Lana Del Rey

[Guess_Who]

I will buy the Paradise edition. I wonder what kind of video she will make for "cola". I didn't expect that song to be single maybe because the line "my pussy tastes like pepsi cola" . I like the song but I don't like much the "scream" in the middle.

I already bought my ticket to go to the show in Madrid. It will be in Sala Riviera , so it's not a stadium. I can be close. Hope it's worthy the 45 €.

[babyjane]

I love this review:

Lana Del Rey. You either love her or love to hate her. It’s hard to be ambivalent… and if you are ambivalent, set aside 10 minutes of your life and watch the “Ride” music video, where a vamped-up Lana walks the streets of a dead-end southwestern town, gets bent over a pinball machine by a Hells Angel lookalike, holds a gun to her head while wearing an Indian headdress, and eventually becomes the queen of a biker gang. It’s “Thelma and Louise” meets grindhouse meets David Lynch, and if it doesn’t leave you feeling something — distaste, interest, arousal, confusion — then you’re about dead inside.

Paradise, a standalone EP that’s also being attached to the deluxe edition of Born to Die, is every bit as polarizing as Lana’s debut, which ignited a firestorm of accolades, accusations, and YouTube hits earlier this year. Here, our femme fatale sings, swoons, and slurs her way through eight new songs that blur the lines between baby talk and dirty talk, between 1950s torch ballads and 21st century pop, between lyrics that belong in a softcore porno and string arrangements stolen from a film noire soundtrack. She plays the same character on every tune — a stoned, submissive Lolita with a taste for the darker things in life — and she does so convincingly, singing every song with a woozy coo that sounds a bit like Marilyn Monroe on opiates. Occasionally, she flips into her head voice and trills her way around some impressive R&B riffs, and the verse of “Ride” features a lot of sultry rumblings from the lower end of her range. More often than not, though, she sticks to a deadpan delivery.

“My pussy tastes like Pepsi-Cola,” she informs us at one point. Lines like that are a dime a dozen on an EP that veers between come-ons (“Let me put on a show for you, daddy”) and mid-coital exclamations (“Fuck yeah, give it to me”), and Lana sings each one with sluggish sexiness, like a femme-bot whose batteries have started to short out. The whole thing is exploitive, and it’s easy to see why people desperately want to dislike it… but the music is oddly gorgeous, laced with soft piano chords and moody strings that ooze their way through every song like slow-moving waves of cough syrup. Atmospheric and manic-depressive, it feels like the score to a movie that doesn’t exist.

Lana’s voice has gotten better since her shaky Saturday Night Live performance, but she isn’t selling her voice. She’s selling something larger — a romanticized vision of mid-century Hollywood; a Jessica Rabbit-worthy silhouette; a voyeuristic peek at a young girl who seems to enjoy losing her innocence; a dedication to long-form music videos whose length, cinematic quality and sheer strangeness would’ve made Michael Jackson proud — and she sells it well. “I’m tired of living like I’m fucking crazy,” she sings on “Ride,” but you don’t really believe her. She named the EP Paradise, after all. Once you accept that Lana knows exactly what she’s doing — that she, not Interscope Records or any of her co-producers, is the architect behind this R-rated retro-pop fantasy — then maybe you’ll start loving her, too.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/ ... -paradise/

Here's another one: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/165 ... e-edition/

[Ticalrecords]

loll, those were really descriptive words. seems like the writer put alot of thought behind the review. she deserves it tho

[babyjane]

^I'm always surprised at how much reviewers analyze her. Whether they like her or not she definitely seems to strike a cord with people.

[Ticalrecords]

word. but overall she didn't do too well. allmusic gave it 2.5 i was like damn...maybe drug music aint as popular as it used to be

[Guess_Who]

but she isn’t selling her voice. She’s selling something larger . Definitely. But many people think she is fake, a creation of interscope, and I have to disagree. If you listen her songs as Lizzie Grant before she become Lana del Rey, the same style was already there. I like how she defines her style, Hollywood sadcore.

[babyjane]

^So true. I first listened to some 'Lizzie Grant' songs a few months ago and I thought they were leftover leaks from the Born To Die album. I believe her when she says she changed her name/image because she wanted something more fitting to the music she was making "gangster Nancy Sinatra". Her image clearly reflects 60s/hippie/femme fatale like her songs. If the image change was done simply to sell more records wouldn't she have done something more similar to the popular artists today? I think some people's real problem is the fact that she took her career in her own hands, did something different and made it work. They'd rather she fall in line with their usual thinking of it's all the record company's doing so they remain cynical.

[Guess_Who]

yeah in fact some of his songs as Lizzie Grant are even better than some of the current ones. And she already had the retro look :

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdb0l ... o1_500.jpg


Btw Ride Live sounds great :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... y-1Ie5caP8

[Block]

Her voice and overall appearance give me an erection. Those lips...

[babyjane]

Interscope Press Release:

PRESS RELEASE

Nov. 21, 2012, 2:44 p.m. EST
Lana Del Rey Debuts at #10 on Billboard 200 With 'Paradise' EP (Interscope/Polydor)
Lana's "Ride" Digital Remix EP Out This Week:

http://smarturl.it/RideRemixes

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Congratulations to Lana Del Rey whose new eight song 'Paradise' EP debuted this week at #10 on the Billboard 200 selling 67,000 copies in its first week. Rolling Stone called the EP "conceptually sharp" and Entertainment Weekly hailed it as "truly great." See below for what press in the U.S. and U.K. have said about 'Paradise.'

Lana's new music video for the Rick Rubin-produced single "Ride" ( http://youtu.be/Py_-3di1yx0 ) has accumulated over 13 million views on YouTube, while the latest video for "Bel Air" ( http://youtu.be/yq3yT8CkPzY ) released earlier this month already has 3 million views. Her cover of "Blue Velvet" is also featured on 'Paradise' ( http://youtu.be/HLEA3bc-3p0 ).

Lana's "Ride" digital remix EP is out this week on Interscope, featuring remixes by SOHN, MJ COLE and more. Go here for info: http://smarturl.it/RideRemixes

Lana's album 'Born To Die' has now sold over 2.9 million albums and 4.4 million singles worldwide, with over one million singles in the U.S. alone. In Europe, 'Born To Die' has gone Double Platinum in five countries (U.K, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland), Platinum in four countries (Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, South Africa), and Gold in 12 countries, including Russia, Spain, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

"Ride" Remix EP Tracklist: 1). SOHN remix 2). MJ Cole remix 3). Eli Escobar remix 4). 14TH remix 5). Wes James remix 6). James Lavelle remix

Press on Lana Del Rey's 'Paradise Edition'

"Entrancing" - Associated Press

"Conceptually sharp." - Rolling Stone

"Del Rey is without a doubt an incredible new star who has captured the zeitgeist." - The Daily Record

"Truly great" - Entertainment Weekly

"A David Lynch Delilah ... her vintage 60s charm just might kill you." - Billboard

"Strong" - LA Times

"[Lana's] new EP is so good I'm losing my mind" - Glamour "Effortless, elegant," - Idolator "Shimmeringly beautiful...simply sublime" - Drowned In Sound

Lana Del Rey On the Web: https://www.facebook.com/lanadelrey http://twitter.com/ #!/lanadelrey http://www.lanadelrey.com

Hi-res album art, press releases, links, etc: http://shorefire.com/clients/lanadelrey/

SOURCE Interscope Records

Copyright (C) 2012 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

[Guess_Who]

Her voice and overall appearance give me an erection. Those lips...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYCMQcQ3KA

Maybe you will enjoy this one ^


Thanks for the information babyjane!

[Block]

Hmm... I normally can never listen to female vocalists. This is an odd sensation.

[babyjane]

"Odd Sensation" is the perfect description of Lana.

Guess_Who I like that acoustic version of Ride you posted.

[Guess_Who]

@block, you seem to have a nice taste for what I could listen in your thread, I downloaded a few of those songs, download the Paradise edition of Born to die, it has great songs like Body electric, Gods and monsters , etc...

@NS, the video of Ride is the latest release, or the album I mentioned above. I never know what you talk about , so pick the answer you like better.

[Ticalrecords]

Hmm... I normally can never listen to female vocalists. This is an odd sensation.

this. loll