Lana Del Rey

Entirely unmoved and underwhelmed by 'Off To The Races'.

then of course there's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxuU0g

i heard her on radio 2 in my dads car. Not my kind of thing - ultra tasteful. My parents who like Subo thought she was great though. So shes gonna be huuuuuuuuuuge.

Your parents are the world's tastemakers.

scary thought

I love her delivery on "Blue Jeans" and "Video Games"
Everything else? She's behind the beat, like she's just been taught the song that morning.

You need to have a pretty ballsy performance to float a line like "He loves me / with every beat of his cocaine heart"

best yet maybe

http://vimeo.com/34628944

Oh lord that is now firmly stuck in my head.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2012/jan/09/lana-del-rey-david-cameron?newsfeed=true

The lesson for Del Rey and Band of Horses is clear

vimeo deleted! what was it?

it was this (w/ a diff photo of her)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGy6L4ol9OM

yeah terrible quality these and she's said the final versions will be very different from the leaks.

but yeah TUNE!
hasn't made a bad track yet bless her. the stretching of 'ovati-oo-n' is brilliant.

ehhh not so into it

I like National Anthem well enough.

hasn't made a bad track yet bless her

Hmm, this opinion of her recorded material to date perplexes me. Outside of 'Video Games,' every track seems like a half-baked idea or formless demo to me.

we were drunk the other night, and we listened to a few besides "video games" and i was like, this is good.

thought it might not be the case, but it was, at least at the time.

JF otm

Dunno, it all seems so empty. I like the first minute of Video Games ok but it keeps going on and I don't know why.

What scares me is I liked VG and Blue Jeans but if she's going to continue solely in this vein of breathless young sexy siren pining away/smitten, the ridiculousness will overwhelm any other merit and I'll get bored.

i don't find it ridiculous, i find it pays homage to something, and i find any emptiness directed at the point of her sound

not that it matters what i think, but i find her v boring because breathless young sexy siren pining away/smitten doesn't really speak to me or my interests as a music listener. she's like fake naughty zooey deschanel.

it totes matters!

She was shite on Jonathan Ross.

case closed

i feel like any kind of consistent aesthetic is going to have difficulties when it runs up against jonathan ross tbh

i like video games & born to die & will check out the lp

i'm a sucker for her betty-boop squeals in "off to the races"

I'm assuming that "National Anthem" isn't a Radiohead cover or else the internet would've already imploded.

yeah i thought it might be at first but i don't think it is

yeah i thought it might be at first but i don't think it is

jinx!

I'd never heard (of) "Video Games" until I saw Tim F's list last week---I only kinda graze ILX & don't really read anything else online about music---& have been listening to it p obsessively since then, over & over again. I don't know what that "means" but it's a beguiling song. I don't feel much pull to dig any deeper into her work at this point, though---life's busy, & one terrific song is enough.

It's all been downhill from Video Games tbh

i can't listen to it that much bc it makes me cry

@ Euler, that obsessive listening to Video Games is something most people seem to experience. The songs after that though, eh, not so much.

what would happen if jared leto and lana del rey were in a room together
think about all of the sexy dullness that would fill that room

this is kind of over-thought and obvious at the same time but i enjoyed reading it:

http://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/8713-this-is-me-music-making-as-re-blog/

i heard video games on the radio the other day for the first time and it kind of floored me enough to stick on the station and find out who it was; that never happens anymore.

that born to die video is great. even though she kind of has evan rachel wood crazy eyes.

born to die video is p cool except for tattoo guy making me want to barf

Saw a photo of her yesterday and her lips often really freak me out. Every time I see her doing a shakey version of VG it seems like she's trying her best not to open her mouth too much because she's just got an injection or something.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/causticcamp/20-pictures-of-lana-del-reys-lips-pjy

http://i.imgur.com/xxzMm.png

national anthem co-written by david sneddon!

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/checkthis.com/asset/4eef74c2fc52b2000100010d/4eef74c2fc52b2000100010d-medium.jpg?1324315841

sneddon's music production team is called "the nexus"? wonder what *that's* ripping off.

She seems like a nice lady:

http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/?p=200822

She comes across as far more endearing in the videos than vampy. Interesting.