californiambienication
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
they did steal the melody in "salvatore" from the sax line of "careless whisper", right?
epitome of "genius steals" if so.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
http://m.pitchfork.com/news/61340-lana-del-rey-answering-hotline-from-honeymoon-album-art/
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 September 2015 03:09 (eight years ago) link
It's called marketing
― calstars, Thursday, 24 September 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
wait there's seriously a track that's just her reading eliot?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 24 September 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
yes!
― akm, Thursday, 24 September 2015 06:37 (eight years ago) link
ㅠㅠ
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 24 September 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
there's also a secret 2-hour long track of her watching sunset boulevard
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 September 2015 07:42 (eight years ago) link
born to die went platinum, it didn't fail in any respect
she owes no one anything, in the real world she's already on mount rushmore with beyonce and taylor swift and whoever else, people who try to insist that she still has literally anything left to prove only succeed in outing their own pathetic naïveté
― james brooks, Thursday, 24 September 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
idk how anyone could prefer this to Ultraviolence. Everything blurs.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 24 September 2015 09:46 (eight years ago) link
ultraviolence was a bit too rocky for my liking. i never really got into it. i find this more true to her essence.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 September 2015 09:48 (eight years ago) link
What are people's favourite songs on this? I hear a mood I like but I don't hear any standouts.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 24 September 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
Terrence Loves You, 24, Swan Song, The Blackest Day and Freak are my favourites.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 24 September 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
Gutted that 24 won't be the theme tune for a series of 24
― kinder, Thursday, 24 September 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
in the real world she's already on mount rushmore with beyonce and taylor swift and whoever else
sigh, his name is THEODORE ROOSEVELT, get an education
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
also are the black keys on mount rushmore in the real world, they have platinum album from around that time
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
beyonce, taylor swift, lana del ray. the american ideal incarnate.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
i like the new one but not as much as ultraviolence, that seems like the album she was born to make
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
Crazy LDR has managed to get three albums out in the time its taken Adele to follow up 21, imagine the ink stone temple pilots coulda got if Vs didn't come out until after Tiny Music
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 September 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
IT'S SPELLED "DEL REY" YOU FUCKING HERETICS
― james brooks, Thursday, 24 September 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
lana del rey and missy elliott remain the two artists that i'm mystified are misspelt as much as they are
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 September 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
how else does one spell missy elliott
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 25 September 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
I have a much easier time w/ this sequencing:
God Knows I TriedMusic to Watch Boys ToHigh By the BeachTerrence Loves You24(Interlude)Salvatore FreakThe Blackest DayHoneymoon
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 25 September 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
also that way it opens w/ "Sometimes I wake up in the morning" and ends w/ "dreaming away your life" and I'm a sucker for shit like that
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 25 September 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
xxp people leave off the second T
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Friday, 25 September 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
eliot/elliot most common misspelling for me, it's obvious at all imo
― niels, Friday, 25 September 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"the blackest day" is the strung-out epic that everything seems to build towards, and actually works
"music to watch boys to", "god knows i tried", "high by the beach" and "salvatore" otherwise
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 September 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
the criticism that it all blurs together was actually my initial issue with ultraviolence but imo the more it blurs together into this sad, inward-fixating, monomaniacal mood, the better LDR is. yeah it's almost oppressive in its refusal to deviate from that mood but her albums stand or fall on whether she breaks the spell - "art deco" comes closest, a lil too on the nose, but not as bad as some of the tracks on born to die (the sparser arrangements really help in this) (oh and obv her "don't let me be misunderstood" cover is unnecessary and slightly embarrassing but i just pretend it's a bonus track)
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 September 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
"God Knows I Tried" is the big standout for me, but that's probably because it sounds the most like a song from Ultraviolence, which I still like better.
Yesterday I put all three albums (I don't have Paradise and need to get it) on shuffle and realized how many small, subtle shifts there are to her performances, not just from song to song but from line to line. She's really not a monotonous singer in the way of, say, Nico. Within her overall sleepwalking style there's a tremendous amount of activity beneath the surface.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 25 September 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah for sure, and she's doing some really effective things in her upper range on this album
― lex pretend, Friday, 25 September 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Any numbers on this yet? I hope it sells a kajillion copies.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Not many standouts for me, which is just another way Lana is weird - she's a pop artist who makes albums rather than singles. It's an album you play from start to finish, preferably on a decent sound system (I was amazed at how much I liked Salvatore on my stereo considering I wrote the whole thing off after streaming it). I'm not sure if I love it yet but I really enjoy the sound, it's like it transforms my whole apartment, like a new colour on the walls. The Simone cover is really not good though, and if it's an attempt at commentary it goes over my head.
― Leonard Pine, Friday, 25 September 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
The fact that all of the album blurs together and nothing really stands out is actually a positive for this album. I've already listened to this a bunch of times. I might actually like this as much as Ultraviolence.
― silverfish, Friday, 25 September 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
the song lengths add to the whole 'stuck in the same loop' vibe; 3 songs are 4:55, 2 are 4:51, another 2 are 4:41 etc
― piscesx, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 09:05 (eight years ago) link
Aside from the lovely and unexpected counter melody that arrives about two thirds of the way thru the title track, the few listens to this didn't hit the spot the way her best stuff does for me.
Normally I'm a big fan of artists finding their voice and rejecting the conventions the industry is pushing them to stick with. But as a bit of a late-comer to LDR, I find her stuff works best when her smoky/spooky/goofball aesthetic is allowed to ooze around within more formal strictures – genre exercises, more traditional verses & choruses and strong, clear melodies.
When the form itself becomes as hazy as her voice—as has been the case on a lot of the last two records—the whole thing, yeah, just kind of fades into the ether. But the real trouble is, you begin to lose what a good melodicist she can be as a songwriter – which, in turn, kind of buries her (really great) sense of humor.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 4 October 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDVBfzcSMjg
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 4 October 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
relistening to born to die and it is so striking how much more accomplished she's become in terms of sound design. the early stuff sounds SO clunky in comparison
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
I like her Daniel Johnston cover
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-lana-del-reys-aching-daniel-johnston-cover-20151110
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
feel like this album kind of came out and just flatlined.
― akm, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
if you mean commercially it's pretty obviously not a "big hit singles" kind of album
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
Still can't get into it. It's half the record Ultraviolence was. A shame - I thought she was going to get better and better but she's just becalmed. Bad idea to get Rick Nowels to produce as well as write.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
I think I actually prefer it to Ultraviolence now - didn't see that coming
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Listening to it on speakers for the first time right now since I'm home from work—thanks, veterans!—and it really does need to be allowed to fill the room. "God Knows I Tried" has been my favorite song all along, but through speakers it's pretty overwhelming.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
This album is pretty close to perfection. Especially with wine and an empty apartment.
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 12 November 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
I have given this album several goes and I cannot get into it for the life of me. The only tracks I could sing bits of from memory are Salvatore and High By The Beach. Maybe three years from now I'll sit crying after a breakup I did not instigate and put it on and finally get it.
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Honeymoon the track is really striking and beautiful imo, esp once I clipped the first like 2 mins of it off
that & freak (has become prob 1 of her fav tracks of mine ever) & blackest day are the only tracks I listen to
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2015/12/02/lana-del-rey-fan-arrested/
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 December 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
Shades of Cool still sounds soooooo boss to me
actually the whole Ultraviolence album is \m/ \m/ imo
― the tune was space, Thursday, 10 March 2016 06:24 (eight years ago) link
"Ultraviolence" is her best album.
New song
http://pitchfork.com/news/71155-lana-del-rey-returns-with-new-song-young-and-in-love/
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 19 February 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
new song is great, but the video is...odd? her smiling creeps me out. maybe it's meant to.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link