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.
― SirGreendown, Saturday, 29 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
grrrr read the damn thread we went over all this shit
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 29 October 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 29 October 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
""authentic" (hate that word too) indie musician"
is bullshit pretty much most of the time anyway. Don't see the problem.
― owenf, Saturday, 29 October 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
Music writers writing about music writers writing about music.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
Deservedly so! Are you remixing any more of her stuff?
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 29 October 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― you want fries with that (flame grilled meat), Saturday, 29 October 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
i checked what this was assuming i'd heard it already, and i had.
it is crap.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
xxp yeah we've done Blue Jeans too, should be available soonish.
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
cracking tonight on the first date of her tour. opening track was a barnstormer.oh and here's the latest from us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6CnIUYjpqw
― piscesx, Saturday, 5 November 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
Was disappointed that the picture disc single I pre-ordered did not arrive signed, as the first thousand or something were supposed to be. I ordered that shit within minutes of the announcement. Oh well. I still love this song unreasonably, and I guess if it DID come signed, I'd be less "cool, let's jam it again" and more "hmmmm future eBay fodder."
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 5 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
guy at the gig last night selling pic discs for a tenner outside, saying that ebay has em going for upwards of 20 quid already.
― piscesx, Saturday, 5 November 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah incredible gig by her the other night. proud that she started the whole thing off in manchester. you can downloaded our blue jeans remix here and if you like it then you could put a heart on it here
― NI, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
she's playing at the troubadour in december! and it's sold out! and scalpers have tickets for $300!
― vilanch dubois (get bent), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
best of the new songs imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-X87wQ_AT8
― piscesx, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
Image:
http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/delete-music-iphone.jpg
The accompanying story.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― buzza, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
^_^
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/31464706
cover^4
― bamcquern, Thursday, 10 November 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hate is only a word used for Robbie Williams songs.
― kraudive, 29. oktober 2011 00:55 (1 week ago)
hehe no way, name a bad rw songlol :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaRHJn_dgM
hehe
― niels, Friday, 11 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
I abdolutely love the song. Really fun
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 12 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_the_One_%28World_Party_song%29
Williams featured in a campy and tongue-in-cheek music video where he was a figure skater. In the video he performs a backflip, which is actually illegal in competitive figure skating.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Saturday, 12 November 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
though I liked it on initial exposure, every subsequent thing I encountered just made it seem weaker and less inspired and just overall terrible
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
is this for real?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MYKESdOCTqU#!
― cuteforce, Monday, 14 November 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
sorry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYKESdOCTqU
gone mental innit? a Q cover after 1 single is certainly a first. slow month mind.
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 January 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
she has an album coming out this month.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
and like 100 songs on the internet.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_3yuNPRNc
― markers, Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
the opening to this thread is hilarious
― thomp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
i feel bad about being the person to note this, given that generally i wish ilm could use more enthusiasm, but come on
― thomp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
perpetua was tweeting today about how a co-worker heard him listening to the forthcoming album and asked him if it was Britney Spears and how ppl's heads would be exploding if this actually was the new britney album
but those tweets are deleted now which is kind of weird
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 6 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Ace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7XLHFiGauDY
― piscesx, Friday, 6 January 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lana better watch out she doesn't get run over by This Train: http://chrystabell.com/
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:15 (Yesterday)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:16 (Yesterday)
Dude this is Q we're talking about, they don't put you on the cover unless you're on at least yr second album and have sold millions of records and are about as safe a prospect as you can get.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 January 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
They've not even given her a something-for-the-dads type cover as is occasionally their wont.
― Matt DC, Friday, 6 January 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
― thomp, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:39 (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ha! Better to have loved and lost than etc ;)
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
Loved 'Video Games' and 'Blue Jeans' but then didn't pay attention to anything about her for 5 months. Just clicked the link to 'Off To The Races' that picesx posted and am now v excited for the album!
― pandemic, Friday, 6 January 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's a p weird song
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 January 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
Entirely unmoved and underwhelmed by 'Off To The Races'.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
then of course there'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g
― piscesx, Friday, 6 January 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
i heard her on radio 2 in my dads car. Not my kind of thing - ultra tasteful. My parents who like Subo thought she was great though. So shes gonna be huuuuuuuuuuge.
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
Your parents are the world's tastemakers.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 January 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
scary thought
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
I love her delivery on "Blue Jeans" and "Video Games"Everything else? She's behind the beat, like she's just been taught the song that morning.
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
You need to have a pretty ballsy performance to float a line like "He loves me / with every beat of his cocaine heart"
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Friday, 6 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link