maybe. Isn't it mainly heterosexual men that write pulp romance novels?
― owenf, Friday, 10 February 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Have we talked about the SFJ article yet?
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 10 February 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/a-star-is-born-and-scorned/
cant believe ned linked to this hours ago and no one has mentioned that it is literally the most awful piece of writing to ever have existed and i would rather remove my brain through my nose with a clotheshanger than read it again
― max, Friday, 10 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
this thread can basically double as 'rolling worst music writing 2011/2012'
― some dude, Friday, 10 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Rolling worst ILM thread 2011/2012
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, if you possess male genitals you should think twice about criticizing it because your opinion may be invalid.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait, it was written by a male, continue on.
- "emblematic"- "the Twitter generation"- "pretty in a dress"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
- the bit where he compares adele being not skinny to amy winehouse being an addict- the part where he attributes the "psychosexual content" of lana del rey's songs to her large family- the part where he compares party in the USA and a lana del rey song because you could "gyrate" to both at an "illegal warehouse rave"- all the parts
― max, Friday, 10 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
are there people here - or do you know people - uh, straight male people - who are really drooling over LDR? like, who think she is the hottest thing in pants? i haven't met anyone yet. but then i haven't met anyone other than my wife in real life who has ever talked about her. so i wouldn't know. and i can't recall anyone here posting that they felt that way about her. i wouldn't have even thought about the sex symbol thing without reading it. just based on album and single covers and snl and listening to her music.
― scott seward, Friday, 10 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
At the pizza place she orders a large coffee with no sugar, lots of milk. The server spots the old Tennessee Williams paperback in her purse, which sparks a conversation about 1950s movies and Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.
Then he asks, “Are you two a couple?” and looks at me and says: “Today is your lucky day. I wish I was lucky like you.”
The presumption doesn’t stop him from flirting with Del Rey. “Big cup for you,” he says, handing her her coffee. “Just a little kiss for me.”
Del Rey laughs and hits him right back with: “Sure. Just a little kiss. Where do you want it?”
There was no kiss, but the subject of Del Rey’s mouth is an irresistible one.
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
- people think i might be LDR's bf- nah we're just friends, it's cool- she flirted with another guy in front of me but i didn't mind, we're just friends, guys can have hot female friends and it's no big deal- but those lips...
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Its sad that the server couldn't close the deal.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
She grows quiet, looks at her watch. It’s getting late. She admits that she doesn’t have an important industry meeting, as her publicist told me, but has to baby-sit for a friend.
Before she goes, I ask her where she lives. She’s looking to buy a place, but for now is in Williamsburg. “Staying with my ex-boyfriend,” she says nonchalantly, then bursts into nervous laughter and admits, “I live on his couch.”
I give her a look like, You just told me all that about falling in love and breaking up and you’re on the dude’s couch?
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
i hate the sorts of profile pieces in which a male writer spends time w/a female performer and in his mind they have a cozy evening w/honest conversation but hey we're just friends and i'm playing it cool.
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
no i'm serious, i saw her eating a burrito on haight street yesterday.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://jacobmbrown.com/JacobPortrait.jpg
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
wkiw LDR
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
She opened it and said you were suckers.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
LOL @Ned Raggett!!!!
peter g.
― queequeg (peter grasswich), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Big Pete Grasswich
― buzza, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
She remembers as a kid asking herself cheesy meaning-of-life questions and thinking she was really special for doing so. Then, in high school, she took a philosophy class and realized she was like everyone else.
Cool story bro
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Maura's takedown: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/02/sexism_women_in_rock_female_musicians.php
― kinder, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
.gif of orson welles clapping but in a more sincere fashion than that one from citizen kane
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i mean damn
Wow, that's fab
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC6ilDfH_GM
― piscesx, Friday, 10 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
total bro.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Great Maura piece.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Internet psychology rock
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
- the part where he compares party in the USA and a lana del rey song because you could "gyrate" to both at an "illegal warehouse rave"
lol
― dmr, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
\m/ Maura's takedown.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 11 February 2012 07:17 (twelve years ago) link
I just heard this person's music and holy jesus do I hate her
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
crüt, welcome. here's a menu. you can sit over here; there'll be a bit of a wait, but we'll get you a table as soon as one becomes available. would you like to order a cocktail as you wait?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
are there people here - or do you know people - uh, straight male people - who are really drooling over LDR? like, who think she is the hottest thing in pants?
I will step up and own this opinion. I would like to have coffee with her and stare at her weird lip and I think her vulnerable-glam persona is very conducive to the fantasy that what she really needs is someone like *me* to genuinely listen to her and we can set aside all the haters and the lies of her management and truly connect with each other in the unmediated way that we both so clearly want, at least for a few hours.
(I do not write for the NY Times Magazine.)
― mick signals, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yet.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ha!
― mick signals, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
i keep thinking she's singing "kiss me in the DPRK" on "lolita"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
one weird thing about LDR is that i cannot predict at all whether any given friend or acquaintance of mine will be pro-lana or anti-lana (or, like, in between).
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Schrodinger's Lana
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
i think lana is v v pretty
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 11 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think she would have a good run as a guess model. if they ever wanna revive their early '90s style trashy-americana campaigns.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
like this
http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/anna_nicole8.jpg
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read the thread in a while, but the fact that the CD is on the rack in the front at Other Music equals backlash^n=lash * (-1) ^n
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol @ that times blog piece. "a skinnier Adele" loooooool
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
cis @ that times blog piece
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
A scene from LDR's in-store at Amoeba SF:
http://tinyurl.com/6rj8su6
― polyphonic, Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of there being a cult of personality around LDR just feels unusually odd, it doesn't square at all
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
like, it makes sense with lady gaga because who "she" is is so crucial - you get a real sense of what she stands for, the issues that mean something to her. even if you wholeheartedly love what LDR is doing, it's just a lot more remote - she's playing a character, you don't get much of a sense of "the real her" (or a version thereof), and she's not even trying to give you that
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
my reading of it is that she resonates with this post-media/Pop/Internet obligation to keep up an idealized image, and the rift between the her and her image, and the arc that her character has made, inspires a certain sympathy in a lot of people.
Video Games really ends up being about that, dressing up as a 'bad girl' to impress a demanding/unimpressed audience... and I think at this point some people, including David Letterman it seemed, kind of just want to hug her and say "you did it, you're beautiful", partly because they all relate to that pressure and judgment
― Chris S, Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago) link