Wryta Thinkpiece

I love Dear Boy, but Never Wanna Know has definitely been my shit for the past few days. I didn't realize how great it was until I actually listened to the lyrics. And Dreams on the Menu with Peacefull James is actually good, too. Definitely a great addition to any party playlist. I gotta expand my collection, definitely.

The XX

I would give up Sissy Spacek and mochi ice cream for Lana to cover this classic: Or even... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkpoVpdpTY Killing Me Softly, too, whether in the image of the Fugees or Roberta Flack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eClxA5KO9jE Even this Celine Dion/Eric Carmen song Lana-fied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8hhTPdzYcA I was just thinking of another good one, too, but I completely forgot in the middle of putting the link to All By Myself in this post. It'll come back to me hopefully.

Ugh. That really shouldn't be tough... Touchscreens, just because it's fucking cool. Being read awkward poetry about you in the middle of a restaurant, or enduring the most embarrassing proposal ever next to a port-a-potty?

Ke$ha Let Me Go While You Were Sleeping Fuck Him [He's a DJ] The Harold Song Stephen Crazy Beautiful Life C'mon Disgusting Only Wanna Dance With You Dirty Love Take It Off Blow Thinking of You Animal Warrior Avril Lavigne/Automatic Loveletter/Bright Eyes

TV in Black & White vs. Never Let Me Go

Gramma vs. Your Band is All the Rage

@@SitarHero... How this isn't a smiley yet is getting a raised eyebrow from me. :rac: R(olling)A(way)C(rying) Perfect for feeling verklempt or laughing so hard you forget the order of life. Marinate on dat.

Oh my fucking god. The lighting, the cinematography, the ambiance... I am so fucking excited. It's going to be immaculate.

That Rita Repulsa gif is everything.

I just really got into her last week; Summer and Oh Mah Gawd are so infectious. I love her energy so much. Such great vibes, I always want to dance. She's so fucking good.

Tbqh I may have painted my walls again unintentionally

Nigel Thornberry Crabs...

I don't now, I've been playing the line over and over again, and I actually hear "You can look, boy, Please, boy, Touch, boy, Stay away from me." It makes me think she's teasing the boys by making herself available and snatching herself out of their grasp last minute, it makes sense when you think about the "You can say I'm yours/But my body is divine" line.

Oh my god... It has to be pitbull. It flows seamlessly into the "you know you'll be in a fight," line. I LOVE IT

Really...interesting. Almost morbid. It's going to take me a few listens, but I do appreciate the total change in tone and atmosphere that she worked with.

If it meant giving up my cats to a chupacabra if I refused: TV in Black & White If it meant getting my belly button poked with a fine-pointed chopstick upon refusal: Hollywood's Dead If it meant having to trapeze off a bridge by nipple clamps if I refused: 1949 If it meant getting kicked in the balls by angry adolescents if I refused: True Love on the Side If it meant never having a fulfilling romantic life if I refused: Stoplight De-Lite If it meant sticking my face in a blender if I refused: Back to Tha Basics

I always questioned the phenomenon with how in, what, two years, there are 200+(?) or so tracks that have been discovered... I personally think that there may have been a few album concepts Lana had in mind before BTD and Paradise. Personally, I think that Hollywood's Dead, Damn You, TV in Black & White, Tired of Singing the Blues, True Love on the Side... I don't know, to keep from flooding the post, I'll just say that I think a lot of the songs we have heard could have been intended for the trifecta album (though I certainly feel AFFA and Starry Eyed are also included with Black Beauty.) I could see Lana holding a lot of songs idle until she felt she found that album idea that connected the right tracks together with perfection. I wouldn't deny that some of them might be scraps, too. I'm just so surprised that a lot of them are pretty much great hits, many of them pretty much as perfect as they are, and they've never made it to an album. It's really weird to me how that's happening, where a lot of other artists I listen to, unreleased tracks are a minority in their collection.

So, so, so sexy... So....sexy.

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Just heard this new gem's song on tonight's episode of The Walking Dead. Her voice immediately sucked me in, it's so soothing. Not to mention her song "Serpents" is very beautiful thematically, sonically, visually, lyrically, mathematically, basically anything that ends with "ally." But no, really, I really wasn't expecting to come across Sharon at this time in my life, especially with "Serpents" of all her songs, the lyrics just...you know when you listen to something for the first time, and you just think, "I would discover something like this now of all times," and it just brings that moment of clarity to whatever is resonating within you? Yeah, this was one of those moments. Take a listen, I hope you guys enjoy her. Very awesome chick. Very beautiful songs. Happy listening! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgyQ20TJAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r0RPu9Np18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgjYrKzTitw

Truly an underrated genius. I discovered her back in 2010, and since then have listened to everything that's out (to my knowledge, anyway, I have twenty-five of the unreleased tracks, I don't know if they are the only ones in circulation,) Willow, Opheliac, I Know Where You Sleep, Marry Me, Thank God I'm Pretty, Shalott, God Help Me, Photographic Memory, Dominant and Fairweather Friend are definitely some of her musical gems in my opinion. There's a very strange atmosphere that Emilie sets that is very capturing, so long as the listener allows themselves to be captured by it. But it wasn't until actually sitting down and listening to the Your Sugar Sits Untouched audiobook that I connected with Emilie much differently. There was a time during my senior year in high school when I would just listen to only the audio book on a loop whenever I could, but especially enjoyed having it play as I slept. I've laughed, cried, longed, reminisced, smiled, daydreamed and simply dreamed over and over again to YSSU. It is probably my most frequent played album of hers in my library. There's such a comforting, forlorn disquiet and reconciliation between madness and reason, infatuation and rejection, sadness and acceptance, contentment and wanderlust in many of the poems. But there's a sense of resilience that Emilie withholds from being driven to silence, and had it not been for the fact that she sets this very "let me talk to you," delivery, I think that phenomenal quality would have gone overlooked. It is such an intimate audiobook, there's nothing more to it, there is an intimacy that cannot be mimicked. There's true genius in having that capability as a writer and poet. I want to have a tea party with her so bad.

Yeah! I just listened to the album before, and it really took me a while to give the other tracks a chance, but I'm still coming back to The Wire and Don't Save Me. They're amazing, but the album is a little weak in...diversity, I guess. Some tracks feel like an extension of others. Maybe after some more listens... They have such a bold presence on stage, such attitude. Totally badass chicks. I really like them, The Wire just gets me jivin' and swingin' to the rhythym.

I just discovered HAIM (pronounced to rhyme with "time",) I saw a gif from the music video "Don't Save Me," and was really curious where it was from, so I just searched it on Google and the band popped up. They are so infectious, they remind me of a female version of Dog Is Dead except maybe a little more stripped down. I really love their vibe, and just got the deluxe version of their album. Here's a few of the songs I checked out, mostly music videos. I think you guys will dig them, too! Happy listening!