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No. I wasn't claiming that, but the vids are quite similar.

Yeah, you're right that everyone has a story. Lol that made me sound so snobby But I like Fairy Dust better when it was called the Odyssey. You know when Florence Welch did it lol

I like how everyone is going all cinematic with the music videos. It is getting really old, everyone think they have a story lol

SO I just listened to Alexis Texas and I am so in love

Lol what?

This Crybaby thing is kind of tiresome. I'm sorry.

Amen.

That ad was um.....I don't even know...

I always think of Bel Air taking place in a misty garden at twilight. In Off To The Races, I picture Lana held in custody and there comes a smooth older looking man coming in shooting up the place and taking Lana with him as they escape into the night to Las Vegas.

Yeah it is honestly one of the few songs I am not a fan of from her!

So I am not as articulate as the other members on this forum, but the other day, I had bought a book from a thrift shop titled " Four Metaphysical Poets" discussing the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughn, and Richard Crashaw. There was a poem that I found by John Donne under the section Love Unfulfilled and I saw a poem called Loves Deity. " I long to talk to some old lovers ghost Who died before the god of Love was borne" I thought these two lines, with emphasis on the first line, kind of reflected one of Lana's themes in her music which is reminiscing over a lover that has left this world (K). It didn't really hit me until I watched the music video for Shades of Cool, where Lana appears to be a ghost narrating the life of an old lover that she had before she died. This is something that stuck out to me, that's all.

You know I read somewhere that the reason why she labels it heavy metal is because those songs were about the men she loved and how they loved heavy metal in which they introduced the music to and was influenced by that. I can't remember where, sadly.

It isn't much but it made me happy to see this. I was doing some sleuthing and found an old music blog, where he lists her performances in December 2008. Sadly no videos! Lizzy Grant New Yawk Performances Jazzy Jersey girl Lizzy Grant will be performing a few shows in New Yawk and New Joisey this December. Dec 2 2008 |The National Underground | NY Dec 5 2008 | Jersey City Kevin Spyker + Railroad Studio | NJ Dec 16 2008 | The Living Room | NY Dec 18 2008 | NY SIRENS | NY And a fun little bonus: I found an old Lizzy Grant profile on eventful.com, which is a concert site where you can request the artist to tour in your area! Here's the bio I found for her " MORE INFO ABOUT Lizzy Grant BioLizzy Grant is one of the most unusual and interesting young artists emerging from the NYC scene. Disregarding genre, she mixes elements of pop and avant-garde, complex jazz chords with unexpected electronic flourishes, and narcotic blues with chilling lyrics that sharply contrast with the warm sound of her voice. Even a casual listener to her new EP Kill Kill immediately hears a formidable musical talent with an exquisite, captivating voice. The attentive listener notices much more. Kill Kill opens up a world that feels simultaneously dark but still hopeful, musically polished without losing the simple beauty and elegance of a well-written melody. Lizzy Grant captures a musical vibe that will appeal to fans of Cat Power, Amy Winehouse or Antony and the Johnsons, with colorings and shadings of Billie Holliday and Nina Simone mixed in. She adores Nirvana, The Beach Boys and Elvis Presley and cites them as major influences. A recent resident of a New Jersey trailer park and long time lover of the great city of New York, Grant says about her new EP, “Coney Island and America are the touchstones of these songs. I feel at home in Coney Island. I used to go there every day.” The collaboration between producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, Sublime, Fishbone) and Grant succeeded in recreating the carnival organs and arcade sounds reminiscent of the musical experience of Coney Island while still referencing the dark underside that has always fascinated its visitors. Before settling in New York, Lizzy Grant’s nomadic tendencies had her moving about from state to state and town to town, all the while listening, singing and developing her musical chops. She eventually landed in NYC, and, armed with her considerable talent and eclectic taste, began playing clubs around the city. This is usually a recipe for obscurity, but instead of disappearing into the throngs of pretty faces with pretty voices, she showed up with her guitar and blew the judges away at a songwriting contest, got invited onto some impressive shows with notable headliners The Blow, Mirah and Moby, posted some homemade music videos online and before long, had assembled a following that included everyone from teens on MySpace to major music industry heavyweights. Lizzy Grant’s emergence from small town USA onto the stages of New York City and the ipods of the music industry may seem like a young girl’s fairy tale, but while you’re being dazzled by that pretty smile and glittering blond hair, remember - it’s her intricate songs and incredible voice that got her where she is now, ready for takeoff. Lizzy Grant’s debut EP, entitled Kill Kill, is on iTunes now. Categories: Music | Heavy Metal "

So I found a website of someone who worked with Lana Del Rey in her Lizzy Grant days and he had a wrote an article during the SNL debacle defending her in a way. I'm new here so I don't know if this was posted yet but I thought it was cool. https://phatfriend.com/tag/lizzy-grant/ There is another link in the article where he discusses the Lana in her Lizzy days and how he liked her but was afraid she would not take off "Finally, the singer arrived, she was adorable. I think all three of us guys (who had never met her before) we all taken back. She was sweet and cute in a way that you would think anyone could make her a star. Since I’m an honest wifed up guy, my first thought when seeing her (which would normally be, ‘I would like to have sex with this person.’) was ‘This girl is insanely marketable.’ And, after I heard her sing, that thought only intensified. She was flawless on her takes and precise, her lyrics were even interesting. I began to feel like we may be on to something and this chance I took was a great idea. Fast forward one hour and my mood had changed. Within that time period, the beat I had given them had been turned on it’s ass and sounded like a completely different genre. The only thing left from my original piece was a quiet sample of a guitar floating in the background (seemingly to appease me) and half of a horn loop being used completely differently then I had intended. The original drums had been mostly kicked to the curb in favor of live drums that sounded like lounge music played by a bar band. The majority of the samples had been replaced by soft guitars and rhodes progressions. Any edge I could have possibly brought to the table had been eradicated. All this was going on while the two guys working on the music were frequently turning back at me saying shit like, ‘Dude, awesome track..’ , as if my beat was even a part of what was going on in the song at this point. As the singer laid her vocals down perfectly and all the sequences started coming together, my initial disgust with what had gone down started to wane because I could see what was happening. My beat was just a template, she simply used it as a means to write a new song and the music itself was unimportant. These two engineer/musican guys were there to bring the pop feel to the table. As much as I didn’t like the music that came out of it, their musicianship could not be denied. They knew what they were doing and they executed it perfectly, I just wasn’t in on it. But, right then, I got it; this was the creation of pop music. I honestly had never given it much thought, it was taking something rough and shining it down to a dull glow. Finding a happy shmedium is key to making pop music; It has to be simple but not too simple, predictable but not too predictable, catchy is the most bland way possible, and, most of all, play towards the lowest common denominator. Here was a girl with a great voice, style, and mind for what she’s doing and two highly skilled musicians with endless knowledge of music and music theory. And there you have me, a hip hop producer who plays no instruments, can’t read music and is completely removed from anything that’s been played on the radio in the last 5 years. Yet, if she and I had just recorded a song over my beat it would be more compelling then the song that came to be. Sure, the final product was amazingly produced and arranged. The attention to detail was immaculate; chord changes, breaks and layers of instrumentation unlike anything I’d ever worked on. Had the singer and I made the song, it would have been pretty simple, basic sequencing and song structure, but it would have sounded unlike anything else out right now. For better or for worse. In reality, the actual final product was not bad, it was just typical and it wouldn’t stand out. For as well as it was made and good as she could sing, it just seemed like it was coming off the assembly line. The bottom line is that the song was corny and no matter how good the ingredients are, if dinner tastes like shit, it tastes like shit."

Struggle with wanting to be free yet wanting to belong to someone.

Oh gawd I love the begining when you hear her breathing with the instrumental. That captured me immediately lol Oh gawd I love the begining when you hear her breathing with the instrumental. That captured me immediately lol

I was thinking about how this should have been at the end of Tropico instead of Bel-Air. It's more fitting.

I love the emotion that exudes from her in this song. "It doesn't matter now, the suns setting on our love, bye bye baby"

Who is Benny Mason? I actually thought it was Penny Mason. But yeah who is that?

I just realized that this song describes how I like to decorate my room lol with Christmas lights and a blue bedspread haha

This makes me think of Great Gatsby for some reason, but I'm sure its not.

Do you think Summertime Sadness fits too?

Yeah. She did say she plans on doing a more upbeat, fast paced album and I'm actually satisfied.

BTD- Off to the races, Without you, Radio. Paradise- Bel Air, Gods n Monsters, Body Electric UV- Brooklyn Baby, Florida Kilos, Shades of Cool, Ultraviolence. Honeymoon- God Knows I tried

Lana needs to tone down with the tortured soul stuff. I mean I love it but i don't want her to be known as the girl who sings sad songs. I know imma get slaughtered for this but oh well