Thursday, November 10, 2011

Lana Del Rey

A friend sent me a message recently: "You need to check out Lana del Rey on YouTube. She's super hot and so is her music. Some of my favs are Outta Luck, You Can Be The Boss, Blue Jeans, Video Games, Diet Mtn Dew, Riding in Cars With Boys..... Um, I just basically like everything I've heard so far. She only has a couple singles out to d/l which is driving me crazy because I NEED all of this shit on my iPod ASAP, not just 3 songs."

She is so completely right.

A quick Google and I found comparisons to Nancy Sinatra (understandable) and Chris Isaak (um, yeah, I guess). Whoever you use as a starting point, what you're going to find is a retro 60's sound in "Kinda Outta Luck" or maybe "You Can Be the Boss" - a kinda lush electronic pop that wouldn't be out of place on a playlist with Poe or Garbage.



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If you're interested in reading, there's a cut and pasted GQ interview in this thread: http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=367909 (scroll down or search for GQ and ignore the intro to the piece - it seems like the writer is trying to be 'hip' or something)

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