Lana Del Rey

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.

If the lips don't fit, you must acquit...

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

― Stevie T, Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:06 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Love this.

Also crepey dudes are the worst!

I could care less if she's fake or not, she just sucks, what ponderous garbage

Lol carbon paper zines, wtf are you talking about

Btw kotaku is the most popular video game site, its got nothing to do with indie

I love 'Video Games', the other songs less so. The execution, if not the actual style, reminds me a bit of Goldfrapp, and what I think of as Moodboard Pop. I take my hat off to the stylist/art director - who knows, maybe Lana herself! - who've conjured up Rita Hayworth + Ann-Margret + Bobbie Gentry x Mazzy Star ÷ David Lynch. But the algebra for the songs is a bit more tricky.

The production on "Video Games" is better than her singing, particularly after the first minute. She doesn't sound too convincing at a few parts.

ya I don't really care about dumb indie blog wars (fwiw lip work or not, she's gorgeous and the videos are great), I just don't think her songs are that good - or maybe it's just the way she's singing them that's bugging me. I dunno, I haven't really pinpointed what I don't like about her yet, but I'm def not hearing whatever everyone else is.

New York-based songwriter Lizzy Grant was set to debut her Lana Del Rey moniker with a pair of shows in New York City and Los Angeles later this month. But an issued press release now reports that those plans has been temporarily postponed so that these shows can be moved to large venues. The new dates will be announced on Lana Del Rey’s Facebook page next week.

lol complications from plastic surgery

I could care less if she's fake or not, she just sucks, what ponderous garbage rules, what great music

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I actually dig Videogames almost just for using skate footage when it's been so taboo since Mandy Moore/Avril Lavigne kinda signed it's death as "things dudes do to impress girls"

I mean, yeah, but - no... skateboarding is, if anything, like nerds and their literal videogames... girls aren't only excluded, they're not even an afterthought.

/11thgrademusings

oh shi - i neglected panda bear's a fairly big skateboarding aficionado (ollie noises in...take pills, is it?) but otherwise it's not something i've seen much dared in videos since. not since this anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4e-eXWbbs

I mean, yeah, but - no... skateboarding is, if anything, like nerds and their literal videogames... girls aren't only excluded, they're not even an afterthought.

Yeah - that was my response to that footage as well, and one of the elements of the video that makes it work. And I still think it's an awfully pretty song.

Below, watch the video for "Blue Jeans", the B-side to her BNT'd song "Video Games".

What the hell does "BNT'd" mean?

bridge n tunnel?
best new 'tube?

where i'm from, "bridge 'n' tunnel"!

haha xpost

Oh, It's probably Best New Track. The quote was from pitchfork. I get it.

Gawker says things:

http://gawker.com/5842924/hipster-music-blogs-need-to-get-over-their-authenticity-problem

Do check out the comments, though.

"Her music is great"

stopped reading there

"Her music is great"

http://i.imgur.com/e2kKN.jpg

(i don't really have an opinion atm tbh)

"They think that because they live outside of the mainstream they are somehow immune to advertising, marketing, and the other forms of mind control "the man" uses to get them to buy things"

like collagen

"the man" is always trying to sell me collagen. I can't take it anymore. I'm going off grid.

Found out she's performing in Amsterdam on November 10th. Got all excited till I realised I will be here already.

THANKS A LOT ÓWEN P!

;)

huge missed opportunity to have Final Fantasy guest strings on Video Games.

might regret posting this but here's our remix of VG - as far as i can tell it's the first *proper* remix of her to come out (by proper i mean not just a youtube rip with dubstep wub or trance squeals slapped on top)

http://soundcloud.com/clubclique/lana-del-rey-video-games-club

Nice!

Oohh yeah I like that!

Oh, no. The song's supposed to be melancholy and lonely, and they've overcrowded it and made it peppy. And she isn't singing with a strong voice in this song, so it gets overwhelmed by all the noise around it.