Lana Del Rey is back with a 30 minute short film called Tropico. The movie features model Shaun Ross and includes her songs Electric, Gods and Monsters and Bel Air. Tropico was directed Anthony Mandler. More after the jump.
Miss Lana Del Rey has a new video, a very simple one though. What is the spell behind Lana? She is so hated and yet so wanted. She seems more vulnerable, now as her lips are less voluminous. Like a sad mare in the fog she appears in her new video which you can see after the jump: Read on…
What was the styling trend number one of this year’s MELT! Festival? As you see: flowers inside the hair. I am not so sure if these floral wreaths that nearly every second girl was wearing had any secret meaning such as: follow me to my tent, or something like that, or if it’s a devotional gesture towards Lana del Rey. For sure we had a good time without any flowers on our head. Beth Dito is my second new best friend and was an amazing entertainer, Rufus Wrainwirght is the new Elton John of the hipster generation, Little Boots is really small and Two Door Cinema Club was my discovery of this year. Apart from great bands we had a good portion of luck with the weather and some good company with the guys of Mit Vergnügen, the Jane Waynes and the girls from LesMads. Only thing I am asking myself: When did it become a must-do to wear a carnivale costume to a festival? I get the idea of transformation and dressing up for a party or even for a festival. But most of the costumes looked cheap and not really authentic to me. Like a trend people follow without having real fun with it. Some pretty people with and without costumes after the jump.
German Hip Hop has always been a difficult thing. It had a good start in the 80s with the band Advanced Chemistry, but then came some unbearable pop rappers like Fanta 4 and Fettes Brot, which made Hip Hop popular among a big audience. Several years later, some guys from Berlin tried doing a German version of Gangsta Rap, which was rather embarrassing in most cases. Apart from that, there are only very few interesting and outstanding artists, like Casper and K.I.Z.
In our interview with Maxim from K.I.Z. we talked about music by Deichkind, Casper, Solomund and Lana Del Rey. More after the jump.
The time of pretty popstars is over, darlings. Die Antwoord, the South African art and trash collective, are back with a new album “TEN$ION”. I was first disgustated, then amused and now I am thrilled by the way they look, they act and they sound. Is ugly the new glamourous? I am not talking about being ugly in a trashy or natural way. I am talking about being really really ugly. Lana del Rey beeing on the cover of British Vogue portraying a plastic surgery monster instead of a real Vouge beauty is another example of this trend. However, with Die Antwoord I have the feeling that uglyness has a new shape. Being an abomination of human kind instead of the perfection we always aspire. Well, I am really interested how this trend is going to continue. Watch the new videos of Die Antwoord after the jump.
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We have been waiting for it for a long time – and it was worth it. Today, the first German issue of Andy Warhol’s legendary Interview magazine was released. Get more information after the jump. Read on…