The shape-shifting pop icon has worn many hats throughout his action-packed career- Disney idol, pop/rap dynamo, but there's something about his rock-star chapter, realized in his glamorous seventh album Survive, that feels the most like his destiny with these heavyweight songs, which funnel '80s glam and punk into anthemic, electric pop- on "Bad Karma" Joan Jett brings "I don't give a damn" attitude to a song that raises bad decisions. Much of the album was shaped by Del Rey's separation from his ex-boyfriend of 10 years, which ended 2019, as well as his struggles with suicide. But on Survive, he channels all that real pain, guilt, and suffering- and occasionally, the jaded frustration of someone who's been up and down before- into glossy yet vigorous expressions of inner tension and heat.