Oscar Saboteur Targets Lana Del Rey Song "Young and Beautiful"

[Foolish 541]

what...is this thread.

 

I know I feel kind of embarrassed for myself. But I let my posts here for amusement. 

[ofcharsky 163]

 I recall an interview with him where he said that Lana only had the chorus written and they worked on all the rest. Trying to find it now. That would mean that until she started working with Baz, she only had the chorus of Y&B written, not the whole song.

 

Let’s talk for a second about new music you have released relatively recently. Did you write “Young and Beautiful” specifically for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, or was that a song you had previously penned but not released?

 

Lana: I wrote a different song, but when Baz Luhrmann heard it, he asked me if I could I write a memory cue for Daisy. So I sang him a chorus of  “Young and Beautiful” that I had already — just a chorus — and he thought that’d be good for her. I wrote the whole thing after I watched her garden scenes.

 

Radio interview

[Valentino 885]

 

Let’s talk for a second about new music you have released relatively recently. Did you write “Young and Beautiful” specifically for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, or was that a song you had previously penned but not released?

 

Lana: I wrote a different song, but when Baz Luhrmann heard it, he asked me if I could I write a memory cue for Daisy. So I sang him a chorus of  “Young and Beautiful” that I had already — just a chorus — and he thought that’d be good for her. I wrote the whole thing after I watched her garden scenes.

 

Radio interview

 

 

Thanks, this was it! So basically she only had the chorus written (consistent with what she said in the radio interview about having written the chorus for a song). idk what this means for the Oscars, but recycling unused melodies and lyrics isn't unusual at all (the chorus of "I Know Him So Well" went through about three different incarnations before finding its home as the Chess showstopper) and it seems the rest of the song was written for the film. Rather different from "she wrote the song beforehand and it just happened to fit the film." But I don't know anything about the Oscars or the guidelines so this is just total speculation :v

[parkin 85]

Thanks, this was it! So basically she only had the chorus written (consistent with what she said in the radio interview about having written the chorus for a song). idk what this means for the Oscars, but recycling unused melodies and lyrics isn't unusual at all (the chorus of "I Know Him So Well" went through about three different incarnations before finding its home as the Chess showstopper) and it seems the rest of the song was written for the film. Rather different from "she wrote the song beforehand and it just happened to fit the film." But I don't know anything about the Oscars or the guidelines so this is just total speculation :v

 

Rule Fifteen: Special Rules for the Music Awards

1. Original Song:

   An original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the motion picture.  There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credits.

 

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/86/rule15.html

 

That is the reason for a lot of people wondering if it would qualify.

It's weird that the demo lyrics were slightly different and didn't really fit with the GG though.

[lola 6,644]

it has already qualified, it's nominated for a nomination, you really don't have to worry about it being eligible

[Coney Island King 26,125]

[V3N1C3B1TCH 160]

Sadly, we all know "Let It Go" is gonna win (Disney cred + Idina Menzel cred). But it would be nice for Y&B to be nominated.

[Viva 3,171]

 but someone sent an envelope to the OSCAR committee trying to sabotage Lana 

 

[Whoopiedoo 444]

Gatsby was going to come out December 2012. Y&B would have been on both Paradise and the soundtrack, promoting both projects. But since the film was pushed back, so was the release of Y&B. That's why it wasn't on Paradise.

 

And if you are going to say it isn't an original song, then you might as well question every other song that's ever been nominated. Lyrics, melody's, choruses, top lines, etc.., all of them have been re-used and recycled from unused songs to make a new song. And a lot of artists just throw in a song they are currently working on or an unreleased song when asked to write a song for a film.

[Whoopiedoo 444]

Sadly, we all know "Let It Go" is gonna win (Disney cred + Idina Menzel cred). But it would be nice for Y&B to be nominated.

The Academy likes variety for that category. Plus, based on the past 3 ceremonies (and how the category has been fucked up), they like to base the win on who's performing (which nowadays they only like to limit to 1 or 2 performers )

[V3N1C3B1TCH 160]

No Golden Globe nom either, I think this is a sunken ship, but I'll still be hoping...

[rways 405]

Lana needs this oscar ugh no one else deserves it as much

[lauradelxx 1,082]

Honestly I still think she's going to win an oscar. Leo & Lana winnning an oscar on the same night? can't go wrong there.