Lana Del Rey

Wow, that's fab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC6ilDfH_GM

total bro.

Great Maura piece.

Internet psychology rock

- 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

\m/ Maura's takedown.

I just heard this person's music and holy jesus do I hate her

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?

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.)

Yet.

Ha!

i keep thinking she's singing "kiss me in the DPRK" on "lolita"

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).

Schrodinger's Lana

i think lana is v v pretty

i think she would have a good run as a guess model. if they ever wanna revive their early '90s style trashy-americana campaigns.

like this

http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/anna_nicole8.jpg

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

okay lol @ that times blog piece. "a skinnier Adele" loooooool

cis @ that times blog piece

A scene from LDR's in-store at Amoeba SF:

http://tinyurl.com/6rj8su6

the idea of there being a cult of personality around LDR just feels unusually odd, it doesn't square at all

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

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

not that it's all pity, I like her, personally, and I think letting larger things shine through you is a part of art, so I think judging her on that is missing the point

The cult of personality around characters is often so much stronger than it is around actors. That bleeds into real life more now than it did in the pre-internet era.

This is why it's so good for her to play the victim role. Her fans will try and make double sure to show the lamestream media they love her, they really love her.

This is why it's so good for her to play the victim role. Her fans will try and make double sure to show the lamestream media they love her, they really love her.

exactly. i said something about this upthread. it's like starting your career post meltdown, after you shave your head and bare your, er, whatever - at the point where condemnation turns to sympathy and concern. in that sense, the "terrible" SNL performance wasn't a mistake at all, it was exactly the right note to come in on.

After Schrodinger's Lana, I misread the post above as Skinner Adele.

leave lana alone!!!!

The 2007 demos that lead to the first album as Lizzy Grant (2010) have emerged:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SoWh-6kpI#!

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, February 12, 2012 4:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, i mean, it's obvious that she LIKES all the stuff that she's loading up her music and image with signifiers of, all that retro junk, it's just that playing it cool or acting kind of blank and distant is part and parcel of it. she might be sublimating her personality to some extent but it's in the name of expressing her taste. she's the arty pretentious yin to zooey deschanel's wacky cutesy yang.

http://shes333.tumblr.com/post/17669197675

yiiikes

that little kewpie doll voice is like someone imitating Loretta Divine without understanding that there still needs to be core to the sound in order for it to work

lol sweet vid

the 8-bit version!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtEcja0LUI

<3

Awesome, I was waiting for that to happen. =) Good use of Barbie game footage.

Plus California Games! Played the shit out of that game back then

thats way better than this version, posted upthread: http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/video-games

looks like our remix is finally 'in the shops' as it were, on 2 seperate American and Eurrpoean EPs!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/video-games-remixes-ep/id503684658

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3273439-1323793121.jpeg

cool!

i have some demo vers mp3 of 'this is what makes us girls' that i <3 & destroys the album vers

I prefer the man from Del Monte.

so i was quite looking forward to seeing just how bad this was going to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aysUREHOo0&

but oh no!

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Had to pull the Lana - A$AP track due to label reasons. Song got too big too fast. Gonna explain in more detail in an interview today.

Kind of weird that this thread was dead for more than a month.

people in ceasing to care about lana del rey shocker

someone asked me last week if i listen to lana del rey and i loled @ myself because my initial response was "i used to..."

i still listen to the 4-5 songs on the album i like

I heard Video Games in the Barnes & Noble downstairs from my office the other day. It was really weird hearing it anywhere other than my shitty mac speakers or my shitty headphones.