http://www.fredberryjr.com/uploads/Rerun.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
serious question but are there any women in this thread (judging by the "it's not so bad" reaction to that vile sexist junod piece -- beyonce and ke$ha and rihanna's moms sure are going to be bummed they gave their daughters "stripper names"! -- i'm going to guess "no")
― maura, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
Reading that Nichtern interview reminded me that LDR made the same mistake with this debut rollout that Little Boots did. Pop is about illusion, and frankly demystifying the process by talking about your publicists and managers, or allowing them to speak about the mechanics of the rollout, is a huge turn off. It encourages your listeners to think about artifice, when it should be transparent to all but the most curious.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well, calling attention to the artifice is one of LDR's most interesting moves, so i'm not sure that "mistake" is really the right word. ill-advised maybe?
anyway, i love how well the blank-slate cover shot shorthands the narrative POV. what is it that you would like this image to mean?
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
superpussy
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― buzza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
serious question but are there any women in this thread
i've posted to this thread a fair bit.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
and my stance, especially after hearing the full album, is "not quite a cheerleader, but not virulently anti-lana at all"
― textile in thighville (get bent), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
okay! (i am so behind on ilx handles, so many apologies. but really that junod piece just stunk. "wives." what the fuck is up with anonymized "wives" being the new straw woman for shitty writers talking about music?)
― maura, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
heard this tonight at Other Music of all places, while I was shopping (beforehand the clerks were arguing about whether it should be put on)
Video Games is still pretty great
Off to the Races ... holy cow, really the worst ... just like, my jaw was dropping
the rest, somewhere in between?
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda "get it" overall but any nods at hip-hop in this music are an automatic deal-breaker for me
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
nicole posted here too, maybe? its a long one. i ain't checking. really not too many women left on ilm at all.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
i used to post on ilm a lot more, now i only have a couple of pet threads i check in on. (this is jbr, for maura and other old-schoolers who've lost track of handles)
― textile in thighville (get bent), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
my real name is luna btw
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
luna del rey
― textile in thighville (get bent), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
just rewatched that snl youtube and wow her arms really were awkward, but it reminded me that the foster the people guy arguably had even worse stage presence than her on snl last year
― lana del rey: everythang's workin' (some dude), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/427091_596494313883_43201281_32191501_217756085_n.jpg
― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
just wanted to say I really loved maura's LDR piece in the Village Voice
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
I've only heard the first two singles. I've heard way, way worse. I mean, people are on LDR like she's Casey Anthony or something. really? Not worth the exertion.
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a woman but I re-joined ILX after my account was mysteriously deleted. (Also 'superpussy' is an Albini reference--not rly sure why my username merited repetition/did I do something wrong/n00b anxiety :C )
― superpussy, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
― Dan S, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
o hell yeah. best LDR piece i've yet read. smart, incisive, and packed with great lines. sharp as hell tho:
chronicled by every website worth its Google PageRank
self-consciously hip restaurant-lounges that opened in 2000 and remain in business because of the insane markup on bottle-service liquor
what makes Del Rey and her pals "girls" are the men (man boys, really) who act as a mirror for their collective femininity
a withering look that's either an invitation to a staring contest or an air of utter boredom at being watched again
maybe shining a harsh light on the ridiculousness of seduction — and its often-frustrating payoff when it does work — is part of the point
an album with the timeless pop question "Is that all there is?" lurking, obviously and ominously, behind its every moan and underneath each reheated Sneaker Pimps beat
i mean damn...
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b74tWCXZRas/Tf3rJQBOvtI/AAAAAAAAAMU/PW-n8SLCC7M/s1600/rorschach.jpg
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
― superpussy
hi
― buzza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:51 (twelve years ago) link
i posted that as a general rorscach test but oh my god now that i look at it it's like a horrible depiction of rape sorry.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
when blots go wrong
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm i dont see it, must just be you
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEN6vsEzw5g&feature=player_embedded
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
i finally understand
― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 08:06 (twelve years ago) link
um, er, no relationship between my response to MJ's excellent VV piece and the post that follows. yikes.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
When I read the Maura Johnston review and she writes the line "Is That All There Is?" suddenly Cristina from Ze Records popped in my mind. Could it be said that Cristina and Lana Del Rey have some musical attributes in common: The ambivalence; the affected voice; the I come from a rich background but there is more to me than this pretty face. Also the inability to perform. There is virtually no live performances of Cristina and she later on has a medical problem preventing her to go out to the real world. But Lana obv doesn't have an excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AybvLztacFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1lqi29BVXE
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
And yes I'm up late because I can't sleep due to starting a new job this morning.
Short, depressed-sounding Rolling Stone interview:
"People don't have anything nice to say about this project. I'm sure that's why you're writing about it."
― Meme Rogers (DL), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Well, she's otm there. It is why so many media are writing about it tbh
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
"I thought I looked beautiful and sang fine."
that's a weird way to put it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
― lana del rey: everythang's workin' (some dude), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha yes both of these performances made me feel so embarrassed for them, hard to watch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
this has been fun and all but it's time to fight the real enemy
wtf is this glarfhhhvsz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CYbqDykTu8
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
pamplemoose thread graduates
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
they make me hate the internet so much
if this is our new standard of pop performer then yes LDR=lenny cohen
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
that is bad music but it isn't truly terrible until the scat singing/air guitar. then it goes back to bad.
the idea that they have "hip hop" tunes on youtube is a little disconcerting.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
tell me Howe this ends cuz I pulled out my eyes and ears 20 seconds In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaUKkuxVxeo
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
FP
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
the foster the people guy arguably had even worse stage presence than her on snl last year
I am so happy that I missed this
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
foster the people performance on snl was hilarious too, but more because singer had seriously bloodshot eyes and the back-up tamborine man was VERY animated. they didn't fail to get the song over, though.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
i know the defense is that everyone looks nervous on SNL but not everyone's trying to push over a bond-theme ballad when they can't sing
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
my fave bad performance from last year was that brit band who played on letterman and letterman couldn't stop laughing and he made fun of their drummer and they all kinda slunk off the stage. hahaha! that was great. the band was like bad coldplay or something and the drummer thought he was in lightning bolt. oh god that was truly awful.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
well that's what i said way up top there. video games is like singing a capella. you are really alone singing that song! they should have had the music drown her out.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
ello were bad coldplay from the united kingdom!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
re-watching the foster the people performance, singer really does look like he's been pulled over by a cop and nervously submitting to a dance test to prove he's not totally wasted.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link