Lana Del Rey

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video games

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album is pretty good

ok this is the official tracklist

1. Born To Die
2. Off To The Races
3. Blue Jeans
4. Video Games
5. Diet Mountain Dew
6. National Anthem
7. Dark Paradise
8. Radio
9. Carmen
10. Million Dollar Man
11. Summertime Sadness
12. This Is What Makes Us Girls

most leaks i came across don't include DP and carmen so i suspect they're all hoaxes

never gonna give u up

that album cover is surprisingly chilling

― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:27 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u mispelled "shilling"

nah, just kidding, of course, love u ldr http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

official extra tracks are

13 without you
14 lolita
15 lucky ones

no room for Driving In Cars With Boys which is madness!

THIS might raise a few ILM eyebrows;
http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5983&Itemid=206

PJ had being keeping unusually quiet on the official site. it was worth the wait.

lol "PS: You can have Santigold back if you want."

I actually agreed with a Popjustice article. God not those close minded little trolls.

This album is great playing on some big headphones. This sounds like a 90s UK album feel to me due to the trip hoppy beats and strings. Also, I know Diet Mt. Dew is old but it's beat is NY boom bap to me. This is a real progression to the Lizzy album.

'Radio' is the keeper; just flat out fantastic. i can't imagine if you like pop music in any way at all that you wouldn't think it was absolutely incredible.

I made it to the second paragraph of that article before I began to lose the will to live

Sitting on my la la
Waiting or my ya ya
Video Games

what did happen to driving in cars with boys? does that song even exist anywhere in a full version anymore?

the album is frontloaded with previously leaked/released tracks-- just now getting to the new ones

Do i hear
21
21
21
Vid-e-o ga-ames

THIS might raise a few ILM eyebrows;
http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5983&Itemid=206

PJ had being keeping unusually quiet on the official site. it was worth the wait.

it's the same bullshit from the opposite direction though. i'm SO TIRED of people policing the "alternative" vs "pop" binary as though it means anything at all

i'm not making a snap judgment about this album yet but

- it is very long
- it is very samey
- i like her deeper voice far more than when she tries to do the higher kittenish thing (pity she can't actually do the deeper voice judging by SNL, haw)
- i guess i like it fine so far

unnecessarily overproduced in places, some of these strings are just too much/too adele-like

Peter's kind of OTM. Not in the sense that there's a pop vs alt binary that needs policing but with the idea that vast numbers of people writing about LDR think there's a pop vs alt binary that needs policing.

I never managed to download those alt binaries.

that vast numbers of people writing about LDR think there's a pop vs alt binary that needs policing.

isn't he buying into this binary by fixating on it so much?

i mean, that's a sense i get from pj quite a lot - pop works Like This and indie works Like That and you have to choose one or the other

I'm not sure he's fixating on it, it's more a recognition that the discussion of authenticity has completely overtaken the discussion of the music. There's an element of pop tribalism, as there often is with PJ, but it reads much more strongly to me as send-up of all the people tying themselves in knots over whether they should like her, rather than whether they do like her. The idea that they should let it go and leave the music to the people who are going to enjoy it regardless seems reasonable.

'Radio' is the keeper; just flat out fantastic. i can't imagine if you like pop music in any way at all that you wouldn't think it was absolutely incredible.

― piscesx

Yeah this is the one that stood out for me too.

I like the album a lot, even the bonus tracks. It reminds me of The Facts Of Life album by Black Box Recorder in a lot of places.

They're forming in a straight line
They're goin through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds... Video games

Oh Dracula comes from Transylvania
Stevie nicks books about kleptomania.
Johnny looked out of his bedroom window.
And shouted to his mum ... Video Games

"This sounds like a 90s UK album feel to me due to the trip hoppy beats and strings."

Totally. And piscesx OTM about Radio. Beyond the singles that and National Anthem are the highlights. Interesting takes on fame and desperation.

Could have done without the cruddy Rick Nowels filler tracks though. Shows a failure of nerve on Interscope's part when her regular collaborators are so strong.

PJ is right in that a lot of the criticism of LDR stems from a misunderstanding about how she's pitching herself (or being pitched). If it was clear from the start that she was trying to be a pop star rather than some indie siren the terms of the debate would have been completely different. She still wouldn't be able to sing live though.

the album sounds a bit like kanye west's mbdtf, in a weird way. who produced thsi? those sampled hip-hop background shouts.

i think this LP so far (listening now) is the epitome of what we can achieve in 2012 insofar the disparity amazing / meaningless

Turns out two of the producers worked on Kanye's Runaway.

"This sounds like a 90s UK album feel to me due to the trip hoppy beats and strings."

all of her songs have sounded like this to me.

http://i.imgur.com/pu8HW.gif

hahaha

If it was clear from the start that she was trying to be a pop star rather than some indie siren the terms of the debate would have been completely different

it's that entire binary i want to reject though! any debate that takes it as the starting point - she has to be either/or - is doomed to shitness (as indeed the majority of the LDR debate has been). what do "pop" and "indie" even mean in that context? how do they affect her music?

how is anything about her "indie"? this quote says it all:

Grant's management chose her stage name, "I wanted to be a band but the label I was with and the team I had around me absolutely wanted me to be a solo artist. Lana Del Rey came from a series of managers and lawyers over the last 5 years who wanted a name that they thought better fit the sound of the music."

5 years of name negotiations with lawyers!

'ihow is anything about her "indie"?'

exactly, she never did. it was just an assumption people took up because of the self-produced video for video games. i think it was a wrong assumption.

'ihow is anything about her "indie"?'

exactly, she never did. it was just an assumption people took up because of the self-produced video for video games. i think it was a wrong assumption.

― akm, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:18 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

??? that video didn't just accidentally play to indie sensibilities and audiences, though. i refuse to believe that LDR's marketing has been that entirely guileless. it seems to me that she was originally pitched to blog-happy indie culture as a way of creating a sense of "specialness" and building word of mouth. it worked like a charm, but the inevitable reveal that it was all just savvy brand positioning was bound to bruise overearnest indie hearts.

saw this piece of urban folk art on the way to work today http://i.imgur.com/I84Ke.jpg

so what if actually she came up with that name all by herself, and instead spent that 5 years badgering trentemoller and bonnie prince billy to work together to producer her album..... what then?

Let's have a toast for douchebags
A toast for the assholes
Video gaaaaames

I don't care what focus group came up w/ her name, I care that most of her songs suck

and that I see a darkness
and that I see a darkness
and that I see a darkness ... video games

Grab somebody sexy
Tell them hey
Video gaaaames

fuck washing a hat
hi dere how is it made
video games...

save us Johnny Fever
again, save us Johnny Fever
video games

Ball so hard
Motherfuckers wanna find me
Video gaaaames

They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Video gaymz