Lana Del Rey

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".

nancy sinatra was already the gangsta nancy sinatra

i don't know who "built her up" as that though? whoever it was they had the wrong end of the stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwL7f57cDJY&feature=related

Of course it's not her TV debut, which I would expect an artist to be nervous but I rather hear this type of voice on the Jools show than the shtick she is doing with it now.

nancy sinatra was already the gangsta nancy sinatra

OTM

i don't know who "built her up" as that though? whoever it was they had the wrong end of the stick

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, October 28, 2011 4:42 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

she said it herself iirc!

The thing that annoys me is picking two cultural signifiers of cool and self-empowerment to describe someone who lacks the metaphorical balls to sing on TV. Maybe she's so obsessed with fame that she psyched herself out because OMG TV.

haha she totally has the wrong end of her own stick!!

At least I don't have to read "think" pieces about Zooey Deschanel suckiness anymore - the bloggerati have moved on to hating Lana!

In all seriousness, I saw her sing "Video Games" at a concert on YouTube and she sounded great - much better than her Jools Holland performance. Not getting all the hate this woman's receiving (and don't try to explain to me - believe me, I've read the blog posts, blog comments, think pieces and all the other BS surrounding her. And I still. Don't. Get. It.).

I've not read any hate. Show me the hate. It is a great pop song.

i hate the song "video games"

No. You don't.

Hate is only a word used for Robbie Williams songs.

Should clarify: hate is probably a strong word. I'd say an irrational dislike and an all-too-eager willingness to deconstruct/theorize on her persona and use it as a symbol for a bunch of random concepts that I don't know have too much to do with Lana.

A friend and I were discussing this, and we think she pisses people off because she gained prominence on the web through "indie" (God, I hate that word as a descriptor) blogs and when people found out she had help from a prominent PR company and toys with her image/sex appeal they felt they had been duped to believe she was some "authentic" (hate that word too) indie musician and really they all fell for the same marketing ploys that non-indie music consumers do.

grrrr read the damn thread we went over all this shit

until she puts out an album and pitchfork reviews it, and/or her song suddenly rockets up the charts into 'ubiquitous pop hit' status, who cares

""authentic" (hate that word too) indie musician"

is bullshit pretty much most of the time anyway. Don't see the problem.

That stuff doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I feel she is getting massive undeserved coverage because music journos need something to write about. She's very lucky, very much in the right place at the right time. The post-buzzocalypse.

Song is pretty, but mediocre. I could hear it in a car commercial. Her mythos is a goldmine though, but for reasons I care little about.

Music writers writing about music writers writing about music.

it's self-regarding nonsense of course but our Video Games remix is the most popular on the old
Hype Machine. take that Woon, Blake et al..

http://hypem.com/search/lana%20rey/1/?sortby=fav

Deservedly so! Are you remixing any more of her stuff?

1. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix) (4:59)
2. Kimbra - Cameo Lover (GLOVES Remix) (4:38)
3. Cleo Sol - High (Artful Dub) (5:39)
4. Yasmin - Finish Line (Mike Delinquent Project Remix) (4:28)
5. Artful Feat. Kal Lavelle - Could Just Be The Bassline (Dreem teem remix) (5:43)
6. Natalie May - Clothes Off (3:25)
7. Major Lazer - Baby (Figure Remix) (4:07)
8. RD - Got Me Burnin' (MK Remix) (5:33)
9. Yasmin Ft. Ms. Dynamite - Light Up The World (3:32)
10. Katy B - Witches Brew (5:10)
11. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (Penguin Prison Remix) (5:37)
12. Guido - Beautiful Complication (feat Aarya) (3:56)
13. Jess Mills - Live For What I d Die For (Distance Remix) (5:12)
14. Pandr Eyez - Eyes On You (3:56)
15. Jessie Ware - Strangest Feeling (3:41)
16. Goapele - Play (3:45)
17. Delilah - Go (3:46)
18. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (Bibio remix) (4:55)

works for me...

i checked what this was assuming i'd heard it already, and i had.

it is crap.