Lana Del Rey

'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

I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco bay
It tried to eat my cell phone, he ran away
Video games...

Shaggy's little boys look just like Shaggy
And my little boy looks just like daddy
video games...

the album is a masterpiece of marketing, totally stays on gangsta-nancy-sinatra message. she manages to be front-and-center in big productions without evaporating like on SNL, and her schtick works when she isn't violating the show-don't-tell maxim. unfortunately the lyrical clangers are pretty brutal.

carmen carmen staying up til mornin'
only 17 but she walks the streets so mean

lou reed ghostwrote the whole thing

i am the root, i am the table
i am video gaaaaaaames

she's indie in the sense of indie being a cultural code word for dwelling over your low self-esteem + emotional wreckage, but the indie/pop division hasn't meant much since 1991 so

she should do a collab album with ghostface killah and destroyer

Cuz when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the droppers neck
When I'm closing in on death
Video gaaaaaames

You gotta lick it
Before you stick it
Video gaaaaaaames

i'm a bad bitch
i'm a cunt
video gaaaaaames

I like this album in a slow-motion car crash sort of way. Which I genuinely mean as a compliment.

you need to crawl
before you ball
video games

hahahahahahahaha

that was just for you.

you can hide beside me, play your video games;
and I won't tell no-one your name

Can't tell if this NYT piece is meant to be a review of the album or not but if so then he might want to try discussing the music for more than a couple of paragraphs, fun though talking about memes and quoting Brian Williams doubtless is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/arts/music/born-to-die-lana-del-reys-debut-album.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimesarts

music writers not writing about the music at hand is such a bugbear of mine. tons of em do this ;_;

caramanica, as i said on twitter, is the dude who gifted us a PRRs profile piece in the NYT. RIP music journalism

IT’S already difficult to remember Lana Del Rey, but let’s try.

OH RITE WHO? LANA DEL WHO, YOU SAY?

why do people keep calling her "gangsta"?

adjective performed well in the focus groups

her producer also produced this http://t.co/MZykcyLW

Nice production.

xp She called herself the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra" despite being considerably less "gangsta" than Nancy Sinatra.

that's all it takes?
okay, i'm the "gangsta david byrne".
did she rob a bank? shoot somebody? does she sell drugs? own a gun? do words have no meaning? wtf?

it's all contextual, like within her social group of people in the connecticut suburbs, she was the gangsta

Translation: "I enjoy both the music of Nancy Sinatra and hip hop and I thought this would be a cute, quotable phrase. I regret to say I have never actually committed a felony and apologise for any confusion."

okay, i guess those both kind of make sense, but why do other people use that?

also, yeah, calling yourself the "gangsta nancy sinatra" is like calling yourself the "jewish woody allen"...

caramanica, as i said on twitter, is the dude who gifted us a PRRs profile piece in the NYT. RIP music journalism

tbf that was more a piece of fiction than journalism

i want a buzza profile in the nyt tbh

how many times in this thread has the phrase "most photographed barn in america" been used

where was it that she called herself "gangsta Nancy sinatra" again? wasn't it on some Facebook page? could it be possible that she herself had nothing to do with that tagline?

she has it etched on her gun

What I find disingenuous about the NYT "review" is that like most US critics he's made up his mind to bury her but he holds the likes of HRO at arm's length as if he's not basically saying the same thing. I'd respect him a lot more if he included himself in the tally of hypocrites in the last paragraph.

"it's all contextual, like within her social group of people in the connecticut suburbs, she was the gangsta"

OMG, so was i!

nancy sinatra kinda lost some gangsta cred after she started hanging out with morrissey. despite his skinhead affiliations.

"it's all contextual, like within her social group of people in the connecticut suburbs, she was the gangsta"

OMG, so was i!

― scott seward, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

step 2 - spend the next 5 yrs in name negotiations w/ attys
step 3 - profit

Scotti La Rue - Born To Cry

she's from lake placid, ny, but please continue.

my aunt and uncle live in tupper lake! we are practically family. my aunt was a pretty gangsta paddle tennis player in her day.