Lana Del Rey

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'

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.)

oh ok i didn't know where akm was from, should've trusted the xls

"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.

(That said, AAA stations tend to have little influence on the Hot 100.)

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.

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.

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.

well there's "people" and theres "carles"

she is tailor-made for HRO

xp Ha ha

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

i'd rather not.

more interesting than the music

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.

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.

i want to completely screen out any and all writing about LDR that includes the words "authenticity" or "lips"

Which is also funny, lex, since the authenticity of her lips has been questioned

clam?

no clam.

i want to completely screen out any and all sightings of LDR's lips.

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!

pretty intentionally pastiche and homage, imo

or not intentional and someone stumbled into the same concepts by accident

yeah i feel like that is kind of the "point" of LDR in general

I like her disinterested singing and melodies too

cool lips, too.

Like, what if I am trying to remember a song with common cliched lyrics and I was actually thinking of a different artist, but when I explained it to friends or searched via Google, they say "Oh, you mean Lana Del Rey?"

her dad's business model, right?

http://i.imgur.com/oB2Le.jpg

cool lips, too.

― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, January 13, 2012 6:06 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have to stop fucking listening to these songs but I can't

Listen to her tomorrow, on Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM, E/10:30 PM, C)!

she was announced on SNL as lah-na, so i guess my 'lame adele ray' display name was predicated on the wrong pronunciation

is she wearing a wig?

she seems really nervous + uncomfortable. and i think she's dropping words

she sounds like a vampire from transylvania

oh my god, this is the worst thing i've ever seen

i think this is mid-'90s julia roberts

i think this is meta camp

this is so unfortunate

She's neither "gangster" nor "Nancy Sinatra" based on this. Still like the song though.

i'm always mildly disappointed when 'buzz band' music isn't as awful as i imagine it to be but "Video Games" was definitely everything i dreamed of and more

i gotta say - i love the original recorded song. this performance is just magically terrible

^ this

original version is hot garbage, performance was pretty true to the song

^ this

^this

She admitted she's a boring stage performer in that VH1 video interview, though, and based on the music she makes I was fully expecting what I got here.

Oh, some dude... ur a traet.

so i guess my 'lame adele ray' display name was predicated on the wrong pronunciation

Why would you presume that "Lana" was pronounced like Layna/Laina?

She is v v pretty and has a good voice for the studio

If she wants to do more live stuff she needs to stop being so terrified

Would never buy her album

no reason, really, that's just the ring the whole name had to it in my head (xpost)