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
Should clarify: hate is probably a strong word. I'd say an irrational dislike and an all-too-eager willingness to deconstruct/theorize on her persona and use it as a symbol for a bunch of random concepts that I don't know have too much to do with Lana.
A friend and I were discussing this, and we think she pisses people off because she gained prominence on the web through "indie" (God, I hate that word as a descriptor) blogs and when people found out she had help from a prominent PR company and toys with her image/sex appeal they felt they had been duped to believe she was some "authentic" (hate that word too) indie musician and really they all fell for the same marketing ploys that non-indie music consumers do.
― SirGreendown, Saturday, 29 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
grrrr read the damn thread we went over all this shit
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 29 October 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
until she puts out an album and pitchfork reviews it, and/or her song suddenly rockets up the charts into 'ubiquitous pop hit' status, who cares
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 29 October 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
""authentic" (hate that word too) indie musician"
is bullshit pretty much most of the time anyway. Don't see the problem.
― owenf, Saturday, 29 October 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
That stuff doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I feel she is getting massive undeserved coverage because music journos need something to write about. She's very lucky, very much in the right place at the right time. The post-buzzocalypse.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
Song is pretty, but mediocre. I could hear it in a car commercial. Her mythos is a goldmine though, but for reasons I care little about.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
Music writers writing about music writers writing about music.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's self-regarding nonsense of course but our Video Games remix is the most popular on the old Hype Machine. take that Woon, Blake et al..
http://hypem.com/search/lana%20rey/1/?sortby=fav
― piscesx, Saturday, 29 October 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
Deservedly so! Are you remixing any more of her stuff?
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 29 October 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
1. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix) (4:59)2. Kimbra - Cameo Lover (GLOVES Remix) (4:38)3. Cleo Sol - High (Artful Dub) (5:39)4. Yasmin - Finish Line (Mike Delinquent Project Remix) (4:28)5. Artful Feat. Kal Lavelle - Could Just Be The Bassline (Dreem teem remix) (5:43)6. Natalie May - Clothes Off (3:25)7. Major Lazer - Baby (Figure Remix) (4:07)8. RD - Got Me Burnin' (MK Remix) (5:33)9. Yasmin Ft. Ms. Dynamite - Light Up The World (3:32)10. Katy B - Witches Brew (5:10)11. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (Penguin Prison Remix) (5:37)12. Guido - Beautiful Complication (feat Aarya) (3:56)13. Jess Mills - Live For What I d Die For (Distance Remix) (5:12)14. Pandr Eyez - Eyes On You (3:56)15. Jessie Ware - Strangest Feeling (3:41)16. Goapele - Play (3:45)17. Delilah - Go (3:46)18. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (Bibio remix) (4:55)
works for me...
― you want fries with that (flame grilled meat), Saturday, 29 October 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link