PrettyBaby

I love 1949! These covers are great PrettyBaby!

But Lucky Ones is about finally being able to fall in love again after having your heart stomped on for the umpteenth time.
 
"Feels LIKE falling in love for the first time" (emphasis mine)
 
 
Crazy-ASS. Long before she had a <3 shaped ass, she was crazy-ass. And now you confess that you are too.
 
The first step to healing is admitting you have a problem... except that sometimes it's good to be crazy :love:

I wish we have more themes ):
More smileys, please? http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/121-smiley-requests/ (especially posts #13, 28, and 32)
Please bring back , and fix the names for both :love: smileys, to :love1: and :love2:
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(By the way, if the list copies-and-pastes as bullet points instead of numbers, just highlight it and click "Numbered list" above)

I wish we have more themes ):
More smileys, please? http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/121-smiley-requests/ (especially posts #13, 28, and 32)
Please bring back , and fix the names for both :love: smileys, to :love1: and :love2:
x
x

(By the way, if the list copies-and-pastes as bullet points instead of numbers, just highlight it and click "Numbered list" above)

Lucky Ones is a catchy song, I like it.
 
A LDR Musical Moment I enjoy is the slight-high pitched endings Lana adds to the ends of the words "scarlet" and "starlet" in Off to the Races. Not sure if I worded that correctly, but if you listen to the that part I assume you'll catch my drift. It's a minor moment, but when I have my occasional sing-a-longs to it, I tend to raise the pitch of the two words at the ends.

The Blue Velvet moaning humming is heavenly.
 

It's a party, it's a party, it's a party, it's a party, it's a party, c-c-cmon...
 
 

T.T

 
 
 
 
But hosheet, Gramma!
Hold up the phone!
Monicker just liked my post!
LIKED-MY-POST!

 
Get that Twitter frame down, nao!
We have new one to hang!
 
 

HDB, i am upset with you for two reasons. 1. You didn't name me by name when mentioning your fellow Lucky Ones family members :imbeingsarcasticbitch2:
2. I called that 800 number. They said they were closed due to the hurricane and then said something about rental equipment! What gives, Bill?? You leading us astray here or what? I need answers because i will never understand the Lucky Ones hate, and here i was foolishly believing that this hotline might provide some insight.
 
Oh, and then just as i was going to say that i suspect that the LO hate comes from people being too hung up on the lyrics, we have PrettyBaby calling the backing track pointlessly tepid. TEPID! PB needs 2 have teh RAWK in her lyfe \m/
 
I love this thread.

I agree, but I think it gets better after that and the chorus is just One of my favorite unreleased songs actually

OH MY GOD, you guys, WHAT? Where is your mind?! Is that how you've read my idiotic, nonsensical joke? Here was my thought process, let me explain/exonerate myself: So, evilentity says that that CIA parody video he posted is better than Party In The USA and i think, wait, that's not really saying much at all, isn't anything better than Party In The USA? And so the first thing that comes to mind is shit, as in feces. But i thought that was too juvenile and obvious. So then i started thinking of injuries, like, being injured is better than Party In The USA. So then i went on a search for pictures of injuries, starting with skinned knees. But i wasn't really feeling any of the pictures, they were all kind of stupid. Then i realized that i wanted to use a picture that obviously looked like a stock photo. So i do a search using a combination of key words that i figured would yield some cheesy stock images, and sure enough, some come up. And so i thought the band aid one was just too good. And so i went and composed my little stupid post and inserted the picture. Then i took a pause and thought, wait, i'm not even sure what this means, this kind of makes no sense. So then i clicked post. And then you assholes proceeded to show your true colors shdghghdhhsgdffafayopw
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ha, i suppose you're fucked then (not a bad thing to be, right?) It's some type of Chorus effect with the depth and rate turned up really high (and it might also have tremolo?) Auto-Tune makes the vocal vacillate quickly between notes, it's a very distinct effect and sound, nothing else really does that. Call me crazy, but the effect in BoaF sounds nothing like A-T. I also happen to really like it, whereas i have no tolerance for A-T. I think people need to stop calling any vocal effect Auto-Tune. Where's the loon when you need him? Her? It?
 
Guys, i've never heard a single Jonas Bros or Hannah Montana song, for serious. I can't believe all the pop music revolutionizing that i am missing out on.

1. My external hard drive
2. My wedding album
3. My little black dress that I will never, ever be able to replace should I lose it
4. My iPod with decent headphones... could replace it, but I don't wanna
5. My meds... maintaining coping skills in a crisis is always nice
6. My fridge magnet of my daughter as a 5-month-old-Valentine
 
Wow, this is something I need to think about more. Great topic, HH!

I always feel smarter after reading one of Monicker's posts.

I'd like to, but i can't, really. It'd be too long, and i don't have the time. It's something i've been mulling over for many years and i have material collected in my mind for an essay of sorts! I don't think this forum is the avenue for that nor is it the time right now.
 
 
I definitely agree that The Beatles are a better band, but the level of acclaim that they receive in proportion to their merits is much more skewed than anyone in music history. The Beatles can be a GREAT band if one so wishes to call them that, but that doesn't have to exclude how overrated they are. Given where they have been and continue to be placed in music history (and beyond, because their stature extends into many aspects of culture, not just music) there's nothing left for them to be other than overrated--no one can be that good. How can they not be overrated when you consider how cult-like the view of them is? One of the more frustrating things about Beatles idolatry is how it diminishes the efforts of everyone else--people who made significant contributions to popular music and innovated just as much if not more, people who either pushed popular music forward, or just plain wrote better songs. The Beatles, as they've existed since their demise, are a global enterprise, it’s marketing, very effective marketing. It’s scary. I think people just repeat the baby boomer rhetoric--that started developing when rock criticism was starting to be a more serious thing, when it became an industry--because it's so culturally ingrained and, year after year, only solidifies itself more and more. Repetition is a very strong force. Capitalism continues to do wonders for The Beatles, so it works out. There is longevity there. What do i really think of The Beatles? I think they're all right, they have good songs, but they mostly bore me. I think they had, and continue to have, mass appeal because their music is easy and very digestible while having the advantage of being seen as Art. It challenges the general public enough to engage them, but it's still safe. There's also so much nostalgia built into this machine. Consider also timing, luck, looks, style, attitude, personality, etc., wrap it up in a nice package and have it spit out to the public via ceaseless aggrandizement from every corner of the media, and you get the worldwide cult of The Beatles. It's a weird, successful formula that allows them to stay right where they have been for the past four decades. It's a weird thing to listen to their music--it's not really like listening to music, but more like listening to a cultural phenomenon or a sermon. Who the hell wants that?
 
 
On to something else: Hipster culture. It's not one defined thing, but rather multifaceted (Nabakov is undoubtedly revered by certain sects of contemporary hipsterdom). When you consider just how much its meaning has changed since 1950s beatnik culture, you realize that, ultimately, the term is pretty useless. It's too open-ended to have any real value. It means different (generally derogatory) things to different people and different generations. It's a catch-all term for easily censuring a group of people whose tastes, interests, and "identity" rub us the wrong way, usually because of their insincerity. That, to me, is what hipster culture is--a culture of insincerity, a culture of cool. I've noticed it comes up around here a lot and how, from person to person, it means totally different things. I myself would never consider Nirvana to be part of hipster culture as we know it today. What's odd about hipster culture is that ANYTHING can be hip, nothing is off limits, anything can appropriated and made "cool" or so uncool that it's cool, or ironic. Let's look at the person for whom we are all here right now. Depending on who you ask, LDR is almost emblematic of hipster culture (probably because, what, she likes "old" things?). But i get the feeling that "real" hipsters scoff at the idea of Lana Del Rey. Yet others probably embrace her only ironically. How do we establish a common meaning? Does it even matter? How about forgetting all that shit and not wasting thoughts and energy on it?

That particular brand of ridiculousness has been going on for more than 30 years :/
 
Well, first they tranquilized it. I think that's Scaruffi's point, but I think it's more true for their early period.
 
I'd love to take a music history class to examine how much of the Beatles' later music was truly revolutionary.

It's like she's saying, "Go on. Underestimate me."

I tend to agree... except I'm having trouble with the "mmm" in Kill Kill lately. Family Guy fans, read on at your own risk.
 
 
 
 
Make it stop...

It's like she's saying, "Go on. Underestimate me."

It's like she's saying, "Go on. Underestimate me."

Oh, Bel Air is the official last track. . . . . okay I can deal with this.

I like her bleach blonde hair, too. Burning Desire isn't the last song off The Paradise Edition, it's an iTunes bonus track. Bel Air ist the last song. I'm not scared for Lana. She's been that way for a very long time. Also, I think some of it is just an act to seem like a little girl.

That particular brand of ridiculousness has been going on for more than 30 years :/
 
Well, first they tranquilized it. I think that's Scaruffi's point, but I think it's more true for their early period.
 
I'd love to take a music history class to examine how much of the Beatles' later music was truly revolutionary.

Sure, I'll borrow SitarHero's sister wife costume when he's done with it.

That particular brand of ridiculousness has been going on for more than 30 years :/
 
Well, first they tranquilized it. I think that's Scaruffi's point, but I think it's more true for their early period.
 
I'd love to take a music history class to examine how much of the Beatles' later music was truly revolutionary.

SPOILER ALERT:
You will never have people over.