Lana Del Rey

Burning Desire = almost entirely sung in a deep register

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOa_b64c7Iw

Born to yawn

Remember when artists used to release ep's? That's what "The Paradise Edition" could've been, but nope...gotta sell the WHOLE ALBUM again.

Could care less about LDR, but yeah, this practice drives me fucking bonkers. Especially when they make all of the new tracks 'Album Only' on iTunes, so you can't even pick and choose the new tracks that way.

man that H&M commercial. I saw that the other day. hard to believe someone thought her "David Lynch lite" schtick was TOO SUBTLE so they had her sing Blue Velvet in a red room with a little person.

Nine songs wouldn't even have been an EP, but a full new LP.

Should've been part of an LDR Taschen coffee-table book.

If at least three of these aren't Kasabian covers then I ain't gonna be motivated to download it off no blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJUm5C07_0

seems Cola features the line ”My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola, my eyes are wide like cherry pies”

if your pussy tastes like Pespi cola, you may want to get to a doctor immediately and get your insulin levels checked

Pepsi douche

"You can be my full-time, daddy, white and gold" sounds so much better than "I love you 'till the end of time, and I want you to be the one I share my life with".
Thank you mom for being amazed by Lizzy Grant and for listening her songs 24/7 and for introducing me into this wonderful-vintage life called Lana del Rey
aBeautifulMessM 1 minute ago

Hey, I like Pepsi. Shut your mouth.
Kristofer Fredrick in reply to collegehippie (Show the comment) 1 minute ago

maybe collegehippy's mouth was full of coca-cola.

mmm box set..

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/born-to-die-the-paradise-edition/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-the-paradise-edition-deluxe-edition-box-set/invt/0602537173990/

What in the

oh ffs

Retromania!

Remember January?

maybe this will be the only album she ever releases and she'll just add some new songs to it every once in a while

that way there will be no vote-splitting during greatest albums of all time polls

hahaha

i don't get why this is so weird, isn't it par for the course that every vaguely successful major label album gets re-released a gazillion times with new add-ons each time? iirc there was a gaga box set for the fame monster...

that's stupid too, although at least there was actual interest in a rehashed Lady Gaga album

Fame Monster was released with The Fame attached in the UK at least

yeahh this pointless box set thing happens a few times a year at least, dying gasp of the music industry etc etc

my reaction stems from this being a particularly pointless box set even in the arena of pointless box sets

it's not tho! it's just an averagely pointless box set!

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/rock/boxset-keane-strangeland-super-deluxe-version-box-set-2012/invt/0602527987767/

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/privateering/mark-knopfler-privateering-super-deluxe-box-set/invt/0602537043231/

hahahahahaha what the hell

I think there's a slight difference between extravagant box sets that are released when the original albums come out, as another option for the "superfans", as opposed to box sets that get released months later that force fans to rebuy the same album.

see also "gold" and "silver" VIP packages to tours (where you get a meet-and-greet and early access to the merchandise stalls YAY)

i don't know how it "forces" anyone to do anything really. and at least they're getting 9 new songs (basically another album) for the price of buying the alubm again, a lot of deluxe editions are like 2 new songs. (xpost)

The cool thing is that one of these boxes actually contains Lana Del Rey's severed ear.

you see you laugh but the gaga box set actually DID contain a "lock" of her "hair"

and not off her head

well, for £25, that's not bad contentwise...

i don't know how it "forces" anyone to do anything really. and at least they're getting 9 new songs (basically another album) for the price of buying the alubm again, a lot of deluxe editions are like 2 new songs. (xpost)

well, yeah, the "new" stuff wildly varies from set to set. in terms of "forcing" fans to buy stuff, i'm looking at it from the point of a fan who isn't going to illegally download the new stuff. a lot of these deluxe editions get released with new songs that you just cannot get any other way. i'm not sure if its still this way, but the Katy Perry rerelease of her recent album on iTunes had the "new" material greyed out an only available as 'Album Only', meaning you had to buy the entire thing again to get the new stuff. how is that not forcing the hardcore fans to re-buy the same material again?

Seems like a big part of LDR's appeal is the image, the way she is packaged and repackaged, so it seems like having new artifacts to complete your LDR set is pretty much giving the fans what they want. Not that the music isn't important at all, but the image is at least as important, if not more so.

never got the album, will get this edition when they are selling it for a fiver in fopp ( a la 2 cd + dvd edition of lady gagas special edition of BTW).

xpost yeah it was Amy Winehouse's Deluxe Edition Back To Black that really ushered in the Deluxe Era, as that was the first (only?) Deluxe Edition to be issued that had a really big hit single on it/from it (Valerie) that was a bigger hit(number 2 in the uk charts) than anything on the original parent album. that was the point i think labels woke up to it as a proper cash cow and not just as a thing the fans/ geeks would buy as Back To Black Deluxe edition was then separately a big hit in the uk album chart that Xmas.

there are probably some other good later examples too mind...

like i joked on fb, if the song's called "bel air," maybe the smoke silhouette is meant to represent the smog over the 405. kidding aside, i think this is quite pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3yT8CkPzY&feature=share

sheesh it seems like just yesterday that i forgot about her!

best of the new tracks is America imo.

http://cholaempire.tumblr.com/post/35960333637/my-grandmother-sameer-and-i-hear-ride-by-lana-del

Nan: What is this noise?
Nan: Is it this udaas gori (sad white girl) again?
Nan: You must put it off now.
Nan: I am very tolerant of the new music but I cannot tolerate this.
Nan: I will die. This woman and her singing will kill me.
Nan: You will be responsible for my death.
Nan: And both of you will die as I am the one driving.
Nan: Lana will kill us all.

Why did no one ever tell me about the "My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" line?

For the most part, this Paradise ep is nothing, but that lyric is absurd and terrible and great all at the same time.

Amen to that

I kinda finding myself enjoying what I've heard off of paradise

"Ride" starts it off pretty well, and "Cola" has that ridiculous lyric, but the rest of it isn't doing much for me.

so mary chain
xxxp

Those are the two I've heard

http://www.splicetoday.com/music/be-young-have-fun-lick-pepsi

yeah "ride" is the only 1 i like

o i guess i like body electric also

The repeated "I sing the body electric" vocal ends up becoming an annoying and meaningless mantra at the end.