Lana Del Rey

ok strike the "not just" from that sentence, kind of awkwardly hanging there unresolved

I don't know, I'd blame Myspace for all that more than marketers. How many indie rock bands had "crunk" or "hip-hop" in their description?

actually kind of brings me back to something i thought about Vampire Weekend a couple years ago -- like they were almost TOO savvy about not just what they were going for in terms of image/signifiers to the point of spelling it out for people constantly, which might have almost motivated people to get all meta about it because critics already had so much of the work done for them of just covering the basic surface level aspects by the artist

― some dude, Friday, February 3, 2012 10:42 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this actually makes a lot of sense the more i think about it.

somedude OTM about the wordcloud.

watching that letterman thing it seems like her puffy lips effect her singing! and that song just seems weirder and weirder to me every time i hear it.

and no matter how much sex scandal stuff about letterman we know he just can't stop leching...talk about retro.

mad men HAS to be dave's favorite show of all time.

her tone is exactly that of the press release - but i don't think she's unique in it, i've noticed this tone creeping into more and more places of late, whether that's hypeblogs or churnalism

did you just make up "churnalism"? or is that a real thing?

maybe it's the profession of music critics who write about choons

it's a neologism used by uncreative journalists to complain about uncreative journalism

well, it's specifically about rehashing press releases in the guise of journalism

mad men HAS to be dave's favorite show of all time.

― scott seward, Friday, February 3, 2012 7:02 AM (11 minutes ago)

lol otm

how does the word 'churn' relate to plagiarizing or rewording PR exactly?

i think dave likes LDR because she basically looks like julia roberts in the 90s when she was dave's favorite guest to flirt with

'churn' is kind of either stirring something. you're coming up with a "new product" but you don't really add or remove anything. so if you rearrange words in a press release and publish it..

err, I mean either stirring something or it's used to reference turnover within a field

i'm surprised this term hasn't made it to the US yet

hollywood adcore

(love "churnalism" btw)

"Churn out" means to mass produce something with little regard for quality. I thought "churnalism" refers to the fact that these press releases etc. are reproduced across the media without any real work going into it.

that too, it's a very versatile phrase

yeah, i dig it.

So I finally listened to this and I suppose there's some potential, but I can't help but feel that I'm listening to Hooverphonic b-sides.

Lana Del Rey's major label full-length debut album, "Born to Die," is off to a fast start. Industry sources say that the set may sell between 60,000 to 70,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 5. That should easily give the album at No. 2 debut on the Billboard 200 chart next week.

remember when albums could sell a million copies on the week of their release? sigh.

The awkward chorus of "Off to the Races" makes me think of Annie's "sexy" song in that glee club episode of Community.

this was exactly my reaction the first time i heard it! especially that little giggle she does on "singin' in the garden."

That has to be deliberate though, doesn't it? The squeaks on 'harlot' and 'starlet' come across as very knowing, rather than a ham-fisted attempt at sexy.

Yeah it's definitely knowing, that makes me cringe all the more though.

it's too bad they don't let baz luhrmann make movies anymore, think of the mileage he could get out of lana

Dude you know he's doing The Great Gatsby right now, right? It's a good job Lana's come along so late in the day because there's no way in hell he'd have been able to resist that one.

IN 3D!

http://www.drudgesiren.com/siren.gif'I don't think I'll write another record. What would I say? I feel like everything I wanted to say, I've said already.'http://www.drudgesiren.com/siren.gif

What does her Interscope contract say?

Liz Phair brings...something:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/02/04/liz-phair-on-why-lana-del-rey-scares-rocks-boys-club/

Let me break it down for you: she’s writing herself into existence. She’s giving herself a part to play because, God knows, no one else will and she wants to matter in this life. As far as I can tell, it’s working. I went straight to iTunes and bought her new release “Born To Die” in toto (how often do I do that??) because it was more than a collection of songs or a performance, it was a phenomenon. Maybe all the more so because she’s not overwhelmingly talented.

hats off Ms Phair. she's Number 1 in the UK album chart as of this evening and the album's outstripping the rest of the Top Five put together with 117,000 sales in a week. a phenomenon indeed as the good lady points out.

Maybe all the more so because she’s not overwhelmingly talented.

good backhanded compliment

She bought the album though.

'I don't think I'll write another record. What would I say? I feel like everything I wanted to say, I've said already.'

^feel like this was something liz phair should have said at one point.

i fucking love liz phair

(which i didn't really do before)

Maybe all the more so because she’s not overwhelmingly talented.

takes one to know one huh

A comment from Facebook: "Liz's quote reads so much better when using your best Troy McClure voice."

on the bus, homeless-seeming guy talking to his buddy across the aisle:

"i'm watching this kid play video gaaaames. never was into video games myself. kind of bores me."

haha xp

hats off Ms Phair. she's Number 1 in the UK album chart as of this evening and the album's outstripping the rest of the Top Five put together with 117,000 sales in a week. a phenomenon indeed as the good lady points out.

spoken like a true PR

idk why anyone is bothered by how much anyone sells

does it make it better for you? worse?

remember when albums could sell a million copies on the week of their release? sigh.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it happened last year! twice (almost)!

feeling pretty prescient about my liz phair parallel way upthread now

remember when albums could sell a million copies on the week of their release? sigh.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it happened last year! twice (almost)!

― some dude, Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who?

when a critic is reduced to using feminism to defend an artist, you can know they're really bad

can someone esplain this "flag post" thing to me?

who?

Lady Gaga and (almost) Lil Wayne.