Lana Del Rey

ladies and gentlemen, this is the countess

elegance is learned
learned my friend
video gaaaaaames

all these bad lyrics are rendered in lush folds of dreamy technicolor pop, that swooning shit can make any kind of pap pop in a 16 yo's bedroom, this album will be widely quoted in high school yearbooks

(do they still print yearbooks? or is it all on fb now?)

what sets LDR apart is her shamelessness - it's the kind of shamelessness that makes pop stars

"all the terrible things you think about me are true, because I told you all about them"

^ not an LDR lyric, but I will license it to her for a small fee

then you'll have Morrissey coming after you

did I just unconsciously quote moz

haha you might as well have

woah now that i think about it lana del ray is the white morrissey

that's racist, clearly she's the american morrissey

I am the son
and the heir
video games

i love kent. litchfield county is about all i fuck with in connecticut. you know who else went to the kent school? the gangsta creator of the family guy.

The animated TV show Family Guy is written by alumnus Seth MacFarlane. In 1999, the school's headmaster, Father Schell, wrote to a number of companies urging them not to advertise with the TV show calling it obnoxious. Seth MacFarlane's parents, who worked at the school, resigned in protest.

it is pretty fucking obnoxious

this caption on the front page of the billboard website is killing me:

"Now that Lana Del Rey's hotly 'Born To Die' has leaked, expect the still-unproven live singer to elicit a whole new wave of 'she's not that bad on record!' defenses. But is the album any good? At 15 tracks, it's as puffy as the singer's oft-debated lips."

i didn't actually read the article though, for some reason despite loving "video games" i have almost zero desire to listen to this album

When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
Video games

chorus to video games reminds me of the chorus of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRdtXWcgIw

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

btw since i haven't done anything except post fake lyrics to this thread. i think video games is remarkably dull, lazy in every respect. her voice and the production have some of the superficial hazy appeal of a david lynch soundtrack but it's not chewy at all (meaning it doesn't reveal anything as it goes along, let alone on repeated listenings) and memorable only in the most irritating sense. it would make a good 30-second commercial jingle but i can scarcely get myself to listen to more than 90 seconds of it before desperately wanting to do/listen to something else. i don't truly begrudge anyone for liking it though, coz taste is taste etc. but the amateurishness of her SNL performance didn't shock me because the "persona" on the record seems kind of too easily won and not very interesting to begin with.

i was probably hyperbolic there. the single isn't HORRIBLE, it's simply not outstanding in any way.

it reminds me of some lazy moody indie pop, not that a name comes to mind immediately. stuff i maybe listened to for a while in college. like the boring mazzy star songs or something. in the sense that it's all attitudinizing and nothing of formal interest at all.

xxxpost: The two chorus have the same chords I think?.... F Am C with an Em thrown somewhere in there.

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

― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:50 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

xxxpost: The two chorus have the same chords I think?.... F Am C with an Em thrown somewhere in there.

― Moka, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:55 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this true?!

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

― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:50 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:59 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oops can't keep up w/ this thread.

Oh, I think the chorus is definitely of formal interest. It's 22 bars long and seems to have two different beginnings. Unconventional rhyming structures, too.

And now that I think about it, it's that chorus that made me think of Mary Margaret O'Hara the first time I heard it.

driving in cars with boys (not on the album I know): sounds exactly like something else, can't remember what. (maybe this is why it isn't on the album, because the tune is a complete plagarism). anyone know what it is? some middling 80's pop song.

huh that's interesting. it scans as conventional and boring to me.

okay i can hear the indie thing here and here. i had no idea there were so many songs on youtube. i remember looking months ago and there weren't this many. tons now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdOIn_xA_Y&feature=autoplay&list=UL7gqOg3PYAaM&lf=mfu_in_order&playnext=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqOg3PYAaM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

it scans as conventional and boring to me.

Seven lines in a row that all rhyme at the end and it's in a 3+3+1 configuration where the third line is extended in each part and then an extra line is tacked on at the end.

this is way bigger than lana on youtube right now. like a zillion times. not like video games wasn't huge there. it was. but people really want katy perry right now. the people have spoken. they already have a shape-shifting chameleon who has a hard time singing on snl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtB55MaoD0

co-sign amateurist 100%

well they want beyonce AND katy. you know, they want two things. jessie j can do both.

And now that I think about it, it's that chorus that made me think of Mary Margaret O'Hara the first time I heard it.

I now feel slightly less nuts for having made that comparison on another board, thanks.

strings on 'national anthem' sound just like 'bittersweet symphony'; is jagger going to get a check again?

yeah I have to admit I'm kind of feeling timellison's posts xp

Keith Allen got the cheque i think.

jesus i'm not even pissed; Alan Klein rather.

miss u markers

bit.ly/AtVigP

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://soundcloud.com/the-stereo-bomb/adams-song-the-stereo-bomb

it scans as conventional and boring to me.

Seven lines in a row that all rhyme at the end and it's in a 3+3+1 configuration where the third line is extended in each part and then an extra line is tacked on at the end.

― timellison, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok that is definitely unusual but what it seems to translate to before it reaches my ears is just endless repetition of the same melody without interesting variation. so unusual = unusually lazy. in this case. to me.

(i guess the clincher for me is just that i can't even bear the thought of listening to it again to judge it against that description.)

it just doesn't seem to go anywhere, melodically. and before i am accused of being geir i realize there are many other things that a good song can do. but this one just doesn't seem to do anything else for me--the only compensations, and they are hardly enough, are her vaguely smoky voice and the minimally effective simulation of a david lynch soundtrack.

also i'm about to get all asshole-y but i kind of feel like few of the folks repping for this lady on here are gong to care about her or even think fondly of her big song in a few years. i'd bet money on it.

now with full chorus: http://t.co/A6SuCYMn

bought a few record albums this afternoon (sparks, copernicus, oman souleyman) and noticed a freebie LDR 7" behind the counter as i was paying. asked if i had to buy something specific to get a copy. counter girl said yeah, but gave me one anyway. she asked if i'd seen the SNL performance and was it as bad as everyone says. i told her yeah, it was, and we commiserated vicariously. celebrity is probably tough.

turns out it's a joy orbison remix of "video games" with an odd future (syd the kid) remix of "blue jeans" on the flip. both pretty dull. but free!

driving in cars with boys (not on the album I know): sounds exactly like something else, can't remember what. (maybe this is why it isn't on the album, because the tune is a complete plagarism). anyone know what it is? some middling 80's pop song.

― akm, jueves 26 de enero de 2012 01:57 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

texas maybe? the atmospheric twangy guitar, big drum sound and the overall vibe from this particular tune reminds me strongly of them

video games = this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZK23sxkpk0

More importantly than any of this... we're currently arguing in my record shop as to whether she should be filed under 'R' (Ray, Lana Del) or 'D' (Del Ray, Lana).

The most popular comedy answer is definitely 'I'd file her in the bin!'.

'L' for Land Del Rey.

Lana, fucking hell fingers.