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Fun story - in 1991, I was in a band that was trying to think of a new name, because our other names were either garbage or had already been taken. I piped up 'How about we call ourselves Arcadia?' The guitarist looked at me like I was an idiot, and said, "you mean like the Duran Duran side project?" Now I can call him up and say, "No, like the Lana Del Rey single, JERK!"
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I'm really enjoying all these 'live' videos.
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Without wanting to spoil anything, I'd just say, as someone who felt like you did at the stage you're at, you should stick with it.
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This is my favourite Billie clip in a little while, and not only because of the Twin Peaks setting.
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Lana Del Rey Born to Die Billboard Chart Immortality
longtimeman replied to graham4anything's topic in Charts & Sales
According to the official site, that's true -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
This is hilarious. If Lana is unpredictable, any 'insiders' need to be actually psychic to have better information than her at any particular time. I'll stick with trusting the official news, even if it's frequently wrong, because any other news is going to be at best the same, only based on old info. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
This is not her best cover - it's the best cover. Also, why are people trusting BOZ over an official instragram post? -
Speaking of Ultraviolence, this isn't so much an unpopular opinion, as a perspective I've never seen shared before. The cover of The Other Woman is incredible for a few reasons, but one that stands out to me is that she flips the meaning of the song without changing any words, simply by how she sings it. In the original, the first part - where the life of the 'Other Woman' is made to seem glamorous in comparison with the wife, for the reason that she has the freedom that the latter does not, while having the gifts and excitement - are sung sadly, while the last part - where the Other Woman is seen as being an outcast and alone, are sung with a 'fuck you', triumphant sort of attitude. Lana swaps these around, as you would expect, as they're sung from the perspective of the OW, and not from the wife, and it starts triumphant and ends in tragedy. To me, it really shows her ability as an actor and performer of lyrics, which is often ignored. For more evidence of that, watch any early live version of 'Blue Jeans', where she sings the line 'love you more, than those bitches before', not as though she's performing a song, but as though the feeling has just occurred to her.
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This x 1,000,000. It's one of a number of her songs that have two excellent, quite different versions (DMD is another one). The album version really scratches that Bonnie Tyler itch I have every now and then
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How about this one?
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I love pop Lana, and the mountain of songs that she recorded around 2010-2012, but I'd be fine if she never recorded another pop song/banger again, and went all in on the slow songs.
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Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
I just heard BB on our local 'cool'/alternative radio station (RRR-FM). They've been playing a bit of Lana the past few years, but what's interesting is that they're very much aimed at the 30+ age crowd, which I think is going to be a big chunk of Lana's audience into the future (good for business, because we have more disposable income). -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
I've been listening to the three songs a lot in my car, driving around the city streets, and despite thinking that it would not work in that setting, because they seem more intimate and suited to late night listening at home by candlelight, there is something about them that works perfectly. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
Do you have the names of any stations? I want to shout them out to friends if they're in their city. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
It doesn't matter. Reread what I wrote. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
You can call the cover(s) bad, but you can't call them lazy. These are deliberate, and you don't have to like them (and lots of people don't), but I think she's definitely proving something by generating the comments she is. She's just released the three most personal songs of her career, after a decade of being accused of being a persona, a fake, an industry plant, someone whose career was bought by her father, inauthentic, etc etc. The decaying photographs, in series, work like a Warhol sequence, which are also 'basic' and 'fake', but in a deliberate way. -
The thought of dorks like Fantano and Petridis analysing these lyrics, and having their viewers/readers buy into their bullshit, is stressing me out.
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Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
Actually, thinking back to the timeline, it's most likely that's the date he put it on his computer so that he could play a snippet for instagram. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
I'm almost positive that's not the date that it was finished mastering, as that wouldn't be his job. It looks more like that's the date/time he put all those tracks into his itunes. -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
Can't wait for the meltdown over the terrible music played on radio leading up to the premiere, if that happens -
Blue Banisters - Pre-Pre-Release Thread
longtimeman replied to Elle's topic in Retired Pre-Release Threads
The snippet rules and I'm super excited. Hopefully Lana posts something somewhere at least once before the actual release!