Lavender Sunshine

I truly thought that picture of her in a tshirt next to a Budweiser text on the wall was a previously unseen picture of her from 2011, before I saw that it’s from her instagram post… I’m shooketh!! 

the aesthetics are kinda confusing me, I guess that’s on me for ever expecting her to do a “traditional” country aesthetic since when has she ever done anything the traditional way but then again her second outfit at Coachella weekend 2 was kind of leaning into that soooo in the end I’m still confused… not in a bad way though, this modern swampy imagery is quite intriguing, I wonder how it will tie in with the vibes of the music since both snippets we had so far have had some lyrics that use traditional country tropes
 

Basic title to a really lovely song <3
 
(Beautiful and Love song can't relate)

OMG I LOVE THIS AESTHETIC  it's so southern gothic trailer park midwest deep-south nostalgic summer tuesday in 2011  very me!

These pics have so much potential and so much to unpack oh wow

These pics have so much potential and so much to unpack oh wow

Basic title to a really lovely song <3
 
(Beautiful and Love song can't relate)

These pics have so much potential and so much to unpack oh wow

These pics have so much potential and so much to unpack oh wow

These pics have so much potential and so much to unpack oh wow

OH GAGGGGGGG 

this fuck ass font

the one fucking day i delete instagram. 

For when I'm mentally/psychologically drained, I'll listen to Heroin by Lana or to this song - if I'm physically tired then any song will do cause I just drift right off lol
IIII'm so tired, sheep are counting me

brat is an intellectual pop record and... well...sabrina carpenter and those other canned tuna bitches speak for themselves <3

Finally back home! If you guys want to see videos from yesterday you can watch them on my Instagram stories @kcrnelia or under my stories highlight “LDR 24”
 
Anyways what can I say…. It was soooo much better than I expected oh my god, probably because after the Primavera fiasco I had my hopes down but she was perfect yesterday. You guys have no idea the crowd was singing SO LOUD that she had to ask the technician to tone down the public volume and she said “thank you for singing” and was smiling all the time, I think she even got a bit emotional at the beginning. 
I know that we want the setlist to change but trust me hearing it live is a different thing, you have to remember not everyone is as crazy as us who whatches all of her shows and out of 80K people most of them are casual listeners; also as someone who hasn’t seen her live since 2018 I’m glad she did Bartender cause that’s actually one of my favs from NFR. I wanted to hear Candy Necklace tho :(. I did expect her to wear a different color but she was soooo stunning and beautiful nonetheless, the second outfit seeing it live was wow…. 
As for the outro I have to say it’s actually really beautiful idk why everyone’s hating it 😭 it was so fun seeing Lana doing her little dances and all of the dancers opening the bottle champagnes while having fun! The only thing is when the creepy backdoors music started there was no one left on the stage and idk it didn’t make sense lol, I guess it worked with Coachella with her on the bike but not here.
Unfortunately she didn’t come down which I’m a bit sad because I think I won’t get barricade never again at a Lana show (my legs still hurt from yesterday, I just don’t have the age/body anymore anyways lol) so I was really hoping to see her even a bit closer but you know never say never 🤞🏻!! Also we went right under her swing hoping to see her right in front of us but she didn’t use it even once so that was kinda disappointing lol 
But yeah other than this the show was so perfect wow, I still can’t believe I got to see her!! Feeling blessed for everything ❤️
If you guys have any questions let me know lol
edit: forgot to add that I’ve always thought that all the dancers were doing way too much and now that I’ve seen them live (were there always so many ??) I can only confirm it lmao, we were crying our eyes out during Video Games and they were spinning on those chairs lol 😭😭 but they were super cute
 
Here are some pics I took btw (again, you can see the rest on my Instagram)
The one where she’s waving - she’s waving back at my best friend who was right beside me!!! 
 
 

Getting back to the airbnb after the show was...a whirlwind
 
She was ethereal, this was my first time seeing her live. Even with a mid setlist, it's so much less noticable when you're actually there, time flew by so quickly. Maybe if you see the same show 10 times, it'd get boring with all the ballads - i think at certain points the setlist doesnt really flow...i always said i wanted Bartender to be cut, but it actually fits so much better than NFR imo
 
I may be missing the whole concept but to me it gave off this roaring 20s extravaganza mansion with all the dancers running around the stage. But it starts off all dark and creepy as if its long been forgotten and we just watch 1 hour of their ghosts playing around and it ends with the jazzy "will you still love me", they dance around with the champagne bottles and then all disappear and we get that same somber and desolate mansion. Kinda gave me Rebecca by Hitchcock vibes in a way.
 
 
Anyways, i loved it, it was worth the heat and the backpain and everything. Definitely gonna get pit tickets next time though.
 
Also her vocals were on point, she might not sing hope and only 3 lines from West Coast were live, BUT when she goes for it, she nails it.
 
And the first warm up act Clara is getting some streams from me 

Omg stopppp she looks like a Barbie doll 

lana with singer Clara 

 

The audio system was marvelous honestly, you could hear her perfectly and there were no back pre-registered vocals - only the choralists, which I liked. Maybe the show could've been a little bit longer (it lasted about one hour and a half) and she could've included at least one song from Honeymoon, maybe Salvatore (people were screaming and praying her to perform it and honestly it was quite predictable) but other than that a great experience

I agree with this it's always nice when artists show some love for their latest body of work, it makes me appreciate it more, plus OB is a great album and I feel like it deserves a pretty fleshed-out live show treatment, though I do get that she should perform her greatest hits and highlights too

i think lana might be the biggest bartender stan out there bc that song has a chokehold on her love that song too but having it on every (if not almost every) setlist since 2019 is wild. she's made 3 albums since nfr with so many other piano ballards she could switch it out with. honestly it's kinda funny atp

I like Y&B as a closer, I think it’s a signature Lana song that looks both at the past and the future making it a perfect song to close off a beautiful set. However, they need to up the production a bit, add more orchestra or guitars + heavier drums. Now it sounds a bit empty live. Or get the choir next to her to sing the last verses. It needs to be an epic finish. The jazzy outro is so good tho

i'm not sure young and beautiful itself works as a closer for me but i LOVED the outro especially for coachella. however nothing is going to beat ottr extended outro closer i've said it before and i'll say it again we need her back