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The official Lana Del Rey thread; New album "Lust for Life"
Topic Started: Sep 27 2011, 12:15 PM (11,963 Views)
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Queen Lana will be at the EMA which are starting in a bit. Dunno if she's performing though.
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Read on Popjustice that she's presenting Best Female (what a travesty that she's not nominated) so off to watch them now!
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Uncharacteristically wide-of-the-mark review from Slant:

2.5/5

Lana Del Rey's new EP, Paradise, serves as a closing bookend on a year that was kicked off by the singer's previous EP, which had a paired but opposite function. Lana Del Rey served as an introduction to the sleepy-voiced singer, assembling some of the strongest songs from Born to Die. Paradise is longer, but less essential, more a summary of her persona than an attempt at developing it.

Nothing here is on the same level as Born to Die, with only a few tracks, like "Gods and Monsters" and "Burning Desire," attaining a similar degree of snappy, mesmerizing languorousness. For some artists, this kind of grubby cash grab might come off as disingenuous, but it fits right in with Del Rey's brilliantly conceived façade, which has continued to prove perfectly divisive, infuriating just the right amount of people, inspiring a healthy spate of handwringing defenses, takedowns, and general examinations, hitting the sweet spot for millions of others. She's become one of pop's most clearly sketched figures, and one of its most recognizable faces, despite existing as a purposeful void of original content, an anti-entity formed from the shadows of Americana imagery.

Paradise employs the same hyperlink style as Born to Die, icily referential robo-pop that's teasing but always reticent, with songs that demand attention while refusing to be anything but somnolent. Yet while the songs on the album were the right mix of alluring, mystifying, and grating, the ones here mostly comprise the latter two qualities. "Yayo" is a thin bundle of Lolita imprecations and sun-baked poolside sexuality, wrapped in wispy string production. It coasts on the same kind of rhythmic repetition that crops up on tracks like "America" and "Body Electric," all of them leaning too heavily on a pre-established atmospheric skeleton. "Cola" is the opposite, pushing Del Rey's pop-art take on signifier-addled femme fatality too far into the realm of cheekiness, but also shattering a persona that already exists inside a hall of mirrors.

But songs like those don't feel as exploratory as they do accidental. Torn between these moderately interesting castoffs and the aforementioned bits of wheel-spinning lethargy, the EP is a mixed bag. "Blue Velvet" functions as a serviceably creepy cover of a song whose eerie potentiality was already explored in the eponymous David Lynch film. It's a fitting selection, and with her dead-eyed doll stare and insistently flat rendering of mid-century American tropes crossed with dilettantish criminal aspirations, Del Rey seems herself more Lynchian than ever on Paradise, with the drugged sexuality of a mannequin halfway come to life.
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I haven't heard most of the new songs but 'the drugged sexuality of a mannequin halfway come to life' is a perfect description of why I like her :lol2:
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She pretty much confirms that she's been writing music for Baz Luhrman's "The Great Gatsby" at the 5 minute mark.

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GaGa, now Lana. This will be good!
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Born To Die, Lana Del Rey
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Good forthright interview with SPIEGEL...


Lana Del Rey: I'd like to ask you something beforehand: Do you like my music?

KulturSPIEGEL: Yes. Why do you ask?

Lana Del Rey: Oh thanks, thank you, that's surprising. Most journalists hate my songs. Believe me, I speak from experience, because I've been insulted extensively this year.

KulturSPIEGEL: You've also been heavily criticised as a pretty marionette of cunning music managers. Would that have happened to a man?

Lana Del Rey: I've been approached with the alleged misogyny a lot but that's not what it's about in my case. I think that's something personal. My songs which I really do write myself, are very intimate and because such feelings seem shady to a lot of people, they conclude that I have to be a marionette. But that just illustrates their helplessness.

KulturSPIEGEL: What's the difference between Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, which is your real name, and Lana Del Rey, your pseudonym?

Lana Del Rey: Nothing. We are one. I just thought that this name fits my music better. It's exotic and arcane. But when I spend time with my friends, I don't behave any different than now when I'm in a hotel suite and talking to you as Lana Del Rey.

KulturSPIEGEL: Do you feel underestimated?

Lana Del Rey: Why should I? Just because many American journalists can't stand me? My album is a multi-million bestseller. I have even won awards.Only in my home country, the USA, that are the inspiration of all of my songs, one doesn't know how to treat me. That's also why I moved away from there and why I live in London now.

KulturSPIEGEL: What would you have done if you wouldn't have had any success as Lana Del Rey? Was there a backup plan?

Lana Del Rey: Music was my backup plan. A hobby. I worked as a social worker in New York for many years. I had been working at a homeless shelter and rehabilitation centres for alcoholics and drug addicts since I was 18. Music was the luxury after that for a long time. I'm great at getting people in need their social security numbers and -cards back. That's my true passion.

KulturSPIEGEL: And how did you get to your record deal?

Lana Del Rey:I took part in an amateur-songwriter-contest. I didn't win. But one of the judges had a little label and offered me a record deal and a producer. I took the pseudonym of Lizzy Grant and recorded an album at night for seven months that was shelved for two years in the hope that a bigger company would acquire the record. But that didn't happen. The songs were dark, not suited for a wide audience. Besides, the back-and-forth of the music managers was tedious: people that first tell you you're brilliant think you're missing something one week later. I then came to terms with not making any music. Except just for myself. I produced video clips with friends which I put on the internet myself. Just like "Video Games" with which I got myself a record deal after all.

KulturSPIEGEL: The video to your song "Video Games" has been clicked on nearly 50 million times on YouTube. Where would you be without the internet?

Lana Del Rey: I have no idea, I've asked myself that. The internet is something abstract that I probably haven't understood until now. Who are all of the people that are seeing my videos? I know neither them nor their faces which makes my success seem surreal.

KulturSPIEGEL: Do you read the comments on YouTube?

Lana Del Rey: Sometimes. You have to be careful otherwise you'll go crazy. Sometimes I'll react to something. I'll write a comment, ordinarily, under my real name. That will set off excitement on the internet. I just have to write 'Shut up' somewhere and Millions of people think it's great. I find that creepy.

KulturSPIEGEL: Do you still feel the need to google your name?

Lana Del Rey: Earlier, before I became famous, I did that a lot. I only do that rarely now. A year ago, nobody was writing anything about me so the googling was relaxed. Now, it scares me more. The internet is full of aggressive people. I don't even want to know how my new record "Paradise" is being teared to shreds these days on the internet. But in a few weeks, the curiosity will probably overcome me.

KulturSPIEGEL: Do you use social networks?

Lana Del Rey: As to Twitter and Facebooks, I pulled myself back privately for a long time. I only use the networks as a marketing tool. When I'm bringing out a new record, I'll upload a few photos. Nothing more. I'm more interested in other aspects of the internet. For example, I'm planning to found a little foundation. For that kind of work, the internet is great. We want to encourage thinkers with up to $200,000 - people that care for the sustainability of this planet or are improving the usability of social networks.

KulturSPIEGEL: Is it exhausting to be the protagonist of the Lan Del Rey-Show?

Lana Del Rey: It depends. In France I'm responsible for enormous crowds, in the USA I'm rarely recognised. I love sitting in coffee shops and reading the newspaper. That's still not a problem in New York. All right, sometimes someone will come up to me and say: "I'm sorry, you look like Lana Del Rey." And I'll respond: "Thank you, that's very nice of you." And I'll be happy.
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that was a good one indeed!
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Nice. I have to admit that's the first interview I've read (or seen) with her. I have a bit of a fear of shattering the image when it comes to Lana..
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Do american journalists really hate her? I mean apart from the SNL thing.
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AMAZING
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:rotfl: Genius!
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Is Pepsi Cola the next single!
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Album released on the 30th of January!

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Lany Del Ray is gross she just has to sing a song about her vagina doesnt she?
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