Lana's Use of Dialect/Accents in her discog

[LOVE]

r/lanadelrey directed me to an article that discusses ldr's varied usage of American dialects to submerge the listener in her achieved world/aesthetic/tone

i lost my MIND reading this because it's a part of lana's work i've admired so heavily (and i think sets her apart from most American artists as well) and have tried dissecting her dialectic choices in association to the narrative she's presenting myself. there are some really nice citations from her released and unreleased discography with a fckin incredible academic lens

 

maybe i just love when people take our girl seriously. i'm so tired of people ignoring these idiosyncracies in lana's artistry that make her such a modern icon

[Beautiful Loser]

Ohh YES, this article was shared somewhere in the pre-NFR thread months ago but I lost it - I LOVED everything in this article!

[Serene Queen]

I love this article!! It’s so well thought out and informative

[LOVE]

Ohh YES, this article was shared somewhere in the pre-NFR thread months ago but I lost it - I LOVED everything in this article!

i figured it must have been, but trying to find anything old on this hellsite is a struggle

[SlowGinFizzzz]

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[Surf Noir]

Wow, such an informative and well structured article, thanks for sharing!

[annedauphine]

This is one of my absolute things about Lana @@terusama we were talking about this yesterday omg

[Wynwood]

wow i love this article

[Neon Palmmm]

Absolutely neat -- thank you for sharing!!

 

The southern accent in her Lizzy songs has always especially fascinated me -- seeing it broken down this way was super cool.

 

A recording I would love for them to address is the Arlene's Grocery show from 2009, because Lizzy seems halfway between the southern and New York accents there -- on "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.", she fittingly uses the southern accent, but in "Mermaid Motel", she slips back and forth: New York on "you call me lavender," southern on "heavy metal hour on TV", and so on.

 

Oh, and whatever the weird pronunciation of the "ch" in "champagne" and "chandelier" is, lol

[LanaFlowers]

Oh, and whatever the weird pronunciation of the "ch" in "champagne" and "chandelier" is, lol

 

^THIS!

[annedauphine]

Been thinking about this a lot so I commented on the article but this is really so fucking amazing. What I love the most about this is how much they know their stuff. So refreshing. If only it was only Lana stans who interviewed her (and I'm obvs not talking about ppl asking for unreleased or what her toothpaste brand is - but dgmw I would rly like to know - I just want the level of questions asked in magazines but with people that understand her to the degree only superfans know and that know what's sensible for her or no). And for me who's trying rly hard to become American but that in actual irl sounds like a drunk French toddler vaguely learning to speak it's sooooo interesting, especially the New York accent. I was listening to Brooklyn Baby in Brooklyn on my way to Rough Trade (yes this is flexing soz) and the "twoaking bout my generation" rly hit me. And shame on me I had totally forgot she was saying brooklyn baby in TLOTS

[LOVE]

Been thinking about this a lot so I commented on the article but this is really so fucking amazing. What I love the most about this is how much they know their stuff. So refreshing. If only it was only Lana stans who interviewed her (and I'm obvs not talking about ppl asking for unreleased or what her toothpaste brand is - but dgmw I would rly like to know - I just want the level of questions asked in magazines but with people that understand her to the degree only superfans know and that know what's sensible for her or no).

very THAT!! like the closest we have to this was that leaked interview from last year/earlier this year where she got emotional and..yeah. but that fed me as a stan, to know what drives her artistic choices in the most personal sense

i think my favorite thing about this article was the mention of her use of ¨epenthesis¨ (which i didn´t know there was a word for it until reading that!)

it´s a feature of lana´s style that i´ve always noticed and used as means for separating her from others in her ¨genre¨ but it´s so subtle, the casual listener wouldn´t recognize exactly why lana sounds so ... vintage?

it´s also a lanaism that impressionist singers tend to miss when doing lana. they go for deep and husky with a slight alt-indie girl twang (which lana doesnt even have tbh, she uses a variety of accents and pronunciations depending on her atmospheric choice for a song) and it just misses the mark entirely!!!!!! 

[Jazzmin]

As a Lana fan, a linguist and an English learner (really struggling with pronunciation), I absolutely love this article! Been trying to identify the accents Lana uses in her songs for a while a) out of sheer curiosity, b) because I'd really like to translate at least some of her songs and in order to do it, I need to find out all those little things that constitute her unique language use. That blog will help me quite a lot, I couldn't be more grateful for the amazing job the author has done.

[Peachycream]

Northern Jersey/NY have a similar accent and I’ve always thought it sounded more jersey when she sings.

[eyelovelefteye]

On 11/25/2018 at 8:17 PM, sparklrtrailrheaven said:

Absolutely neat -- thank you for sharing!!

 

The southern accent in her Lizzy songs has always especially fascinated me -- seeing it broken down this way was super cool.

 

A recording I would love for them to address is the Arlene's Grocery show from 2009, because Lizzy seems halfway between the southern and New York accents there -- on "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.", she fittingly uses the southern accent, but in "Mermaid Motel", she slips back and forth: New York on "you call me lavender," southern on "heavy metal hour on TV", and so on.

 

Oh, and whatever the weird pronunciation of the "ch" in "champagne" and "chandelier" is, lol

i think k was a crip (all the blue/gangster references) & it's something they do with c's -'cristal, cristal champagne glasses' is a good example