“This past weekend was rough on things that I like. Not only did my Green Bay Packers lose in convincing fashion to the New York Giants, but Lana Del Rey— who I’ve been defending on more than a few of these podcasts, including this week’s—absolutely bombed on Saturday Night Live, in a performance that was so bad that even the most stalwart Del Rey defender could find nothing redeeming in it. Many of the jokes lobbed in Lizzy Grant’s direction were regarding her detached demeanor during her performance, but was more bizarre to me was the headstrong insistance to sing every line of “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” with different, inexplicable vocal affectations. Every consonant was thwapped so hard, she actually sounded like an elementary school child mocking the voices of the special education kids; when she jumped to the higher registers for “runs,” it almost seemed to be a breathy, ironic mockery; even when she managed to sing from chest voice, she left it so quickly that you couldn’t even really tell if she can sing or not. It was like schizophrenic karaoke. More to the point, the fact that Grant keeps hiding behind these vocal gimmicks during her live performances seems to suggest that she doesn’t know how she wants to communicate these songs. An implication that suggests that she herself doesn’t know what these songs are about and, if you take it one step further, did she even really fucking write these tracks? Her inability to express even an ounce of emotional understanding of these songs seems to undercut any suggestion of her steering the ship of her own musical career. That being said, as bad as that performance was, I’m not going to hold it against “Video Games” or “Blue Jeans.” Each of those tracks still speak to me on a gut level, enough so that even despite my lukewarm reaction to “Born to Die”, I’m interested in where her full-length goes. I’m no longer confident in it hitting #32 on Pitchfork’s 2012 list— her performance was a bit too brutal to be pushed aside so easily— but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see it on there.” - Chris Bosman (@racecarbrown)

“This past weekend was rough on things that I like. Not only did my Green Bay Packers lose in convincing fashion to the New York Giants, but Lana Del Rey— who I’ve been defending on more than a few of these podcasts, including this week’s—absolutely bombed on Saturday Night Live, in a performance that was so bad that even the most stalwart Del Rey defender could find nothing redeeming in it.

Many of the jokes lobbed in Lizzy Grant’s direction were regarding her detached demeanor during her performance, but was more bizarre to me was the headstrong insistance to sing every line of “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” with different, inexplicable vocal affectations. Every consonant was thwapped so hard, she actually sounded like an elementary school child mocking the voices of the special education kids; when she jumped to the higher registers for “runs,” it almost seemed to be a breathy, ironic mockery; even when she managed to sing from chest voice, she left it so quickly that you couldn’t even really tell if she can sing or not. It was like schizophrenic karaoke.

More to the point, the fact that Grant keeps hiding behind these vocal gimmicks during her live performances seems to suggest that she doesn’t know how she wants to communicate these songs. An implication that suggests that she herself doesn’t know what these songs are about and, if you take it one step further, did she even really fucking write these tracks? Her inability to express even an ounce of emotional understanding of these songs seems to undercut any suggestion of her steering the ship of her own musical career.

That being said, as bad as that performance was, I’m not going to hold it against “Video Games” or “Blue Jeans.” Each of those tracks still speak to me on a gut level, enough so that even despite my lukewarm reaction to “Born to Die”, I’m interested in where her full-length goes. I’m no longer confident in it hitting #32 on Pitchfork’s 2012 list— her performance was a bit too brutal to be pushed aside so easily— but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see it on there.” - Chris Bosman (@racecarbrown)

“This past weekend was rough on things that I like. Not only did my Green Bay Packers lose in convincing fashion to the New York Giants, but Lana Del Rey— who I’ve been defending on more than a few of these podcasts, including this week’s—absolutely bombed on Saturday Night Live, in a performance that was so bad that even the most stalwart Del Rey defender could find nothing redeeming in it. Many of the jokes lobbed in Lizzy Grant’s direction were regarding her detached demeanor during her performance, but was more bizarre to me was the headstrong insistance to sing every line of “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” with different, inexplicable vocal affectations. Every consonant was thwapped so hard, she actually sounded like an elementary school child mocking the voices of the special education kids; when she jumped to the higher registers for “runs,” it almost seemed to be a breathy, ironic mockery; even when she managed to sing from chest voice, she left it so quickly that you couldn’t even really tell if she can sing or not. It was like schizophrenic karaoke. More to the point, the fact that Grant keeps hiding behind these vocal gimmicks during her live performances seems to suggest that she doesn’t know how she wants to communicate these songs. An implication that suggests that she herself doesn’t know what these songs are about and, if you take it one step further, did she even really fucking write these tracks? Her inability to express even an ounce of emotional understanding of these songs seems to undercut any suggestion of her steering the ship of her own musical career. That being said, as bad as that performance was, I’m not going to hold it against “Video Games” or “Blue Jeans.” Each of those tracks still speak to me on a gut level, enough so that even despite my lukewarm reaction to “Born to Die”, I’m interested in where her full-length goes. I’m no longer confident in it hitting #32 on Pitchfork’s 2012 list— her performance was a bit too brutal to be pushed aside so easily— but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see it on there.” - Chris Bosman (@racecarbrown)

“This past weekend was rough on things that I like. Not only did my Green Bay Packers lose in convincing fashion to the New York Giants, but Lana Del Rey— who I’ve been defending on more than a few of these podcasts, including this week’s—absolutely bombed on Saturday Night Live, in a performance that was so bad that even the most stalwart Del Rey defender could find nothing redeeming in it.

Many of the jokes lobbed in Lizzy Grant’s direction were regarding her detached demeanor during her performance, but was more bizarre to me was the headstrong insistance to sing every line of “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” with different, inexplicable vocal affectations. Every consonant was thwapped so hard, she actually sounded like an elementary school child mocking the voices of the special education kids; when she jumped to the higher registers for “runs,” it almost seemed to be a breathy, ironic mockery; even when she managed to sing from chest voice, she left it so quickly that you couldn’t even really tell if she can sing or not. It was like schizophrenic karaoke.

More to the point, the fact that Grant keeps hiding behind these vocal gimmicks during her live performances seems to suggest that she doesn’t know how she wants to communicate these songs. An implication that suggests that she herself doesn’t know what these songs are about and, if you take it one step further, did she even really fucking write these tracks? Her inability to express even an ounce of emotional understanding of these songs seems to undercut any suggestion of her steering the ship of her own musical career.

That being said, as bad as that performance was, I’m not going to hold it against “Video Games” or “Blue Jeans.” Each of those tracks still speak to me on a gut level, enough so that even despite my lukewarm reaction to “Born to Die”, I’m interested in where her full-length goes. I’m no longer confident in it hitting #32 on Pitchfork’s 2012 list— her performance was a bit too brutal to be pushed aside so easily— but I still wouldn’t be surprised to see it on there.” - Chris Bosman (@racecarbrown)

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