Lana Del Rey

as i understand it literally no one other than LDR has suggested theres anything wrong with it

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

lol she did date g-eazy i guess

Misread that as Eazy-E.

tbf if her last bf was a cop he might very well also be a rapper

"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.

(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)

pic.twitter.com/DyqOcsNEVw

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021

don't know if that was the root of the criticism

how could people have criticised it before her defense

love you lana but absolutely not watching a video of you speaking

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

At least that is coherent

I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light.

that's one way of phrasing it

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

you know what they say, you can take the girl out of upstate new york, but

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

spill queen pic.twitter.com/5AfbcVVvPE

— harris (@TrueHarris) January 12, 2021

Even her own stans in those replies are like—“stop wasting yr energy,” “you need a new manager,” etc.

hahaha beginning a statement "I'm actually not tone deaf." you know it's going well

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

I read it as they're gently steering her toward more productive avenues of dealing with the "problem" than long-winded replies.

I actually like her more now.

how long until Lana ends up in the Real Housewives franchise

https://i.imgur.com/9Sm6jM7_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

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

Her cover of Father John Misty’s “buddy’s rendevous” is great.

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

That was that Primitive Radio Gods single, right?

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.

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 dumper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAoetOXKcY

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.

lmao what the hell

the leaked stems were probably from a google drive getting hacked or something i guess

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.

Damn, this is good. Her work with (professional hack) Rick Nowels is perhaps less mindbendingly bizarre but consistently some of her most listenable stuff.

I’m surprised she does so many Born to Die-era songs… I would have thought they have so little in common with her now:

https://twitter.com/lanadreyonline/status/166260628241790566

LANA DEL REY - 2023 FESTIVAL SETLIST

— Lana Del Rey Online (@LanaDReyOnline) May 27, 2023

it's still by far her most successful album so that's her playing the hits

that's a boring ass setlist and a short set too, so if that's what she's doing at Outside Lands this summer I'm happy to miss it. Wish she'd just do a headlining tour again; the NFR show was excellent.

20 songs is not a short set. What are you expecting, some kind of Cure/Springsteen-style marathon?

Surprised that even her 2019 setlists don't have "Mariners Apartment Complex" or "hope is a dangerous thing," even though both of them might be hard to pull off in an arena. And now no "Let Me Love You Like A Woman."

These probably got a lot more love on ILM than IRL

oh I kind of glanced over how many songs that was, for some reason I thought it was only 10. that said, I could do without so many BTD tracks. anyway I am interested in seeing how the new songs sound live.

I wonder if she enjoys performing those old songs… she’s evolved so much artistically since then.

It's almost like she should do more of a theater tour to do the last four albums' songs.

i would prefer that.

IMO much of this set is ooof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gm4vqlGN8

Impressed wow @ tear running down fan’s cheek as she begins “The Grants”

These fans are amazing… singing along with every line of “Norman Fucking Rockwell”… etc.

Anyone made a decent/personal "Best of" on Spotify or similar?

Don't know much about her aside from liking "Videogames", "Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" and "A&W".

This is my Best Of playlist (I stopped after Chemtrails, cuz the next few albums are so perfect I didn’t feel like choosing).

(I also don’t really know how to pick individual tracks from NFR!… it’s a very holistic album)

I had never heard “Flipside” before… the bridge melody (“So you think you're in charge, do ya? / Actin' like a big shot, I'm sure”) sounds remarkably like an antecedent of “The Grants” pre-chorus (“Do you think about Heaven? Ah, ha / Do you think about me?”…).