Lana Del Rey

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.

glad some people like it! cheers.

Sorry - I didn't mean to be so blunt! We might have been approaching the song from different perspectives.

I think disco has probably been guilty of this crime before. : )

Lonely bittersweet vocals over bouncy disco is one of the greatest sounds in popular music though.

Good, sensitive remix. The chord changes on this song still slay me every time.

I think I see thinveneer's point, but "The song's supposed to be melancholy and lonely"; yes, and that's why there's the original song. A/this remix doesn't have to follow this same road though does it?

Remixes should definitely be free to produce a different feel of the song (that's the point), and I like it when it's done well. I'm not totally dumping on this - I just think the balance is slightly off, and therefore we lose her the depressive quality in her vocals. She's hurting, and it doesn't come through.

that should be: "lose the depressive quality"

yeah, sweet chords and melody too, but my favourite part is when the audio from the video clips bleeds through. that's really powerful, not sure why....

i sorta hope that when this gets a real release those extra audio clips are still on it

yeah, me too. not sure it would have the same impact though. especially if you'd never seen the vid.

vid's back up btw, different link than at top of thread. don't tell monsieur bouchard....

that remix is like 1 million times better than the original, good job!

Expected to hate the remix but yeah man, this rules.

cheers! some nice comments here, thanks a lot everyone. just spent an age reswizzling and syncing our version with her video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCo9o2b17nA

(my aim wasn't to spam but it's hovering just outside hype machine's top 20 at the moment, spare a couple of longtime ilx bros a heart if you've got a sec: http://hypem.com/#!/popular )

yeah, that is an epic remix

she says "gaaymes' just like chad warden

#pstriple

Oh, I like it so much more with the video! I didn't feel her presence enough in just the remix. I felt her voice got lost and therefore what she was trying to emote was lost as well, but seeing her solves that.

I really like the original but the remix takes it to a different level. Great work.

myself and NI have been hypreventilating slightly this weekend as we've watched it climb from the 20s to the teens into the Top 5 on Hype's chart. currently standing at number 4 with only Benny Benassi's Florence remix, the new Rihanna and some joker called 'Dirtyphonics' stood in the way.

A+ work on that remix, your remix of "rill rill" is also really something

everything should be disco

great remix. Got a heart from me. Congrats!

love that clique remix! love how it's the opposite of "brings out the inner melancholy of this pop song", it's a reminder that beneath the surface melancholy of "video games" is a pretty romantic, blissed-out song

hey thanks gang! we ended up number 3 on Hype Machine behind Rihanna and Florence just before the traditional 3 day expiry/ get-kicked-off point. cruel but fair. we've just finished a remix for Blue Jeans which i think is incredible.

omg just heard the remix: it's GREAT !

Rhythmically speaking, I'm not quite sure that Lana's vocals are quite right for a disco track, but that's not the remix's fault, far from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHh6Urc3YfY&eurl

ugh... wtf

yeah sorry its dumb

Funny.

know one talking abt HRO's #shots @ nabisco

oh god who would ever

http://soundcloud.com/woon/lana-del-rey-video-games-jamie (woon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF7MV4zVPKI

That's... unimpressive.

yo i herd you like the bad girls honey
so i put the bad in your girl so you can bad while you girl

my Twitter feed has just exploded because she was on Jools Holland in the UK. according to Pop Justce, the Video Games/Blue Jeans EP has been Top 5 on iTunes in the states by all accounts, and number 1 in France and Ireland.