Lana Del Rey

even P!tchfork's changed its tune

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19449-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/

xp That's interesting DJP. I'm often aware of limitations in artists I enjoy, even ones, like New Order, that I love deeply. Admittedly LDR's are more glaring which is why I like rather than love her. There are so many gradations of enjoyment that I feel there's a lot of room for imperfections if the good outweighs the bad.

Limitations are, by definition, bad things

no they aren't.

(this is not a comment about lana del ray, about whom zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

(one thing i will say: she and/or her "team" are geniuses to get people talking about her for so long considering her utterly soporific music)

Good write-up, 誤訳侮辱

Liked Luke's write-up too. "We can appreciate her storytelling, her guile, her false ego, we can appreciate her gloppy, Technicolor atmosphere while knowing that she, like us, doesn't take all this too seriously." Yay for today.

i feel as though i've weathered a lana storm over the past couple years, going from "yeah this is pretty good" to "yeah this kind of okay" while the rest of the world completely lost its marbles. thing is, she is sometimes pretty good, and other times just okay.

"marbles in a storm" is her next single IIRC

Well, given what I've just read on FB, Ms Del Rey can be her own worst enemy.

what where?

she covered Lit

Mistakes one journalist for another, accuses first journalist of asking "calculated leading" questions, sics fans on first journalist (again, wrong person), fans then dump on other journalist who objects, even though said third journalist has just reviewed the album incredibly positively, etc.

And she covered Lit, so.

Re: her deathwish: this is still the fictional character speaking, right? Who could simply be killed off by not being used as a personage anymore?

That's the question, isn't it? If she's doing interviews in character, like Laibach or Oderus Urungus?

when's her damn bond theme already

i mean all this bullshit is just building up to that, let's get to it before we're buried in thinkpieces

She'll only get a Bond theme if Bela Tarr is picked to direct the next one.

dude she ain't diamanda galas she's had a dance remix in the top 10 and makes nancy sinatra homages with the guy from the black keys. If Jack White & Alicia Keys can collaborate on one, Lana will get hers, fascinating character work or no

It was a "slow boring music for a slow boring movie" joke. (N.B.: I like the new album a lot.)

gotcha though let's not forget chris cornell wasn't too slow boring to get to do one

to be fair to everybody trying to figure out where the artist ends and her photo tumblr begins, i'll admit i don't personally know what contemporary act people should be scratching their chins over instead.

i feel like "Skyfall" was the first Bond theme in forever that feels like it might actually stand the test of time

i like the madonna one (although that was ages ago)

i like lana and ultraviolence is growing on me, but i don't really have the energy to defend her, because i don't care that much and anyway her fans are seriously scary so i don't want to align myself with that.

rob delaney @robdelaney · Jun 17
Game: Is it a Lana Del Rey song or a hot 22 year old yawning & farting at the same time?

http://www.idolator.com/7523506/lana-del-rey-dead-quote-response

Reminds me a little of the Warpaint/Beyonce/Q magazine defense.

good on that post for not fact-checking her claim about who interviewed her.

Fucking Idolator

Tim Jonze has responded.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jun/20/lana-del-rey-problem-interview-but-why

has vox explained this yet bc i'm lost here

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial

lol i was joking but thank you very much

rule 34 of explainers: if you can joke about it, it exists

Meantime, from Alexis Petridis himself:

Lana Del Rey update. Have now been accused of "bullying" Lana Del Rey by dint of giving her album FOUR OUT OF FIVE. Luckily, I can wholeheartedly assure the accuser that I won't be giving Lana Del Rey any four out of five reviews in future.

:( nobody is doing themselves any favours rn

I wish there was a conversation between arts-journalists-who-create-inflammatory-headlines and the-musicians-who-love-them that went something like: "Hey, I'm gonna use that crazy thing you just said as the headline, it is poppy and amazing and will get my site lots of clicks and get people talking about you, which is good because nobody loves a boring pop star, ok?" "OK!" instead of this bizarre thing

has vox explained this yet bc i'm lost here

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, June 20, 2014 7:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5814038/heres-why-lana-del-rey-is-so-controversial

― katherine, Friday, June 20, 2014 9:38 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hard lols

they prove it scientifically with graphs

rob delaney @robdelaney · Jun 17
Game: Is it a Lana Del Rey song or a hot 22 year old yawning & farting at the same time?

funniest man on twitter...

yeah wtf

Laney De Rob

She just kind of a presence. More than artist maybe. Good mood music for the Tumblr generation.

I'm listening to this on this morning and it's really hitting the spot!

"Pretty When You Cry" really reminds of of "Hotel California" during the verses.

Number one on the album chart

Not unexpected. Her last album did really well internationally.

If anything, this is made even less enticing than it sounds by virtue of the fact that she (still) cannot sing, as is made glaringly obvious by ponderous and lumbering chanteuse showcases such as “Pretty When I Cry,” “Money Power Glory,” “Old Money,” “Black Beauty,” and the (allegedly) ironic “F---ed My Way Up to the Top.”

Doesn't surprise me either; I was in Target on Thursday and they had devoted two endcap shelves in their music section to the album and they were empty except for two copies of the standard edition; the deluxe version was completely sold out.

People are going to target to buy Lana Del Rey CDs