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MUSIC: New Music From Santigold, Lana Del Ray, Azealia Banks, And More!

By John Russell July 9, 2012 at 2:25pm · Updated on November 19, 2012
Santigold’s latest single, “The Keepers,” is one of our favorite tracks from her latest album, The Master of My Make-Believe. The song owes more than a little to Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”—the beat, those synths—but it’s definitely its own excessively danceable creature. The video delivers some searing, tongue-in-cheek commentary on American life, with Santi done up in a blonde wig, her synthetically white nuclear family sitting down to a radiation-green dinner as the outside world—represented here as a drive-by shooting—attempts to force its way into their cloistered world.  
Lana Del Rey’s single “National Anthem,” is hands down, our favorite track from her debut album. It’s one of the sexiest songs we’ve heard all summer—an icy hip-hop-laced torch song that’s been our personal anthem for since we first heard it months ago. The recently released video is another Instagram-flavored clip, similar in its look to Del Rey’s last clip, “Carmen.” This probably qualifies the “National Anthem” video for a eyeroll, but the concept is interesting—fusing the Camelot mythos with Obama-era imagery by casting ASAP as the JFK to Del Rey’s Jackie/Marilyn hybrid.  
http://youtu.be/CPaXn2XR-P8 Since her debut song, “212,” blew up this spring Azealia Banks has been dropping tracks all over the Interwebs. There was “Jumanji” and most recently “Aquababe.” But honestly, neither of those songs really felt like a worthy follow-up. “Liquorice,” on the other hand, is the track we’ve been waiting for. The video finds the hip-hop wunderkind channeling a cross between Clint Eastwood and Aaliyah in Queen of the Damned. The song itself, from Banks’ debut EP, 1991, has a kind of retro ’90s house beat. It’s a perfect party track!  

British singer Victoria Hesketh, a.k.a. Little Boots , has that regrettable Kylie syndrome where she’s just utterly underappreciated in the U.S. Except by us gay boys, that is. In the video for her new single, “Headphones,” Hesketh is giving us serious Debbie Harry vibes with a disco-meets-electro-pop sound that turns the seemingly uptight folks in the video into dancing machines! Something tells us it’ll have the same effect on everyone else.

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9 Comments*

  • n900mixalot

    I love Santigold’s music but she is as fake as that wig. Watch her interviews. Every other word is ‘like’ this and ‘like’ that. Typical hipster trash. But the album is a banger.

    Don’t do as I did and look into who she really is, as a person, as portrayed by her handlers. She is annoying. At least MIA is consistent and the creativity isn’t a front for a bubble gum princess with no more brains than a pillowcase.

  • KV

    Liquorice is already my club track for the summer. Hopefully Nicki Minaj will just disappear.

  • RomanHans

    If you missed it — and you probably did, because it was by a 60-year-old has-been — look up Dayglo Reflection by Bobby Womack (featuring Lana del Rey) on Spotify. Great, great tune, and speaking just for myself I identify more with a 60-year-old has-been than some manufactured hipster.

  • Bee

    I LOOOOOOOVE Lana Del Rey

  • Belize

    I actually don’t like National Anthem. I think it’s one of those filler tracks in the album that could’ve been better taken up by songs from her Lizzy Grant days like Dum Dum or Knda Outta Luck. Also, I would’ve preferred it if she had just chosen Off to the Races for the new single. Anyway… more power, Liz.

  • me

    National Anthem is my favourite and no the lyrics arent shallow like some suggest. It’s lana interpreting our money obsessed society.

    The Demo is alot better and bring more life to the song.

  • me

    National Anthem is my favourite and no the lyrics arent shallow like some suggest. It’s lana interpreting/taking digs at our money obsessed society.

    The Demo is alot better and bring more life to the song.

  • MJ (different from the other one)

    @Belize: is she ever gonna do a video to “Off To The Races”? I love that track!

  • Ric

    It’s July 9th and Queerty JUST discovered Azealia Banks and the video to Liquorice?

    Shame.

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