Track 17

Part 3 of 3

Three songs called Blue Jeans!

Three!

THREE!

THREEEEEEEEEEEE!

3!

YAHTZEE! It's a record.

Regarding the actual song...

Does it make you think about coffee?

You fail at advertising Nespresso!

The eternal question remains: is Lana Del Rey talented?

(Can you hear that insane cackle when Kristin Wiig first comes out as Lana Del Rey? Someone's a little too excited.)

I actually was captivated by her on SNL. I had never heard her before and even if wasn't well performed, it was something different. It was clear there was something there. It was enough to get me to pick up her album at the library. Now it's not great. The songs are sometimes a little thin on ideas, but the production is all atmosphere that is both lush and has an air of desolation. Sometime it sounds like an appropriate soundtrack for a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.

(I know you remember those movies we watched with Kris Carlson. Never got to the last one though.)

Anyway, I think Lana Del Rey is good, if not a little inconsistent. Maybe something like Taquan Dean, and who didn't like Taquan Dean?

Besides, at some point I get tired of trying to figure if something measures up, nitpicking it to make sure I've analyzed it critically and my opinion is valid. Sometimes I'd just like to go with my gut reaction. Congratulations Lana Del Rey, my gut reaction is to like you! If Jon Snow can find himself taken in my an attractive redheaded siren, why can't I?

 

By the way, you remember how Keeping Up With the Kardashians usually came on before an episode of The Soup, because E! would rerun the shit out of that show. Well, I distinctly remember seeing a "Next Week On..." teaser for Kardashians where Kim says, "We're a ride-or-die family..." completely unironically. (Sometimes I wonder if Kim Kardashian is an ironic piece of performance art that ended up surpassing Andy Kaufman's wildest dreams...) Anyway, I was going to try to find that clip to work into this piece and quickly realized that that was an avenue of the internet I'd rather not turn down...