Lana Del Rey

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.

Her face is disturbing.

Agree that she "seems nice" though. I like her more now that I've heard her accent.

i heard video games on the radio the other day for the first time

What kind of station was it? i.e., is she actually getting commercial airplay?

it's apparently on the pop charts in a whole bunch of countries, although in America it's only been on a singles sales chart so far.

finally heard this stupid song when MTV2 started playing the video -- lol @ gr8080's fav facial reconstruction surgery casualty having a cameo

She seems like a nice lady:

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

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What kind of station was it? i.e., is she actually getting commercial airplay?

― Bon Ivoj (jaymc),

radio 2. the uk's most listened to radio station + the prime minister is a fan

MTV-U plays this thing constantly... I fall asleep to that channel sometimes, and my cable box "times out" after 6-7 hours or so and freezes on an image (I'm guessing that happens often with channels that aren't viewed as often within a given node)...

So the moral of the story is, a few weeks ago I woke up to a frozen image of this chick on my TV and it weirded me out

you kids and your terms for boners

she's like fake naughty zooey deschanel.

see, I am interested in this because I wish zooey's public persona was all an elaborate act and would find her more intriguing if I felt that was the case

like she goes home and just orders pizza from dominos and listens to old Tool albums or something when she's out of the public eye

I'm putty emphasis on:
fake "naughty zooey deschanel"

If you meant it as
"fake naughty" zooey deschanel
then I am not with you

fake, naughty, zooey, deschanel, music

What kind of station was it? i.e., is she actually getting commercial airplay?

it was KFOG in the bay area, which is 'classic rock', oddly enough.

kcrw (l.a.'s npr station; pretty influential in yuppie circles) has been playing "video games." not constantly, but it is getting airplay.

"classic rock" isn't a good descriptor for KFOG. They do "adult album alternative, an eclectic variety of blues, reggae, folk, pop, and rock music from the mid-1960s to the present" ... meaning that it an easy listening station imo

I'm putty emphasis on:
fake "naughty zooey deschanel"

If you meant it as
"fake naughty" zooey deschanel
then I am not with you

i'm not really sure how i meant it, but your analysis is interesting
they both have "endearing" qualities and have been described as such (and reviled for it, too), and honestly i don't even really know what that means when people say it

I kind of like the couple Lana Del Rey songs I've heard in a way

I will openly admit to have never heard a full Zooey song, or if I have heard one, I have not realized it was her.

blue jeans is good too. very kate bush in delivery if not content. my wife predictably hates all of these songs.

those vh1 clips are very endearing

is "endearing" our new "annoying?" I can't watch them at work.

i only watched one of them so far but i liked her

the writeup is a little annoying in its "you'd think this girl would be super nervous but she was totally shill!" tone

In her songs she comes across as a star-crossed lover mixed with a kind of breathy young thing; she's selling a lot of sex and lot of young love angst. In the videos above, she comes across as funny and a bit goofy and self-aware enough to be a little bit self-deprecating. I really mean endearing 'cause everything I'd seen her in before was in her shy nymph persona with a slightly squeaky voice and was not so endearing.

and I mean "annoying" in our "really means ws but I don't want my girlfriend to know" way

lol

i meant "endearing" as "made her more likable to me"

I guess that is a valid use of the word that is sanctioned by merriam-webster's

kind of getting turned on by my zooey + dominos + out of character music listening idea upthread

lana del rey is at home right now with no makeup, an unironic oversized "ride the lightning" era metallica t-shirt and is eating papa john's and drinking some miller lites

wishful thinking

brb starting a fanfic erotica site

Yeah, too long for a facebook status...xpost

Zooey can't eat Dominoes, brings back too many painful memories.

Gibbard says that he realized he needed to change after a particular bender with a friend in Big Sur, CA. "It was so stereotypically my own little Kerouac Big Sur weekend," Gibbard says. "And I remember being on the flight home, going, 'You know what? I really have to do something about this. This has really gotten out of control. But I have a friend's birthday tonight, and I need to go out and have a beer with him.' Cut to three in the morning, five beers and five shots in, eating a pizza. I woke up the next morning and I was like, 'That's it. I'm done. I have lost the ability to control this.'"