i feel bad about being the person to note this, given that generally i wish ilm could use more enthusiasm, but come on
― thomp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
perpetua was tweeting today about how a co-worker heard him listening to the forthcoming album and asked him if it was Britney Spears and how ppl's heads would be exploding if this actually was the new britney album
but those tweets are deleted now which is kind of weird
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 6 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Ace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7XLHFiGauDY
― piscesx, Friday, 6 January 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lana better watch out she doesn't get run over by This Train: http://chrystabell.com/
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
she has an album coming out this month.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:15 (Yesterday)
and like 100 songs on the internet.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:16 (Yesterday)
Dude this is Q we're talking about, they don't put you on the cover unless you're on at least yr second album and have sold millions of records and are about as safe a prospect as you can get.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 January 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
They've not even given her a something-for-the-dads type cover as is occasionally their wont.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 January 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
the opening to this thread is hilarious
― thomp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:39 (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ha! Better to have loved and lost than etc ;)
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
Loved 'Video Games' and 'Blue Jeans' but then didn't pay attention to anything about her for 5 months. Just clicked the link to 'Off To The Races' that picesx posted and am now v excited for the album!
― pandemic, Friday, 6 January 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's a p weird song
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 January 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
Entirely unmoved and underwhelmed by 'Off To The Races'.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
then of course there'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g
― piscesx, Friday, 6 January 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
i heard her on radio 2 in my dads car. Not my kind of thing - ultra tasteful. My parents who like Subo thought she was great though. So shes gonna be huuuuuuuuuuge.
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
Your parents are the world's tastemakers.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 January 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
scary thought
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
I love her delivery on "Blue Jeans" and "Video Games"Everything else? She's behind the beat, like she's just been taught the song that morning.
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
You need to have a pretty ballsy performance to float a line like "He loves me / with every beat of his cocaine heart"
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
best yet maybe
http://vimeo.com/34628944
― piscesx, Saturday, 7 January 2012 09:14 (twelve years ago) link
Oh lord that is now firmly stuck in my head.
― scottfree, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2012/jan/09/lana-del-rey-david-cameron?newsfeed=true
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
The lesson for Del Rey and Band of Horses is clear
― markers, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
vimeo deleted! what was it?
― goole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
it was this (w/ a diff photo of her)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGy6L4ol9OM
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah terrible quality these and she's said the final versions will be very different from the leaks.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah TUNE! hasn't made a bad track yet bless her. the stretching of 'ovati-oo-n' is brilliant.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
ehhh not so into it
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I like National Anthem well enough.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
hasn't made a bad track yet bless her
Hmm, this opinion of her recorded material to date perplexes me. Outside of 'Video Games,' every track seems like a half-baked idea or formless demo to me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
we were drunk the other night, and we listened to a few besides "video games" and i was like, this is good.
thought it might not be the case, but it was, at least at the time.
― surm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
JF otm
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno, it all seems so empty. I like the first minute of Video Games ok but it keeps going on and I don't know why.
― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
What scares me is I liked VG and Blue Jeans but if she's going to continue solely in this vein of breathless young sexy siren pining away/smitten, the ridiculousness will overwhelm any other merit and I'll get bored.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
i don't find it ridiculous, i find it pays homage to something, and i find any emptiness directed at the point of her sound
― surm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
not that it matters what i think, but i find her v boring because breathless young sexy siren pining away/smitten doesn't really speak to me or my interests as a music listener. she's like fake naughty zooey deschanel.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
it totes matters!
― surm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
She was shite on Jonathan Ross.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
case closed
― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like any kind of consistent aesthetic is going to have difficulties when it runs up against jonathan ross tbh
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
i like video games & born to die & will check out the lp
― markers, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm a sucker for her betty-boop squeals in "off to the races"
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm assuming that "National Anthem" isn't a Radiohead cover or else the internet would've already imploded.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i thought it might be at first but i don't think it is
― markers, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
jinx!
― surm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never heard (of) "Video Games" until I saw Tim F's list last week---I only kinda graze ILX & don't really read anything else online about music---& have been listening to it p obsessively since then, over & over again. I don't know what that "means" but it's a beguiling song. I don't feel much pull to dig any deeper into her work at this point, though---life's busy, & one terrific song is enough.
― Euler, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
It's all been downhill from Video Games tbh
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
i can't listen to it that much bc it makes me cry
― surm, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
@ Euler, that obsessive listening to Video Games is something most people seem to experience. The songs after that though, eh, not so much.
what would happen if jared leto and lana del rey were in a room togetherthink about all of the sexy dullness that would fill that room
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
this is kind of over-thought and obvious at the same time but i enjoyed reading it:
http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/8713-this-is-me-music-making-as-re-blog/
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
i heard video games on the radio the other day for the first time and it kind of floored me enough to stick on the station and find out who it was; that never happens anymore.
that born to die video is great. even though she kind of has evan rachel wood crazy eyes.
― akm, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link