Lana Del Rey

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

I make most of my physical music purchases at Target, and given how much effort the label I used to work for put into getting their records on Target shelves, I know I'm not the only one.

Target edition has an extra exclusive track.

wow, this scores very high on the "did she just sing what I think she sang?" factor

"I want MONEY, I want POWER, I want GLORY / I want to take you for all that you've got" etc.

also, yikes at the lyrics to "Brooklyn Baby", whoah

this is some shameless shit right here, yet somehow also insanely charming

I love watching her troll the world (or at least troll people who have to write about pop music for a living and have to assess whether she is Good or Bad)

those distant wolf howl noises in "Fucked My Way Up to the Top", nice

she is literally singing torch songs to Money

it doesn't need to be unpacked, analyzed or interpreted, it's about being blatant as fuck, on purpose- and yet there's a cardboard scenery vibe that makes all that seem really rickety and stagey

the lyrics are like charm bracelets of bad girl clichés, wishful/aspirational thinking, and "doomed femme fatale / Sphinx" posturing

not since Tiny Tim has an artist with as narrow a voice as this has made this big a splash

Lana, I salute you

er, rather "not since Tiny Tim has an artist with as narrow a voice as this made this big a splash"

if it wasn't obvious that brooklyn baby was winkingly naive, the line about hyrodponic weed made it explicit.

this album isn't nearly as fun as the first album which sounded like four different people at the mercy of four different insane producers and also had some stronger songs. but this one at least shows she does one thing really well. but she should do something else with the next one.

this is some shameless shit right here, yet somehow also insanely charming

I love watching her troll the world (or at least troll people who have to write about pop music for a living and have to assess whether she is Good or Bad)

Pretty much how I feel. I'm won over by her Method commitment to one strange idea and by how bizarrely successful it's proven to be. But I also like her voice fwiw so it appeals on the level of basic pleasure, not just as a trolly art project. I'm sure she'd claim there was no trolling involved but seriously, how else can you take a reference to He Hit Me and It Felt Like a Kiss?

The moments when she lifts her soft palette and makes her midrange/lower head voice sound almost like Liz Frasier make the rest of the time when she's doing the pouty lisp with the stiff jaw that much more unforgivable

Oh fuck her Method commitment or whatever else. She and Dylan should tour together so I could doubly ignore it and watch everyone ELSE deal.

Pretty much how I feel. I'm won over by her Method commitment to one strange idea and by how bizarrely successful it's proven to be

Sums it up nicely - even though a song or two from her are enough for me.

Oh fuck her Method commitment or whatever else

Yeah well it's not that she should win an Oscar or anything but it's a much better way of seeing her than going on about authenticity and the like.

loving this album, honestly

it's weird when I think about how much of the guitar n voice palette taps into a seam of LA slowcore-psyche-rock (Acetone guitar parts, Mazzy Star vocals) that I would have thought would be Least Likely To Succeed as pop materials in 2014 - but they work (for me)

i really heard the mazzy star on the new stuff i've heard.

i don't remember thinking of them when the last album came out.

good heroin album. which is timely. since everyone is on heroin now.

like compare this guitar tone and the vibe of sunny California despair (Richie Lee killed himself after this album came out) in this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWtMEP6Iiwg

with the guitar solo at the peak of Lana's "Shades of Cool" (and for that matter, the aura of sunny California despair oozing out of the whole record)

maybe I'm projecting but it seems apt

and def a Mazzy Star spacey-childwoman thing vocally

yeah they should get joan didion to review it. the doomed and medicated and sexy cali thing.

"the lyrics are like charm bracelets of bad girl clichés, wishful/aspirational thinking, and "doomed femme fatale / Sphinx" posturing"

dug this by the way...

wondering if it might work even better if the bracelets were STRUNG with bad girl cliches, etc, etc...

charms are strung, right?

in any case, i'll be stealing that to use in something else at a later date. ty, dd.

listening to this again, take it back, this is great

too long though! really long

ayeeee florida keys is terrible! is this a bonus track! starts with that yucky dave matthews band guitar shit, barfff

Really wish this was an EP or just a video album - annoyed by how constantly risk-averse it is.

sad to see people i like waste words on this stupid bullshit tbh