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  1. Posted

    you guys are literally insane believing any decent looking thirsty gay online

     

    i emailed UMG and they responded this morning saying they don't have that edward guy in their system 

    i'm gonna start telling everyone i wrote black beauty since y'all believe anything  :toofunny:

    I had no idea you could just email UMG like that but good call.

    His posts just seemed oddly specific, enough to intrigue mr and not discard him as a troll right away, but this certainly doesn't help his credibility.

     

    Sigh, I guess we're back to scratch speculating what UV's gonna sound like.

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    but that is from May. Seven Months later and nothing happend. Maybe zedd didn't want to use the song in the end?

     

    True. But still it leaves a lot of questions in regards of Lanas songwriting. She obviously writes lyrics but I have to admit I always assumed that she did it by herself. It would be very interesting to know how much he wrote of Backfire i.e. Did he sprinkle it up with a few one liners or did she simply record a prewritten song? 

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    Just a quick conspiracy..

    In one of the trailer park scenes she places a bag of frozen veggies on her head.

    Could it mean that her guy hit her? 

    I mean a lot of the scenes from Tropico are similar to the lyrics of Hundred Dollar Bill with Jimmys ultra violent swings, ya dig?

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  11. Posted

    well it's not really a short film but more of an extremely long music video. it's pretty visuals with a very vague storyline. i really liked the robbing scene, that looked like something out of a movie and charlie is hot af, lana should include him in more stuff. i'm glad we'll never have too see shaun again though (unless she pulls a bradley and he'll be in every video for ultraviolence  :biblio:)

     

    Agree!  

     

    ..but fify.

     

    Is he even legal?  :runs:

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    I feel like I need more time to digest it and will probably rewatch it a couple of times. Overall it was beautiful but different than what I expected.

     

     

     

    As individual music videos it was perfect. The weirdness of Body Electric, darkness of G&M and the beauty and clarity of Bel Air was captured 10/10. 

     

    So much great imagery worth rewatching, and so many nods to her lyrics. Trailerpark darling and all.

     

    However if you're expecting a cohesive movie with dialogue and plot you will be dissapointed. To be honest it felt a lot like watching an extended trailer.

     

    I can't help but also feel like the excitement would have been greater if I didn't allready know what a lot of the scenes would look like, but that's my own fault. 

     

    Still what a night in Lana history! I can't wait to let this movie settle.

     

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  15. Posted

    I feel that a lot of people are gonna kill me for that, but...

    Recently, a lot of young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities wear beanie hats with "I wanna f*ck Lana Del Rey" slogan.

    While I don't mind that - it's their choice(isn't that awfully objectifying Lana, though?), I have to confess that I find Lana's sexbomb status a Memetic Mutation and Flanderization at best. I don't find her sexy at all. When she wears make-up and is styled(like in my avatar), she looks beautiful. Without make-up and in casual clothes, she's cute in a "girl next door" way.

    Different people have different tastes, I guess.

    What? I've never seen those hats. Is it an internet thing or have you seen them where you live?

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    Didn't watch the cover but wanted to mention something about singing since I am taking (classically oriented) voice lessons. Voice lessons are basically a requirement for anyone interested in singing seriously. It's very easy to get a "powerful" sound in the short term but lose it in the long term, and you can't support a career on one song (I mean if you want to be known as a one hit wonder and not a singer, go ahead). I disagree that Miley has control over her voice. More than Lana? Yes. Miley has poor technique, though, and whenever I heard her I feel like she's always on the verge of losing control of her voice. Hearing her hit those high notes in "We Can't Stop" is always incredibly painful because she's forcing it so much and it sounds strained. And this is in studio, where she has every modern technology available to make her sound her best.

     

    On studio, Lana also has the issue of being off the beat (she's always a little behind in Born To Die, which was absolutely maddening and made me hate the record when I got it), which from I heard from the Brazil concert is also a problem, though thankfully to a lesser extent. Lana is also singing in the part of her voice where she clearly isn't comfortable. She's not a naturally low voiced woman and never will be. She sounds so much more comfortable on For K than on Ride, where you can hear her voice kind of groaning to reach those low notes, and you can notice the lack of ring in her higher notes ("I hear the birds..." "I just Ride). When you have a problem doing your songs in studio, no duh they're gonna be even harder live. In addition, she uses this fake girly high voice that's not her normal voice (think Lolita) which means that no part of her register sounds natural. Add in the stage fright and insecurity (she has no conviction in her vocals) and you get why people say Lana is a bad singer. A pretty timbre can only do so much before poor technique obscures it.

     

    With good vocal training (there's a lot of pseudoscience peddled in voice training because it's very hard to actually study the vocal cords; we have no visual confirmation of how the whistle register physiologically works, for example), I do believe Lana could be a much better singer than Miley. She has the timbre, which you can't change, and she can learn to reach the extremes of her range in a healthy manner (no more groaning at the bottom or fluttering at the top). Vocal training can give you the confidence to perform, too. Plenty of famous singers have had stage fright; off the top of my head I can list Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, and Agnetha Faltskog from ABBA. Nevertheless, they went on stage and gave it their all (and Agnetha is much like Lana in that she's an inherently private person who is not interested in being super famous and surrounded by strangers. guess what happened to her).

     

    Lana can learn to become a better and more consistent singer (yes, both at the same time) if she wants to, but it would take time and effort. Depending on who you go to and how messed up your voice is, you can actually be taught to sing from the very beginning (I'm p sure this is standard in classical but in a more pop-oriented style someone with major fundamental damage would need to do this). It definitely requires good practice (unlike a physical instrument, the voice itself can get tired and so iirc you shouldn't practice for more than an hour straight a day). Don't know if that interests Lana since she wants to see the world and experience life and stuff. I'd love to hear her sound more comfortable on her songs, though. Lana with a vocal coach would be  :defeated:

     

    But...but i like her high girly voice :ohno: To be honest I've never thought her vocals sounded bad on studio recordings. Those things you list as flaws are to a great extend the qualities I like in her voice and give her songs character. It might not be great technique but it works.

     

    I do agree with you though on her live vocals. She still struggles  with her low notes and she's just plain inconsistent, even now when she has improved a lot. If a vocal coach could help her get consistent live with the things she already can do, then I wouldn't mind. As long as she doesn't turn into Lea Michele :smokes:

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  20. Posted

    You just don't cover Lana. You just don't. 

     

     I don't think Lana's songs are holy but there's something about her lyrics that is just so specifically hers that when other singers sing them, it just sounds awkward.

     

    I would love to hear someone breathe new life into her songs via a good cover but who?? I like for example when The xx do covers but imagine them sing-whisper "my pussy taste like pepsi cola".   :eartha2:

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