Yet.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ha!
― mick signals, Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
i keep thinking she's singing "kiss me in the DPRK" on "lolita"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
one weird thing about LDR is that i cannot predict at all whether any given friend or acquaintance of mine will be pro-lana or anti-lana (or, like, in between).
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Schrodinger's Lana
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, 11 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
i think lana is v v pretty
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 11 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think she would have a good run as a guess model. if they ever wanna revive their early '90s style trashy-americana campaigns.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
like this
http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/anna_nicole8.jpg
― textile in thighville (get bent), Saturday, 11 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't read the thread in a while, but the fact that the CD is on the rack in the front at Other Music equals backlash^n=lash * (-1) ^n
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol @ that times blog piece. "a skinnier Adele" loooooool
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
cis @ that times blog piece
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
A scene from LDR's in-store at Amoeba SF:
http://tinyurl.com/6rj8su6
― polyphonic, Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of there being a cult of personality around LDR just feels unusually odd, it doesn't square at all
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
like, it makes sense with lady gaga because who "she" is is so crucial - you get a real sense of what she stands for, the issues that mean something to her. even if you wholeheartedly love what LDR is doing, it's just a lot more remote - she's playing a character, you don't get much of a sense of "the real her" (or a version thereof), and she's not even trying to give you that
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, 12 February 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
my reading of it is that she resonates with this post-media/Pop/Internet obligation to keep up an idealized image, and the rift between the her and her image, and the arc that her character has made, inspires a certain sympathy in a lot of people.
Video Games really ends up being about that, dressing up as a 'bad girl' to impress a demanding/unimpressed audience... and I think at this point some people, including David Letterman it seemed, kind of just want to hug her and say "you did it, you're beautiful", partly because they all relate to that pressure and judgment
― Chris S, Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
not that it's all pity, I like her, personally, and I think letting larger things shine through you is a part of art, so I think judging her on that is missing the point
― Chris S, Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
The cult of personality around characters is often so much stronger than it is around actors. That bleeds into real life more now than it did in the pre-internet era.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Sunday, 12 February 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
This is why it's so good for her to play the victim role. Her fans will try and make double sure to show the lamestream media they love her, they really love her.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 12 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
exactly. i said something about this upthread. it's like starting your career post meltdown, after you shave your head and bare your, er, whatever - at the point where condemnation turns to sympathy and concern. in that sense, the "terrible" SNL performance wasn't a mistake at all, it was exactly the right note to come in on.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, 12 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
After Schrodinger's Lana, I misread the post above as Skinner Adele.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Sunday, 12 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
leave lana alone!!!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
The 2007 demos that lead to the first album as Lizzy Grant (2010) have emerged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9SoWh-6kpI#!
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:51 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dunno, i mean, it's obvious that she LIKES all the stuff that she's loading up her music and image with signifiers of, all that retro junk, it's just that playing it cool or acting kind of blank and distant is part and parcel of it. she might be sublimating her personality to some extent but it's in the name of expressing her taste. she's the arty pretentious yin to zooey deschanel's wacky cutesy yang.
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://shes333.tumblr.com/post/17669197675
yiiikes
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
that little kewpie doll voice is like someone imitating Loretta Divine without understanding that there still needs to be core to the sound in order for it to work
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol sweet vid
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
the 8-bit version!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtEcja0LUI
― Lee626, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome, I was waiting for that to happen. =) Good use of Barbie game footage.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Plus California Games! Played the shit out of that game back then
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
thats way better than this version, posted upthread: http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/video-games
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
looks like our remix is finally 'in the shops' as it were, on 2 seperate American and Eurrpoean EPs!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/video-games-remixes-ep/id503684658
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-3273439-1323793121.jpeg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
cool!
i have some demo vers mp3 of 'this is what makes us girls' that i <3 & destroys the album vers
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer the man from Del Monte.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
so i was quite looking forward to seeing just how bad this was going to behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aysUREHOo0&
but oh no!
TheKickDrums @TheKickDrumsHad to pull the Lana - A$AP track due to label reasons. Song got too big too fast. Gonna explain in more detail in an interview today.
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of weird that this thread was dead for more than a month.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
people in ceasing to care about lana del rey shocker
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
someone asked me last week if i listen to lana del rey and i loled @ myself because my initial response was "i used to..."
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
i still listen to the 4-5 songs on the album i like
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
I heard Video Games in the Barnes & Noble downstairs from my office the other day. It was really weird hearing it anywhere other than my shitty mac speakers or my shitty headphones.
― beachville, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol internet nostalgia
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://lanadelreydancing.tumblr.com/
― tanuki, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
O_O
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m26odmjeNV1qzot6ao1_500.png
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
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― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear god
― goole, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
he's literally twice her age.
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
does Axl play video games?
― sarahell, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of Axl Rose as the love interest in that song is super-LOLworthy to me
― sarahell, Monday, 9 April 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
he was born to die-yi-yi-yi-yowwwwwwww
― eyes of dora maar (get bent), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
if there ends up being an axl/lana sex video then i'm going to die
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 April 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link