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| The official Lana Del Rey thread; New album "Lust for Life" | |
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| Riverwide | Jan 29 2012, 12:31 AM Post #141 |
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Believe it or not, none other than 2002 Fame Academy winner David Sneddon has a co-writing credit on "National Anthem"!
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| Riverwide | Jan 29 2012, 12:35 AM Post #142 |
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4 out of 5 from The Telegraph Lana Del Rey's Born to Die doesn’t walk on water but its misty-eyed retro-pop makes for compelling listening, writes James Lachno. It would take a near miracle for 25-year-old singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey’s debut album to meet expectations. The New Yorker’s debut single, Video Games, inspired sky-high critical hopes. But while Born to Die doesn’t walk on water, its misty-eyed retro-pop makes for compelling listening. Musically, Del Rey – who co-writes each track – has hit upon a sort of 21st-century cracked soul. Grandiose strings and minor-key melodies collide with hip-hop rhythms and gurgling atmospherics, all conveying an epic sadness. Del Rey’s vocals add star quality, flitting between a smoky, sultry purr and playful high-pitched tease, thriving on the drama of her own innate contradictions. She champions hedonism and sexual power one minute; craves the protection of a “screwed up and brilliant” lover the next. Coupled with a film noir-ish attention to detail the “red nail polish” and “Jesus on the dash” – and an obsession with faded post-war glamour, Born to Die often sounds like some great lost soundtrack to LA Confidential. Inevitably, 51 minutes of melodrama becomes draining. But it captures Del Rey’s mystique perfectly. Perhaps success will put a smile on her face. Download this: Summertime Sadness http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/9043970/Lana-Del-Rey-Born-to-Die-CD-review.html |
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| bulgar | Jan 30 2012, 03:29 AM Post #143 |
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#1 & #2 on UK iTunes.
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| bulgar | Jan 30 2012, 04:13 AM Post #144 |
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'Lucky Ones' is the perfect album closer. so fucking EPIC!
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| thesmu | Jan 30 2012, 01:40 PM Post #145 |
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My review if you so desire http://thesmu.tumblr.com/post/16758685404/review-lana-del-rey-born-to-die |
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| Riverwide | Jan 30 2012, 02:38 PM Post #146 |
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Ooh, I desire! Very nicely done. I'm going to have a good nosey around your site now.
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| thesmu | Jan 30 2012, 02:40 PM Post #147 |
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So disgusting
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haahaa thank you! buyer beware as they say
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 12:51 AM Post #148 |
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Interesting interview with her original record label! An interview with David Nichtern, the owner of the record label that first signed Lizzy Grant: Last Friday, the BBC reported that sultry pop songstress Lana Del Rey would be reissuing her debut album Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana Del Rey later this year. The album was originally released on New York indie label 5 Points Records on January 5, 2010, but was pulled after a short digital release with no physical product to match. Grant was signed by musician/producer/5 Points owner David Nichtern to a multi-record deal in 2007, while she was a senior at Fordham University. And Nichtern was no music-biz newbie with no plan in place. He penned the ’70s hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” wrote music for popular soap operas like One Life to Live and As the World Turns, and performed with the likes of Jerry Garcia, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon. Nichtern was all set to release Del Rey’s debut full length, when as she and her management pulled the plug. Hive spoke with Nichtern earlier today about the origins of Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana Del Rey, the buyout and what got him interested in Del Rey’s music. Is it totally weird to see all this interest drummed up around Lizzy? Well, not if you’re used to the entertainment business. Let me put it this way: I always thought she had potential to have a major breakthrough; that’s why we signed her in the first place. So you don’t know when the right conditions will come together to make it happen. When did you all sign her? It was 2007. She was a senior in college and had one more year to go. Our plan was to get it all organized and have a record to go and she’d be touring right after she graduated from college. Like a lot of artists, she morphed. When she first came to us, she was playing plunky little acoustic guitar, [had] sort of straight blonde hair, very cute young woman. A little bit dark, but very intelligent. We heard that. But she very quickly kept evolving. There’s a lot of misinformation that I’ve read that’s dead wrong. Oh yeah? Oh yeah. It’s a little bit of a lesson for me. Nobody even fact-checked. For example, her father never had anything to do financially with supporting her creativity. I don’t know if he was lending her money to live off of, but at least when she was with us, not a penny. I don’t know if he’s rich or not; I met him and he seemed like a pretty ordinary guy. But that whole thing that she was backed by her millionaire dad is a bunch of crap, basically. Certain facts about the record she did with us are completely misshapen. What happened? Did she come to you guys or did you discover her? I had a guy, Van Wilson, who was doing A&R. He found her at a songwriting conference in Brooklyn. I don’t think she won, but I think she had a prize in it. He thought she could be good and put a lot of energy into working with her, as did I. We wanted to develop her so we signed her to a multi-record deal. Then we went out scouting for producers and we got a lot of interest from very interesting people, because she was so unusual at the time. [David] Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, the Strokes) was one of the first few people we reached out to and he responded very, very quickly. She and I went down and met with him and they seemed to hit it off. She was ambitious and liked the fact that he was a known producer. We gave him a deal to make the record, which is another thing. They said the budget was $10,000, which is false. Have you read that? I did read that. Was it more? Less? It was way more. It was an all-in budget of $50,000. And we also gave her a significant advance. So I don’t know why … I’m not sure who’s saying what about anything; it seems like people are grabbing at loose facts, but nobody is verifying with anybody. Did you retain the recording rights? What happened was, we first put out an EP under the name Lizzy Grant. She got quite a nice notoriety from that. A guy at Apple, who’s a programmer for the new stuff, he loved it. So we got featured based on the EP as one of the iTunes emerging artists of that year. So that was a very positive circumstance. And then we were moving towards the whole album and that’s when things shifted. She wanted to change her name, got new management, they wanted to change the record. A lot of things happened that made it difficult to figure out exactly what image she was going to have, what she was going to support, and [she] clearly didn’t seem that excited about the record. The manager came in and was insulting about the record, and I thought, “Wow, we’re an indie label, we got David Kahne to produce this record and you’re negative about it.” I think it had some masterful elements to it and a huge amount of work went into it. He worked hard to get the vocals to where he wanted them to be. It was like any of those projects: there was a certain amount of friction between the artist and the producer. I went in a couple of times to kind of make peace. I always asked Lizzy if she was okay with this, does she want to be doing this? And it was emotional, but she did. So all along the way, I told her the right way to go, with the name, but she made certain decisions. That’s why I laugh pretty hard when someone said she was put into an image. There’s no way you can do that with her. She’s very headstrong and knows what she wants. That’s a mistake, too. She wanted to be known as Lana Del Rey pretty early on. That was her name, she cooked that up, I thought it was a little wack. [Laughs.] She was this beautiful young songwriter named Lizzy Grant, it was a cool name. But she wanted to create this thing, Lana Del Rey. We put out the album digitally and at first she wanted it “R-A-Y” and then we did one version of it that way, and then she wanted to change it to “R-E-Y” so that was now the third name we were using to promote that artist. Shortly after that, her and her new manager came in and said “We want to get this off the market. We’re going for a completely new deal. We’ll buy you out of the deal.” So we made a separation agreement. So that’s why it never came out. They literally insisted. That’s in the contract. We can’t have any reference to it anywhere. They were following up on it weekly, “Oh, there’s an obscure website in outer-Mongolia that still has a reference to it, can you tell them to pull it down.” We did. We took it off iTunes and never released it as a hard CD. When I read that it was shelved, that borders on libelous. It’s annoying. So how does the time frame of her releases look? Her first release was an EP called Kill Kill under her name Lizzy Grant. It’s one of her songs — a very good song, by the way. And it had three songs on it. That EP got posted on iTunes on October 21, 2008. That was our attempt to create a little buzz and begin to work with her live act. Then we were going to take a little time to release the full album. And that got picked up, as I said, by iTunes. There was a little bit of a buzz. About a year later — January 5, 2010 — we released a full album, digital from iTunes and all the digital suppliers. It was called Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana Del Ray. At that point, her name was spelled “R-A-Y.” I really want to emphasize that all the spelling are attributed to her. She was trying to figure out who she was. After that, she had another shift and decided “R-E-Y.” We did a minimal run of those CD’s that had “R-E-Y.” The reason we did that [album title] is because people knew who she was and we were trying to cross her over. At her request, we signed a new agreement with her on April 1st — which is only three months later — which she asked us to shelve the record. We took the record down at her request. There was a small run of a physical CD? Only to sell at gigs and to give as promo to people. The hard CD was not released. We put a lot of money into getting her live act together, marketing people, promotions. I’d say we easily spent … take the $50,000 on the budget, take the advance we gave her, and then you can double that all up again. Anybody that says there wasn’t a certain amount of investment here is not telling the truth. Did you recoup all the cost? We have a deal with her going forward. We don’t have ownership or control, but we have participation in that old record. And we have participation in her new records. That’s how you do these things. What’s the stake in the new records? We have a participation going forward in her first couple of records going forward as a result of her getting out of her deal. And we still have serious revenue participation if she does anything with her old one. I hope she puts it out. I think it’s a great record. To clarify a few things about Lana. Or Lizzy, whatever you want to call her for this story. One, she’s a great artist. I feel really bad she’s getting a bum rap for that. I thought of her as a “once in a decade” artist. You were excited. I was excited. She was very original. I didn’t think she was the same as the other alt-indie girls. She also is a very intelligent and creative person. She would ride around on the subways all night sometimes, writing lyrics and stuff like that. When I was pitching her, I said, “Here’s somebody with the outer manifestation of Marilyn Monroe with the inner manifestation of Leonard Cohen.” That’s how I saw her. For people to say she’s just this created thing is wrong. She’s probably going to continue to evolve and in a way, that probably didn’t get her too much time to do that, now she’s engrossed in the public. As an artist, I’m very supportive of her. Born to Die is out this week on Interscope. Read Hive’s interview with Lana Del Rey here. http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-first-album-5-points-records-interview/ |
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| bulgar | Jan 31 2012, 12:58 AM Post #149 |
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i'm glad she got out of her deal. the first album is very hit-and miss though, mostly disappointing. |
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| bulgar | Jan 31 2012, 12:58 AM Post #150 |
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have had the album on repeat since it leaked. ![]() getting both the regular and special editions! |
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 12:59 AM Post #151 |
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Performance of "Video Games" on French TV today. http://fuckyeahlanadelrey.tumblr.com/post/16780700553/lana-performs-video-games-on-le-grand-journal |
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 12:59 AM Post #152 |
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It's insanely good. I wouldn't dream of skipping any of the songs! |
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 12:39 PM Post #153 |
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Lana Del Rey currently outselling Top 10 with debut album 'Born To Die' Lana Del Rey is on course to claim her first UK number one album. The singer released her debut LP Born To Die on Monday (January 30) and is currently topping the midweek chart. The new collection is outselling the rest of the Top 10 after just two days on sale, according to the Official Charts Company. A full list of this week's midweek chart positions will be released tomorrow (February 1) between 3.30pm and 4pm, but it's expected that Del Rey will continue to claim the primary spot throughout the rest of the week. Songwriter David Sneddon - who won Fame Academy back in 2002 - has defended Del Rey from claims that she is manufactured, saying that her lyrics are "incredibly personal to her". |
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 03:50 PM Post #154 |
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4 out of 5 from Q magazine!
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 10:00 PM Post #155 |
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Last week's #1 album in the UK sold 20,607 copies. Lana sold 50,000 copies alone on its first DAY of release yesterday! ![]() |
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 10:02 PM Post #156 |
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#1 and #2 on US iTunes, despite not having a big hit single over there yet!
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| bulgar | Jan 31 2012, 10:36 PM Post #157 |
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ordered the special edition today!
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| Riverwide | Jan 31 2012, 11:16 PM Post #158 |
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She said in an interview at the weekend that her German label(Universal) would like "Dark Paraside" to be the next single. |
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| bulgar | Jan 31 2012, 11:31 PM Post #159 |
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for all i care, they can pick ANY track they like. they're all equally amazing!
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| bulgar | Jan 31 2012, 11:31 PM Post #160 |
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(some more than others) |
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