Lana Del Rey

aaaaaand i can almost hear the kanye collaboration now

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:41 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is an amazing concept and i for one cannot wait

randy newman sucks. everyone knows it. they just feel bad for him cuzza his shirts.

and if it takes two kent school grads to point that out, well, then it has to be done.

scotts worst nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9ZzrkLTDQ

oh i just remembered, wasn't LDR supposed to do a few other US chat shows around now? ellen, and another one? have those happened yet?

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:48 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

scheduled for letterman on thurs 2/2/12 but idk maybe it was cancelled?

Not to associate everyone who dislikes her with the creeps in newspaper comment threads but the angle of the creeps' complaints are revealing. They are already obsessed with the idea that the music industry is an all-powerful, many-tentacled conspiracy that is lying to them, bribing journalists for good reviews, etc. Add to that an attractive young woman with a rich dad and it's a perfect storm of impotent resentment whereby LDR becomes the symbol of all that is wrong with music, capitalism, the youth of today, and the comment creeps' own wretched lives.

i think i resent it way more if unattractive people (who also suck) get to be massive and successful. like, drake isn't EVEN hott so WHYYYYYYY :(

"attractiveness" is such a weird thing to base anything on though - it's just a totally nebulous, meaningless word, and it's often a stand-in for "visually striking" or "charismatic" or "willing to wear revealing clothes", because how we relate to celebrities visually is kinda more individual and complex than just reductive "sexual desire"

otm

LDR becomes the symbol of all that is wrong with music, capitalism, the youth of today, and the comment creeps' own wretched lives

to be fair about 90% of interviews with pop stars are seen as this BTL

i don't hate nina simone anymore! i came around. my brother-in-law played an album and i really liked it. see, i can learn.

haha just when i was gonna start a why does skot h8 nina simone and randy newman thread

You know this version, Scott?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHEPi_iK6jM

people who ascribe pretty female popstrels' popularity entirely to their hotness never seem to realise that for most of them, their actual active fanbase is mostly young straight women and gay men - the straight boys who fancy nicole scherzinger weren't exactly first in line for pussycat dolls music

i was just listening to the tamlins!

i've been listening to so much gorgeous gorgeous jamaican vocal stuff. i wish there was more stuff like that on the radio! just heartbreaking and beautiful and so powerful.

(probably why i was such a fan of that first massive attack album)

Tamlins' vocalist is awesome

That Tamlin's version of Batlimore is one of my all-time favourite records I think. (It's collected on Darker than Blue, right?)

Tamlins.

randy newman is awesome!

Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair
Trying to find the ocean
Looking everywhere

tho i dont much care for his singing

Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair
Trying to find the ocean
Looking everywhere
Video gaaaames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wrKSutqsE

its pretty memorable when someone doesn't suck on snl.

I was in the studio audience for the rehearsal performance of Diddy Dirty-Money and they sounded pretty good!

xp Esquire piece isn't great but very far from being the worst. I think he's onto something, albeit poorly expressed, about how LDR's "process of becoming" is messier and more incomplete than most, as if caught mid-transition, whereas Gaga or whoever had their persona nailed by the time they made their first album. Guess it depends if you find that interesting or a failure.

I also enjoy the music of Randy Newman and the Tamlins.

its pretty memorable when someone doesn't suck on snl.

well there's sucking as in bad mix or blah performance, and then there's sucking as in sounding so thoroughly incompetent you need to turn away, everclear and LDR being in the latter category

gaga's persona has evolved quite a bit since her debut incarnation though

Of course it's evolved but she had the basics down. It wasn't as gawky and unfinished as LDR.

fucking hate Randy Newman

gaga is just waaaaaaay better at it!

In a music industry dominated by mass overproduced overhyped pop stars, it is rare to find someone who sings with such raw emotion. What a gift Lana Del Ray is!

denejem 2 hours ago

Last year he said the same about Adele. He just keeps the sentence and substitutes a different name every January.

deejenem

Raw emotion doesn't seem to be LDR's thing - she seems to be doing more of a Nico-esque ice-princess thing. I've only heard "Video Games" though, tbf.

people who ascribe pretty female popstrels' popularity entirely to their hotness never seem to realise that for most of them, their actual active fanbase is mostly young straight women and gay men - the straight boys who fancy nicole scherzinger weren't exactly first in line for pussycat dolls music

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:00 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, it's a mistake to confuse a pronounced interest in the sexual attractiveness of mediated imagery and personae with the expression of heterosexual male lust. fashion magazines aimed at women construct idealized images of beauty and desirability that are often explicitly sexual but that aren't necessarily meant to incite straight male desire. celebrity culture magazines aimed at women are obsessively fascinated with sexual attractiveness ("beach bodies", etc.) and can be unstintingly cruel about any woman's failure to live up to the ideal. kim kardashian achieved notoriety as a pornographic fantasy object, but i imagine that far more women and gay men watch her reality show than horny straight guys. the "hotness" of female celebrities seems to be as much a lure to the former audience as it is to the latter.

it's almost like we can't let ppl be one hit wonders anymore. bands used to get savaged by the critics, get no chart placement, then slink off to die peacefully. now there are flash mobs with p1tchf0rks.

original discoverer of del rey speaks

http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:04 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

btw “Here’s somebody with the outer manifestation of Marilyn Monroe with the inner manifestation of Leonard Cohen.”

boner city amirite

~the perfect woman~

BAD

http://www.cup.columbia.edu/media/4527/monroe-blog-2.gif

:)

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-01/music/lana-del-rey-just-wants-to-be-loved/

i'm like a regular LDR clipping service.

Reading that Nichtern interview reminded me that LDR made the same mistake with this debut rollout that Little Boots did. Pop is about illusion, and frankly demystifying the process by talking about your publicists and managers, or allowing them to speak about the mechanics of the rollout, is a huge turn off. It encourages your listeners to think about artifice, when it should be transparent to all but the most curious.

omg that Tamlins version of Baltimore is so fucking awesome

although you posted a terrible quality version, this is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4svHZfnG4&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrvD-o8cII
OH HEY, so she's relevant again with this embarrassing SNL performance.

oh hey

http://www.fredberryjr.com/uploads/Rerun.jpg