[ SECRET POST #2094 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2094 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i47.tinypic.com/msd63q.png

[(Anonymous)]

Is that Lana del Rey? What is the video, and why did you find it offensive.

[rivia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60cvtxwlJr8

not op

[(Anonymous)]

Everything about Lana del Rey is offensive.

Re: not op

[(Anonymous)]

Why is everything about her offensive? Just curious, not a fan of hers. I don't think I've even heard that many of her songs - she just seems like a pop singer who's trying to be kind of vintage or something.

Re: not op

[(Anonymous)]

she's popular...

on the internet!!!! oh godddddddd

Re: not op

[(Anonymous)]

i've hardly listened to her songs but i get the sense that she's like a vintage taylor swift. idek.

[insanenoodlyguy]

It claims us all, sooner or later. Now you just need to learn to deaden yourself to the horror until what once squicked you now fascinates/arouses/both.

[(Anonymous)]

Why was the video offensive, OP?

(Not a Lan del rey fan, just curious, since I know absolutely nothing about her and don't care for her music.)

[visp]

Okay, so it's an MTV that shows her as sorta... both Jackie and Marilyn, and she's married to a black guy who wears pastels and those sweaters around his shoulders and they have little multiracial kids and throw birthday parties for the kids and still have a healthy sex life? I don't see the offensiveness, personally.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it might be the whole using JFK's assassination as art? I don't know- that seemed to be a problem a lot of people I know had with it.

[visp]

It didn't seem to be really based around the assassination, but I suppose that's an ever-present part of any Kennedy allusion.

[(Anonymous)]

You mean aside from including a re-enactment of the assassination?

Huh?

[rbhudson]

This video is disgusting. And can I just say, she is NO Jackie O.

[barnabys_bane]

Oh, Lana del Ray. I cannot stand her music (especially that godawful Video Games song), and there's something about her face--either the way she does her makeup or the plastic surgery she's had done--that makes me so uncomfortable when I look at her. I do not understand her popularity online.

[creepyfries]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Videogames to be a horrible mess. It's the only song of hers I really know, but most people I've discussed it with like it and I just find it hideously cringey. (Also yes, there is...something instinctively unnerving about her face, now that you mention it. Cannot unsee...)

[fickletastictot]

Lana Del Rey sings catchy pop songs. I think it's pretty clear why she has a following.

I usually feel iffy when it comes to really obvious plastic surgery on people, but when it comes to Lana it seems to fit this glamourous and slightly exaggerated persona she wants to project to the public. I've seen a few pictures of her pre-surgery and she looked a lot like one of those blonde teen pop stars from the '90s -- sweet, sporty and wholesome-looking. I think it took an image makeover that really fit the kind of songs she was making for people to finally notice her. I have a feeling it was a calculated business move on her part.

[barnabys_bane]

The few songs of hers I've heard haven't seemed terribly catchy to me, which is why I don't really get her popularity. What I've heard has been bad, much like Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and Maroon 5's "Payphone", but not incessantly catchy where they get stuck in your head on repeat to the point that you find yourself singing along even though the music is like nails on a chalkboard, which I find to be the defining features of the two songs I just mentioned. I don't know. Different strokes for different folks. As long as I don't have to hear her often on my radio (which thankfully, I haven't), then I'm good.

As for the plastic surgery, I can see what you're saying about the look fitting the personality (I remember reading that she had failed in the music industry before her makeover and reemerging in the public eye as a 'self-made' indie artist on YouTube or something), but I get this horrible feeling of looking into the Uncanny Valley when I see pictures/video of her, which is quite the opposite of glamorous (or perhaps old Hollywood?) to me. People seem to like it though, so more power to her, I guess.

[fickletastictot]

I'm kinda with you on the Uncanny Valley thing. I feel like her looks sits on the borderline of human-like and grotesque, but I'm not completely rejecting it like the way I feel about Amanda Lepore, or the women on those Real Housewives shows.

[(Anonymous)]

... if she was trying to draw an Obama/Kennedy parallel -- which is not an invalid point in and of itself -- there are a lot more tactful ways to do it.

... if that wasn't the goal, I have no idea what the Hell that video is supposed to be, but it ended up faily on a lot of levels, OP.