “Love,” which is about being young and in love and just trying to live your life to the fullest.  This song just makes you want to go hang out with your friends and leave all your worries behind.  I think the way Lana Del Rey is able to make you feel this way in her track “Love,” is by utilizing the musical elements called transmission and audio space. The way Ratliff describes transmission is as the artist “go transparent in their voices,” they are able to create a clear distinction “between themselves” and other “forces” (Ratliff 49).  This basically means that they are able to transcend you, put you in a trance or into the place the artist is creating.  Lana Del Rey is able to achieve this in her song “Love” by starting out quite and her voice flowing and quite.  Then it gets the chores and the background bass and other beats start to become louder and more elaborate, her voice also progressively louder while still being flowy.  This is how Del Rey is able to put the listener in a trance and send them into a time in their lives when they were just acting carefree and young.  It is almost like the fountain of youth.  Lana Del Rey also utilizes the musical technique audio space, which is the idea that “as you listen, you think of what that space looks like and feels like,” creating the illusion that you are either far away or up close to the artist (Ratliff 101).  Lana is able to create this feeling that you are very much near her when she is performing the track “Love,” by incorporating this echoing effect and the bass going from quite to loud.

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This is an image of Del Rey promoting her song "Cherry" off of her album Lust For Life.

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This is the audio of another one of my favorite songs off of her album Lust For Life called "Cherry." This song is about loving someone so much that you feel like you are falling apart. This song has Lana's signature "siren song" sound to it and it is very seductive song.

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Musical Background Info on Lana Del Rey pt.2

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Musical Background Info on Lana Del Rey pt.2

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She had gone from Lizzy Grant, a young blonde haired women in a t-shirt and jeans, singing to a crowd at a bar in NYC to “someone called Lana Del Rey,” a “sultry, seductive songstress who is the current hottest name in US music,” (The Guardian).  Since Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has released a total of 4 albums, all very popular.  She has had several of her songs on Billboard’s top 100 list, such as “Summertime Sadness,” “West Coast,” “Young and Beautiful,” and “Love,” just to name a few (Billboard).  Words that have been used to describe one of Lana Del Rey’s album called Ultraviolence have been “mysterious,” “vintage,” “siren songs,” and a “melancholy crawl through doomed romance, incorrigible addictions” (Rolling Stone).

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Musical Background Info on Lana Del Rey 

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Musical Background Info on Lana Del Rey 

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Lizzy Grant, her stage name being Lana Del Rey, started her career when she was just in her 20’s, singing at bars in New York City trying to earn a name for herself.  She released her first unreleased album titled Sirens in 2005.  The album did not do too well, however, when she released her first single titled “Video Games” in 2011, it became a hit.  Later that year, she signed on with Interscope and Polydor.  Her major label debut Born to Die came out in 2012 and became an immediate success. However along with this new album, she recreated her image.

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This is the audio of one of my favorite songs off of Lust For Life called "Love." This song is just about being young and in love, having fun with your friends. This song is a bit more upbeat than most of Del Rey's songs, normally they are more melancholy in nature.

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Lana Del Rey is the artist of the album I reviewed which is titled Lust For Life.