all these bad lyrics are rendered in lush folds of dreamy technicolor pop, that swooning shit can make any kind of pap pop in a 16 yo's bedroom, this album will be widely quoted in high school yearbooks
(do they still print yearbooks? or is it all on fb now?)
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
what sets LDR apart is her shamelessness - it's the kind of shamelessness that makes pop stars
"all the terrible things you think about me are true, because I told you all about them"
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
^ not an LDR lyric, but I will license it to her for a small fee
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
then you'll have Morrissey coming after you
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
did I just unconsciously quote moz
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
haha you might as well have
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
woah now that i think about it lana del ray is the white morrissey
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
that's racist, clearly she's the american morrissey
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
I am the sonand the heirvideo games
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
i love kent. litchfield county is about all i fuck with in connecticut. you know who else went to the kent school? the gangsta creator of the family guy.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
The animated TV show Family Guy is written by alumnus Seth MacFarlane. In 1999, the school's headmaster, Father Schell, wrote to a number of companies urging them not to advertise with the TV show calling it obnoxious. Seth MacFarlane's parents, who worked at the school, resigned in protest.
― buzza, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
it is pretty fucking obnoxious
― akm, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
this caption on the front page of the billboard website is killing me:
"Now that Lana Del Rey's hotly 'Born To Die' has leaked, expect the still-unproven live singer to elicit a whole new wave of 'she's not that bad on record!' defenses. But is the album any good? At 15 tracks, it's as puffy as the singer's oft-debated lips."
i didn't actually read the article though, for some reason despite loving "video games" i have almost zero desire to listen to this album
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
When it shoots up the dropper's neckWhen I'm closing in on deathVideo games
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
chorus to video games reminds me of the chorus of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRdtXWcgIw
http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
btw since i haven't done anything except post fake lyrics to this thread. i think video games is remarkably dull, lazy in every respect. her voice and the production have some of the superficial hazy appeal of a david lynch soundtrack but it's not chewy at all (meaning it doesn't reveal anything as it goes along, let alone on repeated listenings) and memorable only in the most irritating sense. it would make a good 30-second commercial jingle but i can scarcely get myself to listen to more than 90 seconds of it before desperately wanting to do/listen to something else. i don't truly begrudge anyone for liking it though, coz taste is taste etc. but the amateurishness of her SNL performance didn't shock me because the "persona" on the record seems kind of too easily won and not very interesting to begin with.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
i was probably hyperbolic there. the single isn't HORRIBLE, it's simply not outstanding in any way.
it reminds me of some lazy moody indie pop, not that a name comes to mind immediately. stuff i maybe listened to for a while in college. like the boring mazzy star songs or something. in the sense that it's all attitudinizing and nothing of formal interest at all.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost: The two chorus have the same chords I think?.... F Am C with an Em thrown somewhere in there.
― Moka, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Cuz when the blood begins to flowWhen it shoots up the droppers neckWhen I'm closing in on deathVideo gaaaaaames
― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:50 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Moka, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:55 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is this true?!
― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:59 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oops can't keep up w/ this thread.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I think the chorus is definitely of formal interest. It's 22 bars long and seems to have two different beginnings. Unconventional rhyming structures, too.
― timellison, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
And now that I think about it, it's that chorus that made me think of Mary Margaret O'Hara the first time I heard it.
― timellison, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
driving in cars with boys (not on the album I know): sounds exactly like something else, can't remember what. (maybe this is why it isn't on the album, because the tune is a complete plagarism). anyone know what it is? some middling 80's pop song.
― akm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
huh that's interesting. it scans as conventional and boring to me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
okay i can hear the indie thing here and here. i had no idea there were so many songs on youtube. i remember looking months ago and there weren't this many. tons now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdOIn_xA_Y&feature=autoplay&list=UL7gqOg3PYAaM&lf=mfu_in_order&playnext=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqOg3PYAaM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
it scans as conventional and boring to me.
Seven lines in a row that all rhyme at the end and it's in a 3+3+1 configuration where the third line is extended in each part and then an extra line is tacked on at the end.
― timellison, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
this is way bigger than lana on youtube right now. like a zillion times. not like video games wasn't huge there. it was. but people really want katy perry right now. the people have spoken. they already have a shape-shifting chameleon who has a hard time singing on snl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtB55MaoD0
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
co-sign amateurist 100%
― some dude, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
well they want beyonce AND katy. you know, they want two things. jessie j can do both.
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
I now feel slightly less nuts for having made that comparison on another board, thanks.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
strings on 'national anthem' sound just like 'bittersweet symphony'; is jagger going to get a check again?
― akm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have to admit I'm kind of feeling timellison's posts xp
― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
Keith Allen got the cheque i think.
― piscesx, Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
jesus i'm not even pissed; Alan Klein rather.
― piscesx, Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
miss u markers
bit.ly/AtVigP
― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/the-stereo-bomb/adams-song-the-stereo-bomb
― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
― timellison, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ok that is definitely unusual but what it seems to translate to before it reaches my ears is just endless repetition of the same melody without interesting variation. so unusual = unusually lazy. in this case. to me.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
(i guess the clincher for me is just that i can't even bear the thought of listening to it again to judge it against that description.)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
it just doesn't seem to go anywhere, melodically. and before i am accused of being geir i realize there are many other things that a good song can do. but this one just doesn't seem to do anything else for me--the only compensations, and they are hardly enough, are her vaguely smoky voice and the minimally effective simulation of a david lynch soundtrack.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
also i'm about to get all asshole-y but i kind of feel like few of the folks repping for this lady on here are gong to care about her or even think fondly of her big song in a few years. i'd bet money on it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
now with full chorus: http://t.co/A6SuCYMn
― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
bought a few record albums this afternoon (sparks, copernicus, oman souleyman) and noticed a freebie LDR 7" behind the counter as i was paying. asked if i had to buy something specific to get a copy. counter girl said yeah, but gave me one anyway. she asked if i'd seen the SNL performance and was it as bad as everyone says. i told her yeah, it was, and we commiserated vicariously. celebrity is probably tough.
turns out it's a joy orbison remix of "video games" with an odd future (syd the kid) remix of "blue jeans" on the flip. both pretty dull. but free!
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
driving in cars with boys (not on the album I know): sounds exactly like something else, can't remember what. (maybe this is why it isn't on the album, because the tune is a complete plagarism). anyone know what it is? some middling 80's pop song.― akm, jueves 26 de enero de 2012 01:57 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― akm, jueves 26 de enero de 2012 01:57 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
texas maybe? the atmospheric twangy guitar, big drum sound and the overall vibe from this particular tune reminds me strongly of them
video games = this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZK23sxkpk0
― cock chirea, Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
More importantly than any of this... we're currently arguing in my record shop as to whether she should be filed under 'R' (Ray, Lana Del) or 'D' (Del Ray, Lana).
The most popular comedy answer is definitely 'I'd file her in the bin!'.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
'L' for Land Del Rey.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Lana, fucking hell fingers.
Landfill Del Rey
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
We always file under surname, so that part isn't going to change; it is either D or R. I initially used R but I'm coming round to D.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link