![]() ![]() That is, she hilariously coos and condescends throughout the chorus to a nerd of the sort who’d go on to neg her about her lips in reviews: “Who has a face like Smarty does? Who has a voice like Smarty does?” All it’s missing is a third act where Smarty wakes up alone and handcuffed to a bed.ĭespite Ultraviolence’s mesmerizing slo-mo Pink-Floyd-in-the-distance backdrops, Del Rey decided once and for all with her new nom de plume that one thing she was not was a rock ‘n’ roller. Lizzy Grant banger, she sing-raps convincingly and turns Steely Dan’s lecherous underage narrative “Janie Runaway” (“Let’s plan a weekend alone together / Out to Binky’s place / The sugar shack in Pennsylvania / Or would that be a federal case?”) inside-out. “Do I make you feel like Christmastime?” is a hell of an opening gambit from a then-unknown singer-songwriter as she jumps up and down on your bed like an Evan Rachel Wood protagonist and plies you with god-knows-what drugs.
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