silhouettes 4 Posted June 19, 2014 This album sounds very much like Garbage. Not so much the vocals, only sometimes, but the production is very much like a Garbage ballad or slow song(West Coast and Ultraviolence), more so from the Bleed Like Me album. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yourdangerousgirl 145 Posted June 19, 2014 Omfg yess. Also some similarities with Cat Power, esp Pretty When You Cry. I don't know if she got influenced by Garbage in particular, but that kind of sound suits her a lot. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BLOODSHOT 3,029 Posted June 19, 2014 At first I thought you were slandering the album 8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creyk 11,677 Posted June 19, 2014 I thought this was gonna be about how Trash Magic (Miss America) should have made the album.... 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veniceglitch 379 Posted June 19, 2014 I'm so happy you made this thread, because I was considering bringing up the G/LDR comparisons in its own topic (hence my "Lana is the Shirley of our generation" post the other day). I still feel #1 Crush is a song Lana must be aware of and subtly shaped by. Garbage has been exploring this terrain of sex, psychological surrender, masochism, power, sadness, perverse joy, and outsiderdom for almost 20 years. Once LDR posted a screenshot of an analysis of their song "Supervixen," so I think she's a fan. Their song "Sugar" from the last record, Not Your Kind of People, is so, so Lana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXe9OhTU-Gk&feature=kp Give me sugarGive me, something deepDon’t make a habitOf crawling on my kneesBut this is differentCan’t you see I’m in control? 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veniceglitch 379 Posted June 19, 2014 It's All Over But The Crying / Sad Girl are kindred spirits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR8focJmWhU 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lavender-sunshine 79 Posted June 20, 2014 Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silhouettes 4 Posted June 20, 2014 Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too. I think vocally they are much different, West Coast's guitar is like the guitar in The World is Not Enough. Bleed Like Me is very similar to Brooklyn Baby with those organ sounds and vocally the closest song to Garbage would be Ultraviolence. FMWUTTT reminds me of Sugar because it sounds quite atmospheric, the structure of the song reminds me of Summertime Sadness more than anything. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingTheGhost 55 Posted June 20, 2014 Every time I hear "go, baby, go" in FMWUTTT it makes me think of "go, baby, go go!" from Cherry Lips. I had never contemplated any serious similarities between the artists' sounds, so it's funny to see that other people have made connections too. That's what I always think about too when I hear that line. 0 Quote Tumblr Last.fm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dirkdabo 17 Posted June 20, 2014 OMG did she really? Anyway, I don't think Ultraviolence sounds like any Garbage album really, but Flipside really reminds me of those 90's dream pop bands with fuzzy guitars. It's not the first time she has tweeted about Lana. Here's another one from 9 May 2014: @@lanadelrey I am swooning to West Coast. Just saying….. You SO are the real deal. We knew it all along.Love love Love Sx She also retweeted Lana's tweet from 15 Apr 2014 about West Coast being available on iTunes. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veniceglitch 379 Posted June 21, 2014 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? 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prostitutestare 142 Posted June 22, 2014 I love Shirley for defending Lana, and I hear the similarities. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
timinmass101 100 Posted June 25, 2014 http://www.luckymag.com/blogs/luckyrightnow/2011/10/shirely-manson-gives-lana-del-rey-her-seal-of-approval "I’m obsessed with 'Video Games' by Lana Del Rey," Manson told us. "Absolutely obsessed by that song. Her whole story is fascinating on so many levels. To me, the music really stands up on its [own]. Whether people believe in her or not I don’t care. The music is so strong." "I first discovered 'Video Games' by total default," she continued. "I was just mooching around on the internet. I sat on my bed on a Friday night and played it over and over again crying to the point where my husband was like, 'honey, you need to shut the computer now.'" 2 Quote Watch what you say to me, Careful who you're talkin' to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites