Paradise is the Born to Die universe with the camp dialed up and the strings swelling higher: "Ride"'s monologue manifesto, "Cola"'s opening line built to scandalize, "Gods & Monsters" as mission statement. Eight tracks of deliberate American mythmaking. The EP-as-epilogue that ended up defining her aesthetic as much as the album it followed.
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