Post by trashcanman on Dec 12, 2014 21:10:00 GMT 2
Sorry to keep all one of you waiting, but I had an internet outage this week so forgive the tardiness. I've done my best to confuse Fortress dewellers and lurkers with Japanese ska/punk/metal and sci-fi hip-hop mixed with folksy 80's rock and whatnot. Naturally now I need to post something current and visible. Something recorded by an artist of questionable integrity that people love to hate, but is actually pretty fucking good if you can strip away the extranous bullshit.
Why hello there, Lana. You look especially lovely today. Your breakout debut was one of the best pop albums I've ever heard, you've the voice of an angel, and your mix of classic sounds and modern superficiality is a brand of sonic art all its own. Why does everyone hate you? The shitty SNL performance in your TV debut? The trollishly self-centered lyrics that brag about your daddy financing your career and fucking your way to the top? The fact that you call yourself the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra"? Okay, so maybe she's a hipster Amy Winehouse at best, but fuck this woman can make some quality tunes.
Recently LDR's new album Ultraviolence has drawn criticism from the title track's implied violence against women (herself, specifically) and being almost twice as long on iTunes as it is on CD, plus Eminem has rapped that he'd "punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/ ’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.” I may not be a huge fan of the amount of vocal effects she's used on her last two releases, but I'll chalk it up to the amount of drugs she's doing, if I'm judging from her lyrics.
On the plus side, they featured Jessica Lange performing one of her songs on American Horror Story: Freak Show, which was pretty cool. Plus, there are songs like this where her voice is so goddamn lovely she could release a sex tape of her with an underaged pit bull and I'd still buy her stuff. Ultraviolence is somewhat of an uneven album due to some odd production choices, but fuck your lack of a soul if you don't feel it when Del Rey hits her upper register for the chorus. This is Shades of Cool.
Why hello there, Lana. You look especially lovely today. Your breakout debut was one of the best pop albums I've ever heard, you've the voice of an angel, and your mix of classic sounds and modern superficiality is a brand of sonic art all its own. Why does everyone hate you? The shitty SNL performance in your TV debut? The trollishly self-centered lyrics that brag about your daddy financing your career and fucking your way to the top? The fact that you call yourself the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra"? Okay, so maybe she's a hipster Amy Winehouse at best, but fuck this woman can make some quality tunes.
Recently LDR's new album Ultraviolence has drawn criticism from the title track's implied violence against women (herself, specifically) and being almost twice as long on iTunes as it is on CD, plus Eminem has rapped that he'd "punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/ ’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.” I may not be a huge fan of the amount of vocal effects she's used on her last two releases, but I'll chalk it up to the amount of drugs she's doing, if I'm judging from her lyrics.
On the plus side, they featured Jessica Lange performing one of her songs on American Horror Story: Freak Show, which was pretty cool. Plus, there are songs like this where her voice is so goddamn lovely she could release a sex tape of her with an underaged pit bull and I'd still buy her stuff. Ultraviolence is somewhat of an uneven album due to some odd production choices, but fuck your lack of a soul if you don't feel it when Del Rey hits her upper register for the chorus. This is Shades of Cool.
