"Venice Bitch" is good. She continues to shuffle the deck of 60s/early 70s musical tropes and has finally turned up the "10-minute song with proggy synth solo" card. It'll fit well in the second half of the next album (I hope; she'd be insane to front-load it, but I think she's too smart for that.)
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
I'm not really a fan of any of the Lana Del Ray songs that I haven't listened to.
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
advance tracks/singles do tend to frontload her albums so don't be surprised when this ends up as track 2 or something. I found "Honeymoon"-as-opener pretty baffling
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
When you realize that Honeymoon is a total headphone album, "Honeymoon" the song is a perfect opener. It draws you very slowly and patiently into the album's world.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
I revised this list. "Mariners Apartment Complex" is irresistible.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 September 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link
i think it speaks to her range as an artist that i consider this a great list even though it doesn't even have any of my top 5 on it
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 29 September 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
What’s your top 5, dd?
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Saturday, 29 September 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
yeah, please!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 September 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
ok i lied, your list has summertime sadness
1. the blackest day2. terrence loves you3. ride4. summertime sadness5. venice bitch
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 29 September 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
initial excitement for venice bitch pushed blue jeans out of the top 5
"Venice Bitch" is good. She continues to shuffle the deck of 60s/early 70s musical tropes and has finally turned up the "10-minute song with proggy synth solo" card. ― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:01 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, September 22, 2018 8:01 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Great comment for a great song. Had Venice Bitch and Mariner’s on repeat this week.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/lana-del-rey-escalates-feud-with-azealia-banks/
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
Dissonant times
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
is banks mentally ill or just an attention addict?
― akm, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Yes.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
both
― searching for Kelilah (Ross), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
i love banks as a musician but god being a fan of hers has been pretty tough.
this is a sad feud tho, someone should take the coke away from banks
― Ross, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
i haven't heard anything but "212" think i'll keep it that way
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Lana Del Brazy
Venice Bitch is so great
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
can’t stop listening to Mariners Apartment Complex
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
same
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
rip hear
miss camaraderie
trust me
― Ross, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
I got off the bandwagon after the Blue Jeans single but this new stuff sounds great, ready to get back!
― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 08:52 (five years ago) link
what happened, why is this so different from the albums in between? it has a more acoustic, mellow vibe, if I'm not mistaken
new studio/producer/band?
― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
new influences?
More like a new strain at the dispensary.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
will this be her Revolver? :O
― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
I'm struggling to determine whether Poe's law applies here or not:
https://www.wikihow.com/Emulate-Lana-Del-Rey
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
there are impressionable 12 year olds that are going to take that shit seriously and for that reason it should be taken down.
wikiHow is so weird!!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 7 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
There's impressionable 35 year olds who will take that shit seriously.
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
There's also an article that teaches people how to look like Carly Rae Jepsen:https://www.wikihow.com/Look-Like-Carly-Rae-Jepsen
It's nowhere near as useful. "Wear very nice clothes at formal events" and "wear sunglasses" aren't detailed enough to be helpful. I already do both of those things and I look nothing like her. Admittedly I am a middle-aged man and Carly Rae Jepsen is a 33-year-old woman, but we share genetic material. 33! I thought she was younger. Does Carly Rae Jepsen have a look? Lana Del Rey is basically Natalie Wood, but I don't think Jepsen or her producers put much thought into her image.
A few years back Milan central station had a set of gigantic billboards of Lana Del Rey - we're talking thirty-foot-tall monoliths with Del Rey on each side, advertising handbags - and I always wondered what happened to those billboards. The man who wrote Wikihow's how-to guide would have paid a fortune for them.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 8 December 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
i think wikihow is user-generated content. you can find any kind of fucking weird thing in there.
― akm, Saturday, 8 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
yes, all wikis are comprised of user-generated content
― Number None, Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2LUmLw_DQ
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 13 January 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Peak after peak, this album.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
Hoo yeah her best song since the first album IMO.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
It's a crazy story because Collins didn't actually sue Radiohead. It involves Collins being the witness to Radiohead intentionally stealing a song from another band — laughing and bragging that they'd get away with it. Collins stayed quiet for a number of years and then finally turned them in — by inviting them to a concert singing Against All Odds, which he dedicated to them during that performance while shining a spotlight on them. Immediately after he finished singing they were all arrested for plagiarism.
― omar little, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:20 PM bookmarkflaglink
omg so sad i missed this the first time, lols
then again I laugh at any variation of that urban legend
― Rhoda from Steubenville (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
lmao what a fucking hack
― imago, Thursday, 21 May 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
well i for one am shocked
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
hope weyes blood disowns her for this self-indulgent nonsense <<<weyes blood stan twitter has weighed in
― imago, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
viewed more dispassionately it does feel like she felt people hadn't been paying her enough attention, and this is her way of cynically announcing both her new album and her poetry books (lol) while making some sort of stan twitter splash
― imago, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
it worked though - i bumped this thread!
― imago, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
good heel turn imo
― devvvine, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
congrats on giving her the attention she wanted?
looking forward to the new album since the last one was pretty good, though not the masterpiece it was hailed as by many. not at all looking forward to both the discourse if this is any sign of things to come and more of imago's constant weyes blood comparisons
― ufo, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
i had to google i just thought it was the usual bad aesthetic opinions
my opinion on Twitter beef = who gives a fuck?
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
that letter was stupid.
if she felt the need to defend herself, the move should have been to admit she plays with feminine archetypes in her work in a way that is ambiguous (i.e., doesn't fit a neat notion of empowerment). but then she should ask why it's ok for david lynch and other male artists to do that and not her.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
saying there is feminist value in eroticizing helplessness doesn't make any logical sense
― treeship., Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
I already regret googling this.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
when she said her work doesn't try to glamorize anything, but merely gives the stark reality, and the glamor just comes naturally from her and she can't help it, i thought of this:
https://www.theonion.com/the-events-depicted-in-star-wars-actually-happened-to-1819584868
― treeship., Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
I know I'm a fan but idrg the big deal here
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link