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I wouldnt have suspected the eligibility but she wasnt even nominated for golden globes. I thought this was more sure than being nominated to Oscars

Um, guys, I just re-listened to that CatRadio interview. Can someone tell me where she actually says it was for her album? It's a little hard to hear what she's saying over the translation, but I never heard her say that. I do hear her say "soundtrack" in there.
 
FWIW, I think some of you are reading too much into the "rock and roll" lyrics. Sure, it's anachronistic, but it's so generic that I don't think you can say that Lana (or any other lyricist) wouldn't put that in a song she knew would be used in a film set in the '20s. But I do think you can make a case based on the "channeling Joplin, Jimmy Page now" lyrics in the demo. Those are very specific references that would be very out of place in the main theme to The Great Gatsby. Their presence in the leaked demo and absence in the released versions are conspicuous. Combined with some of Luhrmann's comments, I think it probably was mostly written beforehand.
 
But as I've said before, I suspect all that is irrelevant concerning her eligibility:

^source: http://thetalkhouse.com/features/view/sadie-dupuis-lana-del-reys-short-film-tropico

Stating the obvious is now fighting ?

 
Just read the lyrics. They are most Lana´s cliche ever. They were "surely" edited by a movie director. I think its way more likely that she had 90% of this song already written before Baz´s ask and was meant to be on  Paradise (=the fact she proved).
 
I've seen the world
Done it all
Had my cake now
Diamonds, brilliant
In bel air now
Hot summer nights, mid july
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child
 
All that grace, all that body
All that face, makes me wanna party
He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds
 
Its like the final song on Paradise after Bel Air.
 
PS: And original movie song is the song that is originally written for the specific movie.

If u were a fan you would know that she even sang lyrics "will you still love me when im no longer young and beautiful...) during radio show at the beginning of summer 2012 claiming this was gonna be on her new record. Seethe.     
 
Edit: Somebody has already put u in the place where you belong. 

I have a problem with you saying things like, "Are u sure you're a fan when simple things like this go over your head?" You don't need to know every single little detail to be a fan. Of course there are varying degrees of being a fan but saying things like that is kinda annoying. Also, just because you have you facts a little jumbled doesn't mean they're any less of a fan than you are. Saying things like that makes you look awfully immature and the last thing we want is for Lana's fans to be perceived as one of those fan bases that banishes you if you don't have the facts straight 100% of the time.

Bye now.

Your attitude fucking stinks.

Tragic

I'm so flattered you consider my thoughts and opinions as fact   like I'm godlike but I didn't ever claim they were facts notice I said "I thought"
 
but actually they are facts that come directly from Baz Luhrmann and Lana herself. In an interview for cat radio Lana said she had 3 new song for her upcoming album; body electric, in the lands of gods and monsters and will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful. That was early 2012.
 
Baz Luhrmann actually said in a skype chat with Lana "we are very lucky that the song found a film" although apparently he did change some of the lyrics to fit with the film. Why they left in Rock n' Roll is beyond me as it's a total give away it wasn't written for the film.
 
It clearly was always intended for Paradise and therefore not an original song for Great Gatsby and not really eligible for nomination. Either the oscar voters did not know about this or it has been allowed through their very strict preliminary entry requirements for other reasons!!!!* But it did get picked up in the media and spread about on blogs a few months ago. In fact there was a mention of it being previously thought as not being eligible even today in the Guardian.
 
Surprised you can let simple things like this go over your head given you're such a drama queen stan you should be ashamed of yourself
* Lana clearly has contacts in high places, don't forget the SNL backlash which most people think is about her awful singing but it was mostly about "HTF did she get on SNL just like that"
 

there are 75 songs that are nominated to be nominated, the final nominees are going to be announced on january 16. and seriously, y&b is a shit song, she's lucky it's even being nominated for anything

the general public also loves the cedric gervais remix of summertime sadness. and if it's about the general public liking something, yeah, taylor swift will probably be nominated.

I though it was already published as not being eligible for a nomination, as she wrote Y&B before the film. Apparently it can't be considered as an original song if it was already penned. I mean the lyrics make it pretty obvious it wasn't written for the film, great Gatsby 1922 and rock and roll 1951!
The incident sounds like inside publicity if anything.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/13/michael-green-cambridge-fundamental-physics-prize

What's with the ugly bitch comments! okay so she's not like LA plastic head but that's a good thing. Fuck generation barbie dolls who gives a shit beside shallow insecure people with nothing better to do then idolize plastics, what's up, can't you afford it

I like some of Woodkid's work, especially when he focuses more on micro detail and atmosphere. I think Tropico definitely could have been better, I know exactly what you are saying about feeling indifferent. Perhaps Woodkid could have made more of a connection, cause I think that's what is missing along with a decent script. I'm waiting to see Mandler's feature film, I'm really interested to find out if his work so far has been restricted by music and the people he's worked with.
 

I didn't compare Tropico with Fellini! the only similarity there would be fantasy. I understood the synopsis, innocence lost, living in sin, cleansing of sin but the concept translated into film, is what I think is weak.
 
Taking the red pill or the blue pill is like a clever metaphor for attaining the knowledge 'do you want to know the truth or don't you' whereas Tropico used the most obvious and oldest known example of loss of innocence, eating the apple. There is a saying if it's already been done, it's been done, you can only undo it. That's what the scene in the matrix did it was really clever. Just telling it like it is, isn't.
 
I also don't get the Lynch influence on Lana, I don't see it myself, okay the H&M ad directed by Renck (Breaking Bad) but other than that how is Lynch relevant to Lana's work. He's a great example of a writer/director who so isn't literal. I come away from his work wondering what the fuck happened, every time. I think I might know what it's about but really I don't know if I do, that's why he's so great. He also writes and directs his films which is a large part of his success and he has been likened most to Tarkovsky in his style of direction and he sites Fellini and Tarkovsky as huge influences so yeah I don't get the whole Lynch/Lana thing. And Tarantino, okay so there's a bit of gangster stuff going on but he's most known for his non linear route, Tropico is really linear so I don't get that either.
 
And as for living in the past when it was 'better and people were less corrupt, more kind'.......REALLY how far back were you thinking!!! I think slavery, corruption and greed etc…has been, since being conscious of its existence but I don't live in wonderland. It's great you got so much out of it ,it's just that I didn't I was expecting something different, for me it was literal and typical. I wasn't left thinking WTF just a bit meh really. It's my opinion.

Don't feel too sorry for Barrie he seems content dressing up as Kurt and currently making Nirvana covers

I wanted to like it and I get that it's really self-indulgent and that's part of the treat...but the editing and effects really turned me off of it. At least the Body Electric and Bel Air scenes. It felt like this was bathed in baby's first After Effects quite a bit.  Ride wasn't like that at all and was much better for it.  Anyway, it was a fun little film mostly for the fans.  Let's bring on Ultraviolence.  I feel this got overhyped because of the delays.
 
I think Lana in a Fellini-esque short film would be awesome to whoever mentioned him.  The posters made me think this film would be more influenced by French New Wave à la Truffaut or Godard, but it wasn't anywhere close.

If he enters this place then he'll think we're nuts anyway.
 
Soooo
 
Go for it, hahah! 

apparently he also co wrote paradise and AFFA soooo........

how the fuck does he have a job at universal already? he's like my age, fucking asshole 
 
not that i'm trying to write songs or anything its just like rly ok 

He's a lyricist and sounds like he's pretty pissed for not getting credit for the lyric writing! he's asking for Lana to only be credited as the artist does this mean Lana doesn't really write her lyrics??!!?

Everyone knows being nominated or wining a Grammy just means you’re a favorite among a bunch of music industry dinosaurs. They select people on album sales chart positions, or their connections in the industry.

Everyone knows being nominated or wining a Grammy just means you’re a favorite among a bunch of music industry dinosaurs. They select people on album sales chart positions, or their connections in the industry.