After the success of her second studio album‘Born to Die’ in 2012, becoming the fifth-best selling album of the year with over 3.4 million copies sold worldwide, singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has announced the release of her new album ‘Ultraviolence’ in January of this year, and has now released a streamed version of the song ‘Brooklyn Baby’ along with the track list.
Miss Rey has is also featured in the Disney movie ‘Maleficent’ singing a darker version of ‘Once Upon a Dream’ originally for the Sleeping Beauty movie back in 1959. She had also a small part in last years ‘The Great Gatsby’ after recording ‘Young and Beautiful’ for the Baz Lurhman musical.
Since then Lana Del Rey had risen in notoriety having won International Female Solo Artist at the 2013 BRIT Awards but has been in the scope of criticism after her third EP ‘Ride’ was suggested to be ‘antifeminist’ and glorifying prostitution.
In an interview with The Fader she states that ‘For me the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept” and claimed she was more interested in “intergalactic possibilities” such as space travel, but these comments appeared to be more tongue in cheek rather than a disregard for the feminist cause.
Ultraviolence is due for release on June 16th 2014.
Track listing:
‘Cruel World’
‘Ultraviolence’
‘Shades Of Cool’
‘Brooklyn Baby’
‘West Coast’
‘Sad Girl’
‘Pretty When You Cry’
‘Money Power Glory’
‘Fucked My Way Up To The Top’
‘Old Money’
‘The Other Woman’
‘Black Beauty’ (Bonus track)
‘Guns And Roses’ (Bonus track)
‘Florida Kilos’ (Bonus track)