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
I like her disinterested singing and melodies too
― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
cool lips, too.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oB2Le.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― mh, Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
i have to stop fucking listening to these songs but I can't
― akm, Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
Listen to her tomorrow, on Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM, E/10:30 PM, C)!
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
she was announced on SNL as lah-na, so i guess my 'lame adele ray' display name was predicated on the wrong pronunciation
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
is she wearing a wig?
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
she seems really nervous + uncomfortable. and i think she's dropping words
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is meta camp
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
this is so unfortunate
She's neither "gangster" nor "Nancy Sinatra" based on this. Still like the song though.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
i gotta say - i love the original recorded song. this performance is just magically terrible
― Mordy, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
^ this
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
original version is hot garbage, performance was pretty true to the song
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
^this
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, some dude... ur a traet.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
no reason, really, that's just the ring the whole name had to it in my head (xpost)
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
Her low register is very good, she should just be a wispy T-Boz
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
can we devote more time to the fact that some dude thought "lana" was pronounced as "lane-uh" by anyone?
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
Say "bagel" amirite
― encarta it (Gukbe), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
Still think Chris Isaak should get a co-write credit on Blue Jeans.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
She doesn't understand how to use a microphone
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhhBtHh459k
― buzza, Sunday, 15 January 2012 08:11 (twelve years ago) link
wow blue jeans was even worse
― buzza, Sunday, 15 January 2012 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
lana del rey shreds.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 January 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
The sexpot singer made her Saturday Night Live debut on Jan. 14, only the second artist in 14 years to nab the coveted slot before releasing a first album (the last time it happened: 1998, when Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia played her hit “Torn;” Del Rey’s Born to Die is due out Jan. 31 on Interscope), and reaction has been surprisingly harsh.Following the performance of “Video Games,” the song that’s largely responsible for Del Rey’s breakout, The Firm actress Juliette Lewis, herself a singer who’s opened for the likes of Foo Fighters and Chris Cornell, tweeted, “Wow this ‘singer’ on SNL is like watching a 12 yearold in their bedroom when theyre pretending to sing and perform #signofourtimes.”
― human trash (buzza), Sunday, 15 January 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
WHY can no one spell this girl's name? that is the most annnoying part of the LDR story so far. REY. three letters. NOT HARD.
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
guys, it's a stupid stage name, who gives a fuck how it's "correctly" spelled or pronounced
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
ship otm
― Mayne ... Or Astro-Mayne? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
subeditors care
― irina-camelia begu (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
i think whiney's official title is subWAY editor, if we're being pedantic here
― occupy mobb deep (some dude), Sunday, 15 January 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
the last time it happened: 1998, when Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia played her hit “Torn;”
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
That's a proper horrible performance. Exactly like her performance on Jools Holland. Doesn't seem to be on her way up when on the stage.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Guys appreciate LDR while you can, in February SNL will have fucking KARMIN as a musical guest.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
otm, also she can't keep time & her pitch is terrible. wonder how this hahttp://media.soundonsound.com/sos/feb11/images/E2_06.jpg
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
What's that, scientific evidence?
Or does that get substitute if someone says 'ppened?'
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
it's a protools screen. I can download the free version of it, intentionally sing off-key and with terrible timing, and fix both those problems with a couple of clicks. one value of recording analog was that even one session's worth taught you just how hard some simple musical things - timing, pitch - actually are; one problem with people who've never not had the option to fix pitch & timing is they don't fully get that music's a craft you either practice very hard at all the aspects of or you don't get good at them, cf. LDR on SNL
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link