veniceglitch

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

Billboard speculates how UV's unusual aesthetic & its success will influence pop music.
 
"With a No. 1 debut coming, expect more brooding, rock experimentation and mystique from mainstream music's biggest stars:"
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6128764/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-pop-influence?utm_source=twitter
 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

I wonder how Mr. Campbell is doing these days. 

Lana and Alex Turner Yassassssssss please, I think id cry

Also, can we comment on "To Dan Auerbach - thank you for bringing the fire back into my life."

Who is the Nick Cave of our era? That should be Lana's man. It's a shame the real Cave is happily married to Susie Bick.


Also, even though he's dissed most of the music industry, especially its women, I can almost see Jack White + LDR working.

She's also made a point to stand up for Lana in the press since Day One.
 
From 2012, Vanity Fair:
 
SM: I’m looking at what’s happened with Lana Del Rey, and I feel sympathy for her. That kind of venom is what I attracted when we first came out. Everyone called me a fake even though I’d been in bands for a decade—everybody was really on our back. We weren’t “real,” whatever that fucking meant.
What’s the driving force behind the Lana backlash? Is it just because she’s good looking?
SM: She’s beautiful. She’s really talented. She’s the real deal, and I think that’s threatening to people. She clearly has an aesthetic and clearly has worked hard before she got to this point in her career. She has a past? God forbid, they lambasted her for having a musical past. It’s good she’s failed and she had the wherewithal to try again. Shouldn’t we be applauding her for that?

She seems preoccupied by repetition, rituals, iconography. It feels almost religious. I believe she truly is a visual thinker, and tries to use her words to paint the obsessive scenery she loves. I like how she talks about how words sound; their universally understood meaning or context isn't so important to her, which I think gets her in trouble with more linear types (journalists) in interviews, etc. The title Ultraviolence is a good example. She knows its pop cultural history, but she bends the word itself to her own will. It's all how it makes her feel, and how she can use word and motifs as tools to create new meanings. For her, language is an intuitive art like everything else.
 
Red dress. Blood red jam. Red lipstick. Red nail polish. Red, white, blue. Blue dark. Blue jeans. Blue hands. Blue mascara. Boy blue. Swayin'. Swingin'. Driving fast, 'bout 99, in cars with boys, alone. The list goes on.
 
I enjoy how sensory-oriented her lyrics are, but I get the sense she does this knowing that concrete words can hold a lot of abstract power, not because she literally only thinks about things in terms of their color etc. I get the sense she approaches melody-writing similarly; she's fine recycling her own motifs because it reinstates the ritualistic nature of her music. That said, I am hungry for new metaphors and themes from her. I'm sure the music she makes in her 30s will reveal a whole new part of her mind and soul.
 

She's also made a point to stand up for Lana in the press since Day One.
 
From 2012, Vanity Fair:
 
SM: I’m looking at what’s happened with Lana Del Rey, and I feel sympathy for her. That kind of venom is what I attracted when we first came out. Everyone called me a fake even though I’d been in bands for a decade—everybody was really on our back. We weren’t “real,” whatever that fucking meant.
What’s the driving force behind the Lana backlash? Is it just because she’s good looking?
SM: She’s beautiful. She’s really talented. She’s the real deal, and I think that’s threatening to people. She clearly has an aesthetic and clearly has worked hard before she got to this point in her career. She has a past? God forbid, they lambasted her for having a musical past. It’s good she’s failed and she had the wherewithal to try again. Shouldn’t we be applauding her for that?