Tears For Fears, Paul Weller, Jane Weaver, Beth Gibbons, The Libertines, Steven Wilson released some very good albums in recent years. Especially their latest ones.
so ahead of her time. the way critics were so rude to this album just to be cool(pitchfork). it stood the test of time perioddd. and shes still paving the way with NFR
She lowkey raised a whole generation and some of us might not even know it. The influence of this album alone is still apparent today and no one can deny it, you can credit her for so many things and it's actually crazy.
Lana Del Rey is the artist that inspired artists, that’s why I think her influence is mainly unidentified by the public, she didn’t directly influenced the world but her art did through other mediums or voices.
Springsteen introduced video games on a radio show he had .. this is what he said when introducing it: “This is a song that reminds me of the hot, humid, sultry summer nights, and the girls that went with them. Nights so hot and still, fields of fireflies, leaves so still on neighbourhood trees, that they did not whisper; no rumour of a breeze in sight. You’d sit on your porch, you were dressed, waiting for her, or the end of the world.” *cue the bells 🔔🔔🔔🔔
That is absolutely lovely. I just recently got into Bruce Springsteen after watching The Greatest Night in Pop and seeing this makes me think I'm on the right track haha.
From what I remember the deeper more sultry voice was something she had to really force early on, bc she said people didn't take her seriously when she sang in the "baby" voice which is what was more natural to her. Kill Kill, Queen of the Gas Station, Kinda Outta Luck, Making Out, Jealous Girl, etc are all very high up. And even in the ones where she's trying to make her voice deeper, it still has a more airy tone to it.
Carmen is actually a really depressing song. Lana said it’s about a young sex worker that struggles with substance abuse. Lana has said before that she was addicted to alcohol when she was a teenager, which led her to write this song. She also stated that Carmen is a metaphor for alcohol. Hope this makes sense😁
I know when her two managers (Ben & Ed of TapMusic) found her, they bought her out from her old label for $10,000 and moved her to London to live with them to rebuild her career… and then Born To Die was born.
Bro has no idea how Impactful that album was and still is ! Since it’s Realease in 2011 it NEVER left the Billboard top 200 Albums ! Its has been crowned „Album of the Decade“ Basically every big female artist from the last 10 years was heavy influenced by this album You see so much „Born to Die“ in So many artists these days And it was her debut !
Paradise next PLEASE. It's a short and beautiful album. I can't wait for him to hear Gods & Monsters and Yayo and the others!! And then Honeymoon next!!
I know that Chappell jokes about being “your favorite artists’ favorite artist” and I think that will very likely someday be true for her but right now, everybody who performs contemporary pop music’s favorite artist is Lana del Rey, and it shows.
Lana still has her baby voice and really deep one and sometimes it comes out but after the paradise edition of born to die she stopped doing it to be taken more seriously.
This may not be the best in her discography but it’s the most influential album she has ever and will ever make. This album defined the change modern pop aesthetically and sonically.
the impact that this album had on the culture was significant in a way that is difficult to describe unless you were there at the time. She really brought aesthetic back to music and there are a lot of artists that have her to thank. Her impact is often overlooked.
high and watching this while making pancakes lmao but as soon as connor announced off to the races i was immediately like “oh Kevin’s gonna LOVE this” and i was right 😭😭 i love this for y’all i’ve been listening to lana since her uv era
Lana del Rey's BtD reaction are always my favourite from whichever creator. I wish I could go back in time and experience this again for the first time. It's such a great album - the storytelling, the production, the vocal versatility, I could go on. What I really commend is the ability to create a world with the sound, the vocal and the lyrics. This album just transports you, it's very visual and impressively cohesive for the narrative she meant to tell.
@@conormcfall5436Especially After Lover, all her albums have been sounding like lana folklore evermore midnights ttpd all of them have the poetic lana vibe
yessss from all lana fans: thank you for this!!! i bet now you can understand the frustration that lana hasn’t won a Grammy yet when she is so artful and influential. the best ever!
I’m pretty sure video games was the first song I remember ever hearing. My mom played it in the car a lot and I can’t remember anything I would’ve heard before
@@harrisonwhite107 I'm happy for you, it's my own personal existencial crisis that someone born in '08/'09 is walking around typing things on the internet
I first saw it on MTV and I thought it was a song from the 70s and they were probably playing it now because the singer has died recently of old age and they are honoring her lol
Love that y’all are covering this! I saw Lana at Red Rocks when I was 14. Absolutely spectacular. She was one of the first artists I found independently of my dad (who HEAVILY influenced my music taste - music is one of the only things we can enjoy together without arguing). She was integral to forging my own identity. Discovering Video Games right when it came out when I was 13 was *truly* life changing.
The picture you painted with the blue jeans white shirt, skating, summer nights. It was impeccable 🥺 a very immersive description. Helped give this song a new visual
honestly I fucking love this album. When it first came put I was P4K-pilled so hard and thought it was dumb as hell. But my then GF (now wife!) played it a bunch and it grew on me so hard. Blue Jeans and National Anthem in particular were the two that got me hooked. Over a decade later and we still have the CD and listen to it often during our summer drives!
PLEASE finish this series. i need reactions to her lesser known projects. i love you and your dads bond and communication throughout. seriously gold, and so insightful. 🖤
Listened to this classic album every night sitting on the rocking chair, in the early am hours, on repeat helping get my then newborn son back to sleep.
Fav Lana album.... SO hard. It's a tie between Born to Die and NFR for me. Chemtrails over the Country Club and Ultraviolence tie for 2nd. But then there are songs from other albums I ADORE (Terrance Loves you on Honeymoon, Dealer and Black Bathing Suit on her Banisters album, UGH, killer!)
I remember listening to Video Games in December 2011 of my college freshman year. I downloaded her free EP on iTunes shortly after. Can’t believe it’s been 13 years! I’ll always be a fan.
Would LOVE to see you guys react to her album Lust for Life. It also has a lot of hip hop influences and has a crazy range of features from The Weeknd, ASAP Rocky and Playboy Carti to Stevie Nicks and Sean Lennon. All in one album 😄
i vividly remember the buildup to the release of Lust for Life and then sitting down outside with my headphones listening to the whole thing straight through and just being soooo amazed
Lana is just incredible, love to look back at these older albums and while they are still great it really makes you appreciate the artistic evolution even more. Would love to see you react to Zack Bryan by the way. I think Kevin would love his music
She’s got a huge catalog to choose from for concerts considering she’s released 10 records so far and countless beloved unreleased songs. Yet she still chooses to keep singing the same few songs 😭
Off to the races is probably my favourite Lana song most days. This album is just 10/10. Literally not ONE skip. And the bonus tracks are also superb 💗💗 I also LOOOVEE Carmen. The story is so strong. I think if it as the older sister to “Ride”.
Lana was on a mission for fame with this record as it was her major label debut after 8 years of singing in bars and trying to make it big. It’s such an amazing, timeless and influential album but still to me pales in comparison to the quality of all her records coming after, which says a lot about what an amazing artist she is. She’s only continued to dive further into her gift and I am thankful for it. I hope this means you’re doing the rest of her albums, each one is it’s own unique world!
Off to the races might have broke my fifteen undeveloped brain Give it a chance to Honeymoon. Might be a hardest one to fall in love with at the first time, but oh lord, such a elegant album
there's something so poetic about lana's obsession with older men and then having this hot silver fox becoming a die hard fan of hers ... the power of manifestation
This album means so much to me. I was sent off to a boarding school at 16 where I didn’t know a single person, half way through the 11th grade. Needless to say, some very lonely but oddly amazing and life-changing times. I listened to this album & Frank ocean’s Nostalgia Ultra for 5 months straight almost everyday while I worked my janitorial job…made the time pass by & so enjoyable. Those two projects still completely color that time of my life. I still get chills hearing these songs. 2011-2012 was a special time for music. So surreal
People don't give enough credit to lana for her musical and cultural impact just bcoz she isn't in the news 24×7. But this woman is single handedly responsible for 90% of sound of current pop music and indie music.
