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It's really weird that Oprah figures prominently on this forum because Oprah jokes used to figure prominently in my life some years back, although i don't know how that ever happened. I'm thinking now about Orpah Winfrey destroying people. Do you think she'll be in attendance at the EMAs? Maybe downing a few brewskis with Barrie behind the scenes??

Yet? On the contrary, i reckon. I imagine her popularity with the general public is only going to dwindle over the years rather than increase, and i'd say she already peaked, in that regard, at the beginning of this year. Although i do think critics will become more and more receptive to her over time. What do others think?

Come on, SitarChance, evil and I. ^_^ ^_^

I want German beer. And little baby birds tweeting in my ear. Barrie, where are you?

Groundhog Day

Say it isn't so, Bill. Blargghhhhggoueieeouuhhgh

A Bosch painting on an LDR record would be great! Neal, we can just forget '50s/'60s art forever. I love the back cover of the record, seems very Lana to me. Is that just for the box set or is it also on the double disc and single disc sets? I can't wait to buy the CD on Tuesday! I still haven't listened to the album because i want to listen to it on my stereo. Fuck mp3s. Question: Can anyone confirm for sure whether tracks 1-15 are remastered or if they use the same master as BTD? Is there any info in the booklet maybe? Any mention of "Remastered by" or something like that?

I don't know if you're joking or not, but this line of thinking is absurd. What belongs on your dick, chemicals from some product sitting on the shelf at CVS? Everything applied topically gets into the blood stream. Your skin is the quickest, easiest, most efficient path to your bloodstream. There's a rule of thumb in some health circles that says: if you wouldn't put it in your mouth and ingest it, don't use it on your skin. You should be able to EAT anything you're putting on your skin because it all ends up in the same place anyway. You think what you put on your skin just stays there on the surface? You'd rather have weird chemicals and god know's what--stuff you don't recognize when you read the label or have never even heard of--leaching into your bloodstream than...coconut oil, pure 100% organic, raw coconut oil, just the oil that comes from coconuts and nothing more? You'd rather put the toxins that are in shit like commercial lubes, sunscreen, moisturizers, chapstick, makeup, etc. into your body and bloodstream than simple, natural things that are sitting in your kitchen that you eat everyday? Oh yeah, how gross...

You are in my head again. Get out of my head. Why are you inside my head? Why? Why? Why? ? ? ? ? ? ?

^ Stacked harmony vocals, layering her voice and singing all the parts, as she does in Little Carmen, Motel 6, White Pontiac Heaven, QotGS acoustic demo, etc. You know, the best stuff in all of her catalogue, and what i hope will someday comprise an entire album, whether it's the laptop demos or studios recordings? Maybe she'll add Chuck in the blend on the next record

Since we're on the subject, two words: coconut oil. Every house should have coconut oil anyway (raw/unrefined, organic). It's very healthy, delicious oil (good fat!) for cooking, it's good in baking recipes for vegan and sugar substitutes, it's good on toast, it's great for your skin as a moisturizer and on chapped lips, it's good as a hair conditioner and for shaving, it's good as a deodorant, you can use it for homemade toothpaste, it's great for a massage oil, the list goes on and on. But, yes, it's the best and probably safest lube. And it smells so great! These are good brands i recommend:

Scott Walker from The Walker Brothers? Not the governor of Wisconsin? Evilentity? LOL? Because his music is so damn dramatic? Like, Dark Paradise is a nursery rhyme compared to Scott Walker? Why am i putting a question mark at the end of every sentence? Do my friends and family know what i really think of them? How did we get here? How do you turn this damn machine off??

I don’t know, i’m not an interviewer. Good interviewing is an art. A great interview can be just as fulfilling as a good book or movie, insightful, engaging, entertaining, informative, and inspiring. But i guess that's not really going to come from radio DJs, right? If you’re wondering whether i would gear the interview toward my specific interests, i wouldn’t. But i personally wouldn’t ask questions like what is your favorite place on tour, or "favorite" anything, really. No trying to squeeze out of her whether she’s interested in collaborating with any of her contemporaries, or gossiping about celebrities. There are so many responses she gives that i think beg a “what do you mean?” She’s a nervous and awkward interview, i get that, so i understand that it must be challenging. I also understand that it's probably best to balance an interview with some light, fun stuff. The interviewer's personality and insight, i think, can really shape an interview and is likely to draw out good responses. I would just like to see someone really interesting and informed have a shot with her. I think she deserves better interviews, she's not just a run-of-the-mill pop star. I'd like to also maybe see someone close to her interview her, i think that could be interesting. But maybe she's just a boring interview. Maybe having a good interviewer wouldn't necessarily result in a good interview with her, i don't know. Maybe there’s not really anything left to ask her except future plans.

I have told some exes that they taste like guava, celery, and sweat. All 3 good in my opinion.

STACKED A CAPPELLA TRACKS? OH MY GOD. That sounds marvelous. God, but she’s such a frustrating interview, these meandering responses that sound really uncertain or sometimes even untruthful. Though she's not as frustrating as those who interview her. It baffles me that not a single decent interviewer has gotten to her yet. What is up with that? My mom, actually, is metaphysical?? Oy. Someone explain to me the fascination with pop stars "collaborating" with each other. I don’t understand this. Why is this such a thing? She always dodges these questions and suggestions. God, there’s so much bullshitting in interviews. Lana believes in GNR, but does she believe in Buckethead? :creepy: :creepy: :creepy: :creepy: :creepy: :creepy:

^ Well, i guess it depends on what kind of relationship and level of intimacy/honesty/playfulness the two people have, no? That's a whole other discussion.

You just tell her. How do you tell your girlfriend anything? I'm talking about the way people have latched on to it. The lyric is funny, "quirky," sure, but people have spazzed out about it. Why the fixation? This short audio interview is a perfect example. You have her on the phone on your show and could ask her anything, but you sit there like a child giggling about one explicit lyric that mentions her pussy? This all made me think of something i think about often--this puzzling contradiction with how the US (and other western countries i imagine) is so sex-obsessed as a culture, how it’s everywhere we look and we accept this as part of the culture--it sells and is consistently used in marketing, movies, comedy, etc., every generation is sexualized at a younger age than the previous, sex is often used as a tool or a weapon--and yet we are still mostly so rigid about it when it is completely out in the open, and we continually deem it controversial and continue to validate it as taboo. One classic example is how even nudity takes precedence over graphic violence in rating a movie for more mature audiences. Let’s think about a male pop singer singing, “My cock tastes like Pepsi Cola.” I’m going to venture to say that there wouldn't be nearly as much and as strong of a reaction to that because male pop stars being sexually explicit and even vulgar is normative (for many obvious reasons that we won't get into here). I think this is another case of patriarchy at work. When Lana Del Rey sings this line there's an exaggerated buzz around it, i suspect, because it’s a woman expressing herself in a sexually explicit manner (tee hee, look what she said), and also there's still this stupid mystique around cunnilingus and female genitalia in general. Part of the reaction comes from the humor in the lyric, yes, but i think it's more than that.

You...deleted PMIAM?

You're saying that tracks 1-15 use the same master? Why is that ? Do you think they would have improved the mastering had they remastered it? I'd bet anything that if it had been/is remastered, it would have been/is for the worse--more compressed and louder.

Y'all need to listen to Scott Walker.

I do not know how to relate to people.

Well look at that, we were just talking about this, and i'll be damned, i like this photo a whole lot.

Whatever justifications you gotta tell yourself to deal with the cognitive dissonance, PrettyBaby. :creepy:

What is it exactly that i said that made you realize this again? And when was the first time i helped you realize this? Or is that wise-ass hyperbole? Yes, the song (and entire album) could sound infinitely better from an arrangement, engineering, and production standpoint. But i don't take that to mean that it's necessarily a bad song and album though. That's just what's going on subjectively for me in this specific equation. Maybe it's because BTD is an anomaly in my record collection and i've allowed myself to embrace this and appreciate it as something out of the ordinary for me. I understand that, say, fake strings could completely ruin a song for someone. I totally get that, trust me. But, for me, as a whole, VG rises above its flaws--i see it as a great song that could've sounded even greater. And that's actually how i see the entirety of the BTD album. Its shortcomings don't ever quite pull it down all the way past the point of no return. It's this tawdry, crude yet overly polished, bloated kind of a record. I'm never quite sure just what to make of it, but i know i like it. It's real, but it's some singular, constructed hyperreality that, while being far removed from its surroundings, is still completely immersed in a larger whole. And that's in large part what Lana Del Rey is, and what i like about her. If i try to imagine the album turning out more to my tastes, it would end up sounding like a very different album. But then what fun is that? I lose what it actually is, what makes it special and unusual to me. And that spot that it would've occupied in my music collection would then seem very empty.

Evidence that music is completely subjective, that there is no good or bad, right or wrong. It's all an illusion. For me, Video Games is almost entirely atmosphere. And it's a quintessential L.A. sound. The very first time i heard it, within the first two bars, that was the first thought that came to mind. We all have different reality tunnels, yay.