soupsoup:

From: “Williams, BD (NBCUniversal)”
Date: January 15, 2012 15:56:25 EST
To:

ND:

I hope you’re well. Happy New Year. A big congratulations to the new freelance weekend guy, Taylor Bernam. He’s done some good posts right out of the box. I do wish the main page featured more TV coverage (Brooklyn hippster [sic] Lana Del Rey had one of the worst outings in SNL history last night — booked on the strength of her TWO SONG web EP, the least-experienced musical guest in the show’s history, for starters). In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the Blog View button will be the eventual cause of my death) and while I know you’re in the midst of an editor change, weekends have been allowed to go awfully fallow — and it was a fallow holiday period for those of us who check your shit 10 times a day by iphone. I know you’ve been watching NBC Nightly News religiously each evening and I’ll no doubt be getting a withering, detailed critique from you straight away.

BW

Not sure how legit this email from Brian Williams actually is, but if legit, I suppose that it all makes sense to me now: Lana Del Rey is the indie world’s Rebecca Black, and Brian Williams is her George Stephanopolous. Reaction to LDR on SNL is seriously activating my “Paris Is Our Vietnam” triggers. YOU JACKALS!!!! Don’t make me actually write my empathy book up in this piece.

We’ll see what happens with the album.