Hell, I'm HERE and I don't get "Saturday Night Live".

Or it could be a case of "If America thinks it's bad, it MUST be good".

Or it's the fact that her CD doesn't sound ANYTHING like her SNL performance.

She did the same song two weeks later on Letterman and was great.

Oh shiat that one old biatch in the thread about her from last week is probably gonna shiat and have a heart attack at the same time.

Bhruic: Or it could be a case of "If America thinks it's bad, it MUST be good".

In their defense, that's not a bad strategy. I mean, look at our top rated songs, tv shoes, and movies. Our culture doesn't (and shouldn't) exactly inspire a lot of confidence in the rest of the world. Throw in our politics and refusal to adopt the metric system, and it's no wonder at all why 99.9999% of the rest of the world hates us.

bel4sucks: is probably gonna shiat and have a heart attack at the same time.

Just like Elvis.

farkingismybusiness: SNL defending her while mocking her was pretty funny. (new window)

Hah!

I heard her for the 1st time today and I wasn't impressed. It sounded autotuned and fairly generic.

Why Would I Read the Article: Bhruic: Or it could be a case of "If America thinks it's bad, it MUST be good".

In their defense, that's not a bad strategy. I mean, look at our top rated songs, tv shoes, and movies. Our culture doesn't (and shouldn't) exactly inspire a lot of confidence in the rest of the world. Throw in our politics and refusal to adopt the metric system, and it's no wonder at all why 99.9999% of the rest of the world hates us.

i'm convinced you've never been to any other country in the world.

jaytkay: farkingismybusiness: SNL defending her while mocking her was pretty funny. (new window)

Hah!

Best line: "In this age of dangerous bullying, you have sent an important message: if you think someone is weird you should criticize them as much as possible."

Apparently they aren't getting the "American SNL watchers hate them so don't buy their CD" newsletter subby. Can you imagine the horror?

I was shocked that anyone still watches SNL.

desertgeek: I heard her for the 1st time today and I wasn't impressed. It sounded autotuned and fairly generic.


I heard a review of the album on NPR a few days ago where the reviewer liked it. From what I heard in the review, I don't think it wasn't horrible, but nothing I heard made me thirsty for more. She sounded like a very bland shadow of Neko Case, stripped of almost everything interesting and special.

It's the sort of inoffensive stuff my almost-ex-wife would like.

farkingismybusiness: SNL defending her while mocking her was pretty funny. (new window)

Ok that was funny. I actually liked video games when I heard it, but then again I was in the other room and didn't have to see her awkwardness. Blue jeans is bad though. Bad on SNL and recorded.

Top of the pops always had people lip synching, so yeah something something.

Why Would I Read the Article: Bhruic: Or it could be a case of "If America thinks it's bad, it MUST be good".

In their defense, that's not a bad strategy. I mean, look at our top rated songs, tv shoes, and movies. Our culture doesn't (and shouldn't) exactly inspire a lot of confidence in the rest of the world. Throw in our politics and refusal to adopt the metric system, and it's no wonder at all why 99.9999% of the rest of the world hates us.

Your argument supports the claim that if America thinks something is good, it must be bad, not that if America thinks something is bad, it must be good. The two are not equivalent.

SEX TAPE!

Bhruic: Or it could be a case of "If America thinks it's bad, it MUST be good".

Yeah, they have even shiattier pop music over there than we do.

I was shocked at how shiatty their music was while over there.

I like "Video Games" well enough, and picked it up, but I don't understand how you can feel extremes in either way regarding her. She's not worth either adoration or outrage really.

farkingismybusiness: SNL defending her while mocking her was pretty funny. (new window)

as soon as that Weekend Update LDR sketch started, i thought they were gonna mock the fark out of her/tear her a new one,
but i was pleasantly surprised and touched they actually defended her. good for them.

hurdboy: [upload.wikimedia.org image 163x182]

I make it to number one on the top-40 charts in the UK; your argument is invalid.

/After hearing the two Lana Del Ray studio versions of the songs she performed, am tempted to buy 'em from iTunes. They've grown on me.

there is a creme for that.

She's mad decent at best, kind of boring.

Yeah not a live performer.

There are three categories musicians fall into.
1. Just bad.
2. Bad performers but make good music.
3. Good performers and make good music.

She is a bad performer, but I can see how people like the music on her album.



If someone makes good music I will listen to it.
If their album versions are good I listen to those.
If I find their acoustic versions to better than the album ones, I listen to those instead.
If they are bad live, I won't see them live.
If they are good live, I will see them live.


Admittedly if an artist is good live or good acoustic then I listen to them a lot more than if they just make good songs, and I am drawn to them a lot more. I think in large part because I end up with two versions of the same song, both of which I enjoy but they are different enough that it keeps them from getting old as fast.

Noel Gallagher's album si #9 in Britain. Apparently, they don't get "Fark.com/entertainment" over there

Oh please. She was the only musical act any of you saw from SNL in the last decade.

I don't really get it with her. I listened to her stuff live and in studio and I just don't get it. What the hell am I missing? It's like most other stuff out there that people think are "new and totally unlike anything before" in which the arrangement drags and sounds uber depressing (fine in some cases, but geez), the singer is singing either an octave too high or too low, and just makes me vaguely feel like a pretentious douche when I'm listening to it. But, it's better than the dubstep crap I've heard (I'm sure there's good dubstep but goddamn do I hate the crap I've heard thus far)

Then again, I'm also someone who doesn't think Kristen Wiig is funny so what do I know?

No, thankfully we don't. But she is the latest darling of NME and enough idiots do all they say so that's why.

James Scameron: SEX TAPE!

I have a feeling her sex tape would make Kim Kardasian & Paris Hilton's sex tapes seem like Oscar award winning porn. Sorry dead eyes and apathy just don't do it for me when it comes to sex tapes. Sex is supposed to be fun. Not a chore.

She has extremely somber music from what I briefly listened to on Youtube, it's not exactly 'entertaining'.

People can have an off day. I once liked Stina Nordenstam, who voice is not exactly the usual stuff. And then there is Tom Waits.

nimawai: James Scameron: SEX TAPE!

I have a feeling her sex tape would make Kim Kardasian & Paris Hilton's sex tapes seem like Oscar award winning porn. Sorry dead eyes and apathy just don't do it for me when it comes to sex tapes. Sex is supposed to be fun. Not a chore.

Me: Are you sexually active?

LDR: No, I just lay there.

First, I'll bet about 5% of the biatchy hipster twats haven't heard the album. Second, these same biatchy hipster twats think people like Tom Waits and Joanna Newsom are great singers. And finally...in Britain they have Jools Holland!!

Marlene Dietrich meets Marianne Faithful and doesn't care.

I am entirely too old to understand or give a fark about any of this, so I bid you gentleman and fair ladies adieu.

SethX9: Second, these same biatchy hipster twats think people like Tom Waits... (is a) great singer.


Who whoa whoa Captain Contrarian, Tom Waits is a great singer, don't blame him for his stupid pork pie hat wearing mouth breathing fans.

I don't get what the big deal is....
That chick's performance wasn't THAT bad...was it?

doczoidberg: I don't get what the big deal is....
That chick's performance wasn't THAT bad...was it?

it was so bad, it made that VP resign from Komen.


/Yeah... *THAT* bad.

Bag of Hammers: SethX9: Second, these same biatchy hipster twats think people like Tom Waits... (is a) great singer.


Who whoa whoa Captain Contrarian, Tom Waits is a great singer, don't blame him for his stupid pork pie hat wearing mouth breathing fans.

No Tom Waits stinks, his act is a contrived "I wish I was from New Orleans" pseudo-Satchmo-hobo crock of BS.

she's been on decent (like B list) rotation for a couple of months now over here. She was on Jools Holland a couple of months ago as well (though I didn't stay tuned to watch the performance), so I wasn't surprised to hear the album was number one.

Can't say I like it. First time I heard video games I kept expecting it to go somewhere, and it never did. I was turning the station every time it played for quite a while. Now it's Born to Die I hear every day, the first 10 seconds has so much promise then it just keels over.

/imo of course.
/no SNL here. Considering it's mostly US topical humor, that's not surprising
//I like the high flying birds album tyvm

Lligeret: Yeah not a live performer.

There are three categories musicians fall into.
1. Just bad.
2. Bad performers but make good music.
3. Good performers and make good music.

She is a bad performer, but I can see how people like the music on her album.



If someone makes good music I will listen to it.
If their album versions are good I listen to those.
If I find their acoustic versions to better than the album ones, I listen to those instead.
If they are bad live, I won't see them live.
If they are good live, I will see them live.


Admittedly if an artist is good live or good acoustic then I listen to them a lot more than if they just make good songs, and I am drawn to them a lot more. I think in large part because I end up with two versions of the same song, both of which I enjoy but they are different enough that it keeps them from getting old as fast.

Good call, but there are bands/musicians who are good live but don't write very good music.

KISS comes to mind as an example. They never broke big until they did a live album because the appeal isn't the songs as much as it is the look and energy of the shows.

/Don't mean that as a diss on KISS. I respect them for working hard to put on a good show for their fans.

Orgasmatron138: /Don't mean that as a diss on KISS. I respect them for working hard to put on a good show for their fans.

Well KISS still sucks but at that time they gave a better show than any other band, but thats all they were an act, their music is horrible.

El-P wrote this about her/the SNL thing on twitter today that I thought was pretty hilarious and accurate.

"not for nothing,i can think of a lot of shiat eating, vapid non song writing pop stars that deserve the public ire more than lana del rey. its amazing to me that people are saying she cant sing or shes fake etc. THATS POP MUSIC. at least she wrote her bullshiat herself. all of a suden the world has a standard for pop music? most pop stars wouldnt even TRY not lip synching. that biatch britney wouldnt even sing in the shower much less on snl.

steamingpile: Orgasmatron138: /Don't mean that as a diss on KISS. I respect them for working hard to put on a good show for their fans.

Well KISS still sucks but at that time they gave a better show than any other band, but thats all they were an act, their music is horrible.

I despise KISS and their music but they do have some chops. I give them credit for being competent musicians. Gene Douchebag Simmons has some pretty cool bass riffs. They're definitely more talented than, say, Green Day for instance. They still suck though, and Paul Stanley's vocals are unbearable.