Interscope Artist Lana Del Rey

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Another new Interscope artist is Lana Del Ray. She has a record scheduled for release on 01/31/12.



She definitely got that sexy, sultry thing going on:


I find some of her songs quite hypnotic, but I find that soon it all starts sounding the same and it's kind of depressing. I've seen her music genre referred to as "slutwave" and below, "Hollywood sadcore." A rich girl from New York, they seem to love her in Europe, where she has been hanging out lately. The YT view map reflects this popularity. Purported to be an indie artist, it seems that behind all that is a very deliberate and elaborated strategy to make it as a singer.

By Bernadette McNulty6:20PM GMT 17 Nov 20115

Giant balloons littered the stage for the debut London gig of Lana del Rey, symbolic perhaps of the phenomenal amounts of hot air generated by the arrival of this American singer. Ever since the 25-year-old’s startling debut single Video Games appeared online in October, del Ray - real name Lizzie Grant - has provoked almost hysterical levels of fascination and animosity. She has been accused of being a Frankenstein pop puppet moulded by Svengali-types both musically and physically into a sultry, flame-haired siren; of lying about her comfortable upbringing and most heinously, trying to erase her past musical life online. As Amanda Knox could testify, the naive records of a young girl’s life on the Internet - no matter how innocently misjudged - seem to be neither forgivable nor forgettable.

It’s not hard to find traces of Lizzie Grant, sweet New York singer-songwriter, still online and she hardly seems a millions miles away from her more polished re-incarnation. The real crime Grant seems to have committed is to make a song - perhaps the most wonderful single of the year: a weird, other-worldly, hearbreakingly emotional waltz - that appeals to indie kids, while also aspiring to a certain level of conventional pop star glamour and theatrical posturing.

Such was the voyeuristic anticipation for Grant, you almost expected a monster to emerge on stage, a terrifying, collagen-lipped Hydra in go-go boots. So when she did step out, demurely dressed in palazzo trousers and Rita Hayworth curls - looking gorgeous, slight and utterly human - it was both a relief and an anti-climax.

Similarly, without an album yet out, Grant did not have a huge back-catalogue to draw upon live. Defining her aesthetic as 'Hollywood sadcore’ you could hear her straining towards a sound in principle that crosses spooky David Lynch-style trembling rock n’roll with head-nodding contemporary hip hop rhythms. Grant’s voice flits easily from smooth jazz scats to despairing, Tori Amos-style cries and as she moved slowly and awkwardly like a marionette, her hand protectively fluttering up to cover her mouth, she seemed endearingly vulnerable rather than dangerously vampish.

No other song she has at the moment comes anywhere near the funereal beauty of Video Games and even played slightly too fast, its devastating declarations of desperate love still silenced the room. Rather than puff out proceedings with cover versions and half-written sketches, Grant was honest enough to apologise for her brief set and exit the stage. It was short but sweet and enough to prove that behind the hype, Lana del Ray is a real talent with plenty to prove next year.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music...eview.html


I'm interested in how Interscope handles her and I wonder if her presence impacts Haley up or down.