January 17, 201213 yr Oh I agree, I'm still very much looking forward to the album and some dodgy performances won't stop me from rushing to get it on the day of release. I just find it odd as she instantly struck me as being someone who would be very good live, but (as Jake said) maybe she'll improve once she begins to get over the nerves and become the great live act that she sounds like she should be.
January 20, 201213 yr Gonna try and pretend that those SNL performances don't exist and that they're actually this.. fPb6O52_rYU
January 20, 201213 yr I love how she occassionally replies to people's comments on her videos on youtube. One was when someone was commenting on her and her lips asking if they were really necessary and she put something like "Yes they are, bitch" :lol: I also love how she comments on remixes of her songs too, as well as people covering them with stuff like "very pretty." But the ones that amuse me most is when someone uploads one of her old songs, she's like "how did you even get this" and then they say they just found it online and wanted to share it and she's like "thank you XXXX" I just love seeing the people's reactions when she's commented lol!
January 21, 201213 yr heinYOQFzTw sAcNJAKhSVc 'National Anthem' sounds fucked up in final form? Edited January 21, 201213 yr by Phaedrus Ráðúlfr
January 21, 201213 yr 'National Anthem' sounds f[/i][/i]ucked up in final form? Aye I much prefer the demo.
January 21, 201213 yr I agree, the demo is MUCH better :( It's the best track I've heard from so far actually!
January 21, 201213 yr heinYOQFzTw sAcNJAKhSVc 'National Anthem' sounds f[/i][/i]ucked up in final form? The chorus has been lobotomised. I'm going to stick to the demo...just like with Marina and Girls.
January 21, 201213 yr I'm getting less and less interested in this the more I hear. I love Born To Die but the rest is really not impressing
January 21, 201213 yr The performance of Video Games above is much better. I'll be definitely rushing to HMV that day on album release to get it. Her album sounds promising.
January 23, 201213 yr This was on Popjustice this morning; LONDON Jan 23 2011 Hi! We are aware that you have been having trouble with Lana Del Rey for some time now. When you know that a relationship isn't working it is somtimes hard to move forward but we just want to let you know that it is alright to make a clean break. And maybe the right time is now. Maybe now it is time to let go of Lana Del Rey. And that is fine. Do not feel guilt. She is safe in the arms of pop. Why now? Well, she's got a proper single out this week. This is the one that's supposed to be 'the big one'. And yes we know the accidental Top 10 hit last year confused you a bit, because you weren't sure whether you were already supposed to have bailed on her by that point, so your end-of-2011 year in review articles were a bit muddled. You didn't know what you were supposed to think any more, but that does not matter any more because, like we say, you can walk away right now with your dignity. And there's no need to feel bad that it hasn't worked out. You've given it a good go. You've had your chance to impose your boring ideas of authenticity onto a pop creation, to express your disgust that she might be better in the studio than on the stage. That's the way you like to judge things and that's fine, it's just that this isn't how pop works, and Lana Del Rey is a pop thing. A hot, melodic, major label-signed pop thing. You were probably starting to realise about ten weeks ago that the whole Lana Del Rey 'proposition' was a bit less complex than you'd made it out to be. You realised that her music didn't really sound like anything else you wrote about, but you still wanted her to be 'your' pop princess. The Britney of alt! Maybe the David Sneddon co-writes were the last straw, maybe it was the cover of Q Magazine. But isn't that still interesting in a looking-at-it-from-the-outside sort of way? Not really, but we admire you for trying to keep that going. The point is, you've had your opportunities to big her up and knock her down and do this and do that. You've had the leaks and the 'leaks' and the streams and the mixes. Oh, those mixes! The mixes were made just for you! We know that made you feel special. And now you feel betrayed because she was just like all the other girls, with their blog-friendly positioning and their secret fantasies of a Top 10 hit. We know you're upset and we know you're angry but please don't talk about being used. You want to be used. You want to be a tastemaker. You want to be the one PRs and pluggers and labels come to when they want to launch a new artist. You want to decide when things are good or bad and you want the comments on your blog articles from the people who disagree. Well you've had all that. You've done all you can. You've done your thinkpieces and your polls and your faceoffs. You've had your traffic. There is nothing more you can say or print or publish or broadcast to change things now. So let her succeed or fail on her own terms. These are the terms of the popstar, for that is what she is. If she succeeds she succeeds as a popstar; if she fails, she fails as one too. Leave her to the mainstream chat shows. Leave her to the daytime radio playlists. Leave her to the Top 10, or the Top 40, or the Top Wherever-She-Ends-Up. Because that is what this was all leading up to. Don't act all surprised. It is not our fault you do not understand this popstar. We know you are embarrassed that you got it wrong, and we know you're not sure how to handle the situation now. Do you continue the support? Do you lash out? Do you try to do both at the same time because you're not sure how many records she's going to sell and you want to maybe keep your readers on side? The answer is easy. If you don't feel that she's part of your world, let her drift away while you go back to plotting that definitive Bon Iver thinkpiece. Yes we know you'll be writing articles about how right you were if she succeeds or how wrong your peers were if she fails by the time the end of 2012 reviews roll around. We know she'll either be the multi-platinum pop creation you created or the faker who deserved everything she got. So why not write those thinkpieces now? Why not write them now, print them out onto some nice paper then take them into a field and set fire to them, because we don't want or need to read them. If a kid picked and poked and pushed and pulled a rabbit you'd take the rabbit away from them. You cannot be trusted with a popstar. You've had your chance. Hand her over. Love, Popjustice PS: You can have Santigold back if you want. Cutting. And wait, there are David Sneddon co-writes? :o
January 23, 201213 yr I very much dislike such a ridiculous and condescending manner of writing. I don't know why there should be such a distinct separation of pop and indie/alternative.
January 23, 201213 yr This is why I can't stand to read the articles on PopJustice. I don't see why they're so particular, I mean I'm thoroughly a pop fan but it doesn't mean I'm not open to indie/alternative and enjoy music like Lana, Florence & The Machine and The Weeknd (yes, I know the alternative classification is iffy but he's one of my faves of this genre)... It's just bizzare how they assume the two can't blur at all, because they can - Florence is a great example.
January 23, 201213 yr Cannot. Get. National. Anthem. Out. Of. My Head. :manson: RED, WHITE, BLUE'S IN THE SKYYYYY
January 23, 201213 yr It does come across as an ironically patronising article, considering that it's elitism which he seems to be trying to rally against here. And is he also suggesting that the inability for a popstar to sing live is not a problem? I dislike music snobs as much as anybody else but Lana's recent criticisms are hardly without reason or logic, therefore I find this article rather unfair to say the least.
January 23, 201213 yr It sort of misses out the element of they very PRs/tastemakers/pluggers who write hyperbole about artists to a ridiculous level and build them up to unobtainable levels of greatness. Peter Robinson is one of the very tastemakers who contributes to the Sound of 20XX. Surely it's through such ridiculous means that you're creating overexposure, overhype and are the makers of the acts they push's downfall?
January 23, 201213 yr Popjustice: Saying in an entire article what Severin or Grebo can say better in two lines.
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