Lana Del Rey

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.

lol internet nostalgia

http://lanadelreydancing.tumblr.com/

O_O

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26odmjeNV1qzot6ao1_500.png

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oh dear god

he's literally twice her age.

does Axl play video games?

the idea of Axl Rose as the love interest in that song is super-LOLworthy to me

he was born to die-yi-yi-yi-yowwwwwwww

if there ends up being an axl/lana sex video then i'm going to die

anal del rey

he hit her up when he realized "lana" was an anagram for "anal" so they had something to talk about

God damn it. scooped by get bent

if that dude walked by me on the street I would not think 'wow axl rose just walked by'

axl rose is an anagram for oral sex

axl looking better in those pics than he has in years imo-- lana is good for him

could this be a shop of ldr recording at the Village, which Axl had locked down for 10+ years and was often photographed leaving

it's supposed to be them leaving the chateau marmont.

Was that photo taken at a Walmart parking lot?

the chateau walmart

alley-oop dad joke

i was literally just putting words together from the 2 previous posts, not even wordplay, let alone a joke