Much to do has been made in indie rock circles about singer song writer Lana Del Ray. For those of you who don't know or haven't read about Miss Del Ray, she is a 24 year old New York singer songwriter who has the looks of a Playboy model and dresses an old time tarted up Hollywood starlet. Lana Del Ray's music is best described as moody (think Charlotte Gainsbourg/Tori Amos) mixed in with electronica (think Goldfrap) while trying to invoke a night club scene in a David Lynch film. Lana Del Ray name checks James Dean and talks about guns in her songs and calls herself "The gangster Nancy Sinatra".
Much of the press on Miss Del Ray has been about her looks and some what about her music which has received mixed reviews. She recently performed at the Glasslands here in Brooklyn and much of the known indie rock press came out (i.e. Pitchfork, Stereogum) and much of the press spoke about how she looked rather then how she sounded that night. And I heard from a few people at the show that she was just okay live not worth all the hype.
The known blog Hipster Runoff did an expose on Miss Del Rey before the Glasslands show and as it turns out only one year ago, she was the thin lipped, blond daughter of an Internet millionaire from Upstate New York named Lizzy Grant (sounds like another artist I know) who was trying to make it was a mainstream artist. You can read Hipster Runoff's expose on Lana Del Rey here.
Lana Del Ray's music to me is okay, it's not awful, but it's not ground breaking I don't think it's worth the praise that it's getting from publications like Pitchfork after they stop talking about his looks. And in terms of her image I find it sad that she felt or a producer told her that she had to get plastic surgery and sex up her image in order to really make it and for people to find her and her music interesting. And I also find it sad that her looks and image count for nearly 90 percent of the hype that surrounds her and it proves that the indie scene is no different from the mainstream scene.
In closing maybe I'm just as bad as all the other indie blogs for writing about the hype that surrounds Miss Del Ray and her lips, I don't know but people are talking about Lana Del Ray.
Below is the song "Video Games" by Lana Del Ray take a listen.
Much of the press on Miss Del Ray has been about her looks and some what about her music which has received mixed reviews. She recently performed at the Glasslands here in Brooklyn and much of the known indie rock press came out (i.e. Pitchfork, Stereogum) and much of the press spoke about how she looked rather then how she sounded that night. And I heard from a few people at the show that she was just okay live not worth all the hype.
The known blog Hipster Runoff did an expose on Miss Del Rey before the Glasslands show and as it turns out only one year ago, she was the thin lipped, blond daughter of an Internet millionaire from Upstate New York named Lizzy Grant (sounds like another artist I know) who was trying to make it was a mainstream artist. You can read Hipster Runoff's expose on Lana Del Rey here.
Lana Del Ray's music to me is okay, it's not awful, but it's not ground breaking I don't think it's worth the praise that it's getting from publications like Pitchfork after they stop talking about his looks. And in terms of her image I find it sad that she felt or a producer told her that she had to get plastic surgery and sex up her image in order to really make it and for people to find her and her music interesting. And I also find it sad that her looks and image count for nearly 90 percent of the hype that surrounds her and it proves that the indie scene is no different from the mainstream scene.
In closing maybe I'm just as bad as all the other indie blogs for writing about the hype that surrounds Miss Del Ray and her lips, I don't know but people are talking about Lana Del Ray.
Below is the song "Video Games" by Lana Del Ray take a listen.
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