"I like a hands-on love," she told Complex. "How can I say this without getting into too much trouble? I like a tangible, passionate love. For me, if it isn't physical, I'm not interested." (link)
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
SF Gate: "Lana Del Rey can’t get through a show without a cigarette"
She tells Complex magazine, “Dude, I have to (smoke on stage). I can’t get through it (the show) … (I have been smoking) since I was 17. It’s crazy. That’s why I try to play mostly outdoor festivals. … Because 45 minutes into the set, when you’ve still got 45 more minutes to go, you need to smoke.”
And then there is this quote from the sultry smoking singer Lana Del Rey...
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LSMFT, Lana.
Dinah Shore was hot. I mean under all that "See the USA in your Chevrolet" crap you knew that Dinah was a good shtoop.
We've got a sexism problem here?
Women have been sleeping their way to the top of the movie and music bizzes for a long time.
What's the sexism angle? I don't get it.
Smoking is very common among blues and jazz singers of both sexes and always has been. The raspy undertones smoking produces in the voice are very effective for a blues or jazz singer.
The legendary Louis Armstrong was one of those great cigarette (and pot) transformed voices.
Try to imagine Pops without that rasp. It's a crucial part of his sound.
OK, I'm going to try to raise this up a little...
That video of Sinatra and Shore = class.
Class.
I look at that, and I just feel so sad for our times, because there's so little...
Class...
Now back to the cigarette...
Looking at that act with Sinatra and Shore, I'm pretty certain they had a fan or something set up so the smoke blew away from Ms. Shore. It helps keep the scene classy.
That said...
I wonder if the tobacco industry is working on a truly "safe cigarette."
Think about it: if you could smoke cigarettes -- real cigarettes -- without significant health issues...
Would you?
Would you want to be Frank Sinatra sitting there, cool as the Artic, with his cigarette?
It's the death that makes it uncool.
Take that away?
LANA! We love u!
Heading to The Pines in Fire Island with the hubby and rare clumber so postings will likely be lite.
love u all big time.
Have a super fabulous weekend!
And keep reaching for the stars!
tits.
Think about it: if you could smoke cigarettes -- real cigarettes -- without significant health issues...
Well, even the "insignificant" issues would keep me out: yellow teeth, yellow fingers, bad breath, burn marks on shirts, lung pain, brushing against a lit cigarette, full ashtrays, full ashtrays with beer floating in them, overturned full ashtrays, and almost worst of all, the lit end falling into your crotch while driving.
Truly worst of all is falling asleep and having your bed catch on fire. And then burning to death.
Even though it was all tinsel, that medley made me smile. It was a wonderful, classy time.
Smokin' suave Sinatra flashback at Lem's.
Oh yes, I was on my way back from Canada that time.
The coolness is gone.
It's not the same anymore. Fr Fox hit on the biggest cause why is not cool anymore.
I thought the mirth between Sinatra and Dinah looked a trifle rehearsed......Dinah Shore certainly had legs. She was popular for two generations, but now she's invisible. Maybe pop singers are taken more seriously if, like Rosemary Clooney and Barbara Cook, they plump out in their middle years. Dinah had a long term affair with Burt Reynolds when he was the #1 star in Hollywood and made tons of money with her TV shows. I'm glad she had such a successful life, but you can't sing the blues with a background like that, Maybe if Burt had slapped her around, or she had developed a craving for meth, then her voice would have developed more complexity........Here's an interesting little known fact: Marianne Fathful whose life is sordid enough for five blues singers is, in point of fact, of Hapsburg ancestry. Yeah, those Hapsburgs. But her rendition of Working Class Hero in the Broken English album sounds authentic. Drugs, poverty, and a broken relationship with Mick Jagger--that's what gives timbre to a voice.
In my tweens my sisters and I would watch the Dinah Shore talk show after school. When she sang I didn't think she was good at all, and didn't get why everyone acted as though she was. I didn't realize at the time she was a great singer back in the day.
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