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You can't expect someone to walk a completly straight line when it comes to delivery HQ art to your liking. First of all, IT'S A FUCKING SOUNDTRACK SINGLE. NOT THE FIRST SINGLE OF AN UPCOMING ALBUM! She's ON TOUR, did you really expect smoke and mirrors for the video? (Okay, we did get mirrors, but C'MON)
Yikes. Yall need to chillax, especially when its still this early in someone career.

Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah, blah....
 
The song is fantastic, as is the video. We're lucky we even got one. Infact, how many videos did we get this year???????? Exactly.
Enjoy it while it lasts.

Who? 

I love the song and the video. Those of you who don't like just need to find someone else to like. The song is beautiful, she's beautiful and the video with the orchestra and the cinematography is so awesome.
 
What I really love about this video is that there no scenes from the movie. Just Lana the orchestra. I love the close-ups and the direction. Great video. 

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23 on Itunes,  its doing great 

Yeah, and the alternative snippet that leaked with 'channeling Joplin, Jimmy Page now' kind of further suggests this. (They were probably the original paradise lyrics.) Also, in the clip, when Baz is talking directly to Lana on the skypecall he says 'I'm glad this song found its way to the film.' which kind of further implies this... 

v good interview! we learn that she dropped out of college, went to rehab in brooklyn, spoke with lindsay lohan and is a fan, and BLACK BEAUTY vid in august!!!! (omfg)  
I feel like her continuing to mention SNL only re-awakens it in people's minds. they aren't going to forget if she won't

I think it's difficult to say that she's going downhill on the basis of the only track released since Paradise, and a seemingly phoned-in video. If you disliked Paradise, too, then fair enough, but I think that judgement should be reserved until we have more substantial new material to make an informed statement. Both Young & Beautiful and this video have quite clearly not been her primary focus; considering that this track is lyrically adapted for the movie rather than a bespoke creation, and that the video was likely done inbetween recording sessions, photoshoots, possibly touring (if having to "re-record" is accurate) then she's obviously going to stick to what she knows, play it safe, and not devote all of her time and attention to it. 
 
I do agree that Young & Beautiful and this video are far from her best work, but I wouldn't use it against her just yet.

Azealia is back 

is there anybody else here who really loves the soul series?
 
i've been playing it since II came out, and i still play II, i also love III and IV. however, i can't bring myself to play V - there's no sophitia or cassandra! 
 
anyway, i tend to main with cassandra, i use sophitia a lot too and then i sometimes use xianghua, but man i hate kilik. 

the cutting room performance of yayo   so beautiful

Movie songs usually get treatment like : footage of singing singer and the movie scenes. I think we can be highly satisfied by this, 

she looks UNREASONABLY gorgeous
 






 
these are pretty great photos, which is surprising considering the magazine is simply called 'fashion' 

I'm guessing it will chart even better after tomorrow, i hope it stays on the top 40 for more days so it can rise on the Hot 100.
 
and btw, Ride is doing GREAT on Brazil! The single has been 1 for like a week and the Paradise one is at 11!

Y&B moves up a spot at #65 for the week of May 9th
Lana moves up 10 spots on the artists chart up at #40.

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I don't want to seem like I'm raining on your opinion but it's her tour and we should be grateful she's even performing at all considering she hates performing. I have seen a lot of fans complain about the set list and it's pretty disrespectful honestly. It's her tour. She'll sing what she wants.

Is this not a popular opinion? Oh...

I love Radio, especially the demo, which is the version i will talk about. That opening is like an explosion of Skittles shooting up into the sky--that silly fake harp, the digital finger snaps, that bass drum that drops, and  the drone that sounds like you’re warping through a happy wormhole--and you just know that the next three and a half minutes are going to be blissful. I think the album version really dropped the ball by changing the way the songs starts. Anyway, this recording just has such a perfect feel, something that i think is hard to capture in songs, but once you have it, it’s like you can do no wrong with a song. It’s like if the song was half a BPM different or one instrument was mixed a tiny bit too loud or too low, it might all come crumbling down. But fret not, because it’s perfect. That chorus is pure gold. It’s so airy and light, that must be the music that plays when you’re skipping on clouds. The double tracked vocals are like an auditory candy bar. And the vocoder is amazing, let’s throw a fucking vocoder on here and have it panning back and forth, Lizzy, this song needs to be even more perfect. I love the little cheap sounding 8th note hi-hat rhythm throughout the song--it sounds like something a kid sitting in their bedroom would have playing from their battery powered Casio in 1991, trying to make a great song. And, finally, those counter melodies on the synth during the last chorus are like flying into the sunshine. But, like ataraxia mentioned, there is an underlying sadness that pokes through a little, and that is one of my favorite qualities in pop music. 
 
I still like the album version (which is built around the basic tracks of the demo) but you-know-who fiddled around with it too much and, i think, lost some of that feel from the demo. Still though, probably his least offensive reworking.
 
 
 
 
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Daaaaaaang DUKE

Will you two stop with your macho insecurity already? There's more to a man than his cock size.  
 
 
I don't think any of us are touring.

New image snippet!