Artist Highlight: Lana Del Rey

[amirm]

Let me get the confession out of the way first: I enjoy listening to modern music. Not all top 20 stuff but still, popular music still has great appeal to me.

One such example is Lana Del Rey. I have three of her albums and there is not one song I don't like. I can listen to it for hours.

Here are some samples for your audio enjoyment (I find most of the videos awful from production value):

This one has a measly 178 million views!

 

[wgscott]

This is where the results of an authentically blind listening test might be quite entertaining.

 

[amirm]

You man how well she may have succeeded without good looks?

 

[wgscott]

I really hadn't noticed. I was too focused on the deep, philosophical content of the lyrics.

 

[NorthSky]

Yesterday I looked @ her, the first picture with those beautiful lips.
I then watched the four videos you posted (listened to them).
Plus I explored her some more; pics and videos and life history.

I gave her all the chances to turn me on personally...but in vain.
It's my inner soul, and I respect all the turn-ons in other people's own souls.
Yesterday I did not reply after investigating her for about 40 minutes or so.
Today I just did.

 

[amirm]

No problem Bob. We all have different tastes in music.

On Lana, I did not know what she looked like, nor her videos. Discovered her when Amazon recommended to me. I have always been a fan of female modern signers so have a soft spot for her in that manner .

 

[wgscott]

My only introduction to her was a day I was trapped in a hotel in the Galapagos with something that could very euphemistically be called gastronomical distress. In between the times I had to run to the bathroom, I hung out by the pool at the hotel to get some badly needed fresh air. They had her on autoplay. Perpetual loop. I will forever associate her voice with the fear of running out of toilet paper.

 

[amirm]

Ouch! Spent three days that way in Hong Kong after eating raw fish there. Thankfully no music was playing to remind me of the horror it was.

 

[NorthSky]

That's a very unusual feeling.

* In case it ever happens; turn the water on and use your hand.

 

[wgscott]

That advice, coupled with the avatar picture, has me worried.

 

[NorthSky]

Alright, I'll turn the water on now.

 

[Blumlein 88]

I have one of her albums. Heard her a couple times and liked what I heard. I have listened to some of her other songs via Amazon Prime. I connect with maybe 1/3 of them. Those I like are haunting and evoke a certain dreamy feeling I would say. I do wonder if she isn't rather generally depressed judging by her songs and some comments in interviews by her. Some of her songs I find myself actively disliking rather than simply not being a fit for me.

 

[escape2]

Lana is a bit of a weirdo, but I like most of her albums. Not particularly fond of her latest "Chemtrails over the Country Club" one, but the one before that ("Norman F*cking Rockwell") is great.

Also like her duet with Adam Cohen, singing his father's "Chelsea Hotel"

 

[PatentLawyer]

I'm just glad not to be the only grown man that likes Lana Del Rey. Let me find out the same thing re London Grammar and I'll have a nice weekend.