Lana Del Rey

I fucked my way to the top of this thread

Good mourning :)

"Venice Bitch" is not a second too long. It's a wonderful song ballad flowing gracefully that takes its time. There is indeed an early Mark Kozelek vibe in there.

Mariner's Apartment Complex reminds me of a specific song by another female alt. rock/pop singer/pianist and it's driving me crazy trying to think who it is.

it's something with much more vocal range than lana uses.

I don’t know about vocal range, but the melody reminds me of one of the Lady Gaga songs from her last album — maybe “Sinner’s Prayer”?

(The verse melody, not the chorus melody)

Venice Beach mood and guitars remind me of Les Fleurs by Minnie Ripperton rather than other indie folk things.

It’s oddly elegant.

have listened 2 venic bitch like a dozen times tday~

**VENICE

Venic Bitche

so mariners apt complex is fucking great

I think it’s the first song from her since « Videogames » don’t I really like.
It may be very long, it’s weirdly very satisfying to listen to it repeatedly.

So the first one you like? Yeah same here (but then again, I haven’t much paid attention since video games)

if y’all like “venice bitch” you should listen to ultraviolence

"Florida Kilos" is the best for mild hangovers on a Saturday morning.

Yes yes first since « VG ». And I haven’t been much interested too.

"Venice Bitch" is good. She continues to shuffle the deck of 60s/early 70s musical tropes and has finally turned up the "10-minute song with proggy synth solo" card. It'll fit well in the second half of the next album (I hope; she'd be insane to front-load it, but I think she's too smart for that.)

I'm not really a fan of any of the Lana Del Ray songs that I haven't listened to.

advance tracks/singles do tend to frontload her albums so don't be surprised when this ends up as track 2 or something. I found "Honeymoon"-as-opener pretty baffling

When you realize that Honeymoon is a total headphone album, "Honeymoon" the song is a perfect opener. It draws you very slowly and patiently into the album's world.

I revised this list. "Mariners Apartment Complex" is irresistible.

i think it speaks to her range as an artist that i consider this a great list even though it doesn't even have any of my top 5 on it

What’s your top 5, dd?

yeah, please!

ok i lied, your list has summertime sadness

1. the blackest day
2. terrence loves you
3. ride
4. summertime sadness
5. venice bitch

initial excitement for venice bitch pushed blue jeans out of the top 5

"Venice Bitch" is good. She continues to shuffle the deck of 60s/early 70s musical tropes and has finally turned up the "10-minute song with proggy synth solo" card.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:01 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great comment for a great song. Had Venice Bitch and Mariner’s on repeat this week.

https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-escalates-feud-with-azealia-banks/

Dissonant times

is banks mentally ill or just an attention addict?

is banks mentally ill or just an attention addict?

Yes.

both

i love banks as a musician but god being a fan of hers has been pretty tough.

this is a sad feud tho, someone should take the coke away from banks

i haven't heard anything but "212" think i'll keep it that way

Lana Del Brazy

Venice Bitch is so great

can’t stop listening to Mariners Apartment Complex

same

rip hear

miss camaraderie

trust me

I got off the bandwagon after the Blue Jeans single but this new stuff sounds great, ready to get back!

what happened, why is this so different from the albums in between? it has a more acoustic, mellow vibe, if I'm not mistaken

new studio/producer/band?

new influences?

More like a new strain at the dispensary.

will this be her Revolver? :O

I'm struggling to determine whether Poe's law applies here or not:

https://www.wikihow.com/Emulate-Lana-Del-Rey

there are impressionable 12 year olds that are going to take that shit seriously and for that reason it should be taken down.

wikiHow is so weird!!

There's impressionable 35 year olds who will take that shit seriously.

There's also an article that teaches people how to look like Carly Rae Jepsen:
https://www.wikihow.com/Look-Like-Carly-Rae-Jepsen

It's nowhere near as useful. "Wear very nice clothes at formal events" and "wear sunglasses" aren't detailed enough to be helpful. I already do both of those things and I look nothing like her. Admittedly I am a middle-aged man and Carly Rae Jepsen is a 33-year-old woman, but we share genetic material. 33! I thought she was younger. Does Carly Rae Jepsen have a look? Lana Del Rey is basically Natalie Wood, but I don't think Jepsen or her producers put much thought into her image.

A few years back Milan central station had a set of gigantic billboards of Lana Del Rey - we're talking thirty-foot-tall monoliths with Del Rey on each side, advertising handbags - and I always wondered what happened to those billboards. The man who wrote Wikihow's how-to guide would have paid a fortune for them.

i think wikihow is user-generated content. you can find any kind of fucking weird thing in there.

yes, all wikis are comprised of user-generated content