Ethel Cain - Born to Die (Lana Del Rey cover)

Hayden Anhedönia's vocal cover of Lana Del Rey's classic 2012 song 'Born to Die' recently resurfaced. Probably recorded around 2017 before the creation of her Ethel Cain alias. The original instrumental was a karaoke-type synthesized recreation -- I separated the vocal track and mixed it with the official Lana instrumental. Quote from Hayden about Lana as a past inspiration: "I definitely was hugely inspired by Lana when I was in high school; Born to Die I think was the very first CD that I ever bought. At first when I listened to Born to Die I was like, “Wow, this is like this really good American Dream, it’s so glamorous, it’s like old Hollywood,” I loved it. But then as I got older, especially with the social justice movement and the unravelling of the American Dream, the unravelling of Hollywood, the unravelling of celebrity culture, it was kind of like, it’s all a sham. All that glamour and old opulence is built on the backs of hard-working people who will never get the recognition and it’s just a façade that you start to see through. That, coupled with stuff I saw growing up – it’s just not all sunshine and rainbows and roses and diamonds and whatnot, you know, it’s like, fucked up, it’s ugly. And I was like, “I don’t want to portray that, I don’t want to portray some kind of glamorous, beautiful persona. I want something that’s raw and freaky and scary because to me, that’s what America is.”