(I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, Piscesx, but Billboard isn't a big magazine at all - it's a trade publication, like Daily Variety is for Hollywood)
― Walter Galt, Friday, 13 January 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Billboard basically exists to chart music sales/airplay, although lately they've gotten more into putting new artists on the cover that haven't had much of that kind of success (Odd Future before they had really been on a single chart last year, etc.)
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
is somewhat traditional in outlook..
Yet you still can't beat the French at football that often...
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
nice billboard cover imo
― markers, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol "the persecution of" -- i feel like the next 10 years is just going to be every new artist looking at their youtube comments/negative press and deciding they're being 'cyberbullied'
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
radio 2. the uk's most listened to radio station + the prime minister is a fan
Yes, I know she's mega-popular in the UK; I was asking akm b/c he lives in the U.S., where "indie" chanteuses are less likely to reach a mainstream audience. (Feist was a big anomaly, too.)
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh ok i didn't know where akm was from, should've trusted the xls
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
"classic rock" isn't a good descriptor for KFOG. They do "adult album alternative, an eclectic variety of blues, reggae, folk, pop, and rock music from the mid-1960s to the present" ... meaning that it an easy listening station imo
OK, then it's like WXRT in Chicago, which I wouldn't be entirely surprised to learn is playing Lana Del Rey, either, since it's the only commercial radio station where I've heard Arcade Fire, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, etc.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
(That said, AAA stations tend to have little influence on the Hot 100.)
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp I know what you mean but the LDR case is kind of extreme. I went back to the Hipster Runoff post recently while writing something about her and was reminded what an obnoxious, misogynistic, point-missing piece of shit it was. The speed and intensity of the backlash far exceeds what most buzz bands get to the point that it became a big part of her story. Translated from excitable coverlinese, "persecution" seems pretty accurate to me.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
in the Rebecca Black age i realy just can't feel sorry for any adult who willingly puts their music and image out into the world for anyone to see and isn't prepared to take the bad with the good. the only people who get nothing but positive feedback about their music are no-names nobody cares about with lots of friends and family who humor them.
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
There are degrees of bad, no? It's not like it's either blanket acclaim or Carles being a dick. And in terms of taking the bad with the good she hasn't thrown her toys out of the pram and started ranting about haters. In the most recent interview I read she mainly wanted to make the reasonable point that she's not just some puppet doing what the guys at the record label tell her to do. "Persecution" is Billboard's word, not necessarily (I haven't read the article) hers.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
well there's "people" and theres "carles"
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
she is tailor-made for HRO
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
xp Ha ha
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
has she come out in support of Ron Paul yet?
Can we discuss the fact her dad made money off of people typing their search terms into the address bar before web browsers treated it like a search field? Like he registered stuff like beyonceshair.com or whatever in the hopes someone would type that in and then put up a parking page with weak "content" and a ton of ads
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'd rather not.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
more interesting than the music
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't know why people are questioning her worth when she has nearly 4 months of performance experience as LDR. Clearly she is a pro.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
And the whole persecution angle is a brilliant PR tactic. It's constructing a narrative out of thin air, and helps towards making her seem more authentic, which is pretty ingenuous really. She's authentic because she is being persecuted for being inauthentic.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i want to completely screen out any and all writing about LDR that includes the words "authenticity" or "lips"
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Which is also funny, lex, since the authenticity of her lips has been questioned
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
clam?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
no clam.
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
i want to completely screen out any and all sightings of LDR's lips.
― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
born to die: the lyrics to this are abysmal, but I really love it. Every single line is a hackneyed cliche (take a walk on the wild side; kiss me in the rain; feet don't fail me now; lines from amazing grace), to the point where I almost have to think it's intentional; if not she is an absolutely awful lyricist. but it's still really good!
― akm, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
pretty intentionally pastiche and homage, imo
or not intentional and someone stumbled into the same concepts by accident
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel like that is kind of the "point" of LDR in general
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
I like her disinterested singing and melodies too
― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
cool lips, too.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Like, what if I am trying to remember a song with common cliched lyrics and I was actually thinking of a different artist, but when I explained it to friends or searched via Google, they say "Oh, you mean Lana Del Rey?"
her dad's business model, right?
― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oB2Le.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
i have to stop fucking listening to these songs but I can't
― akm, Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
Listen to her tomorrow, on Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM, E/10:30 PM, C)!
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
she was announced on SNL as lah-na, so i guess my 'lame adele ray' display name was predicated on the wrong pronunciation
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
is she wearing a wig?
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
she seems really nervous + uncomfortable. and i think she's dropping words
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
she sounds like a vampire from transylvania
oh my god, this is the worst thing i've ever seen
i think this is mid-'90s julia roberts
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is meta camp
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
this is so unfortunate
She's neither "gangster" nor "Nancy Sinatra" based on this. Still like the song though.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
i'm always mildly disappointed when 'buzz band' music isn't as awful as i imagine it to be but "Video Games" was definitely everything i dreamed of and more
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
i gotta say - i love the original recorded song. this performance is just magically terrible
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ this
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
original version is hot garbage, performance was pretty true to the song
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
^this
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
She admitted she's a boring stage performer in that VH1 video interview, though, and based on the music she makes I was fully expecting what I got here.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link