Monicker

Whoa, i just awoke from a deep slumber in which an alien spirit contacted me and, with complete certainty, assured me that every single song on Born to Die (including the bonus tracks) and Paradise is going to be released as a single in various markets around the world over the next three years! 

I don't understand most of this 

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I fully expected some version of Lolita to be on all of those, though

2/3 ain't bad 

I don't usually listen to playlists that mix in BTD/TPE songs, but I'm gonna give these a try.

Oh, i thought your whole thing was to mix TPE songs in with BtD to make TPE more "listenable," but i just went back and checked, and i see that it was non-BtD songs you were mixing in.  

Let us know how your gf likes them, too! (You think she wouldn't care for Born to Die or Paradise as is?)

Well, i think, besides AKA, everything of Lana's has the potential to be hit-or-miss. I gave her AKA first not only because i think it's the best stuff and what she would probably like the most, but also because it's such a solid album straight through. I thought she'd appreciate some of the BtD demos more than the album versions, and that she'd appreciate Paradise songs mixed in with different sounding stuff rather than as a straight-through album, so i thought this approach made sense. Basically, i wanted to showcase Lana's wide range of styles. 

I was just trying to have an opinion and mess around.

Dangerous combo. 

I recently made my girlfriend 3 playlists and i thought i’d share them in this thread, though i don’t think they would be particularly well-liked  (what does this emoticon mean?) I’m a big fan of playing really disparate things right next to each other but still following some sort of “logic,” and she likes that too, so that’s how i approached at least part of these. I had already given her a copy of AKA, and she eventually asked me for more stuff, but, rather than giving her the rest of the albums + a selection of unreleased stuff, i wanted to give her a collection that was all-encompassing (excluding AKA), dictated by which songs i thought she would like. I spent a good amount of time with the flow from song to song, as well as the overall arc of each playlist. I also had to play with the space in between tracks so that songs would flow from one another as i wanted them to--some songs sound great going right into the next, whereas others benefit from varying amounts of silence in between.  

I have the distinct feeling that we're all a little bit sick and tired of each other lately.

Or am i just projecting? 

 

 

Good god, Monicker, not everything is that damn serious. It's fun, that's it. Next

 Will you please just treat me really niceys? There is no need for your venom. After i offered up my dick in the dark to you and everything. I thought we had something...

I'm gonna move this to Lana Thoughts since it's about lana but not a video featuring her i.e performance or music video. Unless any of you strongly object to this.

#democraticmoderation

Aw, baby's first mod initiative. U GO GURL. But where is Neal to celebrate this most momentous event?!  

EDIT: Oh wait, i just realized he liked the post, duh. 

Essay! Four short paragraphs? Lawd 

Look, i was feeling things while making my sandwich last night, alright? 

I completely, absolutely, 100% approve of Lana's decision to pen the lyric "Audiotune lies" for Carmen.

'splain yoself, PB. What does this mean? Why? 

I was just listening to this song while making a sandwich. Gosh, it’s such a good song. It’s so tender and heartbreaking. It’s an especially great song for nighttime. I love the loose quality it has, how it sounds like it was just a quick and spontaneous thing, recorded one night in a sudden flash of inspiration, like it just needed to come out. I love how understated but unique the backing track is with that incongruous drum machine and the little weird noises. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. 

These lyrics, i think, are some of her most heartfelt. It’s just chock-full of such simple yet powerful and poignant lines that i think a lot of people can relate to. I especially love the line “the panic and the fear.” Anyone who suffers from panic attacks knows that it’s one of the worst feelings in the world. 

Doesn’t the chorus sound like something you’ve heard before in another life? That melody seems to perfectly capture the song’s sentiments, that sense of feeling trapped and that realization that you have to do something, make some sort of change in your life. Your dead-end relationship has sort of become your comfort zone. You think you can change the relationship or even the other person, but you know you’re just lying to yourself. 

Her falsetto in this song has a strange quality to it, it’s almost hysterical. And at the end when she abruptly comes out of it back into her lower register (as she’s repeating that she’s done being afraid), it makes me think of, like, when you’ve been crying for hours and you just suddenly snap out of it because you just physically cannot cry anymore.  

What a fucking song.

Surely i can't be the only one who thinks this is all really excessive, right? Do we really need this many little animated pixel faces, and from such a wide range of sources? Doesn't it become counterproductive and unwieldy at a point? We'll have to do an extensive search just to find the desired stock expression every time we want to express a ready-made emotional response...

ENOUGH ALREADY!                                                                                              :airplease:                              :brit:              :pressed: 

Write the great American novel, Chance. 

I can't believe i didn't realize sooner that the guy's count-in at the beginning of the demo is also on the record. Which is weird because the guitar from the demo is not on the record and neither is her vocal take. I'm guessing the demo was used as a scratch track to program the beat or something, but she liked his voice/counting enough to keep it in? I wonder who the guy is. 

Wow, i hadn’t read this before and it’s one of the best pieces written on her, and from SPIN no less, who would’ve thought. Lots of good things said here, really pointing out a lot of the sexism which i think is at the root of a lot of the flak that she was receiving in late 2011/early 2012. The idea that someone as idiosyncratic and (truly) eccentric (not Gaga brand of theatrical, contrived “weirdness”) as her was constructed by a team of record label executives is totally absurd and beyond the realm of believability. How did that half-baked theory even get off the ground? 

I love this quote: "She has many different qualities that women in our culture aren't allowed to be, all at once, so people are trying to find the inauthentic one."

Also, "Bruce Springsteen in Miami"! Ha, i had never heard that one before. Oh, Lizzy. 

The only things that could make this song better are some frankee choreography and a pitched down monologue read by evilentity.

 

And more cowbell loon!

You know what, asshole? I hope evilentity shoots you again, but i hope next time he doesn’t miss. You know, i hear it's like the Wizard of Oz around here and frankee suddenly got a brain. Maybe you’ll be next in line, loon. Or would you rather get a heart?  

The obvious occurred to me: Her harshest critics are us, her biggest fans. We’re honest, often brutally so. Our opinions come from a place of actually giving a shit, not a ploy to increase readership. We have her under an intense magnifying glass, scrutinizing her more thoroughly and more often than any publication ever will. Websites, blogs, and the rest of the peanut gallery take more of a cursory glance at her, remotely commenting on the music--while remarkably managing to not actually say anything about music!--just to work in the sensationalist angle, but we examine and pass our judgement on everything: production and arrangement details, vocal performances, setlists, stage presence, touring schedule, her outfits, her shoes, her hair and makeup, her lips and nose, her age, her friends, her family, her past, her relationships, her drug and alcohol use...i don’t have the energy to keep enumerating them all. And, finally, we’re consistent--we do this day in, day out, whereas most everyone else chimes in only when she releases new music or a new video. 

We’re a scary, intense bunch, let’s face it 

I'm imagining it looking like La Sagrada Familia with seahorses and jellyfish floating by.

Maybe it will be a vision of a hurricane ravaged Coney Island that sounds like it was recorded in a massive underwater cathedral. 

Some of the best underwater music ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pYBWcLYD8

And my favorite song about Coney Island: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QTOGFeeL9E

I thought about a soundtrack for the campaign,

and did this:

When Lizzy opens her window:

Interesting, to find out what you think?

But wait, what actually happens when Lizzy opens her window? I think you raised more questions than anything else with this song. 

Dreamland SESSIONS? What if she's alluding to her next album, recorded entirely on Coney Island inside of an old, abandoned amusement ride, which ties into the theme of the next record, and it's loaded with fairground organs and calliopes and honky tonk pianos and bells and circus band percussion and she's singing every song through a megaphone? 

I have gathered two things here:

1. Love Lana Like Life is to Lana Del Rey what Neal is to Ataraxia.

2. Famous straight men in the entertainment industry when asked what they think about Lana Del Rey: "She’s hot, bro." 

i luv my lil zenit helios

I just looked this up because i don't know anything about them, but the information is a little confusing. Helios are the lenses, right? Zenit is the body? Russian cameras? What do you have, an SLR or rangefinder? 35mm or medium format? I'm curious about these, they look awesome. Enlighten me, lemon pie. 

I believe she plays the entirety of Get Drunk on the low E, like someone who's been playing guitar for a week   Not that it matters anyway, it can be played to your liking--all on the E or a combination of the E and A strings. Or you can just smash your guitar to smithereens and get drunk 

A bit of advice to those who are interested in more than just playing along to a handful of your favorite songs, and would like to work toward being competent musicians: with songs like Get Drunk where it's all single notes, try to pick them out by ear, it's the first and most basic step in some of the best ear training you can give yourself. It may be frustrating at first, but it's really not that difficult, and it gets easier with time and practice. It'll really, really develop your overall playing and ear/listening. Train your ear to recognize notes. You will thank yourself later. 

And for those who are a little more serious and ambitious, moving on to picking out chords will enrich your overall musicianship tenfold. It'll take more time than picking out single notes, of course, but it's invaluable training. A little tip: keep in mind that most of Lana's song only use major and minor triads (3 note chords) and each song is usually just 3 to 5 total chords, so it's not that hard to play around and find the chords. I mean, think of it this way: there are only 24 different chords to pick from, right? (though there are a handful of her songs that have the occasional 7th or suspended chord or whatever). 

If you're just interested in playing along to the occasional song here and there for fun, then kindly ignore everything i've just said. Actually, you should just ignore everything i've ever said and will say and just get hammered. 

I knew it wouldn't be too long before i was mentioned in this thread. 

that's a to simple theory. Sorry A. but I think that Lana has more Reasons.

It's the Illuminati. 

Another classic thread. 

I was finally able to read this all for the first time. My head is kind of spinning. 

God, this person wrote a lot and was very fiery. I don’t know that that sort of zeal can be faked. Or more specifically, when someone sounds that passionate about supposed events, chances are they’re not making things up, or at least not entirely. She is also almost neurotically specific and repetitive about locations and names. It sounds like a person who was, in some way, wronged or saw, firsthand, questionable behavior toward others that she is strongly opposed to, and wants the people responsible to be held accountable.

But then that weird, endless tirade about how music today is corrupting the youth, how the record industry should take responsibility for all problems in society, that they are mostly responsible for crime, pedophilia, rape, and violence against women, all the while using words like evil and so many CAPS. Dude......wut? I really wish people who make these sort of claims would realize that these things have been around since the beginning of humanity.

She sounds like someone who's a little "off." Which i hate to say because if she and others really were sexually and mentally abused, there’s nothing worse than dismissing a person as hysterical and discrediting their account. Plus, trauma can make people sound crazy    Even just her writing style and the way she is so incredibly repetitive comes off as someone who has had trauma. Also, based on her language, it seems she had already done a good amount of talking to lawyers.

The comments under hers piss me off so much, and are so typical of the lowest lows of the internet. I love when people get angry at someone with a mental illness (if she is indeed mentally ill), and call them a BITCH. Ugh, i hate people. One single person (the last comment) responded in a civil manner and refrained entirely from insults. 

If this stuff really did happen, i really hope that she and others are okay and that the guilty parties are dealt with accordingly. I don't know, i feel like something probably happened here. Why put so much energy into accusing specific people? Those people must have done something, but the question is what exactly and how severe was it. 

Very puzzling piece of the puzzle. My head hurts and i feel depressed now. 

Who folds their socks?

Maybe it's me reading into it too much, but you have this way of always saying so much with so little, often with such seemingly simple questions. I don't know how you do it so consistently. Lola's Art of Pithy Remarks. I want to learn how to babble less and be more succinct. 

Anyway, socks. I kind of hate socks. But i always wear them. I don't have one pair of white ones. I do not fold my socks. I roll them together. 

So, how about that Lana outfit and makeup?