Just to clarify, I was talking about her videos getting old - not her songs.
― thinveneer, Friday, 9 September 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Blue Jeans is great
reminds me of Shivaree in a way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 September 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of Wicked Game
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 10 September 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can hear a little of that in there. This is good. This bodes well for whenever the hell the album is going to drop.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 10 September 2011 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss the old "Video Games" video
(of course, I would)
― Two Guys, a Girl, a Pizza Place, a Baby, and The Fucking Fury (bernard snowy), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah and that max tundra cover is wonderful
I was blown away the first time I saw and heard "Video Games." Still listen to the song at least once a day. She just nailed that experience of being ignored no matter what you are willing to offer while your boyfriend is consumed with his friends and their trivial activities. Oh, high school.
― thinveneer, Saturday, 10 September 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone added a genius comment to it, now also sadly lost to posterity: "She could have joined in and played video games with her boyfriend as a bonding experience, but instead she writes this dispiriting song."
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 11 September 2011 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's more arch than dispiriting.
― Tim F, Sunday, 11 September 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
shivaree comparison otm! i always thought this song could have been huge in a parallel universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRqUONe_aAI
her wooden performance in that awkward video, which i've only just seen for the first time, can't have helped matters though
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vyytCdYAw
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
wow Blue jeans is great. I'm hearing some Morphine in her tracks which is always good in my book.
As is the Shivaree stuff. How have I missed her? Did it not make it to British shores.
― owenf, Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
and a bit of cowboy junkies too
― owenf, Sunday, 11 September 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think shivaree made it anyway (they're a band, the singer is ambrosia parsley) (#greatrealnames). first two albums are great, don't think i heard anything after that.
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 September 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
*anywhere
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Sunday, 11 September 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for the Shivaree links Lex!
I dig Blue Jeans. Shame Video Games/Blue Jeans are only properly released in October, probably meaning a proper full-length will take a long time to appear.
― Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 11 September 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Goodnight Moon was no.1 in Italy! Also plays over the closing credits to Kill Bill.
― A little bit like Peter Crouch but with more mobility (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 September 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah man shivaree comparison soooo otm... had totally forgotten abt them
― just sayin, Sunday, 11 September 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
man, I don't like her uptempo numbers at all, but way impressed with the gloomy / slow / sad / sexy ones
― the tune is space, Sunday, 11 September 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Shivaree was played by Mark & Lard iirc. But yeah she sounds the same. I love Blue Jeans; the rest I've heard I kind of tune out after a while.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 September 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I think the uptempo ones are older. At least the whole thing she's going for seems to be a bit more realised in video games/blue jeans. Blue jeans being stronger by a country mile too
― owenf, Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"goodnight moon" is one of my all-time favorite songs - just perfect in every way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm hearing some Jimmie Dale Gilmore in there, too!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1mQvHXRlZE
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 September 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I seem to end up humming 'Angelene' by PJ Harvey after listening to 'blue jeans' which is usually a sign to me that they sound similar in some way. Anyone else hear this?
― kinder, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
don't really get the cat power comps. EMA is the most cat powery of new ppl out i think; i find LDR to be more calculated
― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm SURE I'm the only one who heard this connection, but the two note, sing-songy melody line at the beginning of Video Games reminded me of the intro to this Cockney Rebel song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiWdhYGXQt8
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno about this... "video games" is pretty pretty. dare i say it, the whole aesthetic is "annoying"
― goole, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
good thing to bug some of the people
― NI, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
This is pretty sad tbhhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qLIL0BzayYQ/Ti79mVyL03I/AAAAAAAAAW0/D9EJo0DCJiI/s320/rob-lizzy.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/lana-del-ray-hot-nude-video.jpg
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 15 September 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
her whole makeover (and I just mis-typed that as "whore" makeover lol :\ ) is... off putting
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
You mean like putting off any work to watch Lana del Rey vids all day?
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
idgi, Number None, what is that?
― goole, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a pic of her and her dad from like 4 years ago.
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
why is it sad
― runaway (Matt P), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Cos of what she looks like now?
― Number None, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
well i for one am so happy you're sad for her
― runaway (Matt P), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
this world is too harsh not to have strangers sad for us when we change the way we look
― runaway (Matt P), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't really know what you're getting at man
― Number None, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i just watched "video games" (instead of just listening) -- the clip of paz de la huerta in a gutter @ 1:55 kind of gives the game away, dunnit
― goole, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
it's nothing Bowie didn't do surely, or near as dammit? a massive amount of this is cause she's a girl lest that needed saying. she had her lips slightly plumped up?? Jesus, big freakin deal.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i think bob dylan's had work done
― goole, Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I think seeing the lyrics written out in text speak was the "kind of gives the game away" moment 4 me
― I would like some juice from OJ Da Juiceman's wife's vagina (bernard snowy), Thursday, 15 September 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what "game" are we talking about here?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 15 September 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k202/bshirk/TurtlesInTimeTheOriginal.jpg
― I would like some juice from OJ Da Juiceman's wife's vagina (bernard snowy), Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
If you haven't heard of Lana Del Rey, YOU WILL SOON because we are convinced that this gorgeous crooner is going to be everywhere ASAP, like basically by the time this post is published. ZOMG she is so important. Anyway, this self-proclaimed "gangster Nancy Sinatra" embodies the best of strong, sculpted eyebrows, bump-its + hairsprayed tonsorial PERFECTION, and we can SO vividly picture her swanning out of a beautiful Hollywood Hills house with a kidney bean-shaped swimming pool in an ultramarine nylon mini shift and white patent leather go-go boots.
AND a big-ass dookie rope chain and gold hoops. She is also, obviously, drinking something out of a martini glass. She describes her sound as "Hollywood Pop/Sad Core" and uuuuuuum #sadcore is VERY up our alley. The enormously satisfying juxtaposition of old-school glamour plus inexplicably morose contemporary images in her music video plus super-duper prettiness is completely blowing our minds.
We can't get enough of her video for "Video Games" because not only are our ears oh so happy with her Florence meets Cat Power meets A Fine Frenzy melodies, but we also really need more retro off-the-shoulder sweaters in our lives and closets. Thankfully, we're positive that this isn't the last we've seen of Lana. And PRAISE BE, because her style strikes such a unique and perfect balance between classic beauty and refreshingly unexpected (do you have EYEBALLS? Are you SEEING that top made COMPLETELY of roses/carnations/I'm not a horticulturist???) that is just so ready for its place in the sun. Now run along and entertain yourselves for a while with the video below while we go dig up some hot rollers and lip venom. Swooooooooooooooooon.
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
barf
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
old stuff - Hipster Runoff's been monitoring the situation pretty closely...
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost) Holy hell, that PR is real!
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link