through the camera
― owenf, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Is it just me, or was that performance really, really awful? The way she slips in and out of the cooing voice and the, erm, adventurous approach to the song's melody...I love this song more than anything, but this performance...yikes.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
^otm (for me, at least). Idk, it all seemed a little "stiff" perhaps? Also really got a "singer playing a singer singing" feel from it. And I genuinely love that song too.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
don draper:his new fiance::indie rock critics:lana del rey
― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 06:50 (twelve years ago) link
teeth:lips in that analogy.
― based grandpa (noz), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, her voice seemed so shakey/weak at times....
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
yo i herd you like the bad girls honeyso i put the bad in your girl so you can bad while you girl
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark
roffle
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
i like stevie's "moodboard pop" coinage a lot
personally find it kinda boring how crepes will react to even the most obvious thing on that moodboard
the plastic surgery is probably my fave bit, like la confidential right?
super special ilm hypocrisy ts: ldr vs teh weeknd
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
What is the teh-dream to ldr's teh weeknd in that controversial analogy?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
actual nancy sinatra?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Videogames should've used anime footage instead of Google Video nostalgia.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Aw she was just nervous!
I'm sort of surprised at how unpoised she looked, actually. Shifting from foot to foot like a high school drama club hopeful. Thought her voice was great.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
mm me too. it was her live tv debut on the biggest music show in the country so i mean nerves? yeah you'd probably expect that.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
If it were Pop Idol the judges would be like, good stuff but you gotta OWN THE STAGE.. but well, it's kind of nice to see somebody who isn't just full-on and brash and cockily sashaying around, straight out the gate
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of think nervous girl behind huge hair/lashes/lips is part of the LDR "shtick".
― Stevie T, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
haha well i guess it's workin on me
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Man, she comes across totally unpolished in interviews, and I love her all the more for it. At this point, I can't decide if she's going to blow up in a huge, huuuuge way or if she's just gonna be one of those quirky pop divas beloved by a large if not psychotic number of people.
― SirGreendown, Friday, 21 October 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
I definitely see her being bigger in Europe than she will be in the States...there's something a little off about her that will keep her from being massive here (assuming her record company/PR team don't flatten all of her quirks).
― SirGreendown, Friday, 21 October 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
single was Top 5 in U.S. iTunes chart last week apparently. supposedly headed for the actual Top 10 over here also.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 October 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
the ep was top 5 in the itunes albums list i believe, i don't think the track itself has popped up on the singles list. i also think she will be bigger in europe (in the uk certainly things are looking good)
― teledyldonix, Friday, 21 October 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm very late with this but Club Clique's remix is fantastic as is their remix of the B-side.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 21 October 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i hate to say it but i think a not-insignificant part of the success of "video games" is the fact that the title has a tech angle to it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 October 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
because it's intriguing and generates youtube views?
i think the song is all about the chorus
― niels, Friday, 21 October 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
top 10 with a bullet in the UK!
― piscesx, Monday, 24 October 2011 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
y'all are being awfully apologetic towards a singer who's supposed to be next great white-girl-what-sings-like-a-black-girl savior
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 October 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00659/news-graphics-2008-_659690a.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 24 October 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
lord
― markers, Monday, 24 October 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Jimmy Jimmy... who says she's supposed to sound black? what black singer does she sound like? i mean... to me she sounds like iris dement and jimmie dale gilmore had an asthmatic child, but in a good way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is she supposed to sound black? News to me! Performing on "Later" she looked really really nervous.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh great. As if the arguments over this girl weren't boring enough, now we've inserted white guilt.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Or black pride, depending how you look at it.
― frankly bringing dragons into this equation is wrong (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
Pride != slamming a singer for sounding like "you" if you happen to be black.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
(also, lots of people throwing around this accusation do happen to be white)
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
edwardo, my post was completely not coming from a position of even being remotely serious.
― frankly bringing dragons into this equation is wrong (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
I did think you were being somewhat flippant, but, y'know, even more backwards stances find fruit on here so you can never tell.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Could see Marianne Faithfull, even now, covering Video Games.
― waylon flowers and muammar gaddafi (Eazy), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
video games: more 6th form music tech college music, pretty song, awful production. has a similar innocent "this is the first good song i wrote" vibe what that xx album had
would like to hear erykah badu do a wink wink cover in the style of i'm the one era annette peacock
― Crackle Box, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
mr fingers remix is the most tossed off thing ever, vocal phrasing is hilarious
― Crackle Box, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
interscope
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
"peace out, indiesphere! i'll be over here getting some of that drug-runner money!"
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Iovine probably had her and Tyler in for a meeting two years back and went "Got a plan."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't really think of her as 'indie'
― goole, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Me neither - in the British sense at least - but there was a lot of discussion/promotion/hype on indie blogs.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
73% of all indie blogs are written by virgins
― Mr. Que, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
'Blue Jeans' reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM
?
― goole, Friday, 28 October 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
blue jeans = wicked games
― bene_gesserit, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
or, wicked game. whatever the chris isaac song is called.
Plus she channels some kind of Kate Bush and Gwen Stefani thing
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link