Tropico ('Body Electric', 'Gods and Monsters' and 'Bel Air')
Interscope Records
Release date: December 5, 2013
After a very very very long and tiring wait, Lana Del Rey finally released her project, Tropico, a short film comprises of three tracks from her recent extended play, Paradise. One thing I am sure of, this short film is very much has Lana written all over it. From the excessive poetry recitation, random religious iconography visuals and a lot of sexual images - this 27 minutes project is one giant Del Rey mess!
I don't understand what the film is about but I understand this one point: it's a love story told in three different concepts: the first would be the "big sin" of Adam and Eve did in the garden of Paradise ('Body Eletcric), then there's the whole stripper and thug thingy in the second act ('Gods and Monsters'), followed by a blissful romance that looks very Americana in the ol' hippie days ('Bel Air').
I'm a huge fan of Lana Del Rey's works but this one is kinda overwhelming (and overproduced). She should've done something simpler and cool off with the whole avant garde thingy for a while (with the exception of 'Born to Die' video - that one was overdone but I j'adore the whole piece).
Anyway, this Tropico project is the last one from Del Rey's Born to Die era. Upon the premiere, she announced her sophomore record is named Ultraviolance. And that got me excited again after watching and spending my time with this theatrical "film".
Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars.
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