Lana Del Ray...

[azaghal1981]

Quick summary of story.


Early 20-something/late somethingteen with rich parents wants to be a pop star.
Gets record deal and is marketted as another Britney clone, market does not bite.
Lays low for a few years.
Gets made over and videos of her posing as some bedroom indie pop artist pop up on Youtube and spread like wildfire via supposed indie blogs.
As with all these internet celebrities, someone does a little digging and posts all about her failed pop princess attempt.
Shortly thereafter, news of her upcoming album's major label release surfaces.
Shortly thereafter, news of her performing on SNL surfaces.
SNL performance happens after a few live gigs that got negative to lukewarm reviews.
SNL performance is brutal.
Blogs go crazy bashing her.
This thread is started.
The end.

[StoneTheCrow]

While she did appear to get an image do-over, I didn't get the impression she came from money - the video here seems to confirm that:

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/the-new-now/the-controversial-second-life-of-lana-del-rey.html

[i am gay and i like cats]

i think she is awesome!

[Yada]

Quick summary of story.


Early 20-something/late somethingteen with rich parents wants to be a pop star.
Gets record deal and is marketted as another Britney clone, market does not bite.
Lays low for a few years.
Gets made over and videos of her posing as some bedroom indie pop artist pop up on Youtube and spread like wildfire via supposed indie blogs.
As with all these internet celebrities, someone does a little digging and posts all about her failed pop princess attempt.
Shortly thereafter, news of her upcoming album's major label release surfaces.
Shortly thereafter, news of her performing on SNL surfaces.
SNL performance happens after a few live gigs that got negative to lukewarm reviews.
SNL performance is brutal.
Blogs go crazy bashing her.
This thread is started.
The end.

Thanks for the cliffsnotes as I had no clue who this chica was/is.

[i am gay and i like cats]

Quick summary of story.


Early 20-something/late somethingteen with rich parents wants to be a pop star.
Gets record deal and is marketted as another Britney clone, market does not bite.
Lays low for a few years.
Gets made over and videos of her posing as some bedroom indie pop artist pop up on Youtube and spread like wildfire via supposed indie blogs.
As with all these internet celebrities, someone does a little digging and posts all about her failed pop princess attempt.
Shortly thereafter, news of her upcoming album's major label release surfaces.
Shortly thereafter, news of her performing on SNL surfaces.
SNL performance happens after a few live gigs that got negative to lukewarm reviews.
SNL performance is brutal.
Blogs go crazy bashing her.
This thread is started.
The end.

Thanks for the cliffsnotes as I had no clue who this chica was/is.

i'll say it again . . . she is awesome.

[azaghal1981]

Walkie, that was my attempt at a Walkie-esque post. How did I do?

[i am gay and i like cats]

you capitalized . . . bad boy.

and hutch hasn't attacked you yet.  what are you thinking?

but you used, "the end."

it always works.

[vansmack]

If she had had a mediocre performance on SNL would we be talking about her this week?

[azaghal1981]

Good point. Bad performances may result in chatter but don't sell records, though. Her 15 minutes might be up before her album drops at this rate.

[azaghal1981]

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-01-18/music/lana-del-rey-lights-up-the-internet/


Always a good read but fails to mention that the reinvented persona which has people up in arms was not of her making but instead, was the brainchild of some suit at Interscope. Bowie analogy is weak because as far as I know, all his characters were his own. With LDR, there appears to be someone/some people in the background pulling each string.

[nkotb]

That article is all fine and good, but I think we're missing the bigger, more important story here:

I still would.

[sweetcell]

That article is all fine and good, but I think we're missing the bigger, more important story here:

I still would.

can something that predictable really be called "important"?

[vansmack]

I think what NKOTB was alluding to is the more her star falls, the better my chances to make her feel better about herself.

[Jaguar]

@Smackie - Catch a falling star.

[Justin Tonation]

She'll try again next Thursday on Letterman. Does she ever perform outside of NYC?