Lana Del Rey

it's not tho! it's just an averagely pointless box set!

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/rock/boxset-keane-strangeland-super-deluxe-version-box-set-2012/invt/0602527987767/

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/privateering/mark-knopfler-privateering-super-deluxe-box-set/invt/0602537043231/

hahahahahaha what the hell

I think there's a slight difference between extravagant box sets that are released when the original albums come out, as another option for the "superfans", as opposed to box sets that get released months later that force fans to rebuy the same album.

see also "gold" and "silver" VIP packages to tours (where you get a meet-and-greet and early access to the merchandise stalls YAY)

i don't know how it "forces" anyone to do anything really. and at least they're getting 9 new songs (basically another album) for the price of buying the alubm again, a lot of deluxe editions are like 2 new songs. (xpost)

The cool thing is that one of these boxes actually contains Lana Del Rey's severed ear.

you see you laugh but the gaga box set actually DID contain a "lock" of her "hair"

and not off her head

well, for £25, that's not bad contentwise...

i don't know how it "forces" anyone to do anything really. and at least they're getting 9 new songs (basically another album) for the price of buying the alubm again, a lot of deluxe editions are like 2 new songs. (xpost)

well, yeah, the "new" stuff wildly varies from set to set. in terms of "forcing" fans to buy stuff, i'm looking at it from the point of a fan who isn't going to illegally download the new stuff. a lot of these deluxe editions get released with new songs that you just cannot get any other way. i'm not sure if its still this way, but the Katy Perry rerelease of her recent album on iTunes had the "new" material greyed out an only available as 'Album Only', meaning you had to buy the entire thing again to get the new stuff. how is that not forcing the hardcore fans to re-buy the same material again?

Seems like a big part of LDR's appeal is the image, the way she is packaged and repackaged, so it seems like having new artifacts to complete your LDR set is pretty much giving the fans what they want. Not that the music isn't important at all, but the image is at least as important, if not more so.

never got the album, will get this edition when they are selling it for a fiver in fopp ( a la 2 cd + dvd edition of lady gagas special edition of BTW).

xpost yeah it was Amy Winehouse's Deluxe Edition Back To Black that really ushered in the Deluxe Era, as that was the first (only?) Deluxe Edition to be issued that had a really big hit single on it/from it (Valerie) that was a bigger hit(number 2 in the uk charts) than anything on the original parent album. that was the point i think labels woke up to it as a proper cash cow and not just as a thing the fans/ geeks would buy as Back To Black Deluxe edition was then separately a big hit in the uk album chart that Xmas.

there are probably some other good later examples too mind...

like i joked on fb, if the song's called "bel air," maybe the smoke silhouette is meant to represent the smog over the 405. kidding aside, i think this is quite pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3yT8CkPzY&feature=share

sheesh it seems like just yesterday that i forgot about her!

best of the new tracks is America imo.

http://cholaempire.tumblr.com/post/35960333637/my-grandmother-sameer-and-i-hear-ride-by-lana-del

Nan: What is this noise?
Nan: Is it this udaas gori (sad white girl) again?
Nan: You must put it off now.
Nan: I am very tolerant of the new music but I cannot tolerate this.
Nan: I will die. This woman and her singing will kill me.
Nan: You will be responsible for my death.
Nan: And both of you will die as I am the one driving.
Nan: Lana will kill us all.

Why did no one ever tell me about the "My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" line?

For the most part, this Paradise ep is nothing, but that lyric is absurd and terrible and great all at the same time.

Amen to that

I kinda finding myself enjoying what I've heard off of paradise

"Ride" starts it off pretty well, and "Cola" has that ridiculous lyric, but the rest of it isn't doing much for me.

so mary chain
xxxp

Those are the two I've heard

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/be-young-have-fun-lick-pepsi

yeah "ride" is the only 1 i like

o i guess i like body electric also

The repeated "I sing the body electric" vocal ends up becoming an annoying and meaningless mantra at the end.

disco naïveté is good for discovering some stuff, but his Lana Del Rey fixation has now spilled over into fandom for her first true clone/imposter: Fe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JybcKms8zUw

The other track, "Let It Go", is actually okay. That's why I'm not posting the video for it, because it becomes considerably less okay is you have to watch her singing it.

A bit less an imposter, but this bit of Brill building pop is definitely hitting some LDR buttons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbwDlzSTotY#!

The band's the google- and ILX-search proof Elephant (#11 of 16 artists with the same name, according to discogs). They last graced us with the EP Assembly in 2011.

iirc they sounded nothing like this in 2011, so...can we officially call them bandwagoneers?

Not a huge fan of her stuff but I'm enjoying the new track, the one from the Gatsby soundtrack monster.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-reys-muse-is-very-fickle-20131022

odd way of saying "I suddenly realized I can't really sing"

"i'm hoping those songs people wrote for me will get me noticed enough to get involved with hollywood"

haha

she did basically make a second (third) album, but it got classified as an EP (Paradise) and tacked onto Born to Die in a reissue (had the boring blue velvet cover on it).

pretty funny that this generic-edm-in-every-way remix of "summertime sadness" became a huge hit this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akhmS1D2Ce4

song's strong enough that it's just funny, really

and weirdly "summertime sadness" isn't a bad song to recast as a banger, though the toyboy & robin mix is probably how it should be done

https://soundcloud.com/toyboyrobin/summertime-sadness-toyboy-2

have you not heard the mk mixes!

i seem to be looking back more and more fondly on lana as time goes by generally

lil silva did a boss mix of 'born to die' as well at the time iirc

she does small weird things with her voice that lend themselves quite well to disembodiment, plus dolour on the dancefloor is always a goer

Hmm... the Toyboy & Robin mix of Summertime Sadness beats out the MK one imo, but only just.

tbf it's probably not even top 10 for mk this year so yeah may as well throw the upstarts a bone

#1 is the fcl, right?

i dunno maybe i haven't heard the right ones but a lot of mk's remixes this year i've expected to be mindblowing and they weren't

i don't really do #1s, they imprison my astrology

that cedric remix of SS was one of the most bafflingly ugly things to happen to the weird world of LDR, not my bag at all but the mainstream club kids love it. (timely revive for this thread as last month we were been commissioned to do a new remix for her upcoming film, her voice is a dream to work with as a producer)

covering "once upon a dream" for disney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ44x0GnKh4

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihgvGPlSkXE

The you/too/blue/true/flue/moo/grue grates but otherwise it's absolutely gorgeous

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Although of course I would've totally fallen for a "You just might be eaten by a grue"

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myself and NI's remix for Gods And Monsters is here if anyone fancies a listen. it's currently in the 'Hype Machine' Top 5 chart of the most liked/blogged remixes in the world
so we're pretty chipper about it.

http://hypem.com/popular/remix

Went platinum this week.

shit. i wouldn't have guessed that honestly.

i like her.

everyone's done hating on her now, right?

I still listen to the album a fair amount. the production is over the top and annoying at times but that's the worst I can say about it. I'm sure she's still a bad performer.

all the current unreleased things are awfully good (black beauty, angels forever)

Haven't really paid attention to any of the leaks but I still enjoy the album a lot. Played it last month and enjoyed it a lot.