i only watched one of them so far but i liked her
― markers, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
the writeup is a little annoying in its "you'd think this girl would be super nervous but she was totally shill!" tone
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
and I mean "annoying" in our "really means ws but I don't want my girlfriend to know" way
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― markers, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
i meant "endearing" as "made her more likable to me"
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
wishful thinking
― La Lechera, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
brb starting a fanfic erotica site
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, too long for a facebook status...xpost
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.'"
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
it's hilarious how he's such a self-conscious wuss that THAT'S his dramatic rock bottom anecdote
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
She divorced that dude, she'll eat pizza and do shots on his grave
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
Hah some dude OTM. What a wuss.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
xpost qual post
― markers, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
tbf if i did five beers and five shots these days i would probably actually be dead the next morning so props to that guy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 January 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah radio is battering it over here, she's basically massive already; Top 10 hit, prime time Saturday night TV, Q cover, BRIT nomination. there was even a big piece in the Daily Mail this week.
i'm guessing 'Billboard' is a big magazine in the States? http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/393552_307191255989998_117713628271096_793739_1063308823_n.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 13 January 2012 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
That's Bilbard.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2012 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
The magazine for olde tyme minstrels
― Number None, Friday, 13 January 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
Forsooth, "Magic Lantern Games" 'tis an excellent air
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2012 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
although the one about concentrating on ye football at the expense of archery practice, is somewhat traditional in outlook..
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
(I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, Piscesx, but Billboard isn't a big magazine at all - it's a trade publication, like Daily Variety is for Hollywood)
― Walter Galt, Friday, 13 January 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Billboard basically exists to chart music sales/airplay, although lately they've gotten more into putting new artists on the cover that haven't had much of that kind of success (Odd Future before they had really been on a single chart last year, etc.)
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
is somewhat traditional in outlook..
Yet you still can't beat the French at football that often...
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
nice billboard cover imo
― markers, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol "the persecution of" -- i feel like the next 10 years is just going to be every new artist looking at their youtube comments/negative press and deciding they're being 'cyberbullied'
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
radio 2. the uk's most listened to radio station + the prime minister is a fan
Yes, I know she's mega-popular in the UK; I was asking akm b/c he lives in the U.S., where "indie" chanteuses are less likely to reach a mainstream audience. (Feist was a big anomaly, too.)
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh ok i didn't know where akm was from, should've trusted the xls
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
"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
OK, then it's like WXRT in Chicago, which I wouldn't be entirely surprised to learn is playing Lana Del Rey, either, since it's the only commercial radio station where I've heard Arcade Fire, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, etc.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
(That said, AAA stations tend to have little influence on the Hot 100.)
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
xp I know what you mean but the LDR case is kind of extreme. I went back to the Hipster Runoff post recently while writing something about her and was reminded what an obnoxious, misogynistic, point-missing piece of shit it was. The speed and intensity of the backlash far exceeds what most buzz bands get to the point that it became a big part of her story. Translated from excitable coverlinese, "persecution" seems pretty accurate to me.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
in the Rebecca Black age i realy just can't feel sorry for any adult who willingly puts their music and image out into the world for anyone to see and isn't prepared to take the bad with the good. the only people who get nothing but positive feedback about their music are no-names nobody cares about with lots of friends and family who humor them.
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
There are degrees of bad, no? It's not like it's either blanket acclaim or Carles being a dick. And in terms of taking the bad with the good she hasn't thrown her toys out of the pram and started ranting about haters. In the most recent interview I read she mainly wanted to make the reasonable point that she's not just some puppet doing what the guys at the record label tell her to do. "Persecution" is Billboard's word, not necessarily (I haven't read the article) hers.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
well there's "people" and theres "carles"
― lame adele rey (some dude), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
she is tailor-made for HRO
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
xp Ha ha
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
has she come out in support of Ron Paul yet?
Can we discuss the fact her dad made money off of people typing their search terms into the address bar before web browsers treated it like a search field? Like he registered stuff like beyonceshair.com or whatever in the hopes someone would type that in and then put up a parking page with weak "content" and a ton of ads
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'd rather not.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
more interesting than the music
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't know why people are questioning her worth when she has nearly 4 months of performance experience as LDR. Clearly she is a pro.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
And the whole persecution angle is a brilliant PR tactic. It's constructing a narrative out of thin air, and helps towards making her seem more authentic, which is pretty ingenuous really. She's authentic because she is being persecuted for being inauthentic.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i want to completely screen out any and all writing about LDR that includes the words "authenticity" or "lips"
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Which is also funny, lex, since the authenticity of her lips has been questioned
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
clam?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
no clam.
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
i want to completely screen out any and all sightings of LDR's lips.
― buzza, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
born to die: the lyrics to this are abysmal, but I really love it. Every single line is a hackneyed cliche (take a walk on the wild side; kiss me in the rain; feet don't fail me now; lines from amazing grace), to the point where I almost have to think it's intentional; if not she is an absolutely awful lyricist. but it's still really good!
― akm, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
pretty intentionally pastiche and homage, imo
or not intentional and someone stumbled into the same concepts by accident
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel like that is kind of the "point" of LDR in general
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 13 January 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link