Alright, so I’m going to be sitting out the third act of the Lana Del Rey saga

Today, we saw the second act draw to a close as the “Born To Die” reviews came shuffling out and Pitchfork’s Lindsay Zoladz made a few good points, but sort of threw some credibility out the window by expressing that she somehow had higher hopes. 

No, the only required reading for the end of this second act is Rob Harvilla’s hilariously empathetic and gently backhanded SPIN review, (“And here it is, Born to Die, the album, the “product,” the anticlimax, borne of the lips that launched a thousand thinkpieces.”) and Amy Klein’s “The Irony Lady,” which explores LDR’s persona through the lens of feminism. It is also empathetic. 

matt-t: Lana B The Del Reysed God I… I don’t know what to say… I’m speechless… 

matt-t:

Lana B The Del Reysed God

I… I don’t know what to say… I’m speechless… 

All I wanted to suggest, my dear hipster daughter, is to stand by the artist, even if you think they are overrated, overexposed or badly handled. Talent is rare and often comes in a soft, chick-like package that is easily crushed. Leave your harshest criticism for the nasty birds that don’t show their young how to fly, pluck their wings or throw them out of the nest too soon. And certainly don’t be the hawk that swoops down and finishes the kill.

My darling father during an email discussion about #LDRSNL (via midwesternmiscreant)

Jeanette’s dad feels sorry for LDR

you should hear some of these interviews… 

you should hear some of these interviews… 

I saw this in a Facebook conversation that Jeanette was having with someone about Lana del Rey. I knew that the quote at the beginning of “Heaven’s On Fire” by The Radio Dept. was Thurston Moore, but always forgot to look up where it came from. 

…people see rock n’ roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus, capitalist process that is destroying youth culture with mass marketing, commercial paranoia, behavior control. And the first step to do is to destroy the record companies, do you not agree? 


christ-the-retweeter:

Patrick Stickles - Video Games (Lana Del Rey Cover)

I didn’t know you could cover a song and make it both more hilarious and somehow heartbreaking. 

Ghost of Inboxes Past

rachael-maddux:

The MacBook I use at home now is the one that I was essentially granted custody of last August when I was laid off from Paste; I used the Mail desktop client for my work stuff there, but never cleaned out any of the folders. I can’t access most of it now because I can’t access the old mail server, obviously, but I just realized that there are some things saved on my hard drive, I guess, that I can pull up with no problem.

The most notable of these saved emails is one dated March 26, 2009, in which a writer pitched me on one Lizzy Grant, a “Lower East Side singer … making waves in New York and beyond.”

I found this email in the folder named “pass.”

The Village Voice lays out a formula to answer the question we’ve all been asking. 

The Village Voice lays out a formula to answer the question we’ve all been asking. 

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long red (live at woodstock) by mountain

outside the genre of soul and funk, this recording (specifically this drum break) probably affected hip-hop more than any other. 

These drums are all over hip-hop from the very beginning - Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock, EPMD, Nas, Beatnuts, Common, Dead Prez, Mos Def, Jay-Z and Kanye West. 

Listening to the new Lana Del Rey single, (which is fine, I guess) I heard a piece of this song being sampled - not just drums, but the vocalist shouting “LOUDER!“ 

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