‘But sometimes, girls just want to have fun/ The poetry inside me is warm like a gun,’ she lilts in ‘Bartender’, merging Cyndi Lauper and George Harrison in such an unexpected combination that both become almost unrecognizable. Del Rey remembers and memorializes while simultaneously erasing authorship and context: ‘I heard the war was over, if you really choose,’ she intones in ‘California’, converting John Lennon’s anti-war slogan into a woozy rumour. It’s beyond pastiche it’s library-like, almost career-as-archive. Her lyric cosmology includes The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, The Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, countless girl groups, and so on, and so on. I don’t think there’s a single song on the new record that doesn’t borrow phrases or riffs from someone else. Like LA, Lana Del Rey, the stage name of Elizabeth Grant, is a project of quotation. Lana Del Rey in the music video for the songs ‘Fuck it I love you’ and ‘The Greatest’, 2019, film still. What’s funny is, when you write about how it feels to live in LA, you are also writing about how it feels to be a girl.
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How does it feel to live in a place that is also an idea of a place that is also the emptiness the place left behind? That psychedelic mix of physical decentralization and filmic over-representation makes LA feel like a ghost town full of people. The apocalypse happened hundreds of years ago. Many people are saying her new album is about the end of America, but I think it’s about living in a place that has already ended, living in its memory and the carcass, which is to say: America’s been dead a long time. But now, like so many who were born nowhere, she’s moved to LA, just before fire season. All she wanted was to keep wanting.ĭel Rey pledged allegiance to wide roads, fast cars, open borders, dead presidents. Her inability to look comfortable in her body makes for an ambivalent eroticism, a desire dizzy with intoxicating self-consciousness. In most of her live performances, her body swirls, soft steps along invisible fault lines, rotating on a different axis, never quite on beat. She swipes through landscapes as if they were boys online, horny and bored. Over six albums, she has skimmed across Hollywood, New York, Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Miami, Hyannis, the desert, the prairie, all of the states and the Garden of Eden. But the America she lives in seems different than ours. (After all, she was 12 when the song came out.) She is American, surely. When she sings that she’s ‘well qualified to represent the LBC’ in her cover of Sublime’s ‘Doin’ Time’ (1997), she only emphasizes her lack of qualifications to represent anywhere. When she wears an oversized LOCALS ONLY jacket on a Long Beach port terminal in the recent video for her elegiac single ‘The Greatest’ from her latest album, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019), the phrase shimmers over her.
It’s been asked more than answered her various origin stories crosshatch the sky – like chemtrails. Where is Lana Del Rey from? What a boring question. At this rate I'll be dead before Start A War leaks.Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019.
Or three actually, since the fourth one was released officially. there's two versions of trash, demo and final.įour years and I only got to cross four songs off my Gwen Stefani list. there's 3 versions of let my hair down: take 1, demo and final version. I have two versions of hundred dollar bill, demo and final version. only version of Hollywood's dead, I think its the demo that leaked, snippet of the final version has leaked as well. there's three versions of hit and run: instrumental, demo and final version, and also an alternative demo called criminals run the world there's 3 versions of heavy hitter: an instrumental, a demo and a final version. I have 5 versions of disco: 3 demos and 2 takes. there's 4 versions of big bad wolf: hot hot hot, wolf, big bad wolf and the instrumental. Anyone know how many versions there are of 1.) Big Bad Wolf/Wolf, 2.) Disco, 3.) Ghetto Baby, 4.) Heavy Hitter, 5.) Hit & Run, 6.) Hollywood's Dead, 7.) Hundred Dollar Bill, 8.) Let My Hair Down, and 9.) Trash (Magic)?
My lana collection has a bit under 200 files (not including the album songs) but I was wondering if any of you guys could help me out with finishing it.
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