Lana Del Rey

Not a huge fan of her stuff but I'm enjoying the new track, the one from the Gatsby soundtrack monster.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-reys-muse-is-very-fickle-20131022

odd way of saying "I suddenly realized I can't really sing"

"i'm hoping those songs people wrote for me will get me noticed enough to get involved with hollywood"

haha

she did basically make a second (third) album, but it got classified as an EP (Paradise) and tacked onto Born to Die in a reissue (had the boring blue velvet cover on it).

pretty funny that this generic-edm-in-every-way remix of "summertime sadness" became a huge hit this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akhmS1D2Ce4

song's strong enough that it's just funny, really

and weirdly "summertime sadness" isn't a bad song to recast as a banger, though the toyboy & robin mix is probably how it should be done

https://soundcloud.com/toyboyrobin/summertime-sadness-toyboy-2

have you not heard the mk mixes!

i seem to be looking back more and more fondly on lana as time goes by generally

lil silva did a boss mix of 'born to die' as well at the time iirc

she does small weird things with her voice that lend themselves quite well to disembodiment, plus dolour on the dancefloor is always a goer

Hmm... the Toyboy & Robin mix of Summertime Sadness beats out the MK one imo, but only just.

tbf it's probably not even top 10 for mk this year so yeah may as well throw the upstarts a bone

#1 is the fcl, right?

i dunno maybe i haven't heard the right ones but a lot of mk's remixes this year i've expected to be mindblowing and they weren't

i don't really do #1s, they imprison my astrology

that cedric remix of SS was one of the most bafflingly ugly things to happen to the weird world of LDR, not my bag at all but the mainstream club kids love it. (timely revive for this thread as last month we were been commissioned to do a new remix for her upcoming film, her voice is a dream to work with as a producer)

covering "once upon a dream" for disney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ44x0GnKh4

trailer:

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

The you/too/blue/true/flue/moo/grue grates but otherwise it's absolutely gorgeous

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Although of course I would've totally fallen for a "You just might be eaten by a grue"

― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

myself and NI's remix for Gods And Monsters is here if anyone fancies a listen. it's currently in the 'Hype Machine' Top 5 chart of the most liked/blogged remixes in the world
so we're pretty chipper about it.

http://hypem.com/popular/remix

Went platinum this week.

shit. i wouldn't have guessed that honestly.

i like her.

everyone's done hating on her now, right?

I still listen to the album a fair amount. the production is over the top and annoying at times but that's the worst I can say about it. I'm sure she's still a bad performer.

all the current unreleased things are awfully good (black beauty, angels forever)

Haven't really paid attention to any of the leaks but I still enjoy the album a lot. Played it last month and enjoyed it a lot.

She's one of the most scrobbled artists in lastfm right now.

http://www.last.fm/music

Like p much everyone she ws amazing on Letterman when I saw her, that ws ages ago tho

I just watched an audience youtube of her doing summertime sadness in germany in december too and she was really good (even if her mic cut out and she made the band stop). but it still seems like all anyone remembers is the SNL appearance

everyone's done hating on her now, right?

NOPE

the letterman performance is perfect, and only came a week or so after the SNL one. one wonders what would have happened if things had been the other way around

I expect a new single should be unveiled in the next few weeks.

I really like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SqUUoJjW8

I scoffed and then listened to it 10 times in a row and I'm trying really hard to hate this thing. Which is my general reaction to Lana Del Rey.

Really like that. It reminds me of Pure Shores by All Saints in the chorus.

yup. even has william orbit type bubbling synths.

weird because so far i'm not into it, and i like her

Nothing about her music ever grabs me and this song is no different in that regard. Hit replay 3 times and I couldn't even hum a bit of the melody at you if asked right now.

nice song, boring video.

Sounds like three different songs playing at the same time (one of them being Edge of Seventeen and another some late 90's Tori Amos deep cut)

I like the verse parts and I like the chorus, but I don't like how they were jammed together.

"nice song, boring video"

it's not an actual video, it's like 30 seconds looped over and over, or did you not realize?

lol

nice song, chorus especially

i swear i've heard the chorus before somewhere??

song's not awful but i feel like she's just about the most formulaic, predictable pop star out there right now - this is certainly resting on her laurels a bit

re video :
haha.
actually i didn't watch it that closely to notice.
put the window in the background and kept looking from time to time to see if it had changed.

ULTRAVIOLENCE TRACKLISTING:

CRUEL WORLD
ULTRAVIOLENCE
SHADES OF COOL
BROOKLYN BABY
WEST COAST
SAD GIRL
PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY
MONEY POWER GLORY
FUCKED MY WAY UP TO THE TOP
OLD MONEY
THE OTHER WOMAN

BLACK BEAUTY*
GUNS AND ROSES*
FLORIDA KILOS*

*BONUS TRACKS

still no sign of a proper release for Driving In Cars With Boys i see.

She wrote a song called "Guns and Roses"? Gee, I wonder who that's about.

ilx pre-covers

SAD GIRL

pretty amazing how much staying power the remix of "Summertime Sadness" has had. I still hear it a lot.

so hyped for this

if the music is as influenced by sputnik as the album/song titles are, then so am i ..

Deluxe Deluxe