what where?
― akm, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
she covered Lit
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Mistakes one journalist for another, accuses first journalist of asking "calculated leading" questions, sics fans on first journalist (again, wrong person), fans then dump on other journalist who objects, even though said third journalist has just reviewed the album incredibly positively, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
And she covered Lit, so.
Re: her deathwish: this is still the fictional character speaking, right? Who could simply be killed off by not being used as a personage anymore?
― StanM, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
That's the question, isn't it? If she's doing interviews in character, like Laibach or Oderus Urungus?
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
when's her damn bond theme already
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
i mean all this bullshit is just building up to that, let's get to it before we're buried in thinkpieces
She'll only get a Bond theme if Bela Tarr is picked to direct the next one.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
dude she ain't diamanda galas she's had a dance remix in the top 10 and makes nancy sinatra homages with the guy from the black keys. If Jack White & Alicia Keys can collaborate on one, Lana will get hers, fascinating character work or no
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
It was a "slow boring music for a slow boring movie" joke. (N.B.: I like the new album a lot.)
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
gotcha though let's not forget chris cornell wasn't too slow boring to get to do one
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
to be fair to everybody trying to figure out where the artist ends and her photo tumblr begins, i'll admit i don't personally know what contemporary act people should be scratching their chins over instead.
― da croupier, Friday, 20 June 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
i feel like "Skyfall" was the first Bond theme in forever that feels like it might actually stand the test of time
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
i like the madonna one (although that was ages ago)
― Van Spleef & R. Kellz (get bent), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
i like lana and ultraviolence is growing on me, but i don't really have the energy to defend her, because i don't care that much and anyway her fans are seriously scary so i don't want to align myself with that.
― Van Spleef & R. Kellz (get bent), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
rob delaney @robdelaney · Jun 17Game: Is it a Lana Del Rey song or a hot 22 year old yawning & farting at the same time?
― Josefa, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.idolator.com/7523506/lana-del-rey-dead-quote-response
Reminds me a little of the Warpaint/Beyonce/Q magazine defense.
― how's life, Friday, 20 June 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
good on that post for not fact-checking her claim about who interviewed her.
― maura, Friday, 20 June 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Fucking Idolator
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Tim Jonze has responded.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jun/20/lana-del-rey-problem-interview-but-why
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 June 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
has vox explained this yet bc i'm lost here
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial
― katherine, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
lol i was joking but thank you very much
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 20 June 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
rule 34 of explainers: if you can joke about it, it exists
― katherine, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Meantime, from Alexis Petridis himself:
Lana Del Rey update. Have now been accused of "bullying" Lana Del Rey by dint of giving her album FOUR OUT OF FIVE. Luckily, I can wholeheartedly assure the accuser that I won't be giving Lana Del Rey any four out of five reviews in future.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 June 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
:( nobody is doing themselves any favours rn
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 20 June 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I wish there was a conversation between arts-journalists-who-create-inflammatory-headlines and the-musicians-who-love-them that went something like: "Hey, I'm gonna use that crazy thing you just said as the headline, it is poppy and amazing and will get my site lots of clicks and get people talking about you, which is good because nobody loves a boring pop star, ok?" "OK!" instead of this bizarre thing
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 20 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
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hard lols
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 20 June 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
they prove it scientifically with graphs
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Friday, 20 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
funniest man on twitter...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah wtf
― goole, Friday, 20 June 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
Laney De Rob
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
She just kind of a presence. More than artist maybe. Good mood music for the Tumblr generation.
― it's a boy!, Saturday, 21 June 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm listening to this on this morning and it's really hitting the spot!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
"Pretty When You Cry" really reminds of of "Hotel California" during the verses.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Number one on the album chart
― Mark G, Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Not unexpected. Her last album did really well internationally.
― Greer, Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
If anything, this is made even less enticing than it sounds by virtue of the fact that she (still) cannot sing, as is made glaringly obvious by ponderous and lumbering chanteuse showcases such as “Pretty When I Cry,” “Money Power Glory,” “Old Money,” “Black Beauty,” and the (allegedly) ironic “F---ed My Way Up to the Top.”
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't surprise me either; I was in Target on Thursday and they had devoted two endcap shelves in their music section to the album and they were empty except for two copies of the standard edition; the deluxe version was completely sold out.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
People are going to target to buy Lana Del Rey CDs
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
I make most of my physical music purchases at Target, and given how much effort the label I used to work for put into getting their records on Target shelves, I know I'm not the only one.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Target edition has an extra exclusive track.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 June 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
wow, this scores very high on the "did she just sing what I think she sang?" factor
"I want MONEY, I want POWER, I want GLORY / I want to take you for all that you've got" etc.
also, yikes at the lyrics to "Brooklyn Baby", whoah
this is some shameless shit right here, yet somehow also insanely charming
I love watching her troll the world (or at least troll people who have to write about pop music for a living and have to assess whether she is Good or Bad)
those distant wolf howl noises in "Fucked My Way Up to the Top", nice
― the tune was space, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
she is literally singing torch songs to Money
it doesn't need to be unpacked, analyzed or interpreted, it's about being blatant as fuck, on purpose- and yet there's a cardboard scenery vibe that makes all that seem really rickety and stagey
the lyrics are like charm bracelets of bad girl clichés, wishful/aspirational thinking, and "doomed femme fatale / Sphinx" posturing not since Tiny Tim has an artist with as narrow a voice as this has made this big a splash
Lana, I salute you
― the tune was space, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
er, rather "not since Tiny Tim has an artist with as narrow a voice as this made this big a splash"
― the tune was space, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
if it wasn't obvious that brooklyn baby was winkingly naive, the line about hyrodponic weed made it explicit.
this album isn't nearly as fun as the first album which sounded like four different people at the mercy of four different insane producers and also had some stronger songs. but this one at least shows she does one thing really well. but she should do something else with the next one.
― akm, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much how I feel. I'm won over by her Method commitment to one strange idea and by how bizarrely successful it's proven to be. But I also like her voice fwiw so it appeals on the level of basic pleasure, not just as a trolly art project. I'm sure she'd claim there was no trolling involved but seriously, how else can you take a reference to He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss?
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 23 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
The moments when she lifts her soft palette and makes her midrange/lower head voice sound almost like Liz Frasier make the rest of the time when she's doing the pouty lisp with the stiff jaw that much more unforgivable
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 23 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh fuck her Method commitment or whatever else. She and Dylan should tour together so I could doubly ignore it and watch everyone ELSE deal.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link