Lana Del Rey

Just to clarify, I was talking about her videos getting old - not her songs.

Blue Jeans is great

reminds me of Shivaree in a way

reminds me of Wicked Game

Yeah, I can hear a little of that in there. This is good. This bodes well for whenever the hell the album is going to drop.

I miss the old "Video Games" video

(of course, I would)

oh yeah and that max tundra cover is wonderful

I was blown away the first time I saw and heard "Video Games." Still listen to the song at least once a day. She just nailed that experience of being ignored no matter what you are willing to offer while your boyfriend is consumed with his friends and their trivial activities. Oh, high school.

I miss the old "Video Games" video

Someone added a genius comment to it, now also sadly lost to posterity: "She could have joined in and played video games with her boyfriend as a bonding experience, but instead she writes this dispiriting song."

I think it's more arch than dispiriting.

shivaree comparison otm! i always thought this song could have been huge in a parallel universe

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

her wooden performance in that awkward video, which i've only just seen for the first time, can't have helped matters though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vyytCdYAw

wow Blue jeans is great. I'm hearing some Morphine in her tracks which is always good in my book.

As is the Shivaree stuff. How have I missed her? Did it not make it to British shores.

and a bit of cowboy junkies too

i don't think shivaree made it anyway (they're a band, the singer is ambrosia parsley) (#greatrealnames). first two albums are great, don't think i heard anything after that.

*anywhere

Thanks for the Shivaree links Lex!

I dig Blue Jeans. Shame Video Games/Blue Jeans are only properly released in October, probably meaning a proper full-length will take a long time to appear.

Goodnight Moon was no.1 in Italy! Also plays over the closing credits to Kill Bill.

yeah man shivaree comparison soooo otm... had totally forgotten abt them

man, I don't like her uptempo numbers at all, but way impressed with the gloomy / slow / sad / sexy ones

Shivaree was played by Mark & Lard iirc. But yeah she sounds the same. I love Blue Jeans; the rest I've heard I kind of tune out after a while.

yeah I think the uptempo ones are older. At least the whole thing she's going for seems to be a bit more realised in video games/blue jeans. Blue jeans being stronger by a country mile too

"goodnight moon" is one of my all-time favorite songs - just perfect in every way

I'm hearing some Jimmie Dale Gilmore in there, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1mQvHXRlZE

I seem to end up humming 'Angelene' by PJ Harvey after listening to 'blue jeans' which is usually a sign to me that they sound similar in some way. Anyone else hear this?

don't really get the cat power comps. EMA is the most cat powery of new ppl out i think; i find LDR to be more calculated

I'm SURE I'm the only one who heard this connection, but the two note, sing-songy melody line at the beginning of Video Games reminded me of the intro to this Cockney Rebel song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiWdhYGXQt8

i dunno about this... "video games" is pretty pretty. dare i say it, the whole aesthetic is "annoying"

good thing to bug some of the people

This is pretty sad tbh
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qLIL0BzayYQ/Ti79mVyL03I/AAAAAAAAAW0/D9EJo0DCJiI/s320/rob-lizzy.jpg

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/lana-del-ray-hot-nude-video.jpg

her whole makeover (and I just mis-typed that as "whore" makeover lol :\ ) is... off putting

You mean like putting off any work to watch Lana del Rey vids all day?

idgi, Number None, what is that?

That's a pic of her and her dad from like 4 years ago.

why is it sad

Cos of what she looks like now?

well i for one am so happy you're sad for her

this world is too harsh not to have strangers sad for us when we change the way we look

Don't really know what you're getting at man

lol i just watched "video games" (instead of just listening) -- the clip of paz de la huerta in a gutter @ 1:55 kind of gives the game away, dunnit

it's nothing Bowie didn't do surely, or near as dammit? a massive amount of this is cause she's a girl lest that needed saying. she had her lips slightly plumped up?? Jesus, big freakin deal.

i think bob dylan's had work done

I think seeing the lyrics written out in text speak was the "kind of gives the game away" moment 4 me

what "game" are we talking about here?

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/bshirk/TurtlesInTimeTheOriginal.jpg

If you haven't heard of Lana Del Rey, YOU WILL SOON because we are convinced that this gorgeous crooner is going to be everywhere ASAP, like basically by the time this post is published. ZOMG she is so important. Anyway, this self-proclaimed "gangster Nancy Sinatra" embodies the best of strong, sculpted eyebrows, bump-its + hairsprayed tonsorial PERFECTION, and we can SO vividly picture her swanning out of a beautiful Hollywood Hills house with a kidney bean-shaped swimming pool in an ultramarine nylon mini shift and white patent leather go-go boots.

AND a big-ass dookie rope chain and gold hoops. She is also, obviously, drinking something out of a martini glass. She describes her sound as "Hollywood Pop/Sad Core" and uuuuuuum #sadcore is VERY up our alley. The enormously satisfying juxtaposition of old-school glamour plus inexplicably morose contemporary images in her music video plus super-duper prettiness is completely blowing our minds.

We can't get enough of her video for "Video Games" because not only are our ears oh so happy with her Florence meets Cat Power meets A Fine Frenzy melodies, but we also really need more retro off-the-shoulder sweaters in our lives and closets. Thankfully, we're positive that this isn't the last we've seen of Lana. And PRAISE BE, because her style strikes such a unique and perfect balance between classic beauty and refreshingly unexpected (do you have EYEBALLS? Are you SEEING that top made COMPLETELY of roses/carnations/I'm not a horticulturist???) that is just so ready for its place in the sun. Now run along and entertain yourselves for a while with the video below while we go dig up some hot rollers and lip venom. Swooooooooooooooooon.

barf

old stuff - Hipster Runoff's been monitoring the situation pretty closely...

(xpost) Holy hell, that PR is real!