Lana Del Rey

its a terrible habit. why at this stage in my life do i still hope for some wisdom from a person just because they can sing or play an instrument or produce etc.

she doesn't spend all day, every day reading political commentary through twitter so doesn't know the right things to say

As if doing that is a recipe for knowing "the right things to say" in any context.

i think 'right things to say' means the bland, dull, 'acceptable' things to say, rather than just shooting from the hip

lol isn’t that what the rest of us learn as interacting with people? anyone can spout off rude and unthinkingly daft stuff, she’s not special because she does it while famous

It’s… interesting that no one said anything about her cover of Gershwin’s “Summertime”

Is it comment worthy?

“Im so happy to have recorded this song to support the wonderful arts institutions that are the LA and NY Philharmonic orchestras that have faced such difficult challenges this year.. I’ll be donating to both to support them and loved making this video I hope you like it”

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) November 19, 2020

My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers.

It’s… interesting that no one said anything about her cover of Gershwin’s “Summertime”

my response to the above tweet, like I assume most people's, was "oh, that's nice", followed by not actually listening

that was my reaction even after listening

"My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers."

Interested to know who now.

I'm confused a little by the timeline, since I didn't even see the news that she'd released the cover until her weirdo post about the lack of POC/WOC - was there a gap in which people were complaining about the cover? Or did she bizarrely put that non-response response out even before anyone had any chance to comment on the cover?

I think she's mainly still salty from this particular fracas

lol the last person i remember her being with was some white dude reality show police guy

Maybe she was under the impression Axl was a rapper?

I also want to say that with everything going on this year!

Maybe she was under the impression Axl was a rapper?

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 11, 2021 9:47 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he counts because of "My World" and "Get in the Ring"

G-Eazy is a rapper I guess?

Maybe she thought Marilyn Manson was a rapper via the Tainted Love video.

lol the last person i remember her being with was some white dude reality show police guy

ideally, the private detective from nathan for you

LDR's whole thing from the start sounds like an extended Nathan For You bit

the plan: make a pop singer out of someone psychologically unsuited for any kind of fame

"The goal? Increase sales of used consoles at your pawn shop by releasing a popular song about video games."

lol xp

the plan: make a pop singer out of someone psychologically unsuited for any kind of fame

Isn't this 90% of them these days? Every time I look at a news site, or Twitter, there's a story about some pop star's desperate agony over something or other.

Waa "Summertime" done as some kind of companion piece to her "Doin' Time" cover?

no one is psychologically suited for fame

the potentially controversial opinion i keep arriving at lately is that no one should be famous

I agree that no one should be famous. some people manage to be pretty ok people about it though

that we know of!!!!

lol true

and certainly no one's character has ever been improved by getting famous

the only good rock n roll instagram is patti smith's

I didn't "expect" her to be a philosopher, by the way, she majored in it at school.

New song. Sounds like an LDR song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ-WHVRbxg

this is much better than the previous single but yeah nothing new. nice vocal production.

the drum outro is a small but specifically lana-ish thing

astrological lyric hilariously on brand

Quite like it despite being ready to hate it. Tbh I think new LDR might be the kind of depressing uk lockdown soundtrack I need.

the plan: make a pop singer out of someone psychologically unsuited for any kind of fame

She seems well-suited for a 1970s kind of fame, where success and adulation reinforce her self-regard and enhance the side of her lyrics that tend to grandiosity, and provide a view of the world that's interestingly bent by removal from regular society / ludicrous levels of self belief. A Barbra Streisand type of white-dwarf-dense, but harmless, narcissism.

Having to interact with people who understand how - regardless of whether it's interesting as poetry or a psychological sketch of a built persona - her worldview is facile & limited is something she's not suited for. Also, having to interact with live humans at all during a pandemic.

"In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes."

the only good rock n roll instagram is patti smith's

Big Boi’s social media is mostly owls, dogs and cheering for his son playing football IIRC.

(If LDR is rock n roll I’m putting BB in too.)

new song is definitely much better than "let me love you like a woman", pretty good

i do feel optimistic about the new album being her shortest since her last few albums have all been too long for their own good

we can be thankful the closer is Joni's "For Free", not Kendrick's

lmao that would have been something

Update, January 11, 6 p.m.: Lana Del Rey is now defending her defense of her new album cover Speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac for the premiere of the title track, she addressed alleged criticisms of the cover photo regarding inclusivity. “My girlfriends come from all over the world, they have children from all different types of people,” she explained. “And I’m mentioning all this, like, to people who are listening because people really wanted even more people of color on my album cover. Which you know is, to a point, a photo just is what it is.” Del Rey further claimed that “actually half the people in this photo are people of color.” She also said the so-called controversy — which seems to have been started and fanned only by her— made her think “back to all my songs and videos and starting with more of a hip-hop sound.” She went on, “I just feel like if that’s really what people are gonna say, I have an answer for them, which is that if you look closer, you will see people of color. It’s a black-and-white image, so zoom in, you know. It’s just weird, you know?” Do we, Lana?

Elsewhere in her conversation with Mac, Del Rey spoke about the pandemic (“I always wondered, with 8 billion people in the world, [why] this did not happen sooner”) and the riot at the Capitol (“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

Lana dril Rey

The new song is nice but doesn't feel like a single. More like an album opener.

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”

lol this is really one of her better quotes

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

Lana dril Rey

― Chris L, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:51 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

irl lol

honestly don't get what's wrong with the album cover

as i understand it literally no one other than LDR has suggested theres anything wrong with it

^^^^

It's good that she got out ahead of this controversy that she invented herself, shows real foresight