Lana Del Rey

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!

Kind of think she's been designed for the crepey dudes who've been fantasizing about a late 60s Sally Draper.

that's not PR, that's from an mtv.com blog post

not sure if that makes it better or worse tho

is that mtv.com blog post sincere?

that's an... interesting question

hmmm yeah i didn't notice the "lip venom" line until you said that

https://twitter.com/#!/gorillavsbear/status/114395525553467392

haha those two are p much twitter fighting non-stop

1000TimesYes Chris Weingarten
@gorillavsbear U always struck me as a reformed jock who discovered Smashing Pumpkins in college so no shock that you like sorority indie

lol #shotsfired

lol @ gvb having a verified twitter account

the state of music criticism in 2011 xxp

ha. thought that said "lol @ gbv having a verified twitter account"...

how do you prove that you are in fact a gorilla fighting a bear

what is gorilla vs bear? nm i'm not actually interested

seems striking that most of the UK critics i follow on twitter LOVE ldr and most of the US critics HATE her

yeah we like good music here, american tradition

she has one good song, and one not good song

also she had plastic surgery!

we report, you decide

she has many more songs than that but i only really like one of them (haven't heard "blue jeans" yet)

I think "Video Games" is pretty good. I haven't searched out much else by her. I like sad, moody chanteuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6M4UJ6kzjk

That Eilen Jewell album is excellent. One of the best of the year.

"blue jeans" is good but "video games" is the one that's stuck in my head ALL THE TIME.

waiting for pitchfork to disown lana & pan the fuck out of her album once they see light

http://usera.ImageCave.com/Vast_Halo/4haters.jpg

Probably the worst thing to happen this year.

meh not feeling any of these songs at all. And I usually like sad moody chanteuses.

(That Ellen Jewell sounds lovely though - hadn't heard of HER, thanks!)

haha, here comes the inevitable ldr backlash!

god, I wish there had been a sufficient forwardlash.

I thought she sucked right away, any artist I find out about through kotaku is on shaky ground

i don't read any of those sites. i just clicked teh youtubez cuz people whose tastes i respect were saying nice things about her. as far as i'm concerned, she's just a chick with some songs; i don't really care whether she's defrauding any indie kids with her lips/name/label attention.

i'm so sick of the whole "fake!!!!!" brush that indies tar certain artists with anyway. life is not a husker du concert; put away your carbon-paper zines and mail-order tapes and enjoy something of dubious provenance for once without feeling guilty.

yeah. the "sorority indie" comment has had me stewing.