longtimeman

It was a million dollar performance, so she (and we) still came out ahead.

Yes please!

Some nice sentiments all around https://www.instagram.com/p/C6AC5OdvRqB/?hl=en&img_index=1

I've only watched the show once, but feel like it's going to be on rotation a lot when I finally get a copy of it. I thought it was a fantastic representation of who Lana is, and what she wants out of a live performance. This is just my opinion of her as an artist, and some people might disagree, but I don't think she does anything ironically or sarcastically when she's performing. I think she develops ideas in her head of what a perfect show will be, and the actual shows are those wishes filtered through the realities of what putting on a massive performance are. Last night I think she got really close to bringing the reality close to her ideal concept of a show. The look on her face throughout was something wonderful - even (maybe especially?) during 'I Luv It'. She was completely in the moment during that, and during CN, and during Hope, and a bunch of others. As 'super fans', we can get lost hoping that she'll play our favourite songs or switch things up more, but I try to just listen to what she's actually doing, and not wish for what's coming next. Coachella booked her as Lana Del Rey, not as 'The Young and Beautiful Singer' (as some newspapers still refer to her as). All you can ask of an artist is that they're true to themselves and give their all, and I think she did that (mostly). At the start of the Tunnel tour, I said she was making her own jukebox musical out of her own songs, and I think she got as close to that as she ever has with this show.

OMG Thank you! I was pounding my head on the table trying to remember what this was!

Don't forget 'Is This Happiness' which is one of the funniest putdowns ever in a song, at least until 'Your poetry's bad and you blame the news'.

honestly the funniest thing that's ever happened at a Lana show

This is monumental

Oh I get it - the clothes colours!

Is this the story of Johnny Rotten

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If you're in Eastern Australia, it starts at 4:20 on 4-20 (Even though we don't write dates like that, but whatever).

(Lightening the mood)

I wish we could 'like' posts twice.

Just for ending with the word 'dear', he can go fuck himself, no matter how many atmos mixes he's made, or whoever the hell he is.

The fact Lana didn't vape even once for the whole show supports the assertion that she hadn't been well.

I can't remember who, but someone here in the big show thread pointed out the 'Kintsugi' reference. The tiles were the type of Easter Egg that is just fun to put in a set, even if nobody knows about it.

Me too! Was it Greek wedding style? Frisbee style? Shotput? When they make the biopic about the first twenty years of Lana's career, to celebrate her winning the Nobel Prize for everything, I wonder how they'll show this?

OMG - I have never laughed so much at one of her Instagram posts! Can't wait for her getting her own Tonight Show when she has enough of music!

Thank you so much for uploading/sharing these. I put it on this morning before going to work, just to check how they played on my TV, and I almost forgot I had to go to work It's just that mesmerising and beautiful.

I agree with this, and I think this is a big part of it that might get missed by people who weren't music fans in the late 80s/early 90s. John Denver was hated back then by all the cool punk/alt people - when Hole were putting out their records, there were punk covers of Country Roads that were put out with the spirit of 'let's take the shittiest song in the world and make it a funny punk song'.

No idea whether it will stay up.

That line (in fingertips) is confronting and not immediately clear as to what she means, but you'd think someone calling themselves 'Lizzy.grant' would listen to the song more than once and understand actually what's being described.

I should feel happy that my life long hatred of the Grammys as an organisation is repeatedly justified, but whatever. I think it's worth a lot more than an Instagram post that the winners of the AOTY and SOTY both stood on stages next to Lana and did all but kneel down before her.

I feel like Jon is someone who would get along with anyone, especially anyone creative, and because he obviously likes Lana's artistry, they gel really well. They have the same sort of platonic hot chemistry that she has also shown with Blake at times, which comes from the comfort of being friends who aren't into each other.