
This is the tune that revealed Lizzy Grant was truly something else, a soft-voiced subversive imp who wanted to appear in thrall to the canonical male gaze only to stab it in the throat once it convinced her to split a motel bed. But her unchallenging tunes deserve a reputation as remarkable as the headline-grabbing stuff. It’s one of her catchiest songs, not that Lana Del Rey ever had much interest in being radio-friendly. Calling the tracks themselves "folky and fragile", Further, Sciarretto compared Del Rey's voice to that of a "little bird", saying it was no wonder that songs called "Birds of a Feather" and "Aviation" appeared on the album.Her exceedingly young-sounding inflection on this rapped-accordion-reggae joint (!) to her grandma is a good framing for her Liz Phair-echoing boast that she’s been “crazy-ass since I was 3” and we wish those who mocked her studied self-seriousness in early media appearances could hear her hiccupping “I wanna be the whole world’s girl, grandma!” in a post- Lily Allen bit of amateur MySpace mic-rocking. songs written in her range, so she doesn't have to sing (and sing-talk) in her head voice and resort to that cutesy, flirty baby coo so prominent throughout Born To Die." Pop Crush reviewer Amy Sciarretto said she could imagine Del Rey singing the album's tracks in a coffeehouse. Further, Idolator said: "Though her vocals are often weak and shaky, her tone sounds delicate and sweet on all these simple tracks. Idolator likened the Jailer album to Jewel's debut, Pieces of You. Most of the album's songs have the same tempo. Composition Ĭomposed entirely of acoustic tracks, the album is devoid of the hip hop beats, electronic tones, and experimental music found on Born to Die. These rumors have not been confirmed or denied by Del Rey. It's unclear how the songs were leaked, although some leakers claim they were stolen from Lana's laptop after she connected to an insecure wifi network. The album leaked during the Born to Die era, during which many of Del Rey's unreleased songs surfaced. The entire project was leaked through YouTube on May 31, 2012. It was recorded in 2006, making it her earliest full-length album. Sirens is an unreleased demo album by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey, under the pseudonym May Jailer.
