Lana Del Rey

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

$100 for two copies of the album and some postcards?!?!

for that price I need to stand in an awkwardly posed photoshoot where my mishappen body is positioned at least 20 ft from the artiste herself

hope there are songs as catchy as "young and beautiful" on here cuz man that is an earworm for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_myXdOLV0&feature=kp

Oh man

Another new song from the album. Really love this.

http://youtu.be/KuX_xwghhsw

So Ultraviolence is out there now. My first reaction is that there are no hit singles on this album, probably not even one they can remix into a top five single.

Dunno, it sounded top ten to me.

Brooklyn Baby and Shades of Cool are by far my highlights on this. I just wish the second half was a good as the first but I just can't remember anything about the songs after West Coast at this point.

I wasn't expecting to like this since I find her other stuff downright sleep-inducing, but this is pretty good. Some of her same writing quirks/limitations persist, but some great production and melodies here. It could do with a bit of variety in tempo though. It's all moody ballads from start to finish.

Back half of the album has Florida Kilos, which is a highlight imo.

"because this might wrongfully be forgotten in a year or two"

haha we were so innocent back then

bonus points to anyone who predicted jackin' house remixes of miss LDR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id79jNtE1PM

kindof love her saying "twalking" the 2nd time here in brklyn baby

I'm talking about my generation
Talking about that newer nation
And if you don't like it
You can beat it
Beat it, baby
You never liked the way I said it
If you don't get it, then forget it
So I don't have to fucking explain it

this album slays, btw

cool lyrics lol

Better than I expected but it's a whole lot of the same, so if you don't feel it, you're gonna not feel it for a long time.

some hearty lols at the rockists in this

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/brian-wilson-new-album-frank-ocean-lana-del-rey

that sounds rad

"Everything is ruined," complained another

This album is growing on me a lot. Old Money and Sad Girl are really beautiful songs.

whenever I listen to this album I keep being struck by how "the other woman" is just this cosmic leap of songwriting quality and intentionality, and then of course it's a nina simone cover. I guess that's my sticking point -- I see what she is doing, I am increasingly OK with what she's doing, but it's frequently just so lazy

It's fine as far as it goes but it's unbelievably one-paced. Almost everything sounds exactly the same. There are no clangers but few obvious highlights.