Quite like it despite being ready to hate it. Tbh I think new LDR might be the kind of depressing uk lockdown soundtrack I need.
― candyman, Monday, 11 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
the plan: make a pop singer out of someone psychologically unsuited for any kind of fame
She seems well-suited for a 1970s kind of fame, where success and adulation reinforce her self-regard and enhance the side of her lyrics that tend to grandiosity, and provide a view of the world that's interestingly bent by removal from regular society / ludicrous levels of self belief. A Barbra Streisand type of white-dwarf-dense, but harmless, narcissism.
Having to interact with people who understand how - regardless of whether it's interesting as poetry or a psychological sketch of a built persona - her worldview is facile & limited is something she's not suited for. Also, having to interact with live humans at all during a pandemic.
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
"In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes."
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Monday, 11 January 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
the only good rock n roll instagram is patti smith's
Big Boi’s social media is mostly owls, dogs and cheering for his son playing football IIRC.
(If LDR is rock n roll I’m putting BB in too.)
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Monday, 11 January 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
new song is definitely much better than "let me love you like a woman", pretty good
i do feel optimistic about the new album being her shortest since her last few albums have all been too long for their own good
― ufo, Monday, 11 January 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
we can be thankful the closer is Joni's "For Free", not Kendrick's
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
lmao that would have been something
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link
Update, January 11, 6 p.m.: Lana Del Rey is now defending her defense of her new album cover Speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac for the premiere of the title track, she addressed alleged criticisms of the cover photo regarding inclusivity. “My girlfriends come from all over the world, they have children from all different types of people,” she explained. “And I’m mentioning all this, like, to people who are listening because people really wanted even more people of color on my album cover. Which you know is, to a point, a photo just is what it is.” Del Rey further claimed that “actually half the people in this photo are people of color.” She also said the so-called controversy — which seems to have been started and fanned only by her— made her think “back to all my songs and videos and starting with more of a hip-hop sound.” She went on, “I just feel like if that’s really what people are gonna say, I have an answer for them, which is that if you look closer, you will see people of color. It’s a black-and-white image, so zoom in, you know. It’s just weird, you know?” Do we, Lana?Elsewhere in her conversation with Mac, Del Rey spoke about the pandemic (“I always wondered, with 8 billion people in the world, [why] this did not happen sooner”) and the riot at the Capitol (“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).
Elsewhere in her conversation with Mac, Del Rey spoke about the pandemic (“I always wondered, with 8 billion people in the world, [why] this did not happen sooner”) and the riot at the Capitol (“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).
Lana dril Rey
― Chris L, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:51 (three years ago) link
The new song is nice but doesn't feel like a single. More like an album opener.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”
lol this is really one of her better quotes
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
― Chris L, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:51 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
irl lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
honestly don't get what's wrong with the album cover
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
as i understand it literally no one other than LDR has suggested theres anything wrong with it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
^^^^
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
It's good that she got out ahead of this controversy that she invented herself, shows real foresight
just a nice photo of her and her friends from all over the world enjoying each others company, not storming the capital, thinking about the various rappers theyve dated
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
otm
― mh, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
I've seen some comments, and I'm sure they'd have commented all the same, but this pre-emptive strike shit is extremely cringe
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
lol she did date g-eazy i guess
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Misread that as Eazy-E.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
tbf if her last bf was a cop he might very well also be a rapper
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
"Waa "Summertime" done as some kind of companion piece to her "Doin' Time" cover?"
no it was for some tribute album I believe. It was pointless.
I love LDR's music, and at times I"ve been really impressed with how she's spoken about working as a woman in the music industry. But she is really, really defensive these days. If the cover was getting flack I never even saw the flack. Personally I think it's a lame cover but if people were complaining there weren't enough POC in it, or the POC there were tokens, I can see her getting frustrated. It's her friends. Are they all unusually attractive? yeah, well, it's LA, surprise, there are a lot of unusually attractive people there. I don't think she helps herself by getting defensive about everything, she gets incoherent.
song itself is fine.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
(again, don't know if that was the root of the criticism, it's what I gleaned from some equally incoherent twitter responses to it)
― akm, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/DyqOcsNEVw— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
don't know if that was the root of the criticism
how could people have criticised it before her defense
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
love you lana but absolutely not watching a video of you speaking
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
surprised this wasn't posted here
It’s fucked up. You know I’m real. You know I voted for Biden. I’m super steady in everything I’ve ever said. You probably listened to my entire interview. So whoever wrote this is a genuine piece of shit. I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light. Gfys— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
At least that is coherent
― akm, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:58 (three years ago) link
I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light.
that's one way of phrasing it
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
no worries queen. I just got my drivers license, so the person who wrote the article better watch both ways before crossing the streets. that’s all I’m gonna say.— permanently high (@BhadDhad) January 12, 2021
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
you know what they say, you can take the girl out of upstate new york, but
― mh, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
Log-off Del Rey
I’m actually not tone deaf, I don’t think there’s anything tone deaf about responding to questions about why there are only white women on a album cover when that’s just not the case. I’m not gonna let people say that some thing is what it isn’t. You’re jealous I get it.— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021
The music is great and it is important to talk about inclusivity. Which I don’t have an issue with, I’ve been super open about my issues are and that isn’t one of them. I just think it’s sad that you’re trying to paint one of the only artist who is genuine as otherwise.— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
spill queen pic.twitter.com/5AfbcVVvPE— harris (@TrueHarris) January 12, 2021
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:30 (three years ago) link
Even her own stans in those replies are like—“stop wasting yr energy,” “you need a new manager,” etc.
― Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
hahaha beginning a statement "I'm actually not tone deaf." you know it's going well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
the stans seem to be saying that she needs a manager who would be powerful enough to stop Australian music blogs from making Lana look bad by repeating Lana's own words, not that she should stfu
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
I read it as they're gently steering her toward more productive avenues of dealing with the "problem" than long-winded replies.
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
I actually like her more now.
― candyman, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 06:56 (three years ago) link
how long until Lana ends up in the Real Housewives franchise
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9Sm6jM7_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Saturday, 16 January 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
I'm not much of an LDR fan (to put it mildly), but I kinda like this new song... maybe she's worn me down, lol
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
Her cover of Father John Misty’s “buddy’s rendevous” is great.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
lana listening to the silver jews while stuck in hollywood traffic taking selfies on a busted phone pic.twitter.com/okCnyzZmOc— alana (@slowdaysfast) May 14, 2023
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:11 (eleven months ago) link
That was that Primitive Radio Gods single, right?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 May 2023 18:32 (eleven months ago) link
Apparently, a new version of an old song called "Say Yes to Heaven" – which dates from the Ultraviolence days, and has been considered for a bunch of albums since – is being released tonite.
― Unidentified rogue Jedi (morrisp), Thursday, 18 May 2023 14:32 (eleven months ago) link
It’s out. I somehow missed this unreleased song and I thought I’d heard most of it. Its extremely good. I guess this is actually the original version as recoded in 2012 and not a subsequent remix which has leaked and was what people were using on tik tok. I gather she did this to capitalize on that, which means people should now start using Driving in Cars With Boys so we can get a properly mastered version.It’s kind of bewildering the high quality of a lot of the unreleased stuff. Imagine thinking this song was a dumperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAoetOXKcY
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 20 May 2023 06:22 (eleven months ago) link
I read about the TikTok thing last night; somehow I’m always surprised by it being the reason for something like this (you’d think I’d be used to / understand it by now!)It’s kind of bewildering the high quality of a lot of the unreleased stuff.The Lanapedia entries for some of those songs (including this one) says that fans somehow got ahold of “stems” of earlier recordings, and emailed them to well-known producers — pretending to be Lana, asking them to produce a finished track and email it back… which they somehow then do(??) It’s totally insane.
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Saturday, 20 May 2023 14:38 (eleven months ago) link
lmao what the hell
the leaked stems were probably from a google drive getting hacked or something i guess
― ufo, Saturday, 20 May 2023 14:43 (eleven months ago) link
Having (re-)listened to several of the early versions – mindful that some fans seem to think she has “ruined” the song – I feel like the new/official version probably is the best. I think it may be a somewhat “mid” song from her, but in any event, the new recording is nice and I think it has a good atmosphere.
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Sunday, 21 May 2023 22:21 (eleven months ago) link