SoftcoreBabyface

You know,  it kinda doesn't work, even as a joke, when like half the stuff you mentioned is in reverse order chronologically.

We all know Lady Gaga is one of the most influential artists of all time. She inspires huge stars, such as Katy, Nicki and Rihanna, who, since her arrival, have mimicked her style and outlandous performances. But today, we're going to talk about Lana Del Rey America's Hipster's Honeybee. Is this copying so legit? Is Lana's mimicking a fucking bore? Let's se...   LANA DEL REY BEFORE LADY GAGA
  Some of her old lyrics "Then I got tired and ended up in some lame department store and that's okay, cause I found a really cool belt" "I met you with your mother and she had green shoes, she was so cool, it was fine"   With the emergence of Gaga, everything about Lana changed. Her name, her lyrical style, her hair, her new Americana references. Below are just a few examples I could remember off the top of my head. If I dig deeper I'm sure I could find more.   GAGA VS BLUE JEANS  Gaga: Fancy Pants "See that boy, watch him go, blue jeans with an ass like whoa" Lana: Blue Jeans "Blue Jeans, white shirt, you walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn" Gaga: Speechless "With your James Dean glossy eyes" Lana "It was like James Dean, for sure" Gaga: stutters lyrics in mutlipe songs such as the hits Poker Face , Paparazzi, Alejandro, Judas and Applause  Lana: "you're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancert" Gaga: Bad Kids "I'm a selfish punk" Retro Dance Freak "Take a sip for the hip-hop" Lana "You were sort of punk rock, I grew up on hip hop" Gaga: Fashion Of His Love "As fitting as McQueen" Just Dance "How'd I turn my shirt inside out" Lana "You fit me better than my favorite sweater"   HEAVY METAL Gaga: Has a song called Heavy Metal Lover Lana: Angels Forever (Forever Angels) "Heavy metal lions"   MONEY HONEY Gaga: Has a song called Money Honey Lana: Has a song called Money Hunny I misunderstood the recording/release of Money Hunny as being debatable.    JOHN F. KENNEDY Gaga:  Government Hooker "Put your hands on me, John F Kennedy" Lana: JFK "You've got a way like JFK" Lana had referenced JFK in Marilyn Monroe/Puppy Love, though, Gaga may have been the first to name drop him.   DOWNTOWN Gaga: Ribbons "Only difference between downtown" No Floods "Now I'm the princess of a downtown train" Black Jesus † Amen Fashion "Moved downtown when I was just nineteen" Lana: JFK "He was the king of the town" Lolita "with the boys downtown" Video Games "take that body downtown"   DADDY + MARILYN MONROE + JESUS REFERENCES Gaga: Dance In The Dark "Marilyn, Judy Sylvia" Black Jesus † Amen Fashion "Jesus is the new black" Yoü and I "My daddy and Nebraska and Jesus Christ" Lana: Body Electric "Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn is my mother, Jesus is my bestest friend"   RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD Gaga: Judas "Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon that I cling to" Lana: Gods and Monsters "Me and God we don't get along"
  BLUE Gaga: First EP was titled Red and Blue Again Again "to kinda blue" Dope "Bell Bottom Blue"  Lana: Honeymoon "cruise to the blues" "dark blue" Covered the song Blue Velvet, Old Money "blue hydrangeas" Shades Of Cool "shades of blue" West Coast "boy blue"    JAZZ Gaga: has credited jazz as being one of her favorite genres Did a jazz version of her song Yoü and I Made a jazz album with Tony Bennett called Cheek To Cheek featuring several jazz covers Lana: has credited jazz as being one of her favorite genres Released a jazz version of her song Young and Beautiful Covered the jazz classic Cry Me A River Brooklyn Baby "my jazz collection's rare" Ultraviolence "I'm your jazz singer" Shades Of Cool "blue eyes and jazz"  Called her song Terrance Loves You jazzy   GUNS
Gaga
 
 
 
Lana
 
 
 
EXTRAS
Gaga
 
 
Lana
 
 

Love this song & her whole Hawaiian Glam theme. Made me think of Hawaiian Tropic & Maha Maha. 

OMG can't believe she used Pale Fire for Honeymoon...

Does anyone else hear 'I'm writhing, I'm rising up' instead of 'I'm rising up, rising up' on Freak?

This album is going to be FIRE as a complete package.
 
When the chorus of Freak kicked in 

Flames so hot that they turn blue
Palms reflecting in your eyes
Like an endless summer
That's the way I feel for you
If time stood still
I'd take this moment
Make it last forever
 
Your halo's full of fire
I'm rising up, rising up
My hot love's full of fire
Love's full of fire
 
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too
Screw your anonymity
Loving me is all you need
To feel like I do
 
We could slow dance to rock music
Kiss while we do it
Talk til we both turn blue
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too
 
Leather black and eyes of blue
(blue, blue - blue, blue - blue, blue, blue)
Sun reflecting in your eyes
Like an an easy rider
Life makes sense when I'm with you
Looking back, my past
It all seems stranger than a stranger
 
So let's dance in slow motion
Tear it up, tear it up,
Let's dance by the ocean
 
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too
Screw your anonymity
Loving me is all you need
To feel like I do
 
We could slow dance to rock music
Kiss while we do it
Talk til we both turn blue
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too
 
You're cold as ice baby
But when you're nice baby
You're so amazing in every way
You're cold as ice baby
I don't wanna fight baby
It's like I told you
If you stay, I'll stay
 
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too
(Take it to the back if you really wanna talk)
Screw your anonymity
Loving me is all you need
To feel like I do
(Take it to the back if you really wanna talk)
 
We could slow dance to rock music
Kiss while we do it
Talk til we both turn blue
Baby if you wanna leave
Come to California
Be a freak like me too

I found MORE! Will she ever stop?

 



 

Lana: "I want money, power, and glory"  
 
 Taylor: "In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.... Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."  
 
Me:

I don't think people should complain either because 1) style/glamour memes are supposed to be imitated, 2) once they are imitated and are seen as such they function as original artist promotion, 3) musical theme imitation is more interesting. Certainly there is a part of Wildest Dreams that sounds like a part of Without You, but Taylor completes the theme in a different way, and I think that is enough to make them  different (compare with Sam Smith's recent problem, and BTW I think Pharell/Robin were robbed, even if I detest the topic of Blurred Lines). LDR imitates and completes known musical themes differently too, but has the sense to do so with much older (but still very well known) artists.    I'm more interested in LDR's role as the "anti-Swift", or her doing stuff that seems diametrically opposed to Taylor. So the UV/Blank Space music video comparisons are interesting to me. Here's also a quote of Taylor's that is a favorite of mine (at least I think it's a quote):   <<< from Time article>>> "They're [her fans are] discovering the music that tells them how they are going to live their lives and how they should feel and how it's acceptable to feel," Swift says. "I think that that's kind of exciting." To her fans she has recently started speaking out on two connected matters of importance to her: the music business and feminism. <<< end quote >>>   This is from Time Magazine, Nov 24, which has Taylor Swift's face on the cover, not because she's Beethoven, but because she has a lot of "power" (aka sells a lot of records?). Anyway the article writer is talking about Taylor "minister"ing her fans at 1989 preview parties. Contrast with LDR's general position on being a "role model".   Also their positions on music streaming on Spotify free is interesting, and I'm hoping HM album will be immediately streamable there like UV album was (otherwise I'm looking at 4 to 5 business days to get the physical, but also crossing my fingers for Amazon autorip).

taylor™ lawsuit jokes will never not be funny 

I wouldn't even say almost tbh. We've had so much porn on the site lately I'm scared to be reading threads when other people are in the room 

Is @@PARADIXO just a big rip-off of @evilentity?

BUT WHERE IS THE LIE??

-I Knew You Were Trouble video is an exact copy of Ride (down to the monologue)
-Style Video// Summertime Sadness
-Wildest Dreams sounds exactly like without you, or a BTD reject
not to mention both Style and IKYWT used the same director that both of the videos copied
1989 is pretty much what Lana would sound like if she were to sell out

Didn't we suspect that Taylor's Lucky One was about Lana?????

and you didn't even mention that after lana's "ride" she chose that same video director, anthony mandler, and REEVE CARNEY as her bad boy paramour for her "i knew you were trouble"
i suspected lana's influence, but you've made it clear she is a total copycat @@PARADIXO she is so fake...i can't believe people buy her persona!  

Here's some help with this
 
http://www.churchofpop.net/topic/576-taylor-swift-has-stolen-lanas-without-you/#comment-7854

EXTRA STUFF
 
~Aesthetic
 

 

 

 

 
She even stole Lana's friend 
 

 
Okay, that's all, folks. Is Tayor a Lana rip off or just a huge fan? Discuss!
 


 

Don't forget all of the Great Gatsby references in "Blank Space" !!!
 

She's a really successful artist with tons of smash hits, but "22" failed to be 2013's summer anthem.
 

 
Is her "I Knew You Were Trouble" lover channeling Bradley Soileau?
 

 

 

 
In "Bad Blood", everything is super futuristic but they end up fighting with their hands, just like we all did when we were kids! Real futuretro.

I'd say she even looked "fucking crazy"

We had enough with her lyrics. Taylor's videos changed a lot since Born to Die... what a coincidence, no?

 
In "Blank Space" she looks really angry and ultraviolent.
 




 
Taylor's "Style" was on point last summertime.
 


 

Drag ha

Read some of her new lyrics, hmm...

 
"Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting, silence..."
Describing a tragic relationship? I've seen it before
"Wining and dining, drinking and driving, excessive buying, overdose and dying"
 
"Oh my God, look at that face"
You love your lover's face, huh? Why doesn't it make you party then?
"Oh that face makes me wanna party"
 
"You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye and I got that red party dress lip classic thing that you like [...] You got that long hair, slicked back, white t-shirt and I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt"
What is all this Instagram imagery?
But wait... there's more Lana-inspired lines in "Style"!
"Takes me home, lights are off"
"Lights, camera, acción... if he likes me, takes me home"
He can take you home Tay, but he won't put you in the Oscar-winning movie Tropico!
 
And now, Lana's best megamix, "Wildest Dreams"!
"Let's get out of this town, drive out of the city, away from the crowds [...] This is gonna take me down" vs Lucky Ones' "Let's get out of this town, baby we're on fire. Everyone around here seems to be going down, down, down"
 
"He's so tall and handsome as hell" vs American's "You were like, tall, tan" vs National Anthem's "God, you're so handsome!"
 
"Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress" vs Blue Jeans' "Say you'll remember..." And, of course, the iconic comparison between "Wildest Dreams"' melody and "Without You"'s.
 
There's more!
 
"Looking at it now... last December... we were built to fall apart"
"But I still remember the day we met in December..."
 
"It's been a long 6 months"
"Remember me the way I was 6 months ago"
 
Taylor isn't that dumb and she doesn't want the world to know she's the biggest Lana Del Rey fan, and that's why she says "clear blue" in "This Love" instead of the legendary "dark blue".
 
"You stand with your hand on my waist"
"Put your hands on my waist, do it softly"
 
"You're still all over me like a wine-stained dress"
What? Hmmm... wine is usually red so, does she have a little red party dress on?