mm me too. it was her live tv debut on the biggest music show in the country so i mean nerves? yeah you'd probably expect that.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
If it were Pop Idol the judges would be like, good stuff but you gotta OWN THE STAGE.. but well, it's kind of nice to see somebody who isn't just full-on and brash and cockily sashaying around, straight out the gate
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of think nervous girl behind huge hair/lashes/lips is part of the LDR "shtick".
― Stevie T, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha well i guess it's workin on me
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Man, she comes across totally unpolished in interviews, and I love her all the more for it. At this point, I can't decide if she's going to blow up in a huge, huuuuge way or if she's just gonna be one of those quirky pop divas beloved by a large if not psychotic number of people.
― SirGreendown, Friday, 21 October 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
I definitely see her being bigger in Europe than she will be in the States...there's something a little off about her that will keep her from being massive here (assuming her record company/PR team don't flatten all of her quirks).
― SirGreendown, Friday, 21 October 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
single was Top 5 in U.S. iTunes chart last week apparently. supposedly headed for the actual Top 10 over here also.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 October 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
the ep was top 5 in the itunes albums list i believe, i don't think the track itself has popped up on the singles list. i also think she will be bigger in europe (in the uk certainly things are looking good)
― teledyldonix, Friday, 21 October 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm very late with this but Club Clique's remix is fantastic as is their remix of the B-side.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 21 October 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i hate to say it but i think a not-insignificant part of the success of "video games" is the fact that the title has a tech angle to it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
because it's intriguing and generates youtube views?
i think the song is all about the chorus
― niels, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
top 10 with a bullet in the UK!
― piscesx, Monday, 24 October 2011 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
y'all are being awfully apologetic towards a singer who's supposed to be next great white-girl-what-sings-like-a-black-girl savior
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 October 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00659/news-graphics-2008-_659690a.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 24 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
lord
― markers, Monday, 24 October 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Jimmy Jimmy... who says she's supposed to sound black? what black singer does she sound like? i mean... to me she sounds like iris dement and jimmie dale gilmore had an asthmatic child, but in a good way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is she supposed to sound black? News to me! Performing on "Later" she looked really really nervous.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh great. As if the arguments over this girl weren't boring enough, now we've inserted white guilt.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Or black pride, depending how you look at it.
― frankly bringing dragons into this equation is wrong (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
Pride != slamming a singer for sounding like "you" if you happen to be black.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
(also, lots of people throwing around this accusation do happen to be white)
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
edwardo, my post was completely not coming from a position of even being remotely serious.
― frankly bringing dragons into this equation is wrong (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
I did think you were being somewhat flippant, but, y'know, even more backwards stances find fruit on here so you can never tell.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Could see Marianne Faithfull, even now, covering Video Games.
― waylon flowers and muammar gaddafi (Eazy), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
video games: more 6th form music tech college music, pretty song, awful production. has a similar innocent "this is the first good song i wrote" vibe what that xx album had
would like to hear erykah badu do a wink wink cover in the style of i'm the one era annette peacock
― Crackle Box, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
mr fingers remix is the most tossed off thing ever, vocal phrasing is hilarious
― Crackle Box, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
interscope
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
"peace out, indiesphere! i'll be over here getting some of that drug-runner money!"
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Iovine probably had her and Tyler in for a meeting two years back and went "Got a plan."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't really think of her as 'indie'
― goole, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Me neither - in the British sense at least - but there was a lot of discussion/promotion/hype on indie blogs.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
73% of all indie blogs are written by virgins
― Mr. Que, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
'Blue Jeans' reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM
?
― goole, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
blue jeans = wicked games
― bene_gesserit, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
or, wicked game. whatever the chris isaac song is called.
Plus she channels some kind of Kate Bush and Gwen Stefani thing
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Ooof that Jools performance was a disaster.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
I guess it doesn't help when you build yourself up as a "Gangsta Nancy Sinatra" but I expected a little more self-confidence and less "Someone please get this poor lady off the stage before she pisses herself in fear".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
nancy sinatra was already the gangsta nancy sinatra
i don't know who "built her up" as that though? whoever it was they had the wrong end of the stick
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwL7f57cDJY&feature=related
Of course it's not her TV debut, which I would expect an artist to be nervous but I rather hear this type of voice on the Jools show than the shtick she is doing with it now.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, October 28, 2011 4:42 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
she said it herself iirc!
― goole, Friday, 28 October 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
The thing that annoys me is picking two cultural signifiers of cool and self-empowerment to describe someone who lacks the metaphorical balls to sing on TV. Maybe she's so obsessed with fame that she psyched herself out because OMG TV.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 October 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha she totally has the wrong end of her own stick!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 October 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
At least I don't have to read "think" pieces about Zooey Deschanel suckiness anymore - the bloggerati have moved on to hating Lana!
In all seriousness, I saw her sing "Video Games" at a concert on YouTube and she sounded great - much better than her Jools Holland performance. Not getting all the hate this woman's receiving (and don't try to explain to me - believe me, I've read the blog posts, blog comments, think pieces and all the other BS surrounding her. And I still. Don't. Get. It.).
― SirGreendown, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
I've not read any hate. Show me the hate. It is a great pop song.
― kraudive, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
i hate the song "video games"
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 October 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
No. You don't.
― kraudive, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
Hate is only a word used for Robbie Williams songs.
― kraudive, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link