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I Feel Slightly Traumatized

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After watching “Lana Del Rey” a.k.a Lizzy Grant, daughter of ultra rich NY businessman Robert Grant, perform on SNL I was left with a feeling I hadn’t felt before. I now believe it is a form of PTSD. Yeah, it was that bad.

Now I totally understand that most artists, especially new ones, don’t do well on SNL. It’s been notorious for bad acoustics since the beginning. It also separates the Kanye Wests and Linkin Parks from Ashlee Simpsons & Ke$has.

From dlisted

Lana sounded like a Japanese person trying to sing in English with a German accent. I’m sure that what came out of her mouth is not unlike the sounds that come out of a walrus’s mouth when it’s doing high school theater vocal exercises.

Lana is supposed to be some new kind of artist. Removed by the record labels from her typical young girl, pop sound, she has been reinvented as a “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” that sings about James Dean and Video Games. Yeah, that shit cray.

I’ll give her another chance but I think she should pay for my PTSD therapy and meds.

Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = Movie

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Via Stereogum

According to /Film, the director will be in Austin, TX to do a short film with the band based on the concept of “friends growing apart.” MTV  also got a Jonze spokesperson to confirm the collaboration and location, but he wouldn’t name any other details. Jonze and Arcade Fire were bound to work together after Where The Wild Things Are (Jonze said  the band were a huge inspiration). But it’s not clear if this will be a short film like Jonze’s work  with Kanye West, an extended music video for their upcoming album, or something in-between.

In the meantime, watch Jonze’s awesome I’m Here robot short film, featuring Sleigh Bells’ “A/B Machines.” A robot has it playing in her car while she’s driving, naturally.