Hi, My name is Lisa Marie Presley, and i dont realize these things...

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I can't sing.
The production on my album is really bad.
Putting refrences to Scientology in my songs probably won't help me sell any records.
My album is going to tank.

Who green lights these things?

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you have to admit, just from a label perspective, you gotta figure it's worth a shot. instant publicity and bankable name (and big tell-all interview potential). and if it tanks, it tanks spectacularly at least.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

musical equivalent of Battlefield Earth

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Al thats what im trying to figure out. its obviously going to be a financial failure and its not like LMP is the most stable of people. i find the whole thing mildly cruel.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i thingk its funnny.

funny weird not funny ha ha.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

oh one more thing:
"Im not sexy when they dress me up like Avril and i look at the camera like im half asleep.

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

All that instant publicity and a bankable name didn't help Kelly Osborne or Sean Lennon much did it?

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe not, but I quite enjoy Kelly's album.

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus, maybe those millions of Elvis fanatics will pick up the album as so not to offend The King's restless spirit.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

AMG gave it four stars.

(shockah)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Got Sean a place on the Core CMJ at least didnt it? Thats gotta mean at least 5000 copies in the states right???

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I think she sings just fine on that single. Of course, she sounds like Cher, so I would say that.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, it keeps seguing into "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia" in my head, and I like that, too.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

'Putting refrences to Scientology in my songs probably won't help me sell any records'

Well-uh well-uh well-uh HUH!

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Heard Lisa Marie's single yesterday. It's pretty wierd actually; enough so that I can see it potentially growing on me. Neat Ballard production and far less annoying than the stuff he did with Alanis Morrisette. Towards the end of the track Lisa Marie starts growling.

― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The video is weird, she adopts this crouching position and then the camera spins around and around while she sort of bounces up and down gradually regaining an upright posture.

Take it away Dan.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so dirty that even knowing full well that she fucked Michael Jackson I still find her totally babe-o-riffic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, she's totally hot.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Why should she worry whether the record tanks? Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. had approx. $34 MN in profit last year.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so dirty that even knowing full well that she fucked Michael Jackson I still find her totally babe-o-riffic.
Where's the evidence that THAT ever happened, though?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

She obviously feels she needs to prove something to somebody though. I mean, three horribly failed marriages and a grotesquely huge shadow over her.(by which I mean, y'know, those Naked Gun movies her mom was in)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Where's the evidence that THAT ever happened, though?
The women's size 7 boy scout uniform in the closet?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I retract the previous statement because it is soooo wrong on so many levels.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

How, indeed, CAN something so wrong turn out to be so right?

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Scientologists are creepy.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

especially scientologists dressed as cub-scouts.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, they won't help old ladies across the street without sneakily connecting those personality tester machines to the old ladies wig.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, god...it just dawned on me! If they (Lisa-Marie and Michael) had kids, these kids would've been raised as both Scientologists and Jehovahs Witnesses.
"Hello, Neighbor...would you like an E-Meter test? How about a copy of the Watchtower."

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't it seem rather LATE for her to be launching a music career now?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

LMP doesn't realize that Toronto isn't Asia.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

It will be a camp-classic in 15 years. Still waiting for Eddie Murphy's record to get its second wind. (tick tock - any day now.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Hasn't that one gone through the "critical reappraisal phase" already...and was still found to be lacking.
Actually, the albums I'm expecting to gain massive cult classic status in retrospect are:
"No More Mister Nice Guy" by Pat Boone
"In the Life of Chris Gaines" by Garth Brooks

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't Euroboy look a little like Lisa Marie in this picture? Crossed with Lucinda Williams, maybe?

http://www.scandinavianleather.com/pics/popup/euro.jpg

― Any Excuse to Post a Euroboy Picture (Arthur), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

She looks absolutely gorgeous on the cover and the inside photo spread of Paper Magazine's music issue this month. Props off to her rockabilly photographer.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 1 June 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

but then she opens her mouth and it's back to the trailer park.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Brutal, keith. Brutal.

Actually, its back to Gracetrailer.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, she is hawt. it would probably be bad form to discuss the doppelganger issue.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 1 June 2003 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't find her attractive in the slightest. There was a decent review of her album in the back of The Oxford American this month. The reviewer said basically, she vamps it up too much, to the point where there's not enough variation in tone.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 1 June 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Poor Lisa. Watch this video closely around the 2:20 mark.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/TODAYSUMMERCONCERTS_Front.asp

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahaha... classic.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ouch.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Friday, 20 June 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

haha. id still make love to her though, just cos.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 20 June 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Good lord, she just covered Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry"!

Who buys this stuff?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

....and George Michael makes a cameo in the video.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah, amazing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's interesting when people die...on stage

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

who buys these kind of things?

the kind of people that buy the last william shatner record, but aren't too bothered about whether its wackyness is signposted enough for their friends to be in on it.

or, confident self-assured people?

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You know a song is pretty bad when I get outraged at how badly she mangled it compared to Don Henley!

― Leon WK (Ex Leon), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting for all those solo singles to get covers after the Ataris and now this. Who does "Sunset Grill" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 April 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

those are all great singles!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean the originals

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

who will do the cover of henley's cover of leonard cohen's "everybody knows"?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sunset Grill" cover = Sheryl Crow

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

is there michael written songs he demo'ed for lisa ?

― jichael mackson, Sunday, 10 April 2005 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what all this stuff about a swedish woman claiming to be the real lisa marie?

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 10 April 2005 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Who buys this stuff?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I like "Lights Out" just fine. So there, ILM.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

SEIZE HIM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

what exactly were the scientology refs in the songs?

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

she's neat.

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

fuh-worr:

http://nandotimes.nandomedia.com/images/gallery/entertainment/20050404/ent1020.1.jpg

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

oh... my.

http://www.lisamarieonline.net/media/wallpapers/1024x768_8.jpg

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

No thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

not into the butch girls, alex?

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Just not into Lisa Marie Presley. Don't buy it. Don't care. Not interested. Not impressed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

will those michael jackson demos turn up ?

― retroboy, Friday, 11 November 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

Rushed to hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, apparently. Does not look well in the recent photos.

💥Según TMZ, Lisa Marie Presley acaba de ser hospitalizada de urgencia tras sufrir un paro cardiaco.
Por ahora, no se tienen detalles de su estado de salud. Los paramédicos le hicieron RCP y lograron recuperar el pulso antes de trasladarla al hospital.
Vamos, @LisaPresley !! 🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/31OGj98BPF
— Pablo Rodríguez Lago (@fei_rock) January 12, 2023

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:28 (three years ago)

I love Lisa Marie and wish her the best. I hope she pulls through. I had a heart attack recently, it is terrifying when the doctor tells you to start writing your will.

― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Thursday, 12 January 2023 23:22 (three years ago)

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/lisa-marie-presley-dead-1235488279/

― Bee OK, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:24 (three years ago)

A friend on Facebook said that, while there are lots of famous people known only by their first name, she might have been the only child of a famous person who was known by her first name. Don't know if that's true, but Lisa-Marie only brings one person to mind for me.

― clemenza, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:27 (three years ago)

Well, I guess there's the special case of Zappa's kids too.

― clemenza, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:55 (three years ago)

R.I.P. This is sad.

― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Friday, 13 January 2023 02:57 (three years ago)

She and her band did a solid, seemingly unbroken hour under the lights on Soundstage long ago, commanding my attention all the way through. Seems like all the studio tracks I've heard, prob including some feasted on by Old Ilx above, were pretty good too---

― dow, Friday, 13 January 2023 02:58 (three years ago)

54! So young.

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 13 January 2023 16:48 (three years ago)

RIP:(

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 16:53 (three years ago)

I had forgotten she had married both Nicolas Cage and MJ

(and lost a son a few years back, very sad)

― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Friday, 13 January 2023 17:05 (three years ago)

Letterman's YouTube channel uploaded her interview on his show. It's really striking how much of her father can be seen in her - not only the physical details in her face, but even in the mannerisms and the smile. She mentions needing to keep certain memories of her father to herself, and in light of her death, it brings to mind one of the most poignant aspects of Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR-AD8mdrsc

― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:50 (three years ago)

Can relate to the keeping some memories to/for yourself. Also always think about that one Emmylou Harris quote about Gram Parsons.

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 18:53 (three years ago)

Yeah, absolutely. FWIW, when Loretta Lynn died recently, Jack White said something similar in his remembrance.

― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:57 (three years ago)

Just watched that interview. Really good. thanks.

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:34 (three years ago)

one year passes...

yucky olde ilm thread but still

this is really lovely

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

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 October 2024 01:38 (one year ago)

Thought this revive would be about the new memoir but I’ll take it!

― Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2024 01:55 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

Bought Storm & Grace, her third and last album, at a garage sale yesterday for a dollar. I'd never heard her before--the copy was unopened, and I saw the T-Bone Burnett producer's credit, so why not. Not quite through the whole thing, but some of it is surprisingly good.

― clemenza, Sunday, 15 June 2025 17:56 (eleven months ago)

Favourite song on the album--love this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_DBknS6RZ4

― clemenza, Monday, 16 June 2025 16:00 (eleven months ago)

All of her tracks that I've heard seemed good---except maybe a very early guest duet w Malcolm McLaren, can't quite remember---and was very impressed by her and band on Chicago Public TV's Soundstage: 50-odd minutes of seemingly non-stop music, no show of effort or mastery, just doing it.

― dow, Monday, 16 June 2025 19:33 (eleven months ago)

I reviewed Storm & Grace favorably upon its release; it's her best album overall, though I did like a couple of her Hot AC singles well enough. There was an interesting duet with Pink on her second album that nodded toward her break from Scientology; their voices sounded fantastic together.

TBB has gotten increasingly boring over the years, but I did like his production on this, and it's a shame she never issued a proper follow-up. Her music was certainly better than she was credited for at the time.

― jon_oh, Tuesday, 17 June 2025 13:26 (eleven months ago)

yeah, sounds lush! i like it

― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 June 2025 13:54 (eleven months ago)

eleven months pass...

Thought this revive would be about the new memoir but I’ll take it!

Still need to read this. Seems to be on sale right now.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 12:16 (five days ago)

Greil Marcus quotes from it in the latest edition of Mystery Train...Riley Keough writing something to the effect that if Elvis had never made it, "my mom would have been in jail for sure".

I've got an obscure grievance against LMP - she "stole" guitarist Michael Lockwood (and married him) from Aimee Mann's band while the latter was making a now-lost duo album with Scott Miller, causing the derailment of the recording process.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:09 (five days ago)

Oh wow, sorry about that.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:11 (five days ago)

Some HS friend of mine was in a band with Scott Miller's wife iirc

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:11 (five days ago)

Anyway came back to say that while listening to a playlist of some of her songs and generally enjoying them, one jumped out in particular and it turns out to be a collaboration with Richard Hawley!

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:13 (five days ago)

Sometimes when I watch videos of Elvis performing, I think about the fact that if he hadn’t done exactly what he did in exactly that moment in time—if he hadn’t walked into the right building, recorded the right song, danced the way he did in front of the right person—there would be no Elvis Presley. We probably would have lived somewhere in Mississippi.
I didn’t even finish high school in this version of my life, so I can’t imagine where I’d be in that one. My great-grandfather drove trucks, maybe we would have carried on that tradition. Maybe we would have made furniture in Tupelo.
My mom would have ended up in jail for sure.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:26 (five days ago)

All of her tracks that I've heard seemed good---except maybe a very early guest duet w Malcolm McLaren, can't quite remember

http://insolitesgifs.i.n.pic.centerblog.net/e220b55a.gif

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 18:43 (five days ago)

bah

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 18:44 (five days ago)

I feel like there was at least some part of her that was aware of whatever her strengths as a performer were and what material was good for her.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 19:22 (five days ago)

Some HS friend of mine was in a band with Scott Miller's wife iirc

I imagine as a scholar of celebrity matrimony you know that she (his first wife) went on to marry, play in a band with and divorce Mitch Easter?

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 03:06 (four days ago)

I've got an obscure grievance against LMP - she "stole" guitarist Michael Lockwood (and married him) from Aimee Mann's band while the latter was making a now-lost duo album with Scott Miller, causing the derailment of the recording process.

Didn't know this is what kept the album from happening. I once asked Aimee about the record when I met her after a show in the early 00's (or thereabouts) and she was just like "yeah, that would have been great."

― cryptosicko, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 04:20 (four days ago)

I imagine as a scholar of celebrity matrimony you know that she (his first wife) went on to marry, play in a band with and divorce Mitch Easter?

Not only did I not know this, I hadn't put it together that I actually had met and talked to her and Mitch Easter while they were still dating back in the late 90s at a party at the apartment of one of the Film Forum programmers, since she was also HS friends with said programmer and another friend of mine from Milwaukee. I actually brought this up with him at the FF recently, not being able to remember her name, which he then repeated to me.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 06:06 (four days ago)

Unless they were all (also) college friends at UW-Madison, will have to double check.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 06:10 (four days ago)

Yes, this is definitely the case.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 June 2026 06:12 (four days ago)

One more random thought on this derail is that the only person I am familiar with who has that name is the wife of Prasanna.

― River of No Reply (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 June 2026 02:49 (three days ago)

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