Amaze balls.

I come for the Lana del Rey comments only, at this point.

I hate everything about this video.

I think the singles are pretty okay, but have been a skeptic since the show cancellation and subsequent meh live recordings. I saw her Monday, hoping she would be talented. She is not. She is more than awkward. She is warbly. She is kind of… ummm…. unfriendly seeming, and not in a diva sort of way, but just in a trust fund kid sort of way. It was annoying from the beginning with the “technical difficulties”, to the high schoolish lyrics where she seemed to need to show off some street cred?! (songs about getting high, every other song had to have fuck in there somewhere, that kind of thing).

Now I know, there are people who put out great albums and who aren’t so great live (Winehouse- yeah, I said it), but we’re talking amazing music, lyrics and larger than life persona. This one is…mmmm… well, see above. She messed up words to Video Games, she then closed the show with “We’re doing a short set- I’ll play more when I have more material” and this gem: “I’m not doing an encore, so I’m not coming back out.” Bitch, what? Didn’t she have an unreleased album that is widely available on the internet- and those songs, while not groundbreaking, aren’t terrible, but she does have other songs. This wasn’t the show to come do a short set of half-assed songs (yeah, the band isn’t great either) when you pissed off a goodly bunch of your new potential fan base by cancelling the other venue because you sold out and needed to do a bigger tour. And I can handle musicians with record labels and weird stage presence (Fiona Apple, for example) but this show sucked. (The crowd also sucked, btw, especially the 4 guys in the back who seemed to know her and kept yelling shit at her that was wildly inappropriate.)

I like the stage name. But she is totally amateur hour- debuting a song she’s never done live is one thing, but I paid to see a show, not to have her “practice” on me. And the look. I just can’t. I’m done.