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  2. Posted

    So, a couple of small question for y'all... or maybe a solicitation of opinions... :)

     

    1) That little fluttery thing that Lana does with her voice.  I really like it!  Is that something unique to her, or do other artists do that, too?  Here's a sample... at 4:06: (Yes, it's the imfamous SNL video, but it's the first example that came to mind... granted, it got better as time went on):

    http://vimeo.com/80513813

     

     

    99% sure she's imitating Marilyn Monroe who also tended to end her phrases in that kind of "flutter".

     

    Example:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDHlgnRuaM

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  3. Posted

    Hey

     

    Have someone take pics of you when you don't expect it (mid-sentence, relaxed, sun-in-your-face...)

     

    She doesn't get to "untag " herself from the Internet.

     

    Amen. It's quite clear to see that these moments weren't intended for us to look at or judge (yet here I am  :creep: ). The fact that she's not perfectly poised and wearing whatever dress she could find just seem to be a sign of her being in "vacation mode" which is a healthy thing. And good for them that they can relax like that around each other even with the paparazzi creeping.

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  5. Posted

    Great thread!

     

    Been listening to "Among My Swan" a lot lately. I like how hypnotic and soothing it is even though the songs  all sound like each other.  

     

    Fun Fact: I discovered Mazzy Star because people were comparing Lana to Hope Sandoval, then i heard Fade Into You and fell in love. Back then I didn't really get the comparison but especially after Ultraviolence it actually makes sense to me.

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  9. Posted

    As a woman, I never realized how much I needed to feel protected by a man before I started listening Lana's poetry.

     

    I have an addiction to men, yes. My own form of addiction. I saw a documentary and one of the interviewed woman said she was addicted to men. It took me 6 months to finally watch the whole recorded documentary as I didn't wanted to face the truth. I like to pride myself on being a strong independent woman, but I often crave for men attention, using my charm to get what I want. It's a worthless illusion of power.

     

    I'm so curious to know what's going on in her mind right now... she's gonna turn 30 in a few months and it's usually very stressful for a woman. You sum up your life and most of the time you realize that nothing worked as to the initial plan. It can be scary, because you feel the meter is running. She likes to picture herself has a Lolita, well darling those days are long gone...

     

    I'm good at being what other people want me to be. I'm in transition to find the real me. It's long, complicated, frighting, draining, confusing, demoralizing. I'm mourning the person I dreamed to be since I'm little and I'm left with a carcass I should learn to love.

     

    FML

     

    Off topic

    but if you ever feel like writing a blog post about age and womanhood I'd be so here for it. I'm pushing 24 but just started in a class full of people 3-4 years younger than me, and it has made me feel surprisingly self conscious about my age. I've started wondering if anything I ever did meant anything at all. Daydreaming about stuff makes me anxious because I feel time slipping away so fast. I'm scared of wasting my youth, and I feel like this fear is partly tied to being a woman as I know I have opportunities now while I'm, if not beautiful, then at least young and wrinkle-free.

     

    So much Weltschmertz, thank God for Lana!.

     

     

        

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  11. Posted

    New favourite moment:

    The high note in the bridge of Ride. 

    I never really thought that much of it, but last night I listened to Ride while extra super high and I really had a moment with that one note. The way she strains her voice on "I just" and then sends "RIIIIIIDE" out into the stratosphere. That note is made of everything good and beautiful. I could live inside that note. I feel like we bonded, and now I'm legally obliged to marry it.

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    SEXIEST SONG

     

    Mermaid Motel

     

    West Coast

     

    You Can Be The Boss

     

    SADDEST SONG

     

    Is This Happiness

     

    Black Beauty

     

    Starry Eyed

     

    MOST ROMANTIC SONG

     

    Old Money

     

    I Don't Wanna Go

     

    Video Games

     

    MOST UNDERRATED SONG

     

    My Best Days

     

    Is This Happiness

     

    Bel Air

     

    MOST LIVELY SONG

     

    Behind Closed Doors

     

    Paris

     

    Ooh Baby

     

     

    BEST AKA LIZZY GRANT SONG

     

    Oh Say Can You See

     

    Kill Kill

     

    Raise Me Up (Mississipi South) (It grew on me)

     

     

    BEST LYRICS

     

    Is This Happiness

     

    Bel Air

     

    Pawn Shop Blues

     

    BEST PRODUCTION

     

    West Coast

     

    Brooklyn Baby

     

    Off to the Races

     

    SONG BEST PERFORMED LIVE

     

    Body Electric

     

    West Coast

     

    Without You

     

    BEST COVER (SONG/PERFORMANCE)

     

    The Other Woman

     

    Chelsea Hotel

     

    Goodbye Kiss

     

    WORST SONG

     

    Catch & Release

     

    Wonderwall cover

     

    Summertime Sadness Remix (you know the one)

     

    MOST OVERRATED SONG

     

    Cruel World

     

    Cola

     

    Your Band Is All The Rage

     

     

    MOST POLARIZING SONG (SONG YOU LOVE THAT EVERYONE ELSE HATES)

     

    Sad Girl

     

    Lucky Ones

     

    Gods & Monsters

     

    BEST LANA MOMENT 2014

     

    West Coast exceeding all expectations

     

    Having Ultraviolence (the album) on repeat all summer

     

    Shades of Cool video

     

    BEST LANA QUOTE 2014

     

    "You fucking didn't" - Lana to a fan that got her autograph tatooed

     

    "Uh, I remember that I used the words "strawberry daiquiri" which I thought was funny, 'cause I'd never had one. So obviously I thought that that was like a really cool thing." - About the first songs she wrote

     

    "I freak the fuck out" - Lana about preparing for a show 

     

     

    MOST PROBLEMATIC LANA MOMENT 2014

     

    Ultraviolence video

     

    Putting her foot in her mouth regarding feminism

     

    The "Guardian" controversy

     

     

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  16. Posted

    Her vibrato always puzzled me too.

     

    Like on The Man I love she has this crazy broad vibrato:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqF9SsMi9Us

    But it's not really present on other tracks from that era. 

     

    It's like she's capable of a lot of technical feats but has very little control over it. She can't do it at will.

    I'm no vocal coach but her breath control seem kinda off sometimes, maybe because of stress, sickness or nervousness, hence the performances like the recent "Rock an Seine" where she sounds much worse than usual.

     

    I totally agree with those who said that her strength lies in the atmosphere and emotions she can create with her voice. In that regard her range is ridiculous. Just think of the span between "Pretty When You Cry" and "Off to the Races" in terms of emotional colouring. That magnificient woman :oprah:  

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  20. Posted

    Just a stray thought, but I noticed the "Lay me down tonight" part in Ultraviolence at 3:39 for the first time today

     

     

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJSk2RySqKg&list=UU3N5y6UWKJaKqoU2b_0MfTQ

     

     

    I really wondered why she decided to put that line in, but then it hit me (and felt like a kiss): The line fits way better into Ultraviolence than it does in FMWUtTT where it feels out of place in my opinion. 

     

    Could it be that after she rewrote Melancholia into Ultraviolence, she liked the phrase so much that she wrote a new song based on it or simply spliced it into FMWUTTT? The latter seems quite likely to me, What do ya'll say? 

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  23. Posted

    She does that gliding up and down the notes  a lot. Like "Swinging in the baackyard, pull up in your faast car" and "feeet don't fail me now".  I don't think she had Hallelujah in mind, but I definetely think she is inpired by him in some ways.

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  24. Posted

    I mean, in my opinion, Lana's getting better with each new record. I'm not saying any song on UV is as good as Video Games (cause in my opinion she won't EVER have a song as brilliant as that... and doesn't need to)

     

    Slightly off topic, sorry:

     

    I agree with you! Video Games is untouachable and very unique. 

     

    I often wonder why her other songs co-written with Justin Parker never reached the same level, even though they're great in their own right. Maybe it's the Robopop production that really set it apart? It's kinda weird that she never colIaborated with them again.

    It could also be that there's this collective mythologization of Video Games because for a lot of us it was the first Lana song we ever heard.  

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  25. Posted

     

    She's constantly treated unpolitely by interviewers/reviewers without obvious reasons. I think @@bloodredjam already explained it very good.

    'm not talking about lyrics from songs like Cola, Ultraviolence or FMWUTTT, of course she should be prepared to be asked about them, since she published the songs. I don't like her attitude towards questions like this, things like "I don't want them to hear that at all" or blurry statements in order to say nothing at all are annoying.

    It may not be professional to leash out at a jounralist, but it is definitly understandable. Of course it's her "fault" on some parts - cause sometimes she doesn't really talks about things like what's behind her lyrics or how she came up with a song, at least not sufficiently and then the journalists have to ask different things - but in the end, I don't see the journalistic performance in asking her about her daddy or with whom she had sex when she was a teenager. At least as long as she isn't singing about things like this on her official records. And questions like the one with the scale from 1 to 10 are just super-unprofessional. Maybe it would be more professional if she just plainly ignored them, however, she is a human being and I can understand her reaction.

     

     

     

    But she didn't react negatively to those questions though. In fact she told more openly about her past than in any previous interview and actually laughed off the whole "1-10 scale" question. To me the interview actually reads like Lana had a decent chemistry with the interviewer.

     

    It seemed to be the questions about SNL and FMWUTTT that suddenly triggered her shut down, where she didn't mind the other risque questions.

     

    I don't expect any logic from Lana (she has her own universe) and I don't think most fans do, but from the perspective of the interviewer it must be a little confusing.

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