Lana Del Rey

Is it just me, or was that performance really, really awful? The way she slips in and out of the cooing voice and the, erm, adventurous approach to the song's melody...I love this song more than anything, but this performance...yikes.

^otm (for me, at least). Idk, it all seemed a little "stiff" perhaps? Also really got a "singer playing a singer singing" feel from it. And I genuinely love that song too.

don draper:his new fiance::indie rock critics:lana del rey

teeth:lips in that analogy.

Yeah, her voice seemed so shakey/weak at times....

yo i herd you like the bad girls honey
so i put the bad in your girl so you can bad while you girl

― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark

roffle

i like stevie's "moodboard pop" coinage a lot

personally find it kinda boring how crepes will react to even the most obvious thing on that moodboard

the plastic surgery is probably my fave bit, like la confidential right?

super special ilm hypocrisy ts: ldr vs teh weeknd

What is the teh-dream to ldr's teh weeknd in that controversial analogy?

actual nancy sinatra?

Videogames should've used anime footage instead of Google Video nostalgia.

Aw she was just nervous!

I'm sort of surprised at how unpoised she looked, actually. Shifting from foot to foot like a high school drama club hopeful. Thought her voice was great.

mm me too. it was her live tv debut on the biggest music show in the country so i mean nerves? yeah you'd probably expect that.

If it were Pop Idol the judges would be like, good stuff but you gotta OWN THE STAGE.. but well, it's kind of nice to see somebody who isn't just full-on and brash and cockily sashaying around, straight out the gate

Kind of think nervous girl behind huge hair/lashes/lips is part of the LDR "shtick".

haha well i guess it's workin on me

Man, she comes across totally unpolished in interviews, and I love her all the more for it.
At this point, I can't decide if she's going to blow up in a huge, huuuuge way or if she's just gonna be one of those quirky pop divas beloved by a large if not psychotic number of people.

I definitely see her being bigger in Europe than she will be in the States...there's something a little off about her that will keep her from being massive here (assuming her record company/PR team don't flatten all of her quirks).

single was Top 5 in U.S. iTunes chart last week apparently. supposedly headed for the actual Top 10 over here also.

the ep was top 5 in the itunes albums list i believe, i don't think the track itself has popped up on the singles list. i also think she will be bigger in europe (in the uk certainly things are looking good)

I'm very late with this but Club Clique's remix is fantastic as is their remix of the B-side.

i hate to say it but i think a not-insignificant part of the success of "video games" is the fact that the title has a tech angle to it

because it's intriguing and generates youtube views?

i think the song is all about the chorus

top 10 with a bullet in the UK!

y'all are being awfully apologetic towards a singer who's supposed to be next great white-girl-what-sings-like-a-black-girl savior

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00659/news-graphics-2008-_659690a.jpg

lord

Jimmy Jimmy... who says she's supposed to sound black? what black singer does she sound like? i mean... to me she sounds like iris dement and jimmie dale gilmore had an asthmatic child, but in a good way

Is she supposed to sound black? News to me! Performing on "Later" she looked really really nervous.

Oh great. As if the arguments over this girl weren't boring enough, now we've inserted white guilt.

Or black pride, depending how you look at it.

Pride != slamming a singer for sounding like "you" if you happen to be black.

(also, lots of people throwing around this accusation do happen to be white)

edwardo, my post was completely not coming from a position of even being remotely serious.

I did think you were being somewhat flippant, but, y'know, even more backwards stances find fruit on here so you can never tell.

Could see Marianne Faithfull, even now, covering Video Games.

video games: more 6th form music tech college music, pretty song, awful production. has a similar innocent "this is the first good song i wrote" vibe what that xx album had

would like to hear erykah badu do a wink wink cover in the style of i'm the one era annette peacock

mr fingers remix is the most tossed off thing ever, vocal phrasing is hilarious

interscope

"peace out, indiesphere! i'll be over here getting some of that drug-runner money!"

Iovine probably had her and Tyler in for a meeting two years back and went "Got a plan."

i didn't really think of her as 'indie'

Me neither - in the British sense at least - but there was a lot of discussion/promotion/hype on indie blogs.

73% of all indie blogs are written by virgins

'Blue Jeans' reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM

?

blue jeans = wicked games

or, wicked game. whatever the chris isaac song is called.

Plus she channels some kind of Kate Bush and Gwen Stefani thing

Ooof that Jools performance was a disaster.

I guess it doesn't help when you build yourself up as a "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra" but I expected a little more self-confidence and less "Someone please get this poor lady off the stage before she pisses herself in fear".