Boy George vs Lana Del Rey

I am very surprised that I have yet to write a post about Boy George. I only idiolised him from the years 1984 to 1998 (or there abouts) religiously. I guess I should write some more about the Boy George years. Anyway he has gone and done a cover of the Luscious Lana Del Rey song VIDEO GAMES (see below) which will be on an upcoming self-released covers album. The song seems to suit his husky voice and I definitely think ballads are where its at for George. This reminds me of George's post-Jesus Loves You (1991-1994) period where he became very folky and was singing very stripped back songs like YOU ARE THE DEAL (which metamorphised into THE DEAL).

The Boy with Lana!

And in other George related news he has had a few ups and downs on Twitter of late with his account being spammed. His last tweets suggest he may be having a rest for a while. See the below.

Tweets 

18hboygeorge ‏ @BoyGeorge

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I've taken my homophobic spam issue to my lawyers and the police now!! Someone is going to get done!! Don't let it be you!!

23 Aprboygeorge ‏ @BoyGeorge

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When twitter decides to help me with this spam situation I may return. Until then it's goodbye. You can ask twitter to help but I have???

Lana del Bore?

Lana del Ray releases her debut album 'Born to Die' on 3 February 2012. The poor lass has been on the receiving end of some criticism of late after her wooden performance on SNL earlier this month. See it below.

Her image and the fact that she has re-incarnated herself from Lizzy Grant has also come under fire. So she may end up being Lana del Bore live but she will no doubt sell a shit load of records in 2012. There is much anticipation for her album.
Billboard have done a blow by blow description of each track.
The New Yorker has critiqued the Lana.
The Guardian have also done a review.

Lana is visiting our friendly shores in February. 2 dates in 2 coolish small venues in Melbourne and Sydney sold out in 2 minutes. VIDEO GAMES has now had 22 million views on the Utube. You decide!

Lana's website

Lana on the Twitter