Lana Del Rey – The Relevant Music Blog

Lana Del Rey | “Tropico” Short Film.

Nash Mariah — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:56:50 +0000

Lana Del Rey released her 27-minute long short film, Tropico, last week which features three previously released songs – “Body Electric”, “Gods & Monsters” and “Bel Air”. The video was directed by Anthony Mandler and also stars model, Shaun Ross, who you’ll probably recognise from Katy Perry’s video for “ET”. I’m really glad she decided to leave her home-video style aesthetic behind for this one, as she portrays Eve in the Garden of Eden and then later a stripper, resembling the kind of girl she introduced us to in “Ride”. Although unashamedly arty, it’s unarguably beautiful from start to finish and was definitely well worth the wait. Watch it below.

Lana Del Rey | “Young & Beautiful” Video + L’officiel Paris April 2013 Cover Shoot.

Nash Mariah — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:17:31 +0000

Yesterday Lana Del Rey released the video for her contribution to one of this year’s most anticipated movies, The Great Gatsby. LDR also recently did the most amazing cover shoot for the April 2013 L’officiel Paris where she looked like a Spanish dream in Ralph Lauren, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana. Watch her new video and check out the incredible pictures from the shoot below.

The xx + The Great Gatsby | “Together”.

Nash Mariah — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:47:56 +0000

The xx’s song for The Great Gatsby soundtrack is doing all kinds of amazing things to me. While Lana Del Rey felt like an obvious fit the soundtrack, The xx seemed a little less so. Surprisingly however, it works and the strings at the end really enhance their usual minimalism making it sound really powerful and worthy of its place on the soundtrack.

Lana Del Rey + The Great Gatsby | “Young & Beautiful”.

Nash Mariah — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:52:32 +0000

After the long wait we finally get to hear Lana Del Rey’s lead single for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, which was produced by Jay-Z and also features heavyweights Beyonce, Andre 3000, Fergie, Q-Tip, Nero, Will.I.Am, and Gotye. Lana was pretty much born to be on this soundtrack/in the movie and sounds just as you’d expect her to – amazing.

Monarchy | “Video Games” (Lana Del Rey Cover).

Nash Mariah — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:40:18 +0000

Monarchy recently covered Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games”. Normally I wouldn’t be interested in any remixes of her songs, especially one as over-played as “Video Games”, but in this case I feel like they’ve managed to breath new life into to it.

Lana Del Rey | “Burning Desire” Video.

Nash Mariah — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:35:43 +0000

Lana Del Rey released a new video today which I initially wasn’t going to write about. Even though I’ve loved her since she released her first video, I have started feeling like she needs to switch things up a bit. Yes, she looks incredible, yes, the video is really pretty, but I can’t help feeling like this is something we’ve seen before. I’m also really impressed at how she’s managed to marry her endorsement deals with the release of new songs – first it was “Blue Velvet” in her ad for H&M and now this for Jaguar. Lana, I love you, but you’re better than this.

The Top 10 Videos of 2012.

Nash Mariah — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:02:57 +0000

2012 has almost come to an end and I felt like it would appropriate to end off the year by looking back at all the best videos which made it so great. Also, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who’s been supporting TRMB since the beginning, and I promise to be a better blogger in 2013. I also have a few exciting things planned for the future, and I’m really excited to see how it all pans out. But until then, have fun reminiscing.

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Finally.

Nash Mariah — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:48:46 +0000

It’s official. After a very long absence I am finally back to being a normal functioning member of society. My over-extended break from the internet has ended, and the nice thing about not having it for so long is that I’ll now have a lot of things to write about. So for the next few days expect to be spammed by me endlessly. I hope you’re prepared.

Crystal Castles’ latest album, III, leaked a week ago, and after giving it a good listen, Ive decided that these are my favourite new songs.

This song is literally blowing my mind. 3.52 in particular. It kind of sounds like something that would be played in a science fiction movie set in a alien factory, or maybe just in a crack den. I can’t be sure.

Lana Del Rey just released The Paradise Edition of her debut album Born To Die, which comes with 8 new songs. This one is definitely my favourite.

Mt. Wolf was introduced to me in the remix that Catching Flies did for “Life Size Ghosts”, which I recommend you listen to, here. “Cry Wolf” is another incredible song by the band taken off their current EP.

Little Dragon got remixed Shlohmo. Honestly, what could be better?

I couldn’t write this post without mentioning something about The Drums, who are playing in Cape Town TONIGHT! So excited I could cry. I probably will be crying later. And I’m really looking forward to it.

Lana Del Rey | “Ride” Video.

Nash Mariah — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:21:01 +0000

Over the weekend, Lana Del Rey released her first short-film/10-minute long video for her latest single, “Ride”, which will be featured on the Paradise Edition of her debut album, Born To Die. For this video, LDR comes off a little less glam and little more trashy, trading her model/rapper love interests for dirty bikers. Wasn’t really a fan of this song, but this video may have just changed it for me.

Lana Del Rey | ‘Born To Die’, The Paradise Edition

Nash Mariah — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:26:21 +0000

Lana Del Rey will soon be releasing The Paradise Edition of her debut album, Born To Die, which comes with a number of new tracks for us to fall in love with. A video featuring snippets of all the new tracks was recently released and has made me pretty excited to hear the full versions of “Gods and Monsters” and “Pussy”, which has Lana saying things like “My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola”.

Tracklist:

Ride, Pussy, American, Gods & Monsters, Body Electric, Blue Velvet, Bel Air, Yayo.

Bonus: The full version of “Ride”.

And Lana’s H&M commercial featuring “Blue Velvet”.