Lana Del Rey

[KOAB]

Decent album. I don't see myself listening to it a few years from now... but it's not bad.

 

[Incandenza]

Ned "Boner Party" Hepburn?

 

[CookieMueller]

That's the way British people pronounce 'vitamin'. So she's the new Madonna.

 

[Incandenza]

Maybe she went to a Canadian university.

 

[Just Burny]

Well from the SNL performance it sounds like English is her second language. She could be just trying to go for a (shitty, overrated) style.

 

[Czech]

Also, on "Radio," she pronounces "vitamin" with a short "i" sound so that it rhymes with cinnamon. Cmon man.

Damo Suzuki did this on "Vitamin C" and it's probably Can's best song.

 

[Precious Roy]

Ned Hepburn (of Boner Party fame, and of being my favorite person alive fame) has posted a pretty great review of Born to Die on Death and Taxes

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/176095/review-lana-del-rey-born-to-die/

It’s not a bad album. She’s the Nelly Furtado for people young enough to not remember Nelly Furtado. The backlash against Lana is unfounded because people expect her to be an “artist” because everyone takes themselves way too fucking seriously these days. What, do you think you’re too good for Chipotle? It’s a thing. You put it in your mouth and eat it, goddamit. It’s a perfectly good burrito/pop album. Not everything has to be organic. Lana Del Rey is not your Kurt Cobain nor your Fiona Apple. She’s not terrible.

The one time I ate at a Chipotle I had terrible gut cramps within a half hour and had to take a massive and inconvenient shit in a public restroom

Is that what listening to Lana Del Ray's album is like?

 

[Incandenza]

Also, on "Radio," she pronounces "vitamin" with a short "i" sound so that it rhymes with cinnamon. Cmon man.

Damo Suzuki did this on "Vitamin C" and it's probably Can's best song.

That's just how any non-North American English speaker pronounces it. And unless someone proves this girl is guilty of affecting Brit-speak and not, as I assume, just forcing the vitamin/cinnamon rhyme, I see nothing eye-rolling about it.

EDIT: Having not yet listened to this song, I'm unsure as to whether I properly read Kreese's post. Was there a vitamin/cinnamon rhyme?

 

[KOAB]

Wow... this album has really grown on me. It's on some next level Nelly Furtado shit... and I enjoyed Nelly Furtado. This is some stadium anthem shit that can get a crowd chanting and shit. It's on the Kanye West level of getting a whole crowd into this. If she ever gets to her level as a live act... I can see her dominating this decade. Dark Paradise with a good live performer becomes a legendary hit.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

These songs are just so dreary and bland, and her singing lacks any personality. I don't care even a little bit about the cultural implications of her success, this is bad music.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

That was my exact thought on page 1 of this thread. It'll be in a phone commercial eventually.

Boring cell phone commercial girl music

 

[Byron The Bulb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hr52zTBp3oo#!

Record label must have paid for some public performance lessons because, while not amazing, this is like ten thousand times less awkward than the SNL thing.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Also, it's no 9.6 or anything, but the 5.5 pitchfork gave the album was pretty clearly the result of some combination of spite and pageview trolling.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I have neither read that review nor listened to her album, but a lot of posters itt seem to have arrived at the independent conclusion that her music isn't very good, so she probably wasn't awarded that rating out of spite at all.

 

[The Coat Is My Father]

Also, it's no 9.6 or anything, but the 5.5 pitchfork gave the album was pretty clearly the result of some combination of spite and pageview trolling.

I don't want to be the Pitchfork Defender here, but I doubt there was any grade they could have given the album and avoided being accused of having an ulterior movtive in this fashion.

 

[Jingus]

Apparently Lana has decided to follow in the footsteps of Tori Amos and start doing slow mournful downbeat covers of Nirvana songs in her live shows:

Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana) - Cover by Lana Del Rey

(Just after posting this link, I realized how dumb it was to describe a Nirvana cover as being "mournful" or "downbeat" as a way of differentiating it from the original; but you probably still get my point.)

 

[snuffbox]

That's too bad.

 

[bps21]

Kurt cobain still ruining shit 18 years later

 

[Incandenza]

Hey bps, is there a single post among those 16,000+ of yours that isn't stupid?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

The couple where he talked about how good "Call Me Maybe" is.

 

[bps21]

That hurt my feelings. I'm going to go put on a flannel shirt and listen to a depressed junkie play the same basic chords over and over. Now I understand.

 

[KOAB]

April 5, 1994... last good day in America.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

bps wants to have sex w/ Kurt Cobain.

 

[Gary]

bps wants to have sex w/ Kurt Cobain.

Watch what you say, or snuffbox might come in...

 

[snuffbox]

I like Nirvana.

 

[Gary]

Hm. Shot my foot there...

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

P. sure Courtney hired someone to shoot your foot.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Kurt Cobain is an American hero. A throwback to realness.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Lana Del Rey - My Pussy Tastes Like Pepsi-Cola (10 HOURS VERSION)

 

[KOAB]

that pussy sucks then