Haute Glamour

This is sumptuous and sexy and slow-burning and very, very easy on both the eyes and the ears. It's good, and we don't want to play that down just because Lana is the victim of hype so vast and overwhelming it's almost obliterated any goodwill we felt towards her.

This is also about 10 times better than "Video Games". The strings are lush and swoonsome. Approval rates are soaring.

HOWEVER (and you knew there was one of those coming) we just can't see her managing to sustain it for any lengthy period of time. Perhaps we're wrong. Perhaps we're being unimaginative or unnecessarily negative. But we're not sure we could even take an entire album of the heavily sedated drowsy vocals, let alone a career's worth. Where does she go from here? How does she progress? Can she do uptempo or is it going to be slow, dirgesome femme fatale snoozeballads for the next 5 albums? Will she go into acting (she has an actressy look)? We're interested to know what happens next.