Internet phenoms are coming out of everywhere these days. Again, Andy taught me. The latest indie upstart set to be blasted on every blog and Facebook profile is Lana Del Rey. What seems as a reaction to all the online criticism of Lana for not being ‘authentic’, every sound on these remixes apart from Lana’s voice is completely synthetic.
Great pop music isn’t about being ‘real’, the best acts reach for something bigger, better and more glamorous than the everyday. This po-faced stance betrays a lack of imagination and a loathing of creativity. David Bowie wasn’t actually from Mars, but it doesn’t make his music any less awesome. From The Internet(Odd Future) to Club Clique, from house to Dub Step, listen to Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Jeans” five different ways.
Big dreams, Gangster
Said you had to leave to start your life over
I was like: “no please” stay here
We don’t need no money we can make it all work
Subtly is key. Brain Blake loads it on smooth. Trip-hop. Glitch-hop. Train bells. White Noise. A wide-eyed siren wooing us away to the concrete.
Blue jeans, White shirt
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
It was like, james dean, for sure
You so fresh to death & sick as ca-cancer
The sound on Club Clique’s take on “Blue Jeans” is Nu Disco. Breakbeats & Sex Appeal. Vintage cool.
I told you that no matter what you did i’d be by your side
Cause im a ride or die
Whether you fail or fly
Well shit at least you tried
If she’s in love with anything it’s his Synth. The Internet’s take on “Blue Jeans” is a skittering sonic kaleidoscope that’d make The Neptunes blush.
We were dancin all night
Then they took you away-stole you out of my life
You just need to remember….
Club kids and Strobe lights. The haunting sound on Nikkon’s take of “Blues Jeans” sounds as if Nancy Sinatra were a club queen. Dance he commands. And she moves with the beat.
But he headed out on sunday, said he’d come home monday
I stayed up waitin, anticipatin and pacin but he was
Oh Baby. We saved the bassiest for last. PatrickHeza’s DubStep remix of “Blue Jeans” is intense.
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GREATeclectic aka Kendrick Daye is a DJ, artist and the Editor of Art Nouveau Magazine. As a freelance journalist and photographer his work has been featured in the NY Times Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Upscale Magazine, Creative Loafing, Honeymag.com & Yo-Raps.com.
