Lana Del Rey ['Lust for Life' is out now???]

[Shaun]

-uKl3xeBVY4

this is weird. She looks unique, I don't know what it is. But the song is nice.

[Chuck]

4Gg8pZYjCTM

[Shaun]

:lovedup:

[Marc]

Are these her actual videos? :conf2:

[Chuck]

:laugh: They do look amateur but it just makes them more charming :lovedup:

[Tom4784]

HO1OV5B_JDw

I quite like it.

[Chuck]

So does Shaun :laugh:

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180624&highlight=lana :p

[Shaun]

:bored:
honestly.

[Tom4784]

pffft, if it's not on the front page then it doesn't exist.

[Shaun]

you aren't on the front page :idc:

[Tom4784]

Go back to page 34 you irrelevant hoebag.

[Shaun]

merge these threads or I'll have you fired.

[Tom4784]

Ugh, I hate modding when it doesn't involve something fun like banning people.

[Shaun]

Ban Kerry whilst you're at it, from what I hear she's been milking her newfound status

[Shaun]

omg... the b-side to Video Games is ****ing gorgeous (it uses the same chords as Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game").

8t-I-Lqy06g

[Tom4784]

<3 I love her.

[Shaun]

I'm obsessed with Blue Jeans. It's gorgeous.

[Marc]

This woman is beautiful

[Callum]

Video Games

:lovedup:

[Shaun]

fPb6O52_rYU

and she's recorded a song with Damon Albarn and Bobby Womack :amazed:

Pitchfork
Lana Del Rey has recorded a track with Blur/Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn, XL Recordings owner Richard Russell, and esteemed soul artist Bobby Womack, as she has announced on Twitter. Womack has worked with Gorillaz in the past, and Russell and Albarn recently teamed up on the DRC Music project.

[King Gizzard]

fit.

really fit

[Marc]

Kasabian covered 'Video Games'

sx1b1en2D_M

I don't mind it, but that's just because I love the song so much.

[Marc]

fPb6O52_rYU

and she's recorded a song with Damon Albarn and Bobby Womack :amazed:

As soon as Jools said 'Lana..Del Rey' I just breathed the words "oh goddd"

:love:

[Shaun]

I like the Kasabian cover... I was intrigued to see what it'd sound like with an acoustic guitar.

[Tom4784]

Bitch needs to bring her album out already.

[Jords]

Video Games :love:

Its so unusual.

[Marc]

Video Games @ No.12 in the Charts :love:

[Shaun]

Lana Del Rey stopped by French television show Taratata and delivered a performance of the popular "Video Games," but that's not all she had in store for the French viewers. Lana also announced that her debut album will be titled Born To Die (being spelled Born 2 Die by some).

That is also the title of her next single, which she has performed live and is planning a video for with director Yoann “Woodkid” Lemoine. Woodkid has worked with Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, but is also known for his more experimental solo work.

The tentative release date for the album is January 23 in the UK, according to Amazon.

my birthday :amazed:

[Shaun]

-cough- greg get it for me -cough-

[Jords]

Not long :amazed:

[Shaun]

album artwork:

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379077_283264111716046_117713628271096_729147_9409 21969_n.jpg

out January 30. The single of the same name is out January 23.

[Tom4784]

I can't wait for this album, it's hte first one I've been excited about in a while.

[Marc]

I can't wait, this will be brilliant.

I hope the UK take well to her, she deserves it!

[Marc]

my birthday :amazed:

What's your address? trollolol

[Marc]

d3LELrkrfS8

[Marc]

A lot different from the three we're used to:

j7etR3yVT1M

[Smithy]

She has a whole album which she released under a different name, Im gonna get round to downloading it and all her leaks this week :love:

[Marc]

Sounds good. I need to get it

[Niall]

I can't wait for this album lsjkghfjklsahg

[Doogle]

I can't wait. :amazed:

[Smithy]

Off To The Races is on iTunes, idk if it's a buzz single or w/e but it's there

[Callum]

Off to the Races is the Free Single of the Week on iTunes :amazed:

[Shaun]

A 'new' song, YAYO, was posted on her YouTube on the 23rd.

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It's been around for a while apparently - but oh well - it's lovely :lovedup:

[Benjamin]

It's not often I say this, but I really cannot stand this lady, her voice or her music, which surprises me as I should love her.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Hate her, terrible voice

[Marc]

Ben and Jack are now off my Christmas card list

[Marc]

YAYO :love:

[Tom4784]

YAYO's nice, not too keen on Off to the Races though, might be a bit of a grower.

[Marc]

It's always a grower when I listen to Lana Del Rey's music

[Jords]

Ben and MMI made me actually get bit of sick come up. What disgusting people.

[Shaun]

indeed

[Tom4784]

Off to the Races has grown on me, when it kicks off I'm just all like

http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy243/torchtastic1/GIFs/aaa08810.gif

[Ninastar]

Okay so I now really like Born To Die. Her voice is just :love:

[Doogle]

Off To The Races is my favourite of all songs so far. Her voice on it my god :lovedup:

[Shaun]

The president of Polydor Records has hit out at claims that Lana Del Rey is in any way manufactured.

Since breaking out with 'Video Games' last year, the Lake Placid singer has faced criticism over being somehow 'inauthentic' since it transpired that she has released music under other names in the past.

But now, Ferdy Unger-Hamilton has insisted that he did not sign her up when he first met her, a year prior to her signing a deal with him back in September.

He told Q: "Lana knows what she wants like few artists I've ever met.

"She likes to control every aspect of her career. Often we come across someone who is really good at writing songs or singing them, but Lana is that rare thing – someone who can do it all."

'Video Games' became a viral smash when it emerged online last year, months before its release. She is now set to release her debut album 'Born To Die' on January 30, preceded by the single of the same name on January 23.

I hate how virtually every female musician is lumbered with these criticisms but men aren't :suspect: you can't get more manufactured than Bieber, Usher or Dappy but they seem to get away with it

[King Gizzard]

just jealous of her lips

[Shaun]

A track for the album called 'National Anthem' has leaked... but I don't think I can post links :tongue: not that that stops smithy glare/

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i can

http://idolator.com/6130642/this-is-lana-del-rey-national-anthem-this-is-what-makes-us-girls

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

national anthem is amazing

the other one is boring

[Shaun]

I have a demo of it but idk if that's the version that's leaked
-checks-

[Shaun]

oh it is

[InOne]

I listened to that song and it's pretty good. Although had no idea who she was

[Smithy]

A track for the album called 'National Anthem' has leaked... but I don't think I can post links :tongue: not that that stops smithy glare/

Won't bloody bother in future :hmph:

[Shaun]

posting them on my wall doesn't count ah\

[Smithy]

Tracklisting :D


Tracklisting
1. Born to Die
2. Off to the Races
3. Blue Jeans
4. Video Games
5. Diet Mountain Dew
6. National Anthem
7. Dark Paradise
8. Radio
9. Carmen
10. Million Dollar Man
11. Summertime Sadness
12. This Is What Makes Us Girls

[Shaun]

I have all of those except Carmen, Dark Paradise, Million Dollar Man, Summertime Sadness and Radio :(

still, 5 new songs :amazed:

[Jords]

Tracklisting :D


Tracklisting
1. Born to Die
2. Off to the Races
3. Blue Jeans
4. Video Games
5. Diet Mountain Dew
6. National Anthem
7. Dark Paradise
8. Radio
9. Carmen
10. Million Dollar Man
11. Summertime Sadness
12. This Is What Makes Us Girls

Excited :D

[Marc]

Off to the races is SFG!!! :love:

[Marc]

Tracklisting :D


Tracklisting
1. Born to Die
2. Off to the Races
3. Blue Jeans
4. Video Games
5. Diet Mountain Dew
6. National Anthem
7. Dark Paradise
8. Radio
9. Carmen
10. Million Dollar Man
11. Summertime Sadness
12. This Is What Makes Us Girls

Ahh! Excited :D

[Benjamin]

Ok, I have come around, I actually really like her. Blue Jeans. :love:

Even 'Video Games' has grown on me.

[Marc]

National Anthem :love:

Wow.

[Marc]

Ok, I have come around, I actually really like her. Blue Jeans. :love:

Even 'Video Games' has grown on me.

they all do :idc:

[Shaun]

Ben :lovedup: -gives you some collagen as a welcome pack-

[Callum]

She is performing on The Jonathan Ross Show tonight :D

[Tom4784]

There isn't a song of hers I don't like so far.

[Shaun]

:amazed: excellent.

This didn't make the album but it's a great song :love:

Da4aMT0sefY

[Marc]

She on JR next week?

[Marc]

She is performing on The Jonathan Ross Show tonight :D

Ohh :D

There isn't a song of hers I don't like so far.

Sameeee

[Benjamin]

Ben :lovedup: -gives you some collagen as a welcome pack-

Wonderful! Do I get a years subscription to Vanity Fair too? :amazed:

[Smithy]

@LanaDelRey
Lana Del Rey
the versions of National Anthem and This Is What makes Us Girls that have been leaked are demos + sound nothing like they do on the album.

[Marc]

:o even better

[Marc]

I can't wait to hear what NA sounds like proper :love:

[Marc]

She's on! She's on! :amazed:

[Shaun]

David Cameron has revealed that he is a big fan of Lana Del Rey and Band Of Horses.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the Prime Minister said the US country rock band and 'Video Games' singer were his favourite new artists.

Cameron, who became Prime Minister in 2010, also revealed his dislike for Bruno Mars and Katy Perry, who he described as "appalling", but admitted that they are "beginning to infect his iPod" as his children are big fans.

The Conservative Party leader has previously expressed his love of Florence And The Machine, The Killers, The xx and, most famously, The Smiths. His well known love of The Smiths was not welcomed by either Morrissey or Johnny Marr, with Marr saying that he would "forbid" the Prime Minister from liking his former band.

Marr tweeted at the time: "David Cameron, stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don't. I forbid you to like it". Morrissey subsequently backed his former bandmate's stance and has hit out at David Cameron several times since then.

:suspect:

[Jords]

What a legend, loves Lana hates Bruno, fantastic.

[Doogle]

I spent the whole of PE today singing Video Games with my best friend :love: I convinced him to get her album. That's 1 more that will be sold :amazed:

[Locke.]

http://www.last.fm/music/Lana+del+Rey

Look at the 6th artist in the similar artists box :worship:

[Tom4784]

http://www.last.fm/music/Lana+del+Rey

Look at the 6th artist in the similar artists box :worship:

*vomits*

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

I spent the whole of PE today singing Video Games with my best friend :love: I convinced him to get her album. That's 1 more that will be sold :amazed:

http://i.imgur.com/qHbsu.png

[Marc]

Blue Ribbon/Gramma, Mermaid Motel, Kinda Outta Luck, Smarty, Raise Me Up :love:

[Smithy]

Why hasn't it leaked yet :X

[Marc]

+ Pawn Shop Blues

[Marc]

I've pre-ordered it, I'm actually paying for it

[Doogle]

I'm going to get it from HMV on release day hopefullly

[Shaun]

she performed on SNL last night... and again was terrible.

dhhBtHh459k

This is really frustrating. Why does she keep changing the melody and singing out of tune?! It's ****ing awful.

[Tom4784]

Juiliette Lewis had a go at her but no cared since she hasn't been relevant since the 90's.

[Shaun]

she also did Blue Jeans:

J90Rgppgayw

[Shaun]

-doesn't think Juliette Lewis has ever been relevant-

[Tom4784]

She did that one film with De Niro that won oscars and had a faily music career. She's like a white Jennifer Hudson but more embarassing.

[Marc]

-doesn't think Juliette Lewis has ever been relevant-

She did that one film with De Niro that won oscars and had a faily music career. She's like a white Jennifer Hudson but more embarassing.

From Dusk Till Dawn? :amazed:

[Marc]

lulz

[Shaun]

RqI8s1JynW8

her talking voice omg :lovedup:

[Tom4784]

I love her.

[Shaun]

http://i.imgur.com/HtOLv.png

yeah you better bitch :suspect:

[CharlieO]

I love this woman.

[Marc]

Love her, but isn't she loaded?

LOL her advice doesn't really help most of her fans.. who don't have the money that she does.

She is the daughter of domain investor and millionaire Rob Grant.

yes yes yes, it doesn't necessarily mean she is rich herself but I'm sure she wouldn't have been left in the cold if she ran into any trouble.

[Marc]

http://i.imgur.com/HtOLv.png

yeah you better bitch :suspect:

:hmph: That bitch has no right, her opinion is nothing.

[Tom4784]

Silly tart.

[CharlieO]

Diet Mtn Dew

J'adore

[vortex]

Her SNL performance was a mess but she seems like a nice girl and her music is really good, she needs to work on her stage presence.

[Marc]

Lana seriously.. People are starting to bitch about your singing live s**t

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

myspace :conf2:

[CharlieO]

Is she real ~controversial~

http://img003.lazygirls.info/people/lana_del_rey/lana_del_rey_as_lizzie_grant_ooIN2RF.sized.jpg

[Marc]

she looked fugly as Lizzy Grant.

So glad she changed

[CharlieO]

This is What Makes Us Girls Demo >> Real one

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

national anthem demo is better too

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

S27WhiCFebU

sAcNJAKhSVc

:bored:

[Smithy]

IT FINALLY ****ING LEAKED

AHHHH -wees self-

[Tom4784]

IT FINALLY ****ING LEAKED

AHHHH -wees self-

How peculiar, I woke up this morning and the first thought that popped into my head was that it had leaked.

[Marc]

Why is NA not as good as the Demo :sad:

[Smithy]

Dark Paradise :love:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

omg link plz somebody

[Ninastar]

i love her face

[Niall]

Someone link me. I'm desperate to hear Dark Paradise. :sad:

[Callum]

Album:

http://t.co/tLUuGBTY

[Ninastar]

t'is no longer available

[Niall]

I is downloading now tho

[Doogle]

47 mins left :bored:

My internet was good earlier :nono:

[King Gizzard]

Favouirte track so far is the Bitches Aint Sh*t cover

[Niall]

I really love Dark Paradise :love:

I'm gonna listen in full now~

[Shaun]

that's such an obvious choice, i think 'Suck My Dictionary' is underrated

[Niall]

Okay I've started listening now (I was wrestling with Spotify to make it work on there but no joy) and I'm really like it. :love: I love her style so much.

[Jords]

I downloaded it last night :amazed:

Without You :worship: :worship:

Im also loving Summertime Sadness, National Anthem and Dark Paradise. And of course Born To Die and Video Games.

I think if she cut a few of the songs, which are a bit samey and not as superior as others, it would be an even stronger album.

[Smithy]

Why is Lucky Ones only a bonus track :sad: that song is amazing

[Shaun]

-listens-

[Shaun]

Carmen, Million Dollar Man :amazed: :worship:

[Smithy]

http://i43.tinypic.com/33m213c.jpg

:(

[Marc]

I can't wait. I'm waiting and actually spending real money on this bint

[Shaun]

what's with the Carmen picture?

[Smithy]

It's the next single and thats the cover :(

[Shaun]

...

-deletes everything; pretends i never liked her-

[vortex]

Dark Paradise, Radio and National Anthem are my new favourites!

[Shaun]

BBC now reports (via New York's Vulture) that Del Rey has purchased the rights to her 2010 debut album, Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey, and says she'll release it "maybe in late summer."

Of the album, Del Rey told BBC, "I had signed to an independent label but they couldn't fund the release of it. People act like it's so shrouded in mystery, the 'forgotten terrible album.' But if you look on YouTube, all 13 tracks are available with millions of views, so it's not like no-one's heard them. We were all proud of it. It's pretty good."

The record appeared on iTunes for two months in 2010, but has yet to see a proper commercial release. You can get a taste of the singer's previous aesthetic at her former band Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena's ReverbNation page, which remains up and running with the tracks "For K Part 2" and "Disco". The page is filed under "Folk/Glam/Experimental."

:/

[Vladimir]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Die_%28Lana_Del_Rey_album%29#Critical_rece ption

Amazing reviews. :love: The album's pure perfection imo, it deserves to smash.

[Shaun]

:amazed: t4p vladimir

[Shaun]

oh the Independent being as joyless as ever :bored:

[CharlieO]

Okay what is up with all these songs I do not know. I downloaded it before all this megaupload shiz happened and I only got 12 songs and half of them are crappy live quality. Linkz please even tho I already preordered real album.

[Shaun]

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KVOVz7nnbtw

:amazed: she can sing live <3

[Shaun]

omg i cannot @ the BTD performance

:worship: amazing

[Shaun]

OBa4L8F-urE&lc

Top Comments

@LawrenceTurner1987 I definitely do. I feel sorry for this **** though xxx
LanaDelRey 58 minutes ago 32

I love LDR, even she would admit though this is kinda funny!!
LawrenceTurner1987 6 days ago 26

[CharlieO]

It is officially released. I got it off iTunes. Amazing.

There is not one song I dislike.

Preferred the demo of National Anthem and This Is What Makes Us Girls though :(
Loved all the weird speaking and stuff on the original National Anthem

Summertime Sadness :lovedup:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

radio :lovedup:

[Marc]

I am liking it.. but I do prefer some of the Demo's over the final pieces :(

[Marc]

Those LiveLounge performances are great :lovedup: she is good live.. I guess on JR and other shows she had a drink or few? That could have been the reason she sounded a bit off.

[Marc]

BTD single No.15 in Charts

Video Games No.20

[CharlieO]

I miss all the national anthem stuff from the demo :bawling:

[Marc]

NA is all weird and different the demo is so much better that the now 'official' one

[CharlieO]

Diet Mtn Dew has also changed loads :/

Seems like the individually has been stripped from some of the songs.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Seems like the individually has been stripped from some of the songs.

what

[Tom4784]

I actually prefer the album version of NA now to the demo, it's a grower.

[Shaun]

What happens to a dream fulfilled? More specifically, an American dream fulfilled, rags turning to riches with the snap of a manicured finger, kissing James Dean in Gatsby's swimming pool, getting played on the radio. This is a central question animating Lana Del Rey's Born to Die. Our heroine has all the love, diamonds, and Diet Mountain Dew she could ask for, yet still sings, "I wish I was dead," sounding utterly incapable of joy. To paraphrase Liz Phair, if you get everything you wish for and you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

Given the waves of hype and backlash over the last six months, it can be easy to forget that we're here, first and foremost, because of a song. "Video Games" struck a nerve not just because it was an introduction to Del Rey's captivating voice but because it seemed to suggest something as-yet-unarticulated about the way we live today. Whatever her intention, as a metaphor about disconnect and detachment from our own desires, "Video Games" felt frank, pointed, and true, and it had a chord progression and melody to match. The ultimate disappointment of Born to Die, then, is how out of touch it feels not just with the world around it, but with the simple business of human emotion.

The singer born Elizabeth "Lizzy" Grant may have made her mark with a grainy homemade video that brought to mind other grainy homemade videos in the indie sphere, but the slick sound and sentiment of "Radio", Born to Die's most straightforward statement of purpose ("Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio/ How do you like me now?"), places it firmly within the realm of big-budget chart pop. Born to Die was produced by Emile Haynie, whose credits include Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Kid Cudi, and the album's impressively lush atmosphere might be the one thing that will unite its detractors and apologists.

The album's recurring themes ooze out of every note: sex, drugs, and glitter hover in the yawning atmosphere around Del Rey's breathy vocals. There are strings and trip-hop beats and bits of 1950s twang, and the melodies, assembled with assistance from hired-gun songwriters like Mike Daly (Plain White Ts, Whiskeytown) and Rick Nowels (Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth") are built to stick. But for an album that aims for fickle radio listeners, many of its pop signifiers feel stale and ill-fitting. On "Million Dollar Man", Del Rey drawls like a highly medicated Fiona Apple, and "Diet Mountain Dew" and "Off to the Races" aim for chatty, sparkling opulence, this singer doesn't have the personality to bring it off.

The album's point of view-- if you could call it that-- feels awkward and out of date. Whether you take a line like "Money is the reason we exist/ Everybody knows that it's a fact/ Kiss kiss" with a 10-carat grain of salt is up to you, but even as a jab at the chihuahua-in-Paris-Hilton's-handbag lifestyle, it feels limp and pointless (unlike, say, Lily Allen's mock-vapid but slyly observant 2008 single "The Fear"). Still, the dollar signs in its eyes aren't an inherent strike against Born to Die: Even in the wake of an international debt crisis and the Occupy movement, it was hard not to fall for Watch the Throne. But that's because Jay and Kanye made escapist fantasy sound so fun. Del Rey's gem-encrusted dreamworld, meanwhile, relies on clichés ("God you're so handsome/ Take me to the Hamptons") rather than specific evocations. It's a fantasy world that makes you long for reality.

And speaking of fantasy: The conversation surrounding Lana Del Rey has underscored some seriously depressing truths about sexism in music. She was subjected to the kind of intense scrutiny-- about her backstory and especially her appearance-- that's generally reserved for women only. But the sexual politics of Born to Die are troubling too: You'd be hard pressed to find any song on which Del Rey reveals an interiority or figures herself as anything more complex than an ice-cream-cone-licking object of male desire (a line in "Blue Jeans", "I will love you till the end of time/ I would wait a million years," sums up about 65% of the album's lyrical content). Even when Del Rey offers something that could be read as a critique ("This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first"), she asks that we make no effort to change, escape, or transcend the way things are ("Don't cry about it/ Don't cry about it.") In terms of its America-sized grandeur and its fixation with the emptiness of dreams, Born to Die attempts to serve as Del Rey's own beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy, but there's no spark and nothing at stake.

The critic Ellen Willis once wrote of Bette Midler: "Blatant artifice can, in the right circumstances, be poignantly honest, and she expresses the tension between image and inner self that all of us-- but especially women-- experience." But Born to Die never allows tension or complexity into the mix, and its take on female sexuality ends up feeling thoroughly tame. For all of its coos about love and devotion, it's the album equivalent of a faked orgasm-- a collection of torch songs with no fire.


Pitchfork's review, and a 5.5/10 score.
***** :bored:

[Shaun]

they also put Off to the Races in their "best new music" section, rofl. oh dear.

[Tom4784]

What a bunch of messes they are.

[Jordan.]

Dark Paradise :love:

[Marc]

So what if the album doesn't adhere to reality? And that it's more of a fantasy.

I love that about LDR, she's a sort of enigma that captivates me, I don't relate her music to my real life, I sit here listening to her words and try to work out what her life is like.

Pitchfork can go ****** themselves. Yeah they get to have an opinion, but I'm here to tell them that their opinion is pure dog sh*t.

[CharlieO]

I just love it and I do not care what anyone else thinks of it. I don't want her to become the new GaGa/Adele I like her as she is.

[Tom4784]

I just think they missed the point of it really, they overanalysed it too much.

[Marc]

She's got fans because she's not like any of those. She's got an old sound and old traditions can really be felt in her songs. That's why I love it, I don't want all this feminist crap :nono:

[CharlieO]

She's got fans because she's not like any of those. She's got an old sound and old traditions can really be felt in her songs. That's why I love it, I don't want all this feminist crap :nono:

I know I love her old feeling. I think she is like them at all. But I do not want her to get popular like they did. Like so overexposed that it ruins the feeling behind the songs.

[Shaun]

hmm. it's getting lukewarm reviews all around (except the Independent who gave it 5/5).

[nicole_burks]

Her song Video Games

I love it :lovedup:

[CharlieO]

Her song Video Games

I love it :lovedup:

Download her album. There is not one bad song.

[CharlieO]

Ok I really like the new bit in this is what makes us girls that whispers 'Take A Shot'.

[CharlieO]

The 'Digital Booklet' that comes with the iTunes download has not been updated with lyric changes from the demo. If anyone has the official CD check the printed one?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

million dollar man sounds like a spice girls song but i cant remember which one

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

video games > summertime sadness > radio > diet mountain dew > carmen > off to the races > the rest

[Doogle]

Finally listened on Spotify and then downloaded.

Amazing :love:

[Marc]

I listened to her yesterday whilst upset, she almost got me comitting suicide :joker:

The album is amazing though

[Marc]

hmm. it's getting lukewarm reviews all around (except the Independent who gave it 5/5).

We like her that's all that matters.

She's noticed some of the bad reviews though she tweeted something about it yesterday...

[CharlieO]

I listened to her yesterday whilst upset, she almost got me comitting suicide :joker:

The album is amazing though

I love meaningful music when your sad. It makes you more sad but gets all yo feelings out.

[Niall]

I like the album but all the songs are too similar. It can get a bit boring. :/

[Marc]

Niall.. you're too similiar. And you're boring.

[Marc]

I keep thinking she's singing 'Diamond Dew' and now 'Diet Mount Dew'

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

I like the album but all the songs are too similar. It can get a bit boring. :/

thisss omg

[Shaun]

i'm not in love with the album. it's alright. but then again it contains 'Video Games', 'Blue Jeans' and 'Born to Die' so it's already slightly amazing.

[Doogle]

Listen to them individually and they get a lot better :love: Just obv don't overplay them individually.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

idg all the love for dark paradise :suspect: radio + summertime sadness >>>>>>> dark paradise

[Doogle]

Radio is my favourite I think.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i hope carmen isnt actually the next single :suspect:

summertime sadness plz

[Callum]

I bought the album on Monday and I just love it. So many good songs, first album I've bought in ages and it was well worth every penny. A true masterpiece of an album and it's deserving of all the success it's getting around the world, so refreshing to have someone like Lana in the music industry doing well when nowadays the charts are filled with so much mainstream crap. Faves: Blue Jeans, Video Games, National Anthem, Dark Paradise (although I do find this a tad overrated), Million Dollar Man, Radio and Lolita but they're all brilliant. :worship: Shame Carmen is the next single, I do like it but I personally think there's much better on the album and I don't see it doing well on the charts.

[Callum]

Lana Del Rey has revealed that she is inspired by Britney Spears.

The singer admitted that she wasn't interested in most female artists, but she has always been a fan of the 'Toxic' star.


Del Rey told Rick Astley on Magic 105.4: "I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me – the way she sings and just the way she looks."

Meanwhile, the 'Video Games' performer insisted that singing is not the key to her own happiness as she has come to learn there are more important things in life.

She added: "The thing that makes me happy now isn't really singing. Music was once the be-all and end-all, but when you lose everything you have over and over again, it's not so important."

Del Rey's debut album Born To Die is currently on course to top the UK album chart on Sunday.

Even more reason to like her, she admires Britney. :D

[Iceman]

Lana Mania rages on! Lana Del Rey engaged in a video chat with RNB Junk while in Milan, Italy, where she offered a bit of a peak into what makes the girl born Lizzy Grant tick. One declaration she made? “I f—-ing love Eminem.” Why? Because he taught her that music can have intellect and be from a real place.

Del Rey looks uncomfortable in front of the camera and comes across as a bit shy, brushing those thick auburn locks out of her eyes in nervous habit fashion. She did the same on ‘SNL,’ so maybe that’s just how she is when the camera is on her.

She does mention that she is more concerned about how her vocals sound in her live performances and that supercedes the “show” and her movements, since she is trying to capture the sound people hear on the album.

LDR reveals that her producers would add “heavier, fat beats” and “soundscaping” to her songs to bring them to life, and that included things like adding sounds of screaming kids at a swimming pool to ‘Off to the Races.’ When she calls her music “very real,” she averts her gaze from the camera and chuckles, as if she doesn’t believe what she is saying. She follows that statement up, saying, “The lyrics are autobiographical and it’s personal.” We’re not doubting that; we just wish LDR believed it or acted like she does.

She shared that when she first moved to New York City at 18, “I would take the train down to the beach and walked around the boardwalk for hours and wrote songs. I didn’t know anyone yet, I would sing into my phone. I couldn’t believe the ocean was so close to the city. It was beautiful. Those are inspirations for my record — beautiful places.”

In the second clip, she utters her expletive Eminem quote. She said that when she discovered the rapper, “It changed my life. I found out music could be intelligent. He wasn’t just rhyming for rhyme’s sake.” Del Rey also said explained how she can be influenced by both Em and Ol’ Blue Eyes – Frank Sinatra– summing it effectively by saying, “Eminem is the master of lyrics whereas Frank Sinatra is the master of vocals… I f—-ing love Eminem.”

[Vladimir]

Hr52zTBp3oo

[Smithy]

She shoulda sang BTD :bored:

But it was a better performance than SNL

[ILoveTRW]

Radio

[CharlieO]

She is just so beautiful. :lovedup:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/03/article-0-11946CB2000005DC-506_634x771.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/03/article-0-11946CC1000005DC-866_634x833.jpg

[Marc]

I was watching/listening to a lot of her interviews and my god she's annoying to listen to speak :laugh:

[Shaun]

this is brilliant.

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teases her precociousness a bit but totally destroys the haters

[King Gizzard]

She is just so beautiful. :lovedup:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/03/article-0-11946CB2000005DC-506_634x771.jpg


thank you for my new background

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a363953/lana-del-rey-i-may-not-make-another-album.html

stupid bitch :bored:

[Shaun]

#1 debut album :worship:
single of the same name's gone to #9 in the singles chart

[Marc]

:D great news, I love the album more and more everytime I listen to it.

Without You may be my favourite track

[Callum]

Without You is my new fave too, the bridge is amazing. :worship:

[Smithy]

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omg :love:

[Shaun]

posted it on the last page :idc:

[Smithy]

It doesn't work though

http://i42.tinypic.com/x422yf.jpg

[Shaun]

ah/

[CharlieO]

Worked for me the other day

[Smithy]

well isn't that ****ing fantastic, the point is, it doesn't work now

http://i42.tinypic.com/x422yf.jpg

[Doogle]

Smithy why did you deny being sarcastic in that other thread :suspect:

[Niall]

Smithy why did you deny being sarcastic in that other thread :suspect:

^^^^

[Smithy]

are you really asking me that

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxymasjAx1qaws0k.jpg

[Marc]

I actually really like this :blush2:

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It's not heavy but it does add something different to it, which is good once in a while :)

[Smithy]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a365484/lana-del-rey-azealia-banks-to-collaborate.html

this bitch is like horse ****, she's getting ****ing everywhere

[CharlieO]

And don't we love the ****ing smell.

[Smithy]

no we don't, Azealia Banks is terrible, she's never going to happen, she should go hide in a cave somewhere

[Jords]

How does horse **** get everywhere? Bad simile xxxxxx

[Smithy]

well if you tread in it once and don't notice it gets everywhere :nono:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

no we don't, Azealia Banks is terrible, she's never going to happen, she should go hide in a cave somewhere

shes already happening you mess

[Marc]

She is bad, 212 is good but in general she's not good

[Visage]

It's not often I buy a CD where the voice makes my hair stand up (not in a Jedward way) and send shivers down my spine, but here I have found a beauty.

I absolutely adore this album, but I must stop playing and take a break for fear over over doing... I just can't stop it.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

She is bad, 212 is good but in general she's not good

shut up

[Marc]

shut up

-bans you forever-

[Shaun]

azealia and lana

collaborating

omg

omg


i can't

[Jords]

Im sf excited :amazed:

No way would I ever put them together though :laugh2:

[Doogle]

:amazed:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/09/article-2071177-0F1C9E6300000578-731_306x394.jpg

[CharlieO]

iVnoxVksgT8

:lovedup:

[CharlieO]

The iPhone wallpapers I made :love:

http://i.imgur.com/AQ3Qc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/83l6j.jpg

Second one is my favourite :D

[Saph]

I listened to a couple of her songs for the first time today and I quite liked them (I stretch the word quite). Debating whether to buy her album or just buy certain tracks, is it worth it?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i wouldnt pay for it

[Smithy]

I listened to a couple of her songs for the first time today and I quite liked them (I stretch the word quite). Debating whether to buy her album or just buy certain tracks, is it worth it?

Most of the album's on youtube, listen to the whole thing then you can probably make up your own mind

[Marc]

iVnoxVksgT8

:lovedup:

She's so...

so..... :amazed:

[Saph]

Most of the album's on youtube, listen to the whole thing then you can probably make up your own mind

YT converter comes to mind :evilgrin: She doesnt need the money that badly..

[Marc]

Saph! :nono:

Give this woman money!

[Saph]

If I ever meet her, ill give her some loose change as a 'sorryforillegallydownloadingyourdebutalbum' present :hugesmile:

[bbfan1991]

I don't mind LDR but glad she is collaberating with Azealia Banks:D:).

[Marc]

If I ever meet her, ill give her some loose change as a 'sorryforillegallydownloadingyourdebutalbum' present :hugesmile:
Bless you :hugesmile:

[InOne]

Been listening to more of her stuff recently. I'm in love :amazed:

[Marc]

Isn't she just amazing :love:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

no

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

she is adequate

[SharkAttack]

It's an interesting sound. If I could combine Chris Isaak and Mazzy Star, with a touch of Portishead, I'd have the same recipe that Lana has. ;)

[Saph]

Ive listened to the whole album now ........and im surprised to say I liked every song..



















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[Smithy]

The Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks duet is out on the 25th of March

[Jords]

:amazed:

[Smithy]

Azealia will ruin the song, she ruins everything

[Saph]

Shes down to #2 on the album charts :bored:

[Smithy]

Emile's album is brilliant too :nono:

[reece(:]

ooh, definitely here for Azealia.