The gangster Nancy Sinatra is back and this time she's released a cover of "Once Upon A Dream". This song was originally in Disney's 1959 version of Sleeping Beauty and Lana Del Rey has covered it for the new Disney film called Maleficent. The song is expected to be on her new album entitled "Ultraviolence" and many people are wondering if there will be similar sounding songs on the new record.When Lana Del Rey first hit the mainstream back in 2011, many people criticized her first single "Video Games" for being too depressing. Look away now if you were guilty of saying that because this song is a bit of a downer to be honest. "Once Upon Dream" never really picks up to any climactic moments and instead it's generally quite basic. You've got strings, Lana Del Rey's vocals, some choir backing vocals, the occasional timpani drum hit and that's it. There's no big notes in terms of vocals either and it's all rather same-y through out.
However, Lana Del Rey really does make the song her own by making it sound a lot more down beat and you can't really fault her for that. Quite a lot of covers from the past have sounded too similar to the original but this one defiantly isn't.
Hopefully the rest of "Ultraviolence" doesn't sound like this because Lana Del Rey's debut album "Born To Die" was actually really enjoyable even though critics gave it mixed reviews. The album was sleek, silky and seductive yet it was very repetitive in terms of lyrics. Personally though, I think Lana Del Rey will mix it up a bit on the new album because an album full of songs like this isn't going to do very well commercially. Overall this cover song is a decent effort but it really doesn't do anything special and it's actually kind of forgettable. The original song is much better.
OVERALL RATING: 5/10
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