evilentity 13,303 Posted August 31, 2018 I can only listen to this song when I'm in the pettiest mood ever Chorus is Born To Die. Don't blame you for not getting that far if that's what happened lol I don't really hear that that much, but funny you should mention that song... I thought a Halsey track sounded kinda Lana-ish before Halsey even sang it or was even a thing. #HipsterAlert No seriously. Following my own advice to "Keep an Eye on the 'Industry Players'", I follow a lot of music industry accounts on Soundcloud, including one for TaP mgmt, Lana's manager Ben Mawson's company that manages Lana as well as OTTR, TIWMUG, and G&M co-writer Tim Larcombe. So a couple years ago a set labeled "Tim Larcombe" popped up on there which included two instrumental tracks labeled "BT I" and "BT II", "BT" presumably standing for "backing track", which sounded vaguely Lana-esque so I saved them in case they ended up being used on an album. (I'm not exactly sure when they appeared. This archive.org snapshot indicates they were uploaded in October 2012, but I'm not sure they were public that early. I saved them in September 2013, but I know I found them awhile before I got around to ripping them.) Anyway, fast forward to this morning when I was listening to Halsey in order to defend her detractors from a more educated position when I listened to "Strange Love" and experienced some major déjà vu. I recognized the backing track instantly as "BT I". Sure enough, Tim Larcombe is indeed the producer of "Strange Love": Listen to a copy of "BT I" (click on the Soundcloud link below it if the embedded stream doesn't work) that I uploaded as a private track in April 2014 to show to @@Monicker, who deemed it "pretty uninspired": I don't think Halsey is a complete ripoff of Lana; she's extremely derivative of her contemporaries in general, one of them being Lana. Her voice doesn't sound at all like Lana. Only a couple songs sound like Lana ripoffs ("New Americana" being the most blatant well-documented example). But she occupies a lyrical universe that overlaps a lot with Lana's. However, being a documented fan of Lana with a song title the same as one of Lana's with a backing track possibly even written for Lana by a producer that worked with Lana and has the same management as Lana... I know some of that's probably coincidence, but it's all just a little too much. And it's easy to imagine her going, "OMG, you worked with Lana? OMG, Can I work with you? OMG, you've got a backing track you wrote for Lana that she didn't use? OMG, can I use it? Great! I'll name it after one of her unreleased tracks!" 2 Quote Stalking you has sorta become like my occupation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
radiant 858 Posted September 3, 2018 Yesterday, I listened to Bebe Rexha's Don't Get Any Closer and I couldn't help but feel like I had heard the chorus melody before. The 'don't get any closer' part at least. This might just be me but later on it reminded me of Lana's Break My Fall when she goes "don't go and blow it all." I feel crazy thinking this so is it just me? was about to post this, it reminds me of something that would be on Ultraviolence 1 Quote I would never hurt you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazySister 2,236 Posted January 1, 2019 1. White Mustang def gave me To Build A Home from The Cinematic Orchestra vibes when I listened for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk 2. Gramma reminds me of All The Right Moves from One Republic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOeGCJdZe4 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shellfish beach 343 Posted May 29, 2019 sounds similar to blue jeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9M0a5qYko reminded me a bit of Lana when I first heard it https://youtu.be/Y9bETCh68c4 sounds a lot like a UV track towards the end https://youtu.be/7ICS45rZsvo different style but similar vibes https://youtu.be/YHK7DUb_GFs 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Girl in Bel Air 1,677 Posted July 3, 2019 Okay is it me or does this sound like a Lana song? But which one? Summertime Sadness???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LXSQdbUpo 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mkultraviolence 5,829 Posted July 3, 2019 Okay is it me or does this sound like a Lana song? But which one? Summertime Sadness???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LXSQdbUpo yeah someone commented that it sounded like the red dress pale moonlight lyric and the comment got over 300 likes so a lot of people agree. i can kinda hear it but seems very subconscious 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
honey dew 10,242 Posted July 3, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vyQKZP4y4 her voice sounds exactly like early lana 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mkultraviolence 5,829 Posted July 3, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vyQKZP4y4 her voice sounds exactly like early lana pink flamingos, sunglasses, cigarettes the whole filter of the video looks just like her old self-made videos and looks like the VB and MAC nokia phone videos AND THE SONG IS CALLED 'DRIVE' 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wild One 3,305 Posted November 6, 2020 17 hours ago, VioletRhyme said: Explain yourself 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Traveler 665 Posted September 22, 2023 I always think of this beat when Stargirl Interlude comes on... 0 Quote with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluechemtrails 22,735 Posted September 22, 2023 Life Lesson reminds me partly of Hallelujah 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Embach 20,812 Posted September 22, 2023 I made a post about this in a different thread and I still listen to some of those songs here: On 8/24/2023 at 10:11 PM, Embach said: I remember someone said that 13 Beaches sounds like Hans Zimmer's Time and I listened to it then and they're actually very alike. You can actually sing 13 Beaches over it it's probably because of Dan Heath's influence, he did the orchestra for 13 Beaches and he has previously worked with Hans Zimmer! Also Your Girl really reminds me of Portishead's Glory Box, especially when the bluesy jazzy strings appear: Nostalghia's Be My Man and Weyes Blood's Mirror Forever, in my opinion, are kinda similar melodically to Ultraviolence the title track: Also these two songs, which I have talked about earlier: Florence + The Machine's Over The Love sounds exactly like a song from Born To Die, especially with the beats because it was produced by Emile Haynie, also in the beginning, the song samples Lana's breaths from the intro of Burning Desire! Lana allegedly sampled Princess Chelsea's No Church On Sunday in Heroin! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Get Drunk 17,475 Posted September 22, 2023 I thought I posted this before but can’t find it. It’s SO Lana, even the beginning sounds identical to blue jeans. Sza - Shattered Ring Also Tep No - Lana del Dre, like he literally named the song after her how much more can you ask for. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackenedrussianpoetry 1,791 Posted October 5, 2023 Very tropico/ultraviolence… there are times where i think lana reminisces dusty more than nancy… style wise lana’s more of a nancy but her music— has always been more dusty’s to me… 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
